Moriz from Spies

Moriz Spies , since 1861 Ritter von Spies (born December 31, 1805 in Ansbach , † October 10, 1862 in Munich ) was a Bavarian Major General and Minister of War .

Life

origin

He was the son of Johann Ernst Ferdinand Spies (born June 16, 1772 in Braunschweig ; † August 8, 1842 in Bamberg ) and his wife Christine Friederike Sophie Caroline, née Schegk (born August 29, 1782 in Ansbach; † January 30, 1830 in Munich). His father was Ministerialrat in Ansbach and later Vice-President of the Court of Appeal in Upper Franconia . He was in 1814 by King I. Maximilian on condition ennobled been that the noble title was transferred only to the eldest son.

Military career

After visiting the Cadet Corps on October 12, 1823, Spies joined the 1st Genied Division of the Engineer Corps of the Bavarian Army as a conductor . On August 18, 1826 he was promoted to second lieutenant . As such, he went to Greece in 1832 with the later King Otto due to the aging of the officer corps and the associated low chance of promotion . Here Spies was active in the engineering corps, in the war ministry and in the general staff. In 1843 he retired with the character as a lieutenant colonel in the Greek army .

On August 13, 1843, Spies was re-employed as a first lieutenant in the engineering corps of the Bavarian Army and transferred to the Ingolstadt fortress construction command the following year . At the end of October 1844, he was promoted to captain and transferred to the quartermaster general. Here he worked from November 9, 1845 as adjutant to the Quartermaster General . At the time of his promotion to major on March 31, 1848, Spies was in the company of Major General Wilhelm von Le Suire in Karlsruhe and from the end of September 1848 to April 1850 he was assigned to the Reich Minister of War in Frankfurt am Main . Here he worked as a member of the department for the northern and western war theater in the department for the army. After his return to Munich, Spies was appointed advisor in the War Ministry on May 3, 1850 and used in the fifth section. He later took over responsibility for the cadet corps and was instrumental in its reorganization. After further promotions to lieutenant colonel on September 18, 1852, to colonel on March 31, 1855 and major general on April 27, 1859, Spies also acted as deputy to war minister Ludwig von Lüder . On March 27, 1860, Spies resigned from the War Ministry and became the commandant of the Genie Corps.

For his many years of service, Spies was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . The award was connected with the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Spies after the entry in the knight class of the nobility matriculation on February 19, 1861 . For his achievements he was also awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Saint Michael , the Cross in Gold of the Order of Redeemer , the Knight's Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Order . Leopold Order and the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class.

After Lüder's resignation, King Maximilian II appointed Spies as his successor and State Councilor on June 13, 1861 . During his tenure, in addition to budget issues for the army, he was primarily concerned with the reform of the Federal War Constitution and, in particular, with the implementation of the Würzburg Convention on Central States of 1860. On October 10, 1862, Spies died of bladder cancer in Munich.

family

Spies married Therese Mathilde Freiin von Hacke on June 28, 1848 in Munich (born June 28, 1817 in Bamberg, † May 23, 1899 in Würzburg ).

literature

• Wolf D. Gruner : The Bavarian War Ministers 1805–1885. in: ZBLG. 34, pp. 293-295 (1971).
• Karl Bosl (Ed.): BOSL's Bavarian Biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Friedrich Pustet publishing house. Regensburg 1983. ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 . P. 738.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf D. Gruner: The Bavarian War Ministers 1805–1885. in: ZBLG. 34 (1971), p. 294.
2. ↑ Wolf D. Gruner: Das Bayerische Heer 1825 to 1864. A critical analysis of the armed power of Bavaria from the accession of Ludwig I to the government until the eve of the German war. Harald Boldt Verlag. Boppard on the Rhine. ISBN 3-7646-1562-1 . P. 179.
3. ↑ Bavarian War Ministry (Ed.): Military Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1862. P. 1.