Christian Ludwig von Winning

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Christian Ludwig von Winning (born June 5, 1736 in Lichtenau in the Neumark , † June 28, 1822 at Gut Groß-Glienicke near Potsdam ) was a Prussian infantry general and head of the regiment of the same name "Winning on foot" .

Life

origin

His parents were the district administrator Hans Detlef von Winning (1693-1737) and his second wife Emilie, née von Sydow (* 1698).

Military career

Winning visited the Berlin Cadet House and then joined the Prussian Army's “Prince of Prussia” regiment in 1752 as a private corporal . During the Seven Years' War he fought near Reichenbach , Prague , Zorndorf , Hochkirch (where he was wounded), Kunersdorf , Liegnitz and Torgau . After the war he was a captain and company commander . He remained in the latter position for nearly twenty years. He did not become major until August 5, 1781, and rose to colonel by the end of June 1791 . Winning was meanwhile commander of the "von Mannstein" regiment in Halle and in early 1796 chief of the same, which thus bore his name.

In December 1796 he became chief of the defunct regiment "von Lichnowsky" in Berlin. He was promoted to major general on June 29, 1798 and lieutenant general on June 29, 1805 . With the outbreak of the Fourth Coalition War he came to the corps of Lieutenant General von Rüchel . When it came to the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , he was with 3¾ battalions, 2 hunter companies, 12 squadrons and two half batteries on the road leading from Fulda . When he received the news of defeat in Eisenach on October 15, he decided to go back to Halle. At Langensalza he met the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and came under his command. Now the force was 13,000 men. They were marching around the Harz when they received a letter from the King of Küstrin in Wittstock on the 24th . In it the Duke was relieved of all obligations towards Prussia. In his place, Winning took over the command. He planned to retire to Stralsund , which was then Swedish . But on the 30th they met Blücher's corps at Speck . Contrary to the reservations of his Chief of Staff Müffling, Winning now went under his command and withdrew with him towards Lübeck .

On November 3, he broke his collarbone and had to be taken from Wallsmühlen near Schwerin to Lüneburg , and from there he got to Königsberg . After the war it was no longer used in the field. In 1808 he was assigned to the Pomeranian Army Corps. In 1809 he returned to Berlin with the king and was promoted to general of the infantry. He retired on March 26, 1812 while continuing to pay his salary, and died on June 28, 1822 on his Groß Glienicke estate, which he had acquired in 1788.

In a parade in 1791, Winning received the Pour le Mérite and later the Order of the Red Eagle from the king .

In his memoirs, General Ludwig von Reiche (1775–1854) said Winning was known as a capable drill master, and expressed the view that Müffling's spirit would have been the determining factor in the future, but that he lacked the sublime of the art of war.

In Blücher's report on the surrender at Lübeck, Winning is named among the few "who would have made themselves worthy of the king's grace through activity and appropriate arrangements".

family

On January 8, 1771, he married Sophie Elisabeth Schulze (1754–1835), a daughter of the chief forester Erdmann Ludwig Schulze from Lödderitz . The couple had several children:

  • Friederike Luise (* 1771; † after 1822)
  • Wilhelm Hermann (* 1772; † after 1822) Lieutenant Colonel, loss of nobility on May 15, 1822
  • Sophie Elisabeth (1774–1778)
  • Sophie Elisabeth (* 1775; † before 1822)
  • Henriette Auguste (* 1780; † after 1822)
  • Hans Ditlof Ludwig (* 1781), Prussian Councilor
⚭ April 20, 1810 Dorothea Friederike Henriette Adlung (1784–1812)
⚭ January 2, 1813 Christiane Wilhelmine Adlung († after 1874)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Winning, Christian Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry, chief of the Winning regiment on foot
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenau in the Neumark
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1822
Place of death Gut Groß-Glienicke