Engelhardt Ludwig Stach of Goltzheim
Engelhardt Ludwig Stach von Goltzheim (born August 4, 1768 in Biestern , Lötzen district , † June 11, 1837 in Freienwalde ) was a Prussian major general and most recently department head in the military and economics department.
Life
origin
His parents were Johann Albrecht Stach von Goltzheim (April 3, 1728 - November 23, 1788) and his wife Anna Hedwig Charlotte von Helmold (April 27, 1739 - July 31, 1789) from the Gronde family. His father was a war and domain councilor and heir to beasts. The later Lieutenant General Johann Friedrich Jakob von Kemphen was his nephew.
Military career
He came on August 1, 1781 Corporal Corporal in the Infantry Regiment. 11, . From there he changed on June 9, 1785 as a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Battalion Klingspor (No. 4) . When the grenadier battalions were dissolved, he was transferred to the 6th Fusilier Battalion. On July 20, 1794, he came to the Fusilier Battalion No. 11 as Premier Lieutenant . During the campaign in Poland , he took part in the raid in Pontnicka.
After the war he was returned to Fusilier Battalion No. 6 as staff captain on February 6, 1797 ; From there he came on May 3, 1804 as a captain and company commander in the Fusilier Battalion No. 3. In the Fourth Coalition War he fought in the battle near Waltersdorf, on the Passarge and in the tree forest. He received the Pour le Mérite for tree forest on July 2, 1807 .
After the war he was transferred to the 1st West Prussian Infantry Regiment (No. 6) on January 22nd, 1808. On January 10, 1811, he was promoted to major. During the Wars of Liberation he fought in the battles at Großgörschen , Dresden , Leipzig , Laon , Paris , Ligny , Belle Alliance and the battles at Beauveau, May, Claye , Charleroy, Gilly, Villiers-Cotterets, Wavre and Issy. He was wounded at Großgörschen, but also acquired the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Russian Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class , and at May he acquired the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Russian Order of St. Vladimir 4th Class . He also became a lieutenant colonel on April 5, 1814 and commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment on September 1, 1815 , and on October 2, 1815 he was given the oak leaves to the Pour le Mérite and was promoted to colonel with a patent on October 6, 1815. He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Zum flammenden Stern .
On April 19, 1819, he was transferred to the War Ministry as head of the department for the disabled . There he became department head in the military and economics department on June 13, 1825 with a personal allowance of 500 thalers. On 26 March 1832 he took his departure as a major general with pension. He died on June 11, 1837 in Freienwalde on the Oder and was buried there.
In his application for the Pour le Mérite for Goltzheim, the then Colonel Hans Ernst Karl von Zieten wrote : The enemy, with 5 squadrons from the 12th Chasseur Regiment, pushed on me with might in the tree forest. I wanted to put the hussars behind the infantry and defend the dam with well-placed infantry fire, but I had to see with regret that what I had only suspected so far happened, namely that, since I had marched off to the left, the body company of the von Wakenitz battalion in walked the woods and didn't shoot. So I had no choice but to hit three more times. In the meantime, since it could not go like this in the long run, I said to Captain von Stach that I demanded his honor to cover the retreat with the other three companies of the battalion. He carried it out with an unparalleled coldness, fired several volleys, and thus kept the enemy off. My loss is considerable; I left at least 15 dead in the field. The loss of the von Wakenitz fusilier battalion is even greater. After the affair was over, it consisted of only 62 men. I cannot help but humbly ask Captain von Stach, who behaved as an extremely determined and good man, to commend his Majesty to his mercy and to ask that he be graced with the Order of Merit.
A few days later he received the Pour le Mérite.
family
He married Charlotte Amalie Schenk (* 1765, † March 25, 1821), a daughter of the bailiff Schenck, on January 20, 1795 in Memel. The couple had several children:
- Johann Ludwig Wilhelm (* December 27, 1796; † May 21, 1813), died as a second lieutenant in the battle of Bautzen
- Wilhelmine (born March 2, 1797)
- Franziska (* 1798)
- Friedrich Anton Leopold (born November 30, 1800), lieutenant in the Landwehr and border guard
- ⚭ 1822 (divorced 1829) Wilhelmine Natalie von Grope (born April 7, 1798)
- ⚭ around 1833 Mathilde Hoffmann
- Mathilde Friederike Charlotte Johanna (* May 22, 1802; † April 12, 1885) ⚭ Dr. Johann Samuel Eduard Koffer († March 28, 1841), regimental doctor in the 18th Infantry Regiment
- Johann Albrecht (* 1806 - October 1, 1807)
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , pp. 162-163, no. 1478.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , sixth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1905, p. 777
Individual evidence
- ↑ she was buried in the Luisenfriedhof
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stach from Goltzheim, Engelhardt Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general and department head in the military and economics department |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 4, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biestern , Kreis Lötzen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1837 |
| Place of death | Freienwalde |