Carl von Prittwitz

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the royal Prussian infantry general of the same name, see Karl von Prittwitz (1790–1871).

Carl Baron von Prittwitz, Count Sabalkanski, Russian general of the cavalry

The coat of arms of the von Prittwitz and Gaffron family

Carl Leonhard Friedrich Anton Prittwitz , even Baron von Prittwitz (* called, 2. December 1797 on Good Ponischau at Guttentag , Silesia ; † 10 ^jul. / 22. March  1881 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was Imperial Russian cavalry general and Adjutant General of Tsar Nicholas I.

family

Prittwitz came from the old, widely branched Silesian noble family of those von Prittwitz and was the son of the royal Prussian cavalry master and landowner Karl von Prittwitz, lord of Sitzmannsdorf, and his first wife Karoline von Diebitsch. From his maternal uncle, the imperial Russian field marshal Hans Graf von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski (1785-1831), Prittwitz inherited the majorate Sabalkansk in the Jamburg district with 21 villages and the right to use the title Graf Sabalkanski . The inheritance was connected with the obligation to look after the loaned cannons, monuments and other legacies (such as furniture, silver, oil paintings and documents) of the field marshal and to support four invalids.

He married on 13 October 1827 in Warsaw Louise de Grasse (born 7 ^jul. / January 19, 1806 ^greg. In Warsaw, † 5. ^jul. / August 17, 1897 ^greg. In St. Petersburg).

The two imperial Russian generals Hans von Prittwitz and Nicolaus von Prittwitz were his sons.

Military background

Prittwitz joined a line regiment of the Russian army in 1814 and accompanied his uncle, the then chief of the general staff, General von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski, as an orderly during the wars of liberation . In this campaign he was first column leader (non-commissioned officer) in the general staff , then became a cornet in a line Uhlan regiment and later in the Garrison Guard Uhlan regiment of Grand Duke Constantine (1779–1831), the viceroy from Poland. As Rittmeister he took part in the fighting in the November Uprising in 1830/1831 and was wounded in the Battle of Grochów on February 25, 1831.

Subsequently, Prittwitz was appointed Imperial Russian Wing Adjutant. Later, as imperial adjutant general with the rank of General of Infantry à la suite he was interrupted by Come Andie conclusions as a major general to lead his old Lancers and as a lieutenant general for guiding a light cavalry - Division , the permanent retinue of Tsar Nicholas I.

Orders and decorations

• several higher and highest Russian orders
• Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 1st class
• Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume VI, page 359, volume 29 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• Robert von Prittwitz : The v. Prittwitz noble family , Wilhelm Gottl publishing house. Korn, Breslau 1870, p.178f