Adolf von Dorpowski

Adolf Karl Julius von Dorpowski (born September 11, 1811 in Krummensee near Schlochau , † September 17, 1895 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. Franz Sigismund von Dorpowski (1772–1855) at Gut Krummensee and his wife Henriette Auguste Caroline Anne Amalie, née Countess von der Goltz (1784–1874), a sister of the Prussian Lieutenant General Karl Graf von der Goltz . The later Prussian major general Karl von Dorpowski (1804-1885) was his older brother.

Military career

Dorpowski visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . On July 29, 1829 he was transferred as a second lieutenant to the 16th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army in Düsseldorf . After Dorpowski had completed the General War School for three years from 1833 , he worked as a teacher at the division school of the 14th Division in 1837/40 . This was followed by employment as a teacher at the Kadettenhaus Berlin until 1841 . In 1842 Dorpowski was assigned to the topographical department of the Great General Staff and promoted to Prime Lieutenant on April 20, 1844 . From 1845 to 1848 he was doing surveying work in East Prussia and Pomerania . On December 19, 1848, Dorpowski returned to his main regiment with the promotion to captain and appointment to company commander . As part of the suppression of the revolutionary unrest , he was deployed with his regiment in the street fighting in Elberfeld in 1849 . On the occasion of the autumn crisis , Dorpowski was commanded from November 1, 1850 to February 1, 1851 as a general staff officer to the mobile 26th division. On December 13, 1856 he was promoted to major and transferred as director of the Cadet House to Wahlstatt . From May 19, 1859, Dorpowski was again active in the troop service. First as commander of the 2nd Battalion in the 12th Infantry Regiment in Posen , then from January 29, 1863 as the commander of the 7th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 56 in Paderborn . In the meantime, he had been promoted on 18 October 1861 Lieutenant Colonel and was promoted on March 17, 1863 , Colonel . During the war against Austria in 1866, Dorpowski took part in the fighting at Münchengrätz with his regiment as part of the Elbarmee . During the attack on Problus in the Battle of Königgrätz , he was seriously wounded by a shot in the thigh . For his achievements, Dorpowski received the Order of the Crown, 2nd Class with Swords.

After the peace agreement , he was appointed commander of the 27th Infantry Brigade in Düsseldorf on October 30, 1866, with a position à la suite of his regiment , and in this position was promoted to major general on December 31, 1866 with a patent from October 30, 1866. Under awarding of the character as a lieutenant general and the star of Red Eagle , he was on 9 June 1870, the legal II. Class with oak board for disposition made.

On the occasion of the war against France , Dorpowski was re-used as a ZD officer from July 26, 1870 to June 3, 1871 and acted as deputy commander of the 40th Infantry Brigade in Braunschweig . After completing this command, Duke Wilhelm paid tribute to him by awarding him the Grand Cross with Swords of the Order of Henry the Lion .

After his death he was buried in the Hasenheide garrison cemetery.

family

Dorpowski had married Eveline Hedwig Antonie Freiin von Puttkamer (1829-1904) on September 25, 1849 in Wollin .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 443, no. 2395.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der deutsche Herold: Zeitschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- und Familienkunde , Volume 5, Heymanns, Berlin 1874, p. 93
2. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 444, no. 2396.
3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, 1906, p.575