The topic of adjutants, à la suites, flugeladjutant, etc are always both informative and confusing to me.
Charles,
I wrote this a couple of years back on this forum. Although it was specifically in response to the Prussians, the general principle remains valid for the other major contingents. Although as appears to be the case, there were no appointments of "General à la suite Seiner Majestät des Königs" in the Bavarian army. There were as Sandy quite rightly stated in the Bavarian army, "Generale à la suite von Truppenteile" (who wore regimental uniforms with generals' rank insignia)
"there are two broad uses of the term in the Prussian system; When first introduced in Prussia, the term was utilised for adjutants and the like attached to higher headquarters and instructors at military schools etc - basically a way of designating officers serving outside their normal regiments but still wearing the uniform of their parent regiment. In addition officers on leave for a long time without salary were designated as à la suite. One often sees seriously or terminally ill officers placed à la suite of their regiments, therefore removing them from the paid establishment and subsequently allowing the appointment and or promotion of another individual into the à la suite officer's slot on the establishment. For the most part, the term was dropped at the turn of the century for this category of officers and replaced by "kommandiert zum/zur/beim" or detached/attached to.
The second and more usually recognised use is that of an honorary position on a par with "Chiefs" of regiments usually for persons of princely rank or general officer status. Further there were generals à la suite to His majesty the Emperor and King. This was the normal progression of senior adjutants - Flügeladjutant - General à suite (normally a Generalmajor) - Generaladjutant. Additionally there were a great number of officers à la suite of the army and navy; princes, counts and high dignitaries who as an honorific were given a position in either the army or the navy (in the case of the army with regimental uniform). Finally one also encounters à la suite officers of the medical corps who were appointed from outstanding surgeons."
Regards
Glenn