Christian Nicolaus von Linger

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Christian Nicolaus von Linger

Christian Nicolaus Linger , from 1705 von Linger (born April 5, 1669 in Berlin ; † April 17, 1755 ibid), was a royal Prussian general . From 1716 he was chief of the Prussian artillery and in 1744 was appointed by King Friedrich II. The first general of this branch of arms in Prussia.

Life

origin

Christian Nicolaus Linger was the son of the late 1683 kurbrandenburgischen stuff master Salomon Linger and his wife Marie, nee meadow. According to the Gothaic Genealogical Pocket Book of the Post-Aristocratic Houses, his great-grandfather was the Imperial Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Heinrich Linger and his grandfather, Martin Ferdinand Linger, was the Brandenburg captain and master of artillery.

Military background

In 1688, at the age of 19, he joined the Prussian artillery as a bombardier . During the campaign against France from 1689 to 1697 he took part with distinction in the sieges of Bonn and Namur and was promoted to lieutenant in 1696 . October 1701 he was promoted to captain and company commander , a position that was only possible in the artillery because of his bourgeois descent. A year later, in the War of the Spanish Succession , he again distinguished himself in artillery operations during various sieges. For his services he was raised to the Prussian nobility by King Friedrich I on March 12, 1705 and promoted to major and in 1709 to lieutenant colonel.

After his return from the campaign in May 1713 and Friedrich Wilhelm I's accession to the throne , von Linger was dismissed from active service. However, in view of the planned expansion of the army, the soldier king could not do without the knowledge and skills of his artilleryman. On January 2, 1714, Linger was reactivated and a year later he went to war against Sweden . As an ally of Russia and Denmark , the occupation of Western Pomerania was successful . In the battles off Stralsund and Stettin he was able to prove himself again, so that in 1716 the Prussian king appointed him colonel and chief of the Prussian artillery corps. With this newly created position, the royal Prussian artillery was placed under a central and uniform command for the first time. In this function, von Linger made great contributions to the refurbishment of the Berlin armory and the attached powder factory . Under his management, the factory was able to cover almost all of its enormous powder requirements during the Silesian Wars . Linger standardized the caliber of the guns so that only three, six, twelve and twenty-four pounders were used. He achieved another meritorious assignment in 1721/22 in preparation for the establishment of the Royal Prussian Rifle Factory . 1724 he was appointed Amtshauptmann and district administrator appointed by Rosenberg and 1728 to Major General conveyed. He was now a close confidante of the Prussian king, who also appointed him a member of the court martial in 1730 to decide on the misconduct of the Crown Prince and his friend Katte . On January 24, 1732 in Vienna he was raised to the imperial nobility. Shortly before King Friedrich Wilhelm died, he made von Linger lieutenant general in 1739 .

Under his successor Friedrich II, he led the siege of Brieg in the First Silesian War . After the occupation of Silesia , Glogau was developed into a fortress under his supervision . His merit was also the establishment and establishment of new Silesian artillery companies . In 1743 Linger was promoted to general of the artillery , a position that no one else had before him and that existed in the Prussian army with similar prerogatives until 1918. A year later, Frederick the Great honored his deserving general by being awarded the Order of the Black Eagle . During the Second Silesian War , Linger, already 75 years old, fought at the head of the field artillery regiment outside Prague . When the city was bombarded, as a result of which Prague surrendered on September 16, 1744, he again earned great recognition. It was also his last war mission.

Rewarded by the king with the rule of Alt-Künckendorf and Groß-Zieten near Angermünde , Christian Nicolaus von Linger died on April 17, 1755, at the age of 86, in Berlin. In his long soldier life of 67 years of service, he served three Prussian monarchs.

Linger's final resting place in Berlin cannot be determined with certainty. Different sources name the garrison church on the one hand, and the churchyard at the Dorotheenstädtische church on the other . In any case, the tomb has not been preserved.

Marriages and offspring

Christian Nicolaus was married twice, from 1698 in his first marriage to Katharina Elisabeth Graefen († 1711) and in his second marriage from 1716 to Susanna Maria Kunsch von Breitenwald († 1745). There are five children, four daughters and one son from the first marriage. The daughter Johanna Henriette (1699-1780) married the later major general Bernhard von Beauvryé . The daughter Charlotte was married to the Danish officer David Levin von Katte (1690-1758). Dorothea Philippina (* 1703; † June 24, 1756) married the later colonel of the artillery Valentin Bodo von der Osten (1669-1757). The son Christian Ludwig von Linger (1711–1788) became a royal Prussian major and married Katharine Dorothea Antoinette Küchmeister von Sternberg († 1812). The couple left a son and daughter. With the death of his son Friedrich Albrecht Gustav Ludwig von Linger (1757–1791), the male line became extinct in 1791 . Wilhelm von Linger (1720–1756), Christian Nicolaus' only son from his second marriage, died childless in 1756 as a royal Prussian major in a cuirassier regiment.

Later honors

His name (as CV LINGER GEN. D. ART. ) Appears on an honor plaque on the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in Berlin Unter den Linden . The monument was completed in 1851 under King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia .
On the occasion of the Königsberg Imperial Maneuver , Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded the foot artillery regiment 'von Linger' (Ostpr.) No. 1 a bronze bust of General von Linger, made after a model by the Berlin sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch . The bust was placed in the tradition department in the artillery college building next to the Haberberg Trinitatis Church . It has been missing since 1945.
Before 1914, departing officers of the regiment received a scaled-down bronze copy of the bust as a parting present. One of these replicas is preserved in the artillery school of the Bundeswehr in Idar-Oberstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, page 401
  2. ^ A b Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, third year 1909, pages 480–482
  3. ↑ Friedrich Lenz, Otto Unholtz: The history of the bank Brothers Schickler , p 33
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 41, 51.
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stammreihen.de
  6. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 476 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Christian Carl Wilhelm von Katte).
  7. ↑ Wieland Giebel (Ed.): The equestrian statue of Frederick the Great. Pp. 11, 15 and 38; Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007; ISBN 978-3-929829-69-3 .
  8. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255-1945. Würzburg 1970, p. 263
  9. ↑ Königsberger Bürgerbrief V (1967/68), p. 16 (with illus.)

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SURNAME Linger, Christian Nicolaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linger, Christian Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1669
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1755
Place of death Berlin