Dubislav Nikolaus von Pirch
Dubislav Nikolaus von Pirch (born September 29, 1693 in Klein Nossin , † April 21, 1768 in Nippoglense ) was the Elector's Saxon lieutenant general .
Life
family
Dubislav Nikolaus came from the Pirch family and was a son of Ulrich Felix von Pirch (1656–1726) and Elisabeth Sophia von Zastrow (1665–1725) from the Wusterhanse family . He was not married.
Military career
Pirch began his career in the year 1708 in the Polish and Saxon service as a common soldier in the then Ogilo'schen, later Goltzian regiment.
From 1709 took part in the theater of the Spanish War of Succession , in the Netherlands . In 1709 he was present at the siege of Tournay and the battle of Malplaquet . In the same year he was promoted to sergeant and in 1711 to ensign . As such, its use shifted to Poland, which was besieged by Sweden . In the theater of war, he was promoted to lieutenant in 1715 , to staff captain on the retreat to Saxony in 1722 and immediately after to major . The same year he returned to the Saxon contingents in Poland. Then in 1728 Pirch was transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Saxon Guard. In 1732 he became a lieutenant colonel in the infantry and was together with his brother Michael Lorenz von Pirch in 1734 on the occasion of the coronation of August III. present in Krakow . In the same year he took part in the siege of Danzig in the War of the Polish Succession .
1740 Pirch was the rank of colonel regimental commander of the Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 5 and thus constitutes part of the Saxon auxiliary corps for Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession . This was followed by participation in the battle of Kesselsdorf together with his brothers who were also officers from Electoral Saxony. While he and his brother Michael managed to escape, Caspar Franz von Pirch fell there. In 1746 Pirch was promoted to major general, surrendered his regiment, became inspector of the entire Saxon infantry and received the Duke Weimar Order de la Vigilance .
In 1751 he gave up the general inspection, took back his regiment and received two more regiments from the king. In 1755, Pirch was appointed lieutenant general with unrestricted command of his regiments. In 1756 he was with the infantry regiment Prince Friedrich August of Saxony in the Freiberg garrison . Due to illness, he spent the dramatic events near Pirna in Saxony at the Königstein Fortress . In 1763 Pirch received care after he had asked to be released.
He went to Pomerania to see his brother George Ernst von Pirch on the Klein-Nossin family estate, where he wanted to end his old age. However, he survived all of his siblings and had to witness the devastating fire in Klein Nossin in 1761. After all, he spent his last years with his niece Sophia Elisabeth, widowed von Zitzewitz, on the Nippoglense estate .
literature
- Ewald George von Pirch : Genealogical news of the sex of those v. Pirch in Western Pomerania from 1376 to 1786. No. 182.
- Friedrich Karl von Zitzewitz-Muttrin : Building blocks from the East: Pomeranian personalities in the service of their country and the history of their time. Rautenberg, 1967, p. 175.
Individual evidence
- ↑ War of the Austrian Succession, 1740–1748. 1903, p. 716
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pirch, Dubislav Nikolaus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pirch, Nikolaus von; Pirch, Dubislaw Nicolaus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Elector of Saxony Lieutenant General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1693 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Little Nossin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1768 |
| Place of death | Nippoglense |