Albert du Vignau

Albert du Vignau (born April 7, 1795 in Magdeburg , † April 30, 1885 in Warmbrunn ) was a Prussian major general and military writer.

Life

origin

Albert was a great-grandson of the Saxon-Meiningischen agent in Dresden Daniel du Vignau. His parents were the secret government councilor and tax director Wilhelm du Vignau (1756–1844) and his wife Wilhelmine, née Goßler (1768–1847). His older brother, the Real Secret Upper Government President in Erfurt Wilhelm von Vignau (1793–1866), was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1860 .

Career

Vignau began his career in 1809 as a gunner in the Westphalian service and was promoted to prime lieutenant by 1812 . During the Russian campaign he took part in the battles near Smolensk , Mosheisk, Vyazma and Moscow with the French allies . He was taken prisoner on the Beresina .

During the Wars of Liberation , Vignau entered Prussian service as a Second Lieutenant in 1814 , and was aggregated with the Silesian Artillery Brigade . In 1816 he received his renewed promotion to prime lieutenant in the Brandenburg artillery brigade and in 1819 became adjutant of the Guards Artillery Brigade , where he was aggregated in the same year while maintaining his position. With his promotion to captain in the adjutant, Vignau also became adjutant of the 1st artillery inspection. From the beginning of 1821 he was an artillery officer from the square in Thorn . In 1827 he moved to the 6th Artillery Brigade, but in 1829 became a teacher at the Artillery and Engineering School and the General War School and a member of the study commission. As an honor he received the Order of the Sword III in 1829 . Class, and in 1834 the Order of St. Vladimir IV Class. He advanced to major in 1836 and in 1837 became 5th staff officer in the 3rd Artillery Brigade and a member of the Artillery Examination Commission. When he was appointed commander of the fortress reserve artillery in Mainz in 1839, he was also added to the 8th Artillery Brigade . Since 1842 he was department commander in the 6th artillery brigade, rose to lieutenant colonel in 1846 and was commissioned in 1847 to lead the 3rd artillery brigade. In 1847 he was appointed brigadier and in 1848 Vignau was promoted to colonel . From 1849 he was entrusted with the position of director of the Prussian military telegraph service and was transferred to the army officers. When he became the commandant of Thorn Fortress in 1850 , he was to retain the position of director until it was dissolved by the Minister of War . Vignau was put up for disposal in 1852 as major general with a pension . In 1854 he has his final farewell with pension and in 1859 the Red Eagle received II. Class with oak leaves.

family

Vignau married the pastor's daughter Ida Natalie Lambeck (1802–1881) in Thorn in 1822 . The marriage resulted in 12 children, several of whom served as army officers. The youngest son Immo became a Persian telegraph officer in Isfahan, Olga (1838–1915) married Major General Rudolf Kurt von Hertzberg (1832–1898), Thora (* 1829) married Colonel Wilhelm Adolf Ferdinand von Langermann and Erlenkamp.

Works

• About the applicability of railways with locomotive engines for military purposes. In: Journal of Art, Science and the History of War. Issue 1, 1837, pp. 35-72.
• Treatises on a number of the most important items of artillery in recent times. 1841, ( digitized )
• About the changes imposed on the artillery being by the improved infantry rifle. 1855, ( digitized )
• with JP Lefrén : Views of the Royal Swedish General Lefrén on education and instruction in general, and report of the same on the War Academy at Karlberg near Stockholm in particular. 1936.
• with Charles Bormann : The Shrapnel bullet in England and Belgium together with considerations on its use in the last Krimm wars. 1863.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 314-315, no. 1936.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Warmbrunn No. 86/1885.
2. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 593.
3. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 127.
4. ^ ^{A b c d} Louis von Malinowsky, Robert von Bonin : History of the Brandenburg-Prussian artillery. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1840, p. 118 u. P. 167.
5. ^ Henri Tollin : History of the French Colony of Magdeburg. Halle 1886, pp. 96–97.
6. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1866, p.522