August Wilhelm von Mosch

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August Wilhelm von Mosch, painting by Bardou, ca.1771

August Wilhelm von Mosch (born December 21, 1735 in Altdorf near Sagan , † October 29, 1815 in Berlin ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

August Wilhelm von Mosch was one of 16 children of Hans Christoph von Mosch and his wife Charlotte Franziska, née von Unruh. His brothers were among others Lieutenant General Carl Rudolph von Mosch (1718–1798) and Lieutenant General Christoph Friedrich von Mosch (1733–1821).

Military career

In 1750, at the age of 15, Mosch began his military career as a page with Margrave Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Brandenburg-Schwedt . Shortly before the beginning of the Seven Years' War , he joined the "Margrave" infantry regiment on November 6, 1755 as an ensign and on March 17, 1757, he was promoted to second lieutenant . During the war he took part in the encirclement of the Saxons at Pirna , as well as in the battles of Prague , Breslau , Roßbach , Leuthen , Hochkirch , Kunersdorf and Torgau as well as in the battles of Stehlen and Meißen and the sieges of Prague, Wroclaw and Dresden.

On October 11, 1760, he was first lieutenant , on March 30, 1769 staff captain and on October 22, 1776 captain and company commander . After his promotion to major on November 6, 1786 , he was battalion commander on December 4, 1892 and on February 6, 1793 lieutenant colonel . On January 2, 1795, he succeeded his brother Christoph Friedrich as commander of the "von Götze" infantry regiment and on January 31, 1795, a colonel . On 13 January 1798 he was retired and received on 17 February 1798 character as a major general.

In times of peace, Mosch worked on a work on infantry tactics, which he completed in 1767. The book with the title Attempt of a military pocket book of tactics or positional art based on a mathematical type of teaching, written by a Prussian officer, comprises 103 pages, 30 tables and many inked pen drawings and was "partly for his own instruction, partly for teaching his younger comrades" . It appeared in 1784 at the Waltherische Hofbuchhandlung in Dresden without his consent as a pirated print under the title Tactik der Infanterie, die Feldverhaltungen der Convoys, etc. and a lesson on the choice of positions and dispositions and was named Tactique de l'infanterie et instruction sur in 1887 le choix d'une position et sur les dispositions des maneuvers translated into French. In 1787, Mosch wrote that one of the many copies of his work “must have got into the hands of a man whose morals the chapter on learned robbery was left out”. He “forgives the editor for this plagiarism; but he cannot forgive him for that: that he mutilated his work and revealed the grossest misprints. "

family

In 1785, Mosch married Ernestine Antoinette Christiane von Löschebrand (* December 20, 1751 - December 1, 1803), daughter of Erdmann Gottlob Martin von Löschebrand and Charlotte von Steinkeller. The marriage remained childless.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b General German Library, Volume 75, Berlin 1787, pp. 589–601. Tactics of the infantry, the field behavior of the convois ... and a lesson in the choice of positions and dispositions. ( Memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mosch, August Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf near Sagan
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1815
Place of death Berlin