Eberhardt Georg Otto Bock from Wülfingen

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Baron Eberhardt Georg Otto Bock von Wülfingen , briefly called Georg von Bock (born June 10, 1754 in Lüneburg , † January 21, 1814 off the coast of Pleubian , France ), was a German general in the service of the British Crown.

Georg von Bock was born in Lüneburg on June 10, 1754 as the son of the later Electorate General of the Infantry Ernst Wilhelm von Bock (1707–1790) and his wife Charlotte von Geyso (1714–1777). His grandfather was Georg Wilhelm von Bock, a major in Hanover.

Coat of arms of the noble family Bock von Wülfingen above the portal of the family mausoleum in Wülfingen, built in 1895. Depicted are two black female wolves, standing on top of one another and ready to jump from left to right. On the helmet with black and gold covers, three over five gold roses, a growing black ibex with a red collar set with twelve gold pennies.

Georg belonged to the Elzer lineage of the ancient and widely ramified noble family Bock von Wülfingen, which was first mentioned in a document with Hermannus de Wulvingen in 1175 at Poppenburg Castle near Hildesheim. The safe trunk series begins around 1230 with Arnold von Wülfinghausen (also Wülfingen, Bock). She resided at Poppenburg Castle until 1387 and was therefore also called "Bock von Poppenburg". Alternately, the eldest of the Bockerode, Gronau and Elze lines was hereditary Drost since 1371 and treasurer of the bishopric of the prince-bishops of Hildesheim since 1400, office with which they were entrusted in 1371 by Bishop Gerhard.

The family from which Georg von Bock descended was named after the village of Wülfingen north of the city of Elze, initially von Wülfingen and since 1241 partly Bock von Wülfingen. In the 19th century, this line of those von Bock owned the goods Bockerode (north of Eldagsen), Sindorf (south-west of Walserode), a farm in Elze (Leine) and three farms in Gronau.

Military career

Manor Elze von Bock von Wülfingen at Flutstraße 14 in the town of the same name. View from 1800 and today.
View of Gut Bockerode around 1800 and today. The manor house on Bockerode served the von Bock family mainly as a summer house.

Georg von Bock embarked on a military career and entered service in Hanover in 1769 . Five years later, after buying his lieutenant's patent, he was transferred to the Life Guard Regiment - Garde du Corps - in Hanover. Thirty years after his application to become an officer, he himself took over the leadership of this regiment as a lieutenant colonel .

Military career
1769 Ensign in the Hanoverian infantry regiment from Ahlefeld
1774, on July 29th, patented lieutenant, transfer to the cavalry bodyguard
1783 Rittmeister (captain of the cavalry)
1794 major
1799, on July 24th, lieutenant colonel and regimental commander of the life guards
1803, on July 5th, dissolution of the Hanoverian army (Convention of Artlenburg)
1804, April 21, in British service with the Brevet Rank of English Colonel
1810 Brigadier General i. G. (on the General Staff)
1810, April 21 (other sources according to July 25), Titled or Brevet Major General and Brigade Commander
1812 Permanent rank as major general in the British Army

As the successor of his father in the Hildesheim knighthood, which immediately elected him to one of their deputies and treasure councilors, Georg von Bock had also done civil service in Hildesheim from 1790 to 1803 in addition to his military business in Hanover. He enjoyed great prestige there, which is evidenced by the fact that they sent him to the peace negotiations in Rastatt in 1797, although there were senior and more experienced officials in the knighthood. As a 20-year-old lieutenant he was with 14 other comrades and civilians under the leadership of the first chair master Ludwig Freiherr von Spörcken, co-founder of the Johannis Lodge "Zum Schwarzen Bär" in Hanover "so that the pure teaching of Freemasonry may move back into Hanover" . The lodge is still there today.

In the crisis year 1803 Georg von Bock was appointed provost of the Lutheran collegiate monastery Sankt Bonifatii in Hameln . Even before the occupation by the Napoleonic troops , the condition of the minster church in Hameln, especially the cross vault, was so dilapidated that the services had to be stopped. The French used the church, built in 812, as a magazine and horse stable. Due to insufficient funding, it could only be restored and used as a place of worship 70 years later.

