August von Munchausen

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August Wilhelm Ludwig Gerlach von Münchhausen (born February 24, 1788 in Kalitz , † March 8, 1841 in Hettstedt ) was a Prussian officer and district administrator .

Life

origin

He came from the noble family von Münchhausen and was the youngest son of Gerlach von Münchhausen (1740-1791), landlord on Kalitz (bought in 1770) from the Neuhaus Leitzkau line , and Marie Charlotte von Brietzke (1759-1845).

Career

In 1800 Münchhausen joined the " von Neumann " infantry regiment (originally called the "Courbière" infantry regiment when it was set up in 1797) of the Prussian Army in Halle (Saale) as a Junker . 1800/06 he attended the Klosterburg school. In 1808 he was in the Schill'schen Freikorps . In March 1812, he quit the service in the army and moved to English services Royal German Legion , where he first as a cornet from May 5 until September 1, 1812 1. Dragoon - Regiment served in Spain. On December 20, 1812 he became a Second Lieutenant and Adjutant in the Russian-German Legion . Only after two years did he return to Prussian services on March 29, 1815 as a cavalry master in the 8th East Prussian Uhlan Regiment , where he remained until December 22, 1816. In 1822 he was released from active service as a major in the 7th Magdeburg Cuirassier Regiment .

In 1824 he succeeded Ferdinand Freiherr von Keller as district administrator of the Mansfeld mountain district of the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony . He held this office until his death.

He was a friend of the writer and politician Ernst Moritz Arndt .

family

Münchhausen married on June 18, 1817 at Gut Buchau with Riesa Luise von Meyerinck (born September 13, 1792 in Magdeburg , † December 11, 1864 in Helmsdorf). The couple had three daughters:

Publications

  • A hundred year old local history of the Mansfeld mountain range. Compiled from reports of the local clergy from the then district administrator of Münchhausen in Hettstedt, reprint in: Mansfelder Heimatkunde , Vereinigung für Heimatforschung im Mansfelder Lande (ed.), 5th year (1930), issue 1 + 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradeligen houses , 8th year (1907), Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 501.
  2. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: Karl Freiherr vom and zum Stein. Letters and official publications , Volume 10, p. 500. ( Excerpt )
  3. ↑ Erich Botzenhart : Karl Freiherr vom and zum Stein. Correspondence, memoranda and notes. 1937, volume 4, p. 210.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Schwertfeger: History of the royal German Legion 1803-1816. 1907, Volume 2, p. 63. ( Excerpt )
  5. ↑ Ernst Moritz Arndt. Memories 1769-1815 , Volume 2 (1989), p. 449. ( excerpt ); Volume 3 (1975), p. 672. ( excerpt )
  6. ↑ Heinz Kamnitzer: Against foreign rule. Reflections on the history of the wars of liberation. 1962, p. 186. ( excerpt )
  7. ↑ Georg Hoffmeister: History of the East Prussian Uhlan Regiment No. 8. 1862, p. 120. ( excerpt )
  8. ↑ Hans Heinrich Fritz Cäcil von Förster: History of the Royal Prussian Uhlan Regiment Graf zu Dohna. 1860 ( excerpt )
  9. ^ Institute for German Nobility Research
  10. ↑ About his eventful soldier life : Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen (ed.), Works on the family history of the barons of Münchhausen, Windischleuba 1938–1939, Vol. III p. 9.
  11. ↑ Thomas Klein (edit.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Series A (Prussia) Volume 6 (Province of Saxony), Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 124. ( Excerpt )
  12. ↑ Thuringian-Saxon Journal for History and Art , Thuringian-Sächsischer Verein für Erforschung des Vaterländischen Antiquity (ed.), 1929, Volume 18/19, p. 229. ( Excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Münchhausen, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münchhausen, August Wilhelm Ludwig Gerlach von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Kalitz , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1841
Place of death Hettstedt , Province of Saxony