Charles Auguste Creutzer

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Charles Auguste Creutzer (born April 1, 1780 in Zweibrücken , † September 21, 1832 ) was a French général de brigade from a German family.

Life

Creutzer spent his childhood in Zweibrücken, which was occupied by French troops in 1793 and added to the Département du Mont-Tonnerre .

A supporter of Napoleon at an early age , he joined the Rhine Army on December 22, 1799 at the age of 19 . He was noticeable for his bravery in the Battle of Memmingen (May 10, 1800) and made a career under the command of General Claude-Jacques Lecourbe . He later moved to General Jean-Victor Moreau with his own command .

In 1800, Creutzer became General Gudin's aide-de-camp . During this time he married a niece of Marshal François-Joseph Lefebvre . Creutzers sister Jeanne Caroline was married to the later General Charles Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière .

Creutzer took part in the Russian campaign and fought near Kulm (29/30 August 1813). During a second battle there three weeks later, he was taken prisoner of war near Arbesau on September 17th . After the Battle of Paris (March 30, 1814) and the subsequent peace treaty , Creutzer was released and returned to France in July of the same year.

During Napoleon's “ Rule of the Hundred Days ”, Creutzer was the military governor of the city of Bitche and its citadel . When royal Bavarian troops under Friedrich von Zoller besieged the city and fortress in 1815 , Creutzer gave up only because of a general armistice.

He returned to Paris in 1816 and was entrusted with mostly military-administrative tasks. During the July Revolution of 1830 he was neutral.

Honors

literature

  • David Chandler: The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1999, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 . (Reprint of the London 1966 edition)
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851. (2 vol.)
  • Stephe Pope: The Cassell dictionary of Napoleonic Wars . Cassell, London 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2 .
  • Digby Smith : The Napoleonic Wars Data Book . Greenhill, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Creutzer, Charles Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French brigadier general of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1832