August von Dewitz (Major General)

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August Karl Adolph Ferdinand von Dewitz (born December 8, 1807 in Groß Schönebeck , † October 8, 1865 in Cologne ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

August von Dewitz (no. 207 of the gender census ) came from the house of Wussow ( district Naugard ) of the Pomeranian noble family von Dewitz . He was the second son of the Prussian major a. D. and District Administrator of the Naugard District Karl Günther Theodor von Dewitz (1759–1819) and his wife Louise Philippine Charlotte, née von Krebs (1770–1834) from the Veltheim family.

Military career

Dewitz was raised in the cadet houses in Kulm and Berlin . On April 8, 1825 he was employed as a porter officer in the 14th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army and was promoted to second lieutenant on August 20, 1825 . From October 1, 1828, he was sent to the General War School for further training . Due to the unrest in Poland , this command had to be interrupted, so that Dewitz only received his degree in mid-July 1832. For several years he was a teacher at the division school of the 4th Division in Stargard in Pomerania . In February 1844 he was promoted to prime lieutenant . During the Polish uprising in the Grand Duchy of Poznan Dewitz acted from April 24th to November 7th, 1848 as a company commander at III. Battalion of the 4th Landwehr Regiment. In February 1849 he was promoted to captain and company commander in the 14th Infantry Regiment. In 1850 his regiment was sent to the Electorate of Hesse with other Prussian and Bavarian troops in the course of the Constitutional Conflict of Hesse .

In January 1855 he was promoted to major and commander of the 1st battalion in the 2nd Landwehr Regiment in Stettin . This was followed on November 7, 1857 with the transfer to Gnesen, the appointment as commander of the fusilier battalion in the 21st Infantry Regiment . With his promotion to lieutenant colonel on July 1, 1860, Dewitz became commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment . On the occasion of the coronation of Wilhelm I on October 18, 1861 in Königsberg , he was promoted to colonel . The regiment chief Grand Duke Ludwig III awarded him for his services in the troop leadership . on December 8, 1861, the Commander's Cross II. Class of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous and on July 30, 1863, the Commander's Cross, II. Class of the Ludewig Order . His king paid tribute to Dewitz on the occasion of the Order Festival in 1863 by awarding him the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with a bow. In position à la suite of the regiment, he was appointed commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade in Cologne on June 13, 1865 , and five days later he was promoted to major general at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Belle Alliance . In this capacity he died of pneumonia on October 8, 1865 after a short sick leave .

Dewitz was a legal knight of the Order of St. John . Influenced by the Pomeranian revival movement , he was considered "a genuinely pious Christian and a very capable soldier".

family

Since March 31, 1834 he was married to Miranda von Dewitz (* July 30, 1810 in Maldewin, † June 22, 1873 in Niesky ), the eldest daughter of the Rittmeister Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Dewitz on Maldewin. The couple had three sons and five daughters:

  • August Karl Ludwig (1836–1887) ⚭ 1869 Alma Gruschwitz (born May 11, 1847)
  • Karl Adolph Gotthard (1842–1887) ⚭ 1877 Antonie Marie von Quast (born September 18, 1847) from the Beetz family
  • Ludwig Christian Adolph (1844–1845)
  • Miranda Luise Friederike (* 1838)
  • Louise Hermine Anna (* 1840) ⚭ Albert Rieth, pastor in Eisenach
  • Maria Auguste Miranda (* 1846) ⚭ Reinhard von Flanß, pastor in Marienwerder
  • Elisabeth Auguste Rosalie (* 1848)
  • Ida Auguste Friederike (* 1850) ⚭ Gottfried von Bülow .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wegner (Lit.), p. 426.
personal data
SURNAME Dewitz, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dewitz, August Karl Adolph Ferdinand von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross Schönebeck
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1865
Place of death Cologne