Under the command of Field Marshal Heinrich Wilhelm von Freytag , who led the Hanoverian contingent of the German Imperial Army under British pay (Duke of York) in the First Coalition War , von Bock took part in the 1793 campaign in Flanders . In the battle of Famars , in northern France, on May 23rd of this year, Bock was seriously wounded by two sword blows on the arm and head.

Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn had already correctly assessed the abilities of his officer Georg von Bock as head of the Life Guard Regiment. As chief of staff and commander of the electoral Hanover troops, he sent him to London from December 1794 to mid-1796. Then he installed the 42-year-old major in his general staff , which also included Gerhard von Scharnhorst , who later became chief of the Prussian general staff.

In May and June 1803, von Bock was commissioned as negotiator by Wallmoden, who had risen to become Field Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the Electorate of Hanover, to negotiate between the Electorate of Hanover and the French Lieutenant General Édouard Adolphe Mortier for the surrender of Sulingen . In this role he signed the convention contract together with the secret cabinet advisor Ernst Brandes and the court judge Friedrich Franz Dietrich von Bremer on behalf of the cabinet, which consisted of chamber president Count Ludwig von Kielmansegg , cabinet advisor Wilhelm August Rudloff , and count Wallmoden Gimborn as well as the abbot of the monastery of St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, Karl von Lenthe, existed. Two days later, the Napoleonic troops occupied Hanover , while the Hanoverian army retreated to the north bank of the Elbe in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg for internment.

“On the same day that the Sulingen Convention was signed, but before the specific points of this document had become known in Hanover, Field Marshal Wallmoden went from this residence to Celle to take command of the army. In the afternoon of the following day Lieutenant-Colonel von Bock met him there, and brought him a copy of the first five and seventeenth articles of the Convention. Since these six articles contained everything directly related to the army, it was perhaps not essential that the remaining articles should be immediately communicated to the field marshal; but to make him ignorant of the condition added by Marshal Mortier (because of the reserved approval of Napoleon) and proceed to the fulfillment of the contents of the Convention, without having informed him of a clause which completely nullified the validity of this document, was an unforgivable and utter one inexplicable omission on the part of Lieutenant Colonel v. Bock, an omission which, even if it should not necessarily have caused the adversities which soon afterwards bowed the Hanoverian army, certainly contributed significantly to its quicker occurrence. The Field Marshal, convinced that a fully valid document, equally binding on both contracting parties, had been signed at Sulingen, immediately proceeded to fulfill the obligations which it imposed on the army. (...) On the 13th, Lieutenant Colonel von Bock, who had returned to Hanover to oversee the small details of military affairs, sent a complete copy of the Sulingen Convention to the Field Marshal, which he received on the 15th, and sent him to the made known for the first time the clause under which General Mortier had given his approval to these documents. On June 15th, the French general informed Lieutenant Colonel von Bock that on that day he had received a letter from the first consul, which contained his ratification of the Suhlingen Convention, provided that the King of England, which to this Purposes a copy of that document had already been sent, which his would not withhold. "

The ratification of the Sulingen Convention was, as Napoleon expected, by George III. rejected in his capacity as King of England, whereby the Corsican got free rein to reject them and to occupy Kurhannover. On July 5, 1803, Wallmoden finally felt compelled to sign the more extensive Artlenburg Convention on the surrender of the electorate and the dissolution of the Hanoverian army. At this point any resistance had become impossible because the army had been disbanded too early. The occupation of Electorate of Hanover led to the resumption of the war by Great Britain against France in 1803.

The press and much of the population were dismayed and outraged by this act of humiliation towards Napoleon Bonaparte . The Prussian officer, professor of history and liberal journalist Johann Wilhelm Archenholz wrote about the revolt of the troops against the Sulingen Convention in his article Situation and Prospects of the Hanoverians in June 1803 in the monthly journal Minerva-Ein Journal with historical and political content : This uprising (of the electoral Hanoverian troops), which was punishable by law, cannot have had any influence on the conclusion of a capitulation, because on July 1st (1803) Lieutenant Colonel von Bock, now provost of Hameln, had already been to General Mortier to to conclude a surrender, and the same marshal (Wallmoden) had already printed the vacation passes for the soldiers in Lauenburg. It is strange that twenty officers of a regiment do not know that their regiment is restless; strange that the field marshal, chief of the regiment (doesn't know anything about it either), strange that the Probst von Bock is lieutenant colonel with him! . This essay of his was reprinted and distributed throughout Germany at that time.

