Carl von Mannlich
Carl von Mannlich , full name Carl August Christian von Mannlich (* July 17, 1787 in Zweibrücken ; † May 13, 1832 ibid) was a royal Bavarian officer and forest clerk .
biography
He was the only son of the ennobled court painter and architect Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741–1822) and his wife Barbara nee. Simon (1752-1794). Based in Zweibrücken, the effects of the French Revolution overshadowed his childhood. Among other things, the French burned down the nearby Karlsberg Palace in 1793 , the construction of which his father directed and from where he had saved a large part of the valuable inventory to Mannheim and Munich .
After the early death of his mother, Carl von Mannlich lived with his father in Munich from 1800. Here he attended the cadet corps until 1804 , which, however, displeased his father. So he sent him to the Freising Forestry School . In 1805, Mannlich volunteered to fight Austria . After the campaign, his father insisted on continuing his forest training. In 1809, in the renewed fight against Austria , Carl von Mannlich again volunteered for the army and advanced to lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Regiment. After the end of the war he lived at the court in Munich, where his father was highly regarded by the king. The young man had a special friendship with the French ambassador Louis Marie de Narbonne-Lara (1755–1813).
In the Russian campaign of 1812 , Mannlich took part as an officer of the 1st Bavarian Chevaulegers Regiment , with his unit belonging to the brigade of the French general Jean-Baptiste Dommanget (1769-1848), whose adjutant he became. His military horse was a personal gift from the king. In the battle of Borodino he suffered a severe grape injury , which tore off a piece of the pelvic bone. Next to him, his childhood friend, the Wittelsbacher Karl August von Zweybrücken (1784–1812), grandson of Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , was fatally wounded. General Dommanget and Carl von Mannlich were also eyewitnesses how a cannonball shot off the shoulder of the commanding officer, Colonel Graf Gustav von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1773–1812), son-in-law of Baron Christian von Zweybrücken , who was storming at the head of his regiment ; both carried him out of the fray and stood by him as he died.
After the battle, injured, Carl von Mannlich dragged himself to Moscow and, injured, retreated from there in October. Using the last of his strength, he finally reached Vilna . Here the officer recovered a little. The still open wound could be treated, but soon he also fell ill with typhus .
Mannlich returned to Munich via Berlin and Leipzig . Thanks to the care he had given by his father, the officer recovered and as early as 1813 he took part in the battle of Hanau again as captain and leader of a squadron . During the siege of Belfort on December 28, 1813, he distinguished himself by rejecting a violent enemy attack together with the infantry colonel Karl Peter von Theobald , during which they captured several opponents and suffered no losses of their own. In 1814 Mannlich fought in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube and took part in the capture of Paris . In 1815, after the victory at Waterloo , he returned to Paris . Finally he returned home with his regiment, where Zweibrücken received it as a garrison.
In 1816, Carl von Mannlich married Charlotte, b. Hannitz and resigned from military service due to illness in January 1822, whereupon King Max I Joseph took him over to the forestry service and made him forest master of Zweibrücken. As early as 1831, Mannlich had to submit his farewell here due to illness. He wanted to go to Munich in 1832, to die there and be buried by his father's side. On the day of his planned departure he died in Zweibrücken and was buried in the main cemetery there. His extraordinary grave was preserved here, a classical cast iron sarcophagus on a three-tier stone plinth, which is included in the city's list of monuments.
In his memoirs Rokoko und Revolution, the father Johann Christian von Mannlich reports extensively on his son's military experiences and lets him have his own say through quotations from letters. Carl von Mannlich vividly describes his stay in occupied Moscow, the retreat through Russia and his arrival in Munich, where the king immediately called him over. The horse that the king had given him at the beginning of the campaign had carried Mannlich to Moscow and back to Munich. The officer wrote about his stay in Moscow:
“ They had all become shopkeepers. Everywhere you saw her sitting with the cross of the Legion of Honor on her chest and busy bringing foreign goods by weight and yardstick to the man. Our excerpt presented a delicious spectacle: More than 60 of the most beautiful English carriages from the Moscow coach houses moved out to the city, packed with pictures, pendulum clocks, Chinese porcelain and many other loot - trophies of our glorious expedition. I contented myself with the two troikas , which I could with a clear conscience regard as my prey, loaded them up with oats, hay, potatoes, wine and bread, since I knew very well which country we had to cross. "
progeny
Carl von Mannlich had several children, including the daughter Caroline Amalie (1819–1847), who married Friedrich August von Hofenfels (1814–50), the grandson of the former Palatinate-Zweibrücken minister Johann Christian von Hofenfels . Both tombs, in the form of a double sarcophagus made of sandstone and adorned with coats of arms, are located in the Zweibrücken cemetery, next to that of Mannlich.
literature
- Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. 10th year, 1832, 1st part, Ilmenau 1834, pp. 376–379 (digitized version )
- Johann Christian von Mannlich : Rococo and Revolution (memoirs), Mittler Verlag, Berlin 1913, pp. 543–556, with a portrait of the son
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anton von Schönhueb: History of the Royal Bavarian cadet corps: From original sources written for the 100th jubilee celebration. Munich 1856, p. 111 (digitized version)
- ↑ Tears and melancholy. How the Bavarian Army perished in Napoleon's catastrophic Russian campaign in 1812. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung. October 19, 2012 (newspaper article about the fall of the Bavarian Army in Russia, mentioning Carl von Mannlich and his horse)
- ↑ Data page of the Palatinate State Library Speyer, on Gustav von Sayn-Wittgenstein ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Karl Gemminger: Bavarian That book , Passau, 1830, page 282; (Digital scan)
- ^ Wilhelm Weber: Karlsberg Castle. Legend and reality. The Wittelsbach castle buildings in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. Ermer, Homburg-Saarpfalz 1987, ISBN 3-924653-02-X , p. 563 (excerpt)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mannlich, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mannlich, Carl August Christian von (full name); Mannlich, Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian officer and forester |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zweibrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1832 |
| Place of death | Zweibrücken |