Eberhard von Brandis
Eberhard Freiherr von Brandis (born February 3, 1795 in Hildesheim , † June 13, 1884 at Ricklingen Castle ) was an officer and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Hanover .
Life
Brandis grew up in England and from 1806 served as a cadet in the King's German Legion of the British Army, which was founded in 1803 and which mainly consisted of Hanoverians. With the troops he took part in several war missions in the following years, such as the attack on Copenhagen in 1807, the Battle of Talavera (1809) , the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1810 and the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. In 1816 he returned with the rank of captain returned to Germany and, like most of the Legion soldiers, was accepted into the Hanoverian army . There Brandis was promoted only slowly at first, only in 1838 King Ernst August I appointed him major . In 1848, as a lieutenant colonel with his troops in Hildesheim , he suppressed the civil protests and unrest during the revolution of 1848/49 .
In 1851 he was appointed Major General conveyed and the new King George V War Minister in the Cabinet Schele appointed. Brandis himself considered himself unsuitable as a military man for the post, which was purely a civil administrative position. In addition, according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 1903, Brandis was “a light-hearted nature, not insensitive to the comforts and advantages that the post holder could derive from it for himself and his relatives.” On June 10, 1856 he was raised to the status of hereditary baron. He was a member of the Hanover State Council .
After Hanover's defeat in the German War against Prussia in 1866, Brandis went into exile in Austria with Georg V , but returned that same year and lived at Ricklingen Castle until his death .
literature
- N. Ludlow Beamish: History of the Royal German Legion. Volume 2. Verlag der Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1837 ( digitized copy from Brandis's possession with handwritten notes)
- North Ludlow Beamish: History of the King's German Legion. 2 volumes. Thomas and William Boone, London 1832-1837. (Digitized: Volume 1 , Volume 2 )
- Bernhard von Poten : Brandis, Eberhard Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 177 f.
- Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 68.
- Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, pp. 305-325 ( The four leaders of Langensalza. )
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume XVII: Genealogical Handbook of the Baronial Houses. (Volume 107 of the complete series). CA Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1994, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 , p. 59.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ADB. Volume 47, p. 177; see. Herbert Reyer: The dissatisfied citizens wanted to overthrow the magistrate. The revolutionary events of 1848 in Hildesheim . In: HAZ. March 7, 1998, Heimatbeilage (= historical documents from the city archive; 15) - without mention of Brandis
- ↑ ADB , Volume 47, p. 178
- ^ Genealogical manual of the nobility XVII, p. 59
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandis, Eberhard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brandis, Eberhard Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Officer and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Hanover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1884 |
| Place of death | Ricklingen Castle |