August Friedrich Ludwig von Wrangel

August Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Wrangel (born April 22, 1774 in Pollnow ; † January 26, 1851 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

August came from the old Baltic - Swedish - Pomeranian officer family Wrangel . He was the son of the later Prussian major general Friedrich Ernst von Wrangel (1720-1805) and his wife Sophie Luise Elisabeth von Below (1752-1805) from the house of Reetz . The later Prussian Field Marshal Friedrich Heinrich Ernst was his brother.

Military career

Wrangel visited from March 10, 1787 to March 10, 1793 the École Militaire in Paris and was then employed as an ensign in the infantry regiment "von Braun" of the Prussian army . At his father's request, he was transferred to the "von der Trenck" hussar regiment on September 7, 1793 as a cornet . With this he took part in the campaign in Poland in 1794/95 in the battles near Błonie and the battles off Warsaw . On March 5, 1795 Wrangel was second lieutenant and was as such from November 19, 1798 inspection adjutant to General Ludwig von Köhler (1735-1811).

He served under Duke Friedrich Ferdinand von Anhalt-Köthen in his hussar regiment and was transferred to the headquarters of the Russian General Levin August von Bennigsen during the Fourth Coalition War . For his services at the Battle of Pułtusk in 1806 Wrangel was awarded the Russian Order of Saint Anne and on December 31, 1806 with the Order Pour le Mérite . In 1809 he was appointed wing adjutant of the cavalry . In the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813, he led the reserve cavalry of the II Army Corps .

On September 5, 1818 Wrangel was given command of the 1st Division and on March 30, 1824 he was promoted to Lieutenant General. As such, he rose to governor of Königsberg on March 30, 1832 . Wrangel gave up this post at his own request on October 23, 1832 and was discharged from military service with the statutory pension . His requests for a later use and reinstatement were rejected by the Prussian king.

family

Wrangel married Karoline Sophie Henriette Countess Truchseß von Waldburg (1777-1816), divorced Countess von Kameke , on May 5, 1801 . After the death of his wife, he married his niece Luise Ulrike Pauline von Wedel (1801–1823) in Königsberg on May 20, 1822 . He had several children including:

• Ida (1802-1850)
• Ludwig (1803–1875), heir to Kurkenfeld ∞ Alexandrine von Goldbeck (1813–1862)
• Angelika Adelheid (1804–1888) ∞ Gustav Stein von Kamienski (1791–1875), Prussian major general
• Gustav Heinrich Philipp (1807–1859), Rittmeister ∞ Hedwig Countess von Klinckowstroem (1816–1895)
• Valeska Philippine (1808–1884) ∞ Theodor Konrad Leopold August von der Gröben (1805–1863), heir to Arenstein
• Karl (1812–1899), General of the Infantry ∞ Adelheid von Strantz (1813–1891)
• Emma (1817–1878) ∞ Emil Theodor von Burgsdorf on Pentlack (1817–1850)
• Pauline (* 1822) (from second marriage)

Fonts

• My diary 1806/07. In: Yearbook of the Albertus University of Königsberg / Pr. Volume 12, Berlin 1962.

literature

• Henry von Baensch: History of the von Wrangel Family. Berlin / Dresden 1887, p. 787. Digitized
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen houses. 9. 1859, pp. 914f. Digitized
• Friedrich Thimme : King Friedrich Wilhelm III., His part in the Tauroggen Convention and in the reform of 1807–1812 . in: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian history, Volume 18, Leipzig 1905. In it excerpts from Wrangel's diary from 1812.
• Friedrich Thimme: The secret mission of Wrangel's wing adjudicator in 1812 . in: ibid, volume 21, 1908.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst : Private and official writings: General Staff Officer between Crisis and Reform (Prussia 1804-1807). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007. p. 426.
2. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 253, no. 746.
3. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . P. 15, digitized
4. ^ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 2, p. 152.