Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch

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Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch (born July 26, 1774 at Gut Görken , East Prussia , † January 23, 1840 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and city ​​commander of Berlin and head of the rural and border gendarmerie .

Life

origin

Ernst Ludwig was the son of the Prussian captain Johann Sigismund Ernst von Tippelskirch (1744–1787) and his wife Juliane Sophie Margarethe, born von Werner (1747–1819).

Military career

After visiting the cadet institutes in Kulm and Berlin, Tippelkirch joined the Infantry Regiment "von Knobelsdoff" No. 27 on March 11, 1794 as a private corporal and shortly afterwards became an ensign . During the First Coalition War against France, he took part in the Battle of Kaiserslautern on November 28th and 30th, 1793 and the battles at Trippstadt and Johanniskreuz.

On September 14, 1797, Tippelskirch was promoted to secondary lieutenant in the "Courbière" infantry regiment and in 1804 came to the quartermaster staff as adjutant . In the campaign of 1806/1807 he first took part as a staff captain in the Kalckreuth Corps. In March 1807 he was promoted to captain and in the same year he became major . Tippelskirch fought in all major skirmishes, including the battles near Jena (October 14, 1806), Pultusk (December 26, 1806), Preussisch Eylau (February 7 and 8, 1807), and Heilsberg (10. June 1807) and Friedland (June 13, 1807). For his services during the Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, which he experienced in the Russian headquarters, he received the highest Prussian honor for bravery, the order Pour le Mérite, in February 1807 .

After the peace treaty of Tilsit (July 7th and 9th 1807) he worked as a commissioner in the rectification of the border to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and in September 1808 came to Field Marshal Friedrich Adolf von Kalckreuth as lieutenant quartermaster . At the beginning of 1809, Tippelskirch belonged to the commission of inquiry into the events of 1806/1807 and from September 1809 served in the General Staff (2nd department of the General War Department). In October 1811, Tippelskirch was transferred to the guard regiment, but on December 8th of the same year he was given the command of the 8th Infantry Regiment . He took part in the Russian campaign of 1812 in the Prussian auxiliary corps and took part in both battles in Eckau on July 19 and September 27. In November, when the war of 1813 against France was imminent, King Friedrich Wilhelm III brought him . to Breslau and gave him command of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot , which he took over on February 9, 1813. At the same time he led the Brandenburg infantry brigade, to which his regiment belonged , from March 15, promoted to lieutenant colonel. After the Battle of Großgörschen (May 2, 1813) he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In the following battle near Bautzen (May 20 and 21, 1813), Tippelskirch was chief of the reserve brigade. At the beginning of August 1813 he became chief of staff in the II. Prussian Army Corps ( Kleist ). After the Battle of Dresden (August 26 and 27, 1813) he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. In December 1813 he was made a colonel and charged with setting up the Prussian Landwehr between the Elbe and the Weser.

When the war broke out in 1815 , he took command of the 5th Brigade in the II Army Corps ( Zieten ). In May 1815 he was promoted to major general. For his use in the battles at Ligny (June 16, 1815) and Waterloo (June 18, 1815) he received the oak leaves for the order Pour le Mérite. In October 1815 he was appointed commander of the Landwehr in the Koblenz district. In 1818 Tippelskirch received the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class. In 1821 he was brigade commander in Düsseldorf and in the same year received the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves. A year later he became division commander and was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves. In 1825, as Lieutenant General, he was commander of the 8th Division . From January 30, 1827, Tippelskirch was in command of Berlin and at the same time head of the rural and border gendarmerie.

tomb

Tippelskirch died of a stroke in Berlin on January 23, 1840 . His impressive tomb , designed by August Soller and created by Moritz Geiß , is located in the Berlin garrison cemetery (field III).

family

He was married twice. On April 20, 1804 he married Henriette Charlotte Dorothee Melhorn (1783–1823) from whom he divorced in 1811. His second wife was Philippine Ernestine Pascha († January 17, 1854) from Wohlau in 1812 . The couple had the following children:

  • Ottilie Julie Marie (born October 14, 1816 - † July 12, 1873)
  • Wilhelmine Julie Maire (February 9, 1818 - February 10, 1844)
  • Karl Ernst Philipp (born August 22, 1819 - † February 10, 1853), tenant of Gut Schönau in Silesia
  • Ernstine Friederike Philippine (* February 20, 1821 - † July 3, 1857) ⚭ 1848 Ernst von Niebelschütz (1817–1874), District Administrator, Lord on Dahme
  • Luise (* May 2, 1823; † January 8, 1909) Gustav 1842 Gustav Adolf von Stranß (* June 16, 1809; † March 17, 1873), retired lieutenant. D., son of Lieutenant General Gustav Adolf von Strantz

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch
personal data
SURNAME Tippelskirch, Ernst Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and city commander of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Görken , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1840
Place of death Berlin