Georg Baring
Konrad Ludwig Georg Baring (born March 8, 1773 in Hanover ; † February 27, 1848 in Wiesbaden ), according to some sources also Baron Georg (e) von Baring or Georg Freiherr von Baring, was an officer in the service of the Hanoverian armies.
Life
Baring came from the Lower Saxony branch of the Baring family . He began his military career when he joined the Hanoverian Army in 1787. In November 1803 (dating of the commission from November 17) he joined the King's Germans as a major (provisional rank) , which from December 19, 1803 as the King's German Legion was designated. This made him one of the first members of this troop. He took part in the campaigns to Hanover (1805), the Baltic Sea (1807-1808), the Pyrenees Peninsula (1808-1813), the Scheldt (1809), southern France (1813-1814) and the Netherlands (1814) . On May 16, 1811, he was slightly wounded in the Battle of Albuera . On January 18, 1815, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel .
Waterloo
Georg Baring became known as the commander of the 2nd Light Battalion that defended the La Haye Sainte farm in the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. He believed the battle was already lost when his people suddenly shouted the "Victoria" to him. He wrote a detailed report about the events of the day, which ends with the following lines:
- The division, which was terribly tired and had suffered infinitely, remained on the battlefield that night, and of the 400 men with whom I had opened the battle, I had no more than 42 left. Whoever I asked about, the answer was: dead! - wounded! - I freely admit that tears involuntarily came out of my eyes over this news, and also over some bitter feelings that took hold of me without will. From these gloomy thoughts the Quartermaster General of our division, Major Shaw, who was my trusted friend, woke me up. I felt extremely exhausted and my leg was very painful; I lay down with my friend to sleep on some straw that the people had gathered for us. When we woke up we found ourselves between a dead person and a dead horse. But I want to pass over these scenes of the battlefield with their misery and misery in silence.
- We buried our dead friends and comrades; Among them was the commander of the brigade, Colonel von Ompteda, and many a brave man. After something had been cooked and the people had only recovered somewhat, we set out from the battlefield in pursuit of the enemy.
After Waterloo
After the dissolution of the King's German Legion, Georg Baring joined the newly founded army of the Kingdom of Hanover . Here he was promoted to colonel in the Guards Grenadier Regiment (December 26, 1828) and from 1830 as a wing adjutant in the General Staff . In 1831 his story of the participation of the 2nd Light Battalion of the Kgl. German Legion at the Battle of Waterloo published in the Hanoverian military journal. At that time Georg Baring was the brigade commander. On June 18, 1832, the 17th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, he was raised to the rank of baron and appointed Hanover city commander. In 1834 he became major general and in 1846 lieutenant general . Baring died on February 27, 1848 while taking a spa stay in Wiesbaden. A street in downtown Hanover was named after him. In addition, a small memorial stone in front of the main state archive in Hanover, not far from today's state parliament and former royal palace.
Awards and coats of arms
- Kingdom of Great Britain:
- CB - Companion of the Order of the Bath
- Waterloo medal
- Kingdom of Hanover:
- Kingdom of the Netherlands:
- Military Wilhelm Order III. class
On June 15, 1832, Baring, for himself and his legitimate offspring, was raised to the baron status by King Wilhelm IV of Hanover . The talking coat of arms awarded shows the black head of a bear in a silver shield, ring in the same color through the nose. A baron's crown on the shield, above it the same bear's head on the black and silver bulged helmet with black and silver covers. A brown greyhound with a gold collar as a shield holder on the right, a gold lion on the left. Motto : "Fides et Sinceritas". After the baron's death in 1848, however, there was no ancestral owner, so Baring's Hanoverian baronial title expired with the death of his widow in 1872.
family
He was married to Julie von Horn († 1872).
literature
- George Baring: Narration of the participation of the 2nd light battalion of the royal. German Legion at the Battle of Waterloo . In: Hannoversches Militairisches Journal , year 1831, second issue, pp. 69–90
- Friedrich Lindau: Memories of a soldier from the campaigns of the Royal German Legion: A citizen of Hameln tells of the period 1806 to 1815 . Aurel Verlag, Daun 2006, ISBN 3-938759-02-X .
- Jens Mastnak: This memorable and murderous battle - The Hanoverians near Waterloo. Bomann-Museum, Celle 2003, ISBN 3-925902-48-1 .
- Klaus Mlynek : Georg Baring . In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 39f.
Web links
- King's German Legion Baring 's full report on the defense of La Haye Sainte
Individual evidence
- ^ N. Ludlow Beamish: History of the King's German Legion . Vol. 2. Boone, London 1837 (Reprinted: Naval and Military Press 1997, ISBN 0-952201-10-0 ), pp. 453, 566; Peter Hofschröer: The Waterloo Campaign - The German Victory . Greenhill Books, London 1999, ISBN 1-85367-368-4 . P. 89.
- ↑ Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 39 f.
- ↑ Time
- ↑ Bernhard Schwertfeger: History of the Royal German Legion 1803-1816 . Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1907, vol. 2, p. 315 ff.
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . P. 199.
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1873. Volume 23, p. 842.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baring, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baring, Konrad Ludwig Georg Freiherr von; Baring, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hanoverian officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1848 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |