Carl Siegener

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Carl Ludwig August Siegener (born September 4, 1798 in Celle ; † February 10, 1827 at Arroio Lichiguana near Bagé in Brazil ) was a Royal Hanoverian and Brazilian soldier in the field of rocket weapons . He is considered to be the "pioneer and first martyr of the Brazilian missile weapon".

Life

Siegener, son of the district master builder Johann Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Siegener and Johanna Dorothea Caroline Behrens, was born in the Electorate of Hanover at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover and grew up in the so-called " French era ".

Shortly after reaching the age of 15, he probably joined the new Hannoversche Jägercorps, the "Kielmannseggeschen Jäger" of Friedrich von Kielmansegg as a volunteer on September 17, 1813 , received his departure on April 21, 1814 and moved to the field battalion in Bremen as an ensign. Siegener joined the Hanoverian Army on May 6, 1814 as an ensign in the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which was initially stationed in Celle , where he learned about the use of Congreve missiles and was later awarded the Waterloo Medal .

Siegener was enlisted in the Brazilian army and arrived in Rio de Janeiro in February 1826 . He was assigned to the 3rd Grenadier Battalion as a tenente . During the Argentine-Brazilian war , Siegener suggested to his superiors, among them Field Marshal Gustav Heinrich Gottlieb von Braun , who came from Prussia, that Congreve missiles be used in the battle of Ituzaingó . Braun had got to know the missiles during a stay in Europe and wanted to introduce them to the Brazilian army. On February 7, 1827, Siegener prepared three rockets for the first demonstration in front of the General Staff. Due to the damp weather, he chose a larger ignition charge than the manufacturer had intended. After the ignition, the first two rockets flew significantly shorter distances than planned, the third exploded at the launch site, seriously injuring Siegener. He was supposed to be taken to a hospital in Caçapava do Sul , but died three days later on the way there.

As Helmut Andrä put it, Siegener went down in Brazilian history through a note in the war diary of the engineer lieutenant and surveyor Anton Adolf Friedrich Seweloh .

literature

  • Carlos H. Hunsche : Lieutenant Carl Ludwig August Siegener, pioneer and first martyr of the Brazilian missile weapon (1827). In: Staden yearbook . Instituto Hans Staden de Ciências, Letras e Intercâmbio Cultural Brasileiro-Alemão, São Paulo, Volume 36, 1988, pp. 157-162.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Andrä: Thoughts and facts about the Schäffer picture, together with first prints of two contemporary important documents. In: Staden yearbook . Instituto Hans Staden de Ciências, Letras e Intercâmbio Cultural Brasileiro-Alemão, São Paulo, Volume 39/40, 1991, pp. 78, 82. ( preview via Google books ).
  2. ↑ a b RWLE Möller , Bernd Polster : Carl Ludwig August Siegener. In: Celle. The city book. ES, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-00-012605-8 , p. 226
  3. ^ Carlos H. Hunsche : Lieutenant Carl Ludwig August Siegener, pioneer and first martyr of the Brazilian missile weapon (1827). In: Staden yearbook. Instituto Hans Staden de Ciências, Letras e Intercâmbio Cultural Brasileiro-Alemão, São Paulo, Volume 36, 1988, pp. 157-162.
  4. ↑ Blumläger Congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Celle, Baptism Register 1798, No. 4, p. 216.
  5. ^ Main roll of the Hannoversches Feldjägerkorps Kielmansegge 1813–1814, Main State Archives Hanover, 48a I, No. 732.
  6. ↑ a b c d Adalton Gouveia: Esboço histórico da pequisa espacial no Brasil. , São José dos Campos 2003, p. 101. ( online )
  7. ↑ Royal-Great Britain Hannoverscher Staats-Kalender to the year 1819 , Berenbergsche Buchdruckerei zu Lauenburg, p. 206; Digitized via Google books
  8. ^ A b Frank K. Winter, Karlheinz Rohrwild: Rocketry in Latin America in the 19th Century: A Historical Survey. In: History of Rocketry and Astronautics. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics , AAS History Series, Volume 30, 2009, p. 22. ( online )
  9. ↑ Anton Adolf Friedrich Seweloh : Reminiscencias da Campanha de 1827 contra Buenos Ayers. In: Revista trimensal do Instituto Historico, Geographico e Ethnographico do Brasil , Volume XXXVII, Part 1, 1874, pp. 426, 448 ( online ). Retrieved October 18, 2017 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Siegener, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegener, Carl Ludwig August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Hanoverian and Brazilian soldier in the field of missile weapons
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1827
Place of death near Bagé , Brazil