Eduard von Olberg

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Major General Eduard von Olberg with command staff

Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Olberg , from 1829 von Olberg , (born August 20, 1800 in Potsdam , † June 5, 1863 in Berlin ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Olberg came from a traditional forest family and was a son of the royal Prussian chief hunter in the riding field hunter corps and later chief forestry master August Leopold Olberg and Friederike Wilhelmine Schröder.

After completing his school days in Dessau , Olberg joined the 2nd West Prussian Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a volunteer in 1815 . He took part in the Wars of Liberation , in particular the battles at Ligny and Belle Alliance and the battles at Avesnes, Compiégne and Sévres. In 1815 he was promoted to porter ensign . In 1817 he was promoted to secondary lieutenant and from 1820 to 1823 he was assigned to the general war school . In 1824 he went to the topographic office, in 1825 moved to the 1st Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 10 and in 1827 was assigned to the Great General Staff .

In 1828 he was promoted to prime lieutenant in the 24th Infantry Regiment , was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1829 and returned to the General Staff in 1830. In 1831 he moved to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps , and was promoted to captain in 1832 . In 1840 he rose to major and moved back to the Great General Staff. In 1843 Olberg was battalion commander of the Fusiliers (3rd battalion) in the 16th Infantry Regiment , in 1846 chief of the 5th Army Corps and in 1848 commander of Grenadier Regiment No. 4. In 1849 he rose to lieutenant colonel , and since 1850 was the 31st Infantry regiment (3rd Magdeburgisches) in front as a commander, was promoted at the beginning of 1851 to colonel , was then at the end of the same year with board for disposition made.

In 1852 he was assigned to the officers of the army and the military government of Luxembourg and in 1853 he was assigned to the embassy in Brussels , but in 1855 he was again in command of Luxembourg and leader of the brigade for the occupation of this federal fortress . Olberg was finally promoted to major general in 1855 and again put up for retirement in 1858.

In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Olberg was buried on June 8, 1863 in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin.

Awards

family

Olberg married Auguste Caroline von Stutterheim (1804–1878), a daughter of the Prussian Major General Carl August von Stutterheim (1759–1820), in Magdeburg in 1828 . Several children were born from the marriage.

  1. Anna Karoline Wilhelmine (* 1829), honorary canon at Keppel Abbey
  2. Klara (1831-1835)
  3. Marie (1835-1836)
  4. Karl Leopold Georg Eduard Felix (1836–1900), Prussian lieutenant colonel, ⚭ 1869 Konstanze Jeannette Marie Agnes von Stülpnagel (1848–1929), daughter of Ferdinand von Stülpnagel (1813–1885), Prussian infantry general
  5. Adelheid Julie Helene (1837–1838)

The noble family von Olberg , which he founded in 1829, is currently still in existence.

Works

as editor and translator
  • Correspondence of the Russian Field Marshal Suvorov during the campaign of 1799. 1835.
  • Diary of the Russian General Danielewski during the campaigns of 1813/1814. 1836/37.
as the sole author
  • Historical overview of the Slavic language. 1837.
  • The autumn exercise of the Imperial Russian Cavalry and Horse Artillery near Voznesensk in 1837. Berlin 1837.
  • History of the war between Mehemed Ali and the Ottoman Porte in Syria and Asia Minor from 1831 to 1833. Berlin 1837.
  • Nordic flowers: a collection of essays, stories, etc. Short stories, some d. best recent romanticists of Russia. Berlin 1837.
  • No vigilante? : for the good of the widows and orphans of the vigilante men who stayed in Berlin on October 16. Danzig 1848.
  • Illumination of the Sr. Excellenz the Royal Commissioner General of the Infantry von Pfuel by the Polish insurgent leader Ludwig von Mieroslawski on May 16 e. submitted memorandum. Leipzig 1848.
  • The French army on the Exercirplatze and in the field: with a review of the campaign in Italy in 1859. Berlin 1861. ( digitized version )
  • Statistical tables of the Russian Empire for the year 1856. Berlin 1859.
  • A military memorandum: critically examined by the French ... Berlin 1862.
  • Evidence of the volunteer hunters and volunteers as well as the volunteer soldiers from the years 1813, 1814, 1815 who were still alive fifty years after the glorious uprising of Prussia (according to their written report) on December 15, 1862. Berlin 1863.
together with Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin
  • Poems. Berlin 1840.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From 1816 7th Infantry Regiment (2nd West Prussian).
  2. ↑ Grenadier Regiment since July 1, 1860.
  3. ↑ Auguste von Olberg († 1856), who had been the wife of the future Prussian infantry general Louis von Rothmaler (1814–1884) since 1845 , could also have been a daughter belonging here (then the eldest), but no evidence could be provided , undoubtedly she was a close relative, i.e. a sister or niece of Edward von Olberg.
  4. ↑ Maximilian von Braumüller: Officer list of the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 for the 50th anniversary of the regiment. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1910, p. 138.
  5. ↑ Jakow Iwanowitsch Danielewski (Яков Иванович Данилевский) (1789–1855), General of the Cavalry.
personal data
SURNAME Olberg, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olberg, Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard von (full name); Olberg, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1863
Place of death Berlin