Carl Dreyer (General)

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Carl Dreyer (born April 19, 1796 in Hilzingen , † July 25, 1886 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a lieutenant general from Baden .

Life

origin

He was the second son of the Dreyer district councilor and his wife, a née Strohmeier.

Military career

Dreyer joined the artillery of the Baden Army as a bombardier on December 1, 1810 . On October 30, 1811, he was transferred to the 3rd Infantry Regiment as a Junker and on September 5, 1812 he was promoted to lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry Regiment. As part of the Confederation of the Rhine , Dreyer and his regiment took part in the blockade of Glogau and the battle of Leipzig in 1813 alongside France . There he, like his entire regiment, was taken prisoner. After the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation, Dreyer was released and returned to Baden. He took part with the 1st Infantry Regiment in 1814/15 during the Wars of Liberation in the blockade and the battles in front of Kehl and Strasbourg .

After the peace agreement , Dreyer rose to major in the 2nd Infantry Regiment by October 1845 . In 1848 he was involved with this regiment in the suppression of the revolution and fought with free troops at Günterstal and Freiburg . During the reorganization of the army, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 4, 1850 and appointed commander of the 5th Infantry Battalion. This led Dreyer in different Prussian garrison places before coming back to the November 1850 garrison to Rastatt returned. There he acted as the commandant of the Baden contingent of the occupation of the federal fortress .

As a colonel , Dreyer was finally appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment on October 22, 1852 . He gave up this command with his promotion to major general on January 30, 1855 and took over the 2nd Infantry Brigade. On May 26, 1860 he was given the character of Lieutenant General and was also appointed Deputy Military Governor of the Federal Fortress of Rastatt. In the same year Dreyer was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion for his services . He was also the holder of the Order of St. Vladimir .

For health reasons, he was granted leave on April 26, 1861.

literature

  • Friedrich von Bodenstein: Officer master list of the 2nd Baden Grenadier Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm I. No. 110. Publishing house of the German officer newspaper. Berlin / Oldenburg / Leipzig 1902. p. 7.
  • Karl Dreyer. In: Badische Biographien (editor Friedrich von Weech), 4th part, Karlsruhe 1891, pp. 88–89. online at the Baden State Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1880. Karlsruhe 1880. P. 117.
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreyer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilzingen
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1886
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau