Ernst Moritz von Heimrod
Ernst Moritz Freiherr von Heimrod (born November 3, 1808 in Hanau ; † December 3, 1877 in Dessau ) was a Anhalt colonel and chamberlain as well as a Prussian major general .
Life
origin
The Freiherren von Heimrod are the descendants of Elector Wilhelm I and his mistress Charlotte Christine Buissine . His parents were the major general of Saxony, Karl von Heimrod (1776-1827) and his wife Charlotte, nee Freiin von Stockhausen (1781-1855).
Military career
Heimrod joined the Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment of the Prussian Army as a grenadier on November 23, 1824 , advanced to Portepeefähnrich in mid-August 1826 and was transferred to the 36th Infantry Regiment on June 13, 1827 . He said goodbye on September 16, 1827 and went into service in Anhalt.
There he was on October 9, 1827 Second Lieutenant and on October 1, 1831 Prime Lieutenant in the Anhalt Line Battalion. Promoted to captain on February 1, 1840 , he took part in the battle near Schleswig during the war against Denmark in 1848 and in the suppression of the Baden Revolution the following year . Heimrod was promoted to lieutenant colonel by September 1861 and on July 18, 1865 was promoted to colonel in command of the infantry regiment he had trained on the Prussian model. In 1866 he took part on the Prussian side in the reserve corps of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin during the fighting in Bavaria in the German War . On September 20, 1866 he received the Crown Order II. Class.
After the war Heimrod was taken back into the Prussian Army by the military convention between Anhalt and Prussia on July 25, 1867 and aggregated to the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm IV." (1st Pomeranian) No. 2 . Under awarding of the character as a major general Heimrod received his parting with the January 9, 1868 board .
He died on December 3, 1877 in Dessau and was buried there.
family
Heimrod married on