Caspar Wilhelm Philipp von Zastrow

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Caspar Wilhelm Philipp von Zastrow (* 1740 in Stossdorf , Niederlausitz , † March 18, 1824 ) was a Saxon lieutenant general , commander of the Königstein fortress and head of a cuirassier regiment .

Life

Caspar Wilhelm Philipp came from the Zastrow family .

In 1760 he began his military career as a lieutenant in the Electoral Saxon Karabinier Guard in Dresden . With this he rose to 1778 to Rittmeister and changed in 1786 as a major to the "Kurfürst-Kürassier". In 1792 von Zastrow was a lieutenant colonel and two years later a colonel in the Chevaulegers regiment "Duke of Courland". In 1801 he was appointed commander of this regiment and at the same time major general and inspector general of the cavalry. In 1808 he took over as head of the Cuirassiers "of Kochtitzky" which henceforth bore his name. The following year von Zastrow was promoted to lieutenant general and received the post of vice governor of Leipzig . From 1810 he was finally employed as the commandant of the Königstein Fortress, but three years later he is listed as "without function".

The street originally named after Zastrow in the Dresden villa district Hohendölzschen was named Rudi-Lattner-Straße in 1962 after a resistance fighter who died in 1944 in the penal battalion 999 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Saxon Court and State Calendar 1807 , p. 234.
  2. ^ Royal Saxon Court and State Calendar 1812 , p. 299 ; Max Barthold, Franz Verlohren (ed.): Stammregister and chronicle of the Electoral and Royal Saxon Army from 1670 to the beginning of the twentieth century , Leipzig 1910 [ND: Neustadt 1983], p. 569.
  3. ^ Streets and squares in Dölzschen.
personal data
SURNAME Zastrow, Caspar Wilhelm Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Lieutenant General, Commander of the Königstein Fortress, Chief of a Cuirassier Regiment
DATE OF BIRTH 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Shock village
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1824