Curt Haubold from Einsiedel

Curt Haubold von Einsiedel (born February 18, 1792 in Zeitz ; † December 6, 1829 ) was a Saxon officer who was last in the service of the Württemberg king .

Life

He comes from the Meissen noble family Einsiedel . Curt Haubold was the only son of the Saxon officer and manor in Wolftitz near Leipzig Haubold Reinhardt von Einsiedel (1746–1831) and his second wife Friederike Therese (born von Koenitz ; 1766–1828, daughter of Ernst August Friedrich von Koenitz (1742–1742–) 1800) and Friederike Henriette von Kirchbach (1741–1794)).

Einsiedel attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . In 1806 he became an ensign in the Royal Saxon Chevauleg Regiment "Prince Clemens". In the battle near Saalfeld he fell into French captivity. In 1809 he took part in the Austrian campaign against the Duchy of Warsaw . In 1811 he left the Saxon service as a secondary lieutenant and, like other family members, switched to the Württemberg army . He fought against the Russians in the Battle of the Berezina near Moscow, where he was seriously injured. For his services he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Military Merit from King Friedrich I of Württemberg and was promoted to first lieutenant . He took part in the wars of liberation a . a. Battle of the Nations near Leipzig and Battle of Paris . Einsiedel belonged to the Normann Brigade and on October 18, 1813, switched to the side of the coalition against France. In 1818 he was released. He died of so-called dropsy of the breast in 1829 .

literature

• Curt Haubold from Einsiedel. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 7th year, 1820, second part, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1829, pp. 805f .