Adolf von Spillner

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Adolf Rudolf Spillner , von Spillner since 1861 , (born August 10, 1790 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † November 30, 1871 in Koblenz ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Gabriel Rudolf Spillner and his wife Johanna Wilhelmine, née Wiedemann. His father was Kurmärkich provincial excise and customs assessor as well as a privy councilor of war .

Military career

Spillner first studied at the building academy in Berlin and was employed as a building manager by the government in Potsdam. When King Friedrich Wilhelm III. published the appeal " An Mein Volk ", Spillner joined the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Guard Regiment on foot of the Prussian Army in March 1813 as a volunteer hunter . He took part in the battles at Großgörschen and Bautzen and was transferred to Count Reichenbach's Silesian Landwehr Battalion at the end of May 1813 and promoted to secondary lieutenant . After the armistice , the battalion came to the 4th Silesian Landwehr Regiment. In its ranks Spillner fought as a company commander on the Katzbach and near Bunzlau . For Wartenburg he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class. Due to a wound he was not fit for duty again until December 1813, took part in the blockade of Mainz and in January 1814 was promoted to prime lieutenant . As such, Spillner fought at Château-Thierry , Laon and Paris . In the battle of Waterloo he commanded the riflemen of his battalion as captain .

After the peace agreement , Spillner came to Liegnitz with his battalion , which was disbanded there in February 1816. He was then employed in the 28th Infantry Regiment . Here Spillner rose to major in July 1832 , became commander of the fusilier battalion and in this capacity in 1842 a lieutenant colonel . On October 17, 1844, he was assigned to lead the 29th Infantry Regiment . After his promotion to colonel , Spillner was appointed regimental commander on August 15, 1845. With the statutory pension he was on 23 December 1858 to the disposition made and on 10 January 1850 as major general with board adopted .

On the occasion of the coronation of Wilhelm I , he was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on October 18, 1861 .

family

Spillner married Auguste Wilhelmine Müller († 1820) in 1817. After her untimely death, he married Luise Butte (1799–1863), daughter of the government councilor Wilhelm Butte, on October 18, 1826 in Bonn . The future Prussian Colonel Carl August Hermann (1830–1887) and the later Prussian major and bailiff Friedrich Otto Rudolph (* 1834) emerged from this marriage.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Wellmann: The Officer Corps of the Infantry Regiment von Horn (3rd Rheinisches) No. 29. 1815-1890. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1890, pp. 232-233, 237.
personal data
SURNAME Spillner, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spillner, Adolf Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1871
Place of death Koblenz