Christian Wilhelm von Chlebowsky

Christian Wilhelm von Chlebowsky (born April 5, 1755 in Unmaiten, Angerburg district , † October 16, 1807 in Memel ) was a Prussian major general and wing adjutant of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia.

Life

origin

Christian Wilhelm was the son of the Polish Rittmeister Alexander von Chlebowsky, Lord of Kosau, Unmaiten and Thiergarten and his wife Adelgunde Charlotte, née Küchmeister von Sternberg.

Military career

Chlebowsky visited the cadet house in Berlin from November 1767 and was then hired on June 22, 1771 as a non-commissioned officer in the infantry regiment "von Stojentin" of the Prussian army . Here he was promoted to second lieutenant at the end of December 1776 . In 1787 he became adjutant general to General von Knobelsdorff and the following year captain . As such, he was assigned to the corps of General von Usedom in the same year . On April 23, 1793 he received the order Pour le Mérite .

Chlebowsky served during the suppression of the Kościuszko uprising in Poland in 1794/95 in the headquarters of the Prussian king. In 1802 he was appointed chief of the newly established infantry regiment in Warsaw . During the 1806/07 campaign against France, Chlebowsky was at the headquarters of the Russian Army and from there participated in the battles at Pułtusk , Prussian Eylau and Friedland . For his services, the king awarded him the Great Red Eagle Order on July 8, 1807 in Memel . There he died of exhaustion a few weeks later at the age of 52.

Chlebowsky was a member of the Military Society in Berlin .

family

Chlebowsky married Johanna Eleonore, nee Tepper, divorced Buchholz (born May 8, 1766 in Filehne; † November 12, 1857 in Breslau) in Warsaw on December 12, 1797. From the marriage the son Adolf Ludwig (born August 16, 1801 in Warsaw) emerged.

literature

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , pp. 115–116, no. 1024.

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, Tilman Stieve: Private and official writings. General staff officer between crisis and reform (Prussia 1804–1807). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, p. 426.

personal data
SURNAME	Chlebowsky, Christian Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unmaiten, Angerburg district
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1807
Place of death	Memel

[1] Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, Tilman Stieve: Private and official writings. General staff officer between crisis and reform (Prussia 1804–1807). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, p. 426.