Marriage and family life

In Hanover, von Bock had meanwhile had Adolphine, the daughter of the ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz chief Wilhelm Friedrich von dem Knesebeck (1737–1778) and his wife Margarethe Juliane, née. von Hattorf (1743–1809), married. The wedding took place on December 2, 1782. Eight years later, Georg took over the Elze manor - where the family lived until 1890 - and Bockerode as the family seat from his uncle, Major August Wilhelm von Bock, who died in 1797. With Adolphine von dem Knesebeck (1765–1843) Georg von Bock had six children, five sons and one daughter.

  • Wilhelm August Friedrich (December 16, 1783 - January 21, 1826)
  • Ludwig Friedrich Burghard Detlev (* May 5, 1785; † June 1, 1838) ⚭ 1817 Anna Elisabeth Wilhelmine Luise Bock von Wülfingen (* July 9, 1796; † October 13, 1886)
  • Marie Juliane Julie Amalie Artemise Friederike (* August 30, 1789; † 1811) ⚭ NN Duplessis
  • Ernst Otto Karl Wilhelm Ludwig (born September 26, 1790 - January 21, 1814), Rittmeister, drowned
  • Adolf Friedrich Ernst Gottlieb (* December 30, 1797; † January 6, 1844) ⚭ 1828 Charlotte Johanne Luise Sophie Marie von dem Knesebeck (* November 21, 1809; † October 16, 1860)
  • August Ernst Rudolf Klaus (March 1, 1800 - April 8, 1800)
  • Eduard Friedrich Ernst Emil (* October 31, 1803; † July 13, 1850) ⚭ Freiin Isabella Grote-Schauen (* September 22, 1803; † December 2, 1875)

In 1890 the family moved to Hanover into a large house on Georgstrasse. Social life took place in Hanover and there people met with the influential, which was of great relevance to Georg von Bock's military career. Like his father, Georg von Bock was not very interested in agriculture. Three years after starting work in Great Britain, he gave up the Bockerode business in 1807 and leased it. An estate administrator took over the management of the lands.

From 1806 Adolphine von Bock began to get mentally ill and her emotional distress got worse and worse over time. Georg, her husband, had been in England for almost two years. His absence, as well as the difficult economic situation as the wife of an enemy of the French under the Napoleonic occupation, may also have contributed to the aggravation of the circumstances of her suffering. In November of that year, after the Prussians had declared war on Napoleon, occupied Hanover and then had to withdraw again - after they had suffered a devastating defeat against the French at Jena and Auerstedt - the second phase of the French occupation came. For the citizens of Hanover, the worst part of the occupation began. The harassment increased; billeting increased, and special regulations had to be enacted and a commission had to be set up to distribute the burden fairly among the citizens and to exhaust all accommodation options for the French troops. The occupiers demanded high contributions from the city, which had to be passed on to the people. Many of them were soon no longer able to raise their share, locked their house, handed the key to the town hall and left the city, whose population had declined by a quarter compared to 1796 by 1809 with 12,504 souls.

"The children of Bock, of whom the eldest son Friedrich was a Westphalian captain with the Guard Chevauxlegers in Spain (in the service of France), were still small and their fortunes were in debt; Bock's sisters, the abbess of the chapter in Marienwerder, Johanne Amalie von Bock , and Friederike von Rheden, née Bock, summoned Siméon, (Minister of the Interior and Justice in the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon for his younger brother Jerome) on October 28 and 30, 1812 (the French legal scholar Joseph Jérôme), that he may the children leave the whole (expropriated) property unmolested " .

Adolphine Bock von Wülfingen, b. von dem Knesebeck died lonely and withdrawn in the manor house in Elze on February 6, 1843, twenty-nine years after the death of her husband, at the age of 78. Because of her mental illness, she had long since lost contact with her many friendships. She survived only one of her seven children, the last, her illegitimate son Eduard (* October 31, 1803; † 1850) whose biological father was Adolphus Frederik Duke of Cambridge , and who was only 7 years old.

