Christian Emilius Reich

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Christian Emilius Reich

Christian Emilius Reich (born April 18, 1822 in Copenhagen , † July 14, 1865 there ) was a Danish artillery officer and minister of war .

Origin and family

Reich's father was Johan Frederik Reich, inspector at the Trinitatis Arbejdshus (approx. 1778–1829), his mother was his wife Ane Cathrine Elisabeth, nee. Harhoff (1783-1865). On October 7, 1852, Reich married Anna Martine Andresine Løper (1825–1907), daughter of the official surgeon in Copenhagen and later battalion surgeon Carl Martin Daniel Løper L. (1795–1848) and his wife Andresine Marie, born in Copenhagen. Stensier (1801-1874).

Life

In 1842, Reich passed the exams at the Royal Military College . In 1843 he became prime lieutenant in the artillery and worked under Jacob Fibiger and in 1847 was sent abroad for a longer study trip. Reich had a gift for mathematics and a great interest in calculating probability, astronomy and biology and was a teacher at the Royal Military College from 1855 onwards as a captain . In the Schleswig-Holstein survey , he served Christian Julius de Meza as an adjutant . Reich published Forelæsninger on Balistik and was well known to Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ , in whose house he was a frequent guest. Together with comrades, Reich founded the Tidsskrift for Krigsvæsen in 1855 . Also in 1855 he was a member of the great fortification commission and in 1856 was appointed department director in the war ministry. In the same year he was elected to the Imperial Council by the king together with Andræ . In 1857 he held an apprenticeship at the Royal Military University and co-founded the Sparkasse Bikuben . Since Hans Nicolai Thestrup resigned as Minister of War in August 1863 and Carl Lundbye took over the post, Reich was ousted by Major Stephan Ankjær from the director's post and was appointed lieutenant colonel and head of the Royal Military College. With the outbreak of the German-Danish War in 1864 he became chief of the Copenhagen sea fortifications , but was shortly afterwards transferred to General Christian Lunding as chief of staff in Fredericia . At the beginning of May of the same year, however, he was ordered back to Copenhagen, as Konseilpräsident Monrad had to replace the sick and incompetent War Minister Lundbye after the defeat at the Düppeler Schanzen . With the end of the Monrad government , Reich's term of office also ended and he returned to his post as head of the Royal Military College. He died suddenly the following year.

Awards and memberships

Fonts

  • Forelæsninger over Balistik ved den Kgl. militaire Høiskole . Copenhagen 1854 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helge Larsen: CE Reich . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 12 : Rasmussen – Scavenius . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1982, ISBN 87-01-77482-4 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).
  2. ↑ Tom Buk-Swienty: Dommedag Als. June 29, 1864. Kampen for Danmarks eksistens. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2010, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Reich, Christian Emilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish artillery officer and minister of war
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1865
Place of death Copenhagen