Christian Wynecken

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1st and 2nd Light Battalion of the King's German Legion

Christian Wilhelm August Johann Ernst Wynecken (born March 14, 1783 on Rüstje near Stade , † September 10, 1853 in Verden ) was the Hanoverian lieutenant general and most recently the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division.

Life

Christian Wynecken entered service in Brunswick in March 1798 and joined the 11th Infantry Regiment. He became an ensign in the 8th Infantry Regiment on May 4, 1802. After the surrender of the Braunschweig army , he went to the King's German Legion . There he came to the 1st Light Battalion on December 20, 1803. In 1805/6 he was on the expedition to Hanover, 1807 and 1808 on those to the Baltic Sea, in 1808/9 he fought under Sir John Moore in Spain, in 1809 under Lord Chatham in the Walcheren Expedition , from 1811 to 1813 under the Duke Wellington again on the Iberian Peninsula and then in southern France and in 1815 in the Netherlands. At that time he became a lieutenant on March 1, 1805 and a captain on December 17, 1813. He was wounded at Tolosa , in front of Bayonne and in the battle of Waterloo .

After the war he was transferred to the Guard Jäger Regiment of the new army on March 1, 1816 with a major's license on October 25, 1815 . There he became a real major on March 18, 1820 and a lieutenant colonel on December 30, 1831. From 1831 to February 1, 1838 he was commander of the Land Dragoon Corps (gendarmerie), then he was commander of the body regiment, King Ernst August I. On March 6, 1840, he was promoted to colonel before moving on June 5, 1845 was transferred to the 3rd Infantry Brigade as commander and was promoted to major general on June 6, 1846. In 1848 he came to the 2nd Infantry Division as a commander. In the winter of 1848/49 he commanded a corps that was sent to Thuringia to fight insurgency . During the German-Danish War , he commanded the Hanover-Saxon Division (2nd Division) of the X. Federal Army Corps .

He was promoted to lieutenant general on May 24, 1852 before he died in Verden on September 10, 1853.

Since 1816 he was the bearer of the Guelph Order 3rd Class , the Waterloo Medal, and later received the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Guelph Order, which raised him to the personal nobility .

family

His brother Friedrich Wynecken († December 10, 1871) was also a royal Hanoverian lieutenant general. He is a relative of Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken .

Christian Wynecken married Charlotte Louise Henriette born in 1818 in the church in Rethmar . Baring (1798–1832), daughter of the lawyer and administrative clerk as royal Hanoverian secret chancellery in the State Ministry, Albrecht Friedrich Georg Baring (1767–1835) and his wife Amalie, born in 1796. Scheele (1773-1824). The Wyneckens had three children:

Wynecken's wife was buried in the Neustädter Friedhof in Hanover.

literature

  • North Ludlow Beamish: History of the King's German Legion , Volume 2, No. 299, p. 562
  • Dehmel: Memoirs of German officers from 1805 to 1816 , Hanover 1864, p. 72
  • Bernhard von Poten , supplement to the military weekly paper 1903 - The generals of the Royal Hanoverian Army and their regular troops , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, p. 311, no. 386
  • Bernhard von PotenWyneken, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 398.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. GM Heilbutt: Complete and detailed history of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising and the German-Danish war. Volume 2, 1855, p. 263.
  2. Handbook for the Province of Hanover, Volume 1846, p. 46.
  3. Adolf Baring : The Baring family, especially the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918 , P. 131