Christian Schultz

Christian Friedrich Schultz , partly also Schulz (born July 1, 1794 in Celle , † April 19, 1878 in Hanover ), was a German liberation fighter, officer and diplomat in the service of the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

Christian Schultz had been on friendly terms with the Hanoverian forest officer and Freikorps officer Johann Christian von Düring since the time they were together in the campaigns of the Wars of Liberation (1813-1815) . He was promoted to lieutenant in 1815 and participated in the Battle of Waterloo . Schultz was promoted to chief of staff in the Hanoverian army in 1831 and was squadron chief of the guard hussars from 1840. After his further promotion to major (1848), he moved to the Queen Hussars in 1851. In 1851 he became a lieutenant colonel and in 1855, as the successor to Major General Karl von Bennigsen (1789–1869), he was authorized representative of the Kingdom of Hanover at the Federal Military Commission in Frankfurt am Main . As such, he was a member of the Hanoverian embassy to the German Confederation . Further promotion steps followed in 1857 ( Colonel ), 1860 ( Major General ) and 1864 ( Lieutenant General ). After the annexation of Hanover by Prussia in 1866 and the associated repeal of the Federal Military Commission, he was retired in 1867. Schultz was found in a double grave in Rotenburg with his comrade v. Düring is buried. The grave is preserved in the Luhner Holz on the current site of the von Düring barracks .

Awards

• Waterloo Medal (Hanover)

• Commander of the Guelph Order 1st Class (1862)
• Owner of the Ernst August Cross (1863)

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, p. 580
• Court and State Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover 1865 . Hanover 1866 ( digitized version )