Carl August von Veltheim

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Carl August von Veltheim (born December 4, 1718 in Destedt , † July 30, 1781 in Pyrmont ) was a Brunswick-Lüneburg lieutenant general and inspector general of the Hanoverian cavalry .

Life

family

Carl August was the son of Baron Friedrich Ulrich von Veltheim (1675–1738) and his wife Helena Dorothea, born von Alvensleben (1684–1748), a daughter of Baron Gebhard Johann von Alvensleben (1642–1700). He had twelve siblings, including Georg Philipp (1703-1758), the Brunswick court hunter , and Adrian Friedrich von Veltheim (born March 27, 1710; incorrectly also: Adrian Dietrich ), who from 1761 was major general in Hanover and the commander of the Kurhannoverschen Dragoon Regiment was DI until he died of the consequences of his severe wounds on May 7, 1765 in Walsrode .

Military career

In 1747 Carl August von Veltheim was Rittmeister in the Reuter Regiment von Hammerstein and in 1757 was appointed major in the bodyguard , in which he also advanced to lieutenant colonel . In 1761 he was promoted to colonel in Reuter Regiment No. 4B , which he took over from his brother, Colonel Adrian Friedrich von Veltheim. From 1765 he was, again as his brother's successor, the chief of the Dragoon Regiment DI , which he remained until the end of his life in 1781, after which Georg Wilhelm von Ramdohr became the new chief of this regiment.

In 1768 Veltheim was also appointed Major General of the Electorate of Hanover and in 1777 Lieutenant General; at the end of his service, he was inspector general of the Hanoverian cavalry , his successor was Emmerich Otto August von Estorff .

He took part in the Austrian War of Succession and the Seven Years' War and was also involved in the battle near Grebenstein in the Battle of Wilhelmsthal .

His grave monument is located in the Hameln Garrison Cemetery, the resting place for high-ranking military personnel. Around 1912 there was a picture of him in Destedt Castle .

See also

List of the regiments of Kur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Tribe list from 1756 and 1783

Web links and literature

  • Carl August von Veltheim . In: Hameln Garrison Cemetery.
  • Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg: Illustration of the Chur-Hanoverian army uniforms A brief history of the Chur-Hanoverian troops. Hanover / Leipzig 1791; Reprint: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1979. ISBN 3-87706-177-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt, Georg (1912): The Veltheim family , Chapter 10 , pp. 271-274
  2. ↑ see Ronnenberg (1791), pp. 22-24
  3. ^ Schmidt, Georg (1912): The Veltheim family , 10th chapter , p. 273
  4. ↑ Historical political, geographic, statistical and military contributions concerning the royal Prussian and neighboring states . S. 696. Pauli, 1783 ( google.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  5. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 3 . S. 166. Walter de Gruyter, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-094655-0 ( google.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Christian Friedrich Hempel: Heroes, State and Life History of the most serene and mighty prince and lord, Lord Friedrich the Other Jetzo most gloriously reigning king in Prussia, Elector of Brandenburg, also sovereign and supreme duke in Silesia, which tells the story from the beginning of the 1762 until March of the 1763th year, and is provided with images of the most distinguished things engraved in copper. Seventh part . S. 389, 1764 ( google.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Veltheim, Carl August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Destedt
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1781
Place of death Pyrmont