Eduard Collins

This article is about Major General Eduard Collins. For other people, see Edward Collins .

Eduard Collins (born February 21, 1796 in Sollnicken , † August 16, 1859 in Warmbrunn ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the 4th Cavalry Brigade .

Life

origin

Eduard was the son of the farmer of the same name Eduard Collins and his wife Elisabeth, née Ruffmann.

Military career

Collins, like his father, was to become a farmer and consequently learned to farm. With the start of the Wars of Liberation , he joined the East Prussian National Cavalry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a volunteer hunter on April 10, 1813 and advanced to secondary lieutenant at the beginning of June 1813 . During the wars he acquired the Iron Cross 2nd class at the siege of Torgau and took part in the sieges of Magdeburg , the battle of Dennewitz and the battle of Blankenfelde. Collins initially retired from military service on January 31, 1815, but was re-employed on March 30, 1815 with the cavalry tribe of the 3rd East Prussian Landwehr Regiment.

On April 24, 1816, he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion in the 1st Landwehr Regiment in Königsberg as a regular officer and was promoted to Prime Lieutenant by the end of August 1819 . On May 12, 1820, Collins resigned from the army with a disability salary, only to enter again four years later and from June 9, 1824 to be used in the cavalry tribe of the Landwehr Battalion in the 33rd Infantry Regiment. At the end of May 1832 he was promoted to Rittmeister and as such he was aggregated to the 4th Uhlan Regiment at the end of March 1841 . On March 22, 1843 he became major and was then from April 14, 1844 to October 20, 1846 leader of the Landwehr squadron in Konitz. From February 29, 1848, Collins served as a regular staff officer in the 4th Uhlan Regiment. This was followed by his appointment as commander in the 6th Uhlan Regiment on March 19, 1850 . In this capacity, Collins was promoted to colonel by the end of March 1852 . On November 12, 1855, he was transferred to the 4th Cavalry Brigade as a commander and shortly thereafter placed à la suite of his previous regiment. Collins received the Order of the Red Eagle II class on September 3, 1856 and became Major General on October 15, 1856. On March 11, 1858, Collins was put up for disposal with a pension . He died on August 16, 1859 in Warmbrunn.

family

Collins married on October 25, 1832 in Posen Johanna Luise Ulrike Friedrich (1800–1871), a daughter of the citizen and black dyer Wilhelm August Friedrich from Unruhstadt . She was buried on December 18, 1871 in Görlitz .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, o. O. [Hamburg], o. J. [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 370, no. 1997.