In the service of the British Crown

After the dissolution of the Hanoverian army in 1803, von Bock was one of the first to serve the English crown. His entry into service is noted on April 21, 1804 as commander of the new 1st Heavy Dragoon Regiment of the Royal German Legion . The Commander in Chief of the Legion was the Duke of Cambridge. The 1st Dragoon Regiment together with the 1st Hussar Regiment formed the Legion's cavalry brigade until then. This was then under the leadership of Major General von Linsingen.

Expedition to Hanover

In 1805 and 1806 under the leadership of Lieutenant General William Schaw Cathcart , Lieutenant Colonel von Bock and his unit, the KGL's 1st Dragoon Regiment, participated in the expedition to Hanover. After the news arrived in London that Napoleon had given up his invasion camp at Boulogne to march through Germany, the British Prime Minister William Pitt immediately ordered the formation and equipment of an army of 15,000 men and placed them in the threatened Hanover under the command by Cathcart, with the intention of creating a diversion in favor of Austria in coordination with an equally strong allied Russian army. Cathcart made no attempt to attack the flank of the much larger French army. He set up his headquarters in Bremen, seized Hanover, fought a brief battle and then waited for news. After Pitt's death and the news of the Franco-German agreement to transfer control of Hanover to Prussia, the ministry ordered Cathcart's army back from Germany to England.

Use in Ireland

At the beginning of 1806 the second regiment of heavy dragoons with 550 men was established. The formation of this unit was the responsibility of Colonel von Bock. It replaced the 1st Hussar Regiment in the brigade, which was spun off from this unit to form a light cavalry brigade with new hussar units.

In April the previous cavalry brigade under the direction of v. Bock embarked with the 1st light and the 1st heavy regiment via Liverpool to Dublin . The headquarters were set up in Tullamore . Meanwhile, the 2nd heavy dragoon regiment marched to Northampton, where it was completed under the command of Colonel von Veltheim. This unit, when completed, was dispersed in small compartments over various troubled parts of the island. The police task was frustrating for the officers of both units, which is why they turned to von Bock in his capacity as commander of the brigade for use in the theater of war in Spain. Thereupon he agreed to have a circular letter signed by all officers and sent to the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief of the Legion. In the letter dated August 9, 1811, he asked that the Duke pass on his recommendation to his brother, the Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces, "to see these officers employed for active service, especially since all the remaining troops of the Legion are now in the field. ” The request was welcomed and on September 25, 1811 the heavy dragoons received the order to mobilize.

Campaign in Spain

The battle of García Hernandez on July 23, 1812 in Spain. Oil on canvas painted in 1863 by Adolf Northen (1828–1876) owned by the Landesmuseum Hannover. Battle plan.
The battle at Villodrigo, also known as Venta del Pozo, on October 23, 1813 in Spain

From 1811 Bock led the heavy cavalry brigade of the Royal German Legion in the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula from January to July 1812, from October to December 1812, and from June 1813 to January 1814. In the meantime, he took over the supreme command of the entire British cavalry, when Lieutenant General Stapleton Cotton was accidentally shot by a Portuguese guard at the end of the Battle of Salamanca and sent to England from Wellington to heal his wounds.

On June 24, 1812, the heavy dragoon brigade of General v. Bock their baptism of fire at Huerta de Santa Marta when the enemy advanced over the Tormes against Calvarassa de Abajo. Von Bock and his dragoons held up the enemy until reinforcements arrived and forced the French to retreat. The fortunes of war wanted Wellington to be an eyewitness to the behavior of the brigade and thus to get the most favorable impression of this German troop . He wrote in his report (Dispatch) to the authorities: The behavior of Major General Bock's dragoons on this occasion was excellent. They did everything in their power to scout the enemy and bravely opposed his advance under unfavorable conditions, thus creating time for the arrangements required on this occasion.

