Carl Weishaupt

Carl Romanus Weishaupt (born August 11, 1787 in Regensburg , † December 18, 1853 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general and minister of war .

Life

Carl was a son of the Saxon-Gothic court advisor Adam Weishaupt . He joined the Bavarian Army as a second lieutenant on May 23, 1804 and served in the 2nd Infantry Regiment from July 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars . In April 1848, Weishaupt was appointed major general war minister. However, he only stayed in this office for a short time, from April 5 to November 21, and was replaced in the same year by Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Le Suire . Weishaupt then served as an artillery brigadier until his death and was promoted to lieutenant general one day before his death by King Maximilian II .

He liked to hike and published articles on researching the Roman roads in Bavaria.

Hubert Glaser: Crown and Constitution. King Max I Joseph and the new state. Hirmer.
Wolf D. Gruner : The Bavarian Army 1825 to 1864. Harald Boldt, 1972.
Wolf D. Gruner: The Bavarian War Ministers 1805–1885. In: ZBLG. 34, pp. 271-275 (1971).
Ursula Finken: Gottlieb Freiherr von Thon-Dittmer, 1802-1853: Political biography of a Bavarian early liberal. Lassleben, 1990.
Carl Weishaupt: Contributions to the knowledge of the Roman road from Augusta Vindelicorum to Juvavo and its immediate surroundings in ancient terms. In: Roman milestone near Erlstätten. In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History. Volume 3, Issue 1, 1841, pp. 3-96 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Weishaupt, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weishaupt, Carl Romanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian Lieutenant General and Minister of War
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	regensburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1853
Place of death	Munich