Christoph Ludwig von Stille

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Christoph Ludwig von Stille, painting by David Matthieu , 1750, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Christoph Ludwig von Stille (born September 13, 1696 in Berlin , † October 19, 1752 in Aschersleben ) was a royal Prussian major general and curator of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

Life

Christoph Ludwig von Stille was a son of Lieutenant General Ulrich Christoph von Stille and Eva Maria von Cosel from the Rosenwinkel family . The Prussian lieutenant general Johann Kaspar von Cosel was his uncle.

On the picture of the Round Table by Adolf Menzel there is silence (red uniform) between the king and Voltaire

He received private lessons with his brothers. Through this training he was able to attend the high school in Helmstädt. In 1715 he joined his father's regiment as a Junker and fought with him in the Pomeranian campaign of 1715/1716 . On December 9, 1715 he became an ensign and on October 19, 1718 a lieutenant. As such, he attended the University of Halle on his own initiative, this alongside his service and successful advertising in Switzerland.

On October 23, 1723 he became captain and commandant of a company in Infantry Regiment No. 7 (Margrave Christian Ludwig). Then he was transferred to the cavalry and served as Rittmeister in various regiments. On September 28, 1731 he became major in the Cuirassier Regiment No. 5 (Margrave Friedrich) with his own company. With royal permission, he volunteered at the siege of Danzig in 1733. King Friedrich II recognized his talents, so he became a colonel and adjutant general on July 23, 1740, without ever having been a lieutenant colonel. He also became Governor of Prince Heinrich and curator of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

In the first Silesian war he accompanied the king. This handed him over on November 22nd, 1743 the Cuirassier Regiment No. 6 (Eugen von Anhalt). On March 6, 1744, he was appointed major general. In 1745 he formed the vanguard and drove the Austrian general Nadasdy to Bohemia. He was wounded in the hand in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg , fought in the Battle of Thrush and accompanied the King to Dresden.

In 1746 he became the governor of Kartzig and Himmelstädt. In 1750 he also got the new Schwabach estate. He received the documents from the king personally. He was a frequent associate of the king in Potsdam. How popular silence was with the king can be seen from the following anecdote. Von Silence was a heavy smoker, while smoking was forbidden in the vicinity of the king. One evening he sent his general a series of pipes and chewing tobacco to his room. He also sent his personal doctor when the general fell ill, but he couldn't do anything about the consumption. Von Stille died on October 19, 1752 in Aschersleben.

His name was immortalized in 1851 on one of the plaques on the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great .

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Von Stille was a literary very interested and educated person. He spoke several languages. He was also an acquaintance of the poet Gleim , who recommended Ewald von Kleist to him. Silence then introduced this poet to the king. He himself translated the work "An attempt in moral world wisdom" by the philosopher Maupertuis from the French. He himself wrote works about the Silesian War.

family

In 1729 he married Charlotte Sophie von Huss . She was the daughter of the President of Magdeburg Karl Adolph von Huss and Sibylla Ursula von Mieg . He had 12 children with her, of whom two sons and four daughters survived. Charlotte Sophie's sister was Marie Sibylle von Huss (1699–1768), she was married to General Peter Ludwig Du Moulin .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : Lives of Great Heroes of the Present War , Volume 5, 1764, pp. 82 and 88.
  2. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Johann Kaspar von Cosel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . Volume 1. Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 326 f.
  3. ^ Christoph Ludwig Von Stille: The King of Prussia's Campaigns. with Remarks on the Causes of the Several Events . Translated from the Original French ISBN 978-1-140-96547-3 , org: Les campagnes du roi de Prusse: avec des reflexions sur les causes des evenemens , German version: Letters about the most important incidents in the campaign of 1745
personal data
SURNAME Silence, Christoph Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Prussian major general and curator of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1752
Place of death Aschersleben