In the battle of García Hernández on July 23, 1812, one day after the Battle of Salamanca , in which the brigade did not take part directly (it was in reserve in the left wing), the Bocks unit defeated a 4,000-man French infantry from 1 Division, led by Major General Maximilien Foy . It was the rearguard of the French army on their retreat after the battle of Salamanca. Von Bock had succeeded in breaking three French Carées, with heavy losses for this French barrier guard, but also for his own cavalry force. Wellington wrote in his report (Dispatch): “I have never seen a bolder cavalry attack than that which the heavy brigade of the Royal German Legion under Major General von Bock carried out against the enemy infantry. The success of this was complete; the entire infantry of the enemy, consisting of three battalions of the first division, was taken prisoner ”. General Maximilien Foy also later said of this action: "La Charge la plus audacieuse de la guerre d'Espagne a été fournie, ainsi que nous le verrons en son lieu, le lendemain de la bataille des Arapiles, par le Hanovrien Bock, a la tête de la brigade pesante de la légion allemande " (The boldest attack of the Spanish war, as we saw the day after the Battle of Los Arapiles, was carried out by the Hanoverian goat at the head of the heavy brigade of the German legion).

The news of the German dragoons made such an impression on the British public and, above all, the government that in 1812 all officers of the Royal German Legion, who had previously had a temporary status, became permanent staff through a parliamentary law of the British Army and their rank, seniority and retirement recognized under conditions and conditions similar to those of their British comrades.

Almost three months later, on October 5, 1812, the tide turned. Wellington, who had to give up the siege of Burgos with great losses, withdrew with his army to the southeast, first to the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo and then to Portugal. During this operation, pursued by a considerably stronger army, von Bock, on behalf of Lieutenant General Stapleton Cotton, had received an order from Wellington to hold up the vanguard of the pursuers in order to gain a day's head start for the main army. On this occasion, the Anson light cavalry brigade and the heavy cavalry brigade of v. Bock (total strength 1,300 sabers) was worn out by a French cavalry more than three times as strong (4,511 sabers) and was only able to evade complete annihilation through the protective shield formed by the two infantry battalions of the Royal German Legión formed in Carées. This action by the German infantrymen, led by Colin Halkett, was later recognized by Wellington.

In the Battle of Vitoria on June 21, 1813, the British, Portuguese and Spanish armies under General Wellington defeated the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near the city of Vitoria, which ultimately led to victory in the Spanish War. The cavalry brigades Ansons and v. Bocks were used as part of the left army under the leadership of GenLt Sir Thomas Graham, who was given the most important task, namely cutting off the French from the great road to France. To do this, he first had to march north over the mountains unnoticed and then swing his two infantry divisions and both cavalry brigades south in order to fall on the enemy’s right flank. Graham did exactly what Wellington asked him to do, even if the pressure he was supposed to put on the enemy was not enough.

death

Von Bock's fatal accident on the coast of France on the English Channel on January 21, 1814

After the hostilities ceased in December 1813, von Bock received leave to go to Germany. His 23-year-old son Ludwig, Rittmeister and aide-de-camp (adjutant) in the 2nd hussar regiment of the KGL, also traveled back with him.

Father and son embarked in the port of Pasaia on the transport ship "Bellona" to Portsmouth. On January 21, 1814, the brig was caught in a storm in the English Channel , which drove the ship against the rocks not far from the coast of Pleubian , Brittany , and sank there without survivors. The corpse of the major general was washed up, among others, on the beach of Pleubian a few days later, found there and buried in that village.

Awards

Georg von Bock was awarded the British Golden Medal (BGM1.)

literature

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  • Camden, Theofilus: The history of the present war in Spain & Portugal with Memoirs of the Life of Marquis Wellington. J. Stratford 112, Holborn-Hill, London, 1813.
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  • Huck, Jürgen: The married couple Georg and Adolphine Bock von Wulfingen and his circle of life, in annual Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, issue 59. Year 2005. Association magazine of the historical association for Lower Saxony. Hansche bookstore. Pages 135 to 164.
  • Huck, Jürgen: The buck from Wülfingen. Volume 2nd part, 1st half volume: General and Bockerode line. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hannover, 2010.
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Drost (e) (from Middle Low German drossete), also called Drossart since the late Middle Ages, especially in northwest Germany (on the Lower Rhine, in Westphalia, in East Friesland), but also in Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein and in the Netherlands an official who is responsible for represented a defined administrative district in military, judicial and police terms as the sovereign. The function is roughly comparable to that of the bailiff, governor, district president or district administrator. A chamberlain (from the Latin word camera (chamber), specifically "treasury") was the chamberlain as the key administrator of the chambers. In the Middle Ages it was used to describe a servant of a princely court or the owner of a monastery office, in the sense of a tax officer. He later lost this position to the treasurer. Originally, the chamberlain held one of the old court offices. In some areas, the state treasurer was a person of authority who was responsible for the lordly income of an entire province.
  2. ↑ Two years after the founding of Gronau, in 1298, the bishop Siegfried, to whose monastery the young town belonged, caused some noble families to settle there in order to strengthen and protect their inhabitants, mainly farmers who were not very experienced in the arms trade. The von Dötzum, Bock von Wülfingen and Bock von Northolz families followed his call. They all owned the landmarks of the three named villages. These noble families have died out except for the buck of Wülfingen
  3. ↑ A brevet rank was a guarantee of the next higher rank, which was given to a higher officer as a reward for bravery or meritorious behavior, but without the authority, priority, and payment that the corresponding real rank justified. An officer promoted as such was considered "brevetted" (for example: "he was brevetted major general"). This type of promotion was usually noted in the officer's title (e.g. "Bvt. Maj. General Eberhardt Bock"). The rank that really counted in the end was the one you had in a regiment. The certification grade should not be confused with a temporary grade.
  4. ^ Rümpler, Carl: Freemasonry in the Oriente of Hanover: Reminder sheets to the festivals of January 14th and 15th, 1857. Hanover, 1859. Page 54.
  5. ↑ Beamish, North Ludlow: History of the king's German legion. Volume 1. Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung. Hanover 1832. page 31.
  6. ^ Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von: Situation and prospects of the Hanoverians in June 1803. Monthly magazine Minerva - A journal of historical and political content (Berlin, Hamburg 1792-1856), year 1803, edition 3. Page 182. The liberal magazine was among the in the 1790s published the most important magazine for history and politics. Goethe, Schiller and Klopstock were some of the contributors. It was discontinued in 1858.
  7. ^ Mlynek, Klaus and Röhrbein, Waldemar (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. Volume 2 - From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche, Hanover, 1994. Page 278.
  8. ^ Lünsmann, Fritz: The Army of the Kingdom of Westphalia 1807-1813. C. Leddihn Verlag. Berlin, 1935. Berlin. The 1st Guard Chevaulegers Regt. in which von Bock's eldest son served, had been set up by Napoleon in 1808 and was under the command of Colonel Müller, as part of the 29th Light Cavalry Brigade in the Cavalry Division of GenLt. Chabert. It was used in Spain from 1808 to 1813. It was actually a Uhlan unit, ie a class of cavalry armed with lances, although authors like Nafziger claim that only the 1st squadron carried lances.
  9. ↑ Kleinschmidt, Arthur: History of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Perthes, 1893. Page 479.
  10. ^ Beamish, North Ludlow: History of the Royal German Legion, Part Two. Han'scher Hofbuchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1837. Pages 437 to 446.
  11. ↑ Schwertfeger, Bernhard: History of the Royal German Legion - Volume I. Hahn'sche Buchhandlung. Hanover, 1907. page 366.
  12. ↑ Gurwood, John: The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington Vol. 9 (1838)
  13. ^ Foy, Maximilien Sébastien: Histoire de la Guerre de la Péninsule Sous Napoléon: Précédée d'un Tableau Politique et Militaire des Puissances Belligérantes. Volume 1. Baudouin Fréres, Éditeurs (1857) page 291.
  14. ^ Beamish, North Ludlow: History of the Royal German Legion. Hahn'sche bookstore. Hanover, 1837. Chapter V, pages 83 to 92.
  15. ^ Beamish, North Ludlow: History of the Royal German Legion. Volume 2. Hahn'sche Buchhandlung. Hanover, 1837. Pages 119 to 122.
  16. ^ The Royal Military Chronicle or British Officers Monthly Register and Mentor . Vol VII. London, 1813. pp. 583-587.
personal data
SURNAME Wülfingen, Eberhardt Georg Otto Bock from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wülfingen, Freiherr Eberhardt Georg Otto Bock von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general in the service of the British Crown
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1814