Ernst Friedrich Carl von Hanstein

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Ernst Friedrich Carl von Hanstein (born February 11, 1735 in Egenstedt , † March 17, 1802 in Danzig ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and chief of infantry regiment No. 51 .

Life

origin

Ernst Friedrich Carl was the son of Thilo Heinrich von Hanstein (* June 29, 1703; † August 23, 1777), Prussian lieutenant colonel in the hussar regiment "von Czettritz" No. 1 and lord of Unterstein and Bornhagen and his wife Dorothea, née von Rosenow (* February 6, 1702 in Emmersleben; † May 6, 1768 in Unterstein).

Military career

In 1751 Hanstein was employed as a private corporal in the Infantry Regiment "von Anhalt-Dessau" No. 22 of the Prussian Army . There he became an ensign in 1754 and second lieutenant on October 19, 1756 . As such he took part in the 1756/63 campaign in the battles near Prague , Kolin , Zorndorf , Landshut and the sieges of Prague , Olomouc , Schweidnitz and Demmin . In the meantime he was promoted to prime lieutenant on April 12, 1758 and served as adjutant to Prince Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau .

During the siege of Schweidnitz on August 21, 1762, he led a command of 120 volunteers. With them he stormed a covered path and the Jaunicker Schanze. With his troops he protected 300 deployed workers. He was shot in the arm and bayonet stabbed in the left hand and mouth. For this he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on October 13, 1762 . The award was made by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , who at that time was the secretary of General Tauentzin , who commanded the siege of Schweidnitz . Hanstein then came to the Grenadier Battalion “von Rothenburg” on September 2, 1762 as a staff captain .

On November 6th, 1765 Hanstein became captain and head of a grenadier company in the infantry regiment "von Schenckendorff" No. 22. The following year Hanstein became a wing adjutant of Friedrich II. He remained in this position for the next ten years and in the meantime became major on September 12th, 1770 promoted. As such, he was then on June 30, 1776, commander of the 2nd battalion of the infantry regiment "von Zastrow" No. 11 . As such, he took part in the campaign in 1778/79 . Promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 22, 1781 , Manstein took over as commander of the regiment on October 14, 1781. He then became a colonel on June 8, 1782 and took on the position of inspector of the infantry on behalf of Joachim Friedrich von Stutterheim . After three months he handed the business over to Lieutenant General Heinrich Wilhelm von Anhalt . On September 24, 1784, Friedrich II appointed Hanstein his adjutant general and chief of the horse hunter corps. At the end of June 1787 he was then commander of the "von Schönfeld" infantry regiment No. 30. On July 28, 1787, Friedrich Wilhelm II appointed him governor of Schlanstedt with an annual salary of 500 thalers and on February 7, 1789, head of the infantry regiment " von Krockow ”No. 51. Shortly afterwards, on May 19, 1789, he was promoted to major general . With his regiment and four depot battalions and 75 horses each from the dragoon regiments "von Borstel" No. 9 and "von Rosenbusch" No. 10 , Hanstein took part in the siege of Danzig . After the occupation he took quarters in the old Hanseatic city in 1793, where he was finally promoted to lieutenant general on January 4, 1795. In June 1800 he was awarded the Great Order of the Red Eagle for his longstanding service, and the following year he received 2000 Thaler Douceur .

family

In 1780 Hanstein married Christiane Friederike Ernestine, born von Hanstein (born August 15, 1753 in Wahlhausen, † November 22, 1797 in Danzig) from the Wahlhausen-Unterhof family. She was the widow of Colonel Wolfgang Friedrich von Woellwarth , who died in America in 1778. The couple had the following children:

  • Ernst Jakob Wilhelm (born April 29, 1781 Königsberg , † March 1821 in Heiligenstadt), Prussian first lieutenant a. D. in the infantry regiment "Duke of Braunschweig" No. 21 ⚭ Luise von Hanstein from the Wahlhausen house
  • Johanna Karoline Amalie Juliane Caroline (* April 21, 1783 in Königsberg; † 1855) ⚭ Major Carl Heinrich von Zastrow, Herr auf Barzlin († 1855)
  • Friedrich Ludwig Karl (born December 21, 1784 in Potsdam ; † July 22, 1853), Prussian captain in his father's regiment, master of Wusseken
⚭ Christiane von Hanstein from the Wahlhausen family,
⚭ August 25, 1812 Henriette Renate Charlotte von Kleist (* July 6, 1793)
  • Karl Heinrich August (born October 4, 1783 in Anklam ; † February 20, 1857 in Danzig), retired Prussian major. D. ⚭ August 1, 1810 Caroline Juliane Elisabeth von Kleist (* May 23, 1791) (sister of Henriette)
  • August Friedrich Thilo (born May 30, 1789 in Marienburg , † October 14, 1806 near Auerstedt ), most recently ensign in the infantry regiment "Duke of Braunschweig" No. 21
  • Christiane Luise Wilhelmine (* March 3, 1793 in Marienburg; † February 12, 1872) ⚭ Wilhelm Franz von Bandemer (* February 18, 1789: † March 7, 1860) from the Weitenhagen family

literature

  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , pp. 291-292, no. 782.
  • Anton Balthasar König : Ernst Friedrich Carl von Hanstein . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 381 ( Ernst Friedrich Carl von Hanstein at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Carl Philipp Emil von Hanstein: Documented history of the family of Hanstein. Volume 2, p. 1332, plate 13
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1864, fourteenth year. P.343

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Dieter von Hanstein (Ed.): Hanstein Castle: on the 700-year history of a border fortress in Eichsfeld, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2008, p. 47
  2. ↑ offspring
  3. ↑ a b von Kleist family
personal data
SURNAME Hanstein, Ernst Friedrich Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 51
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Egenstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1802
Place of death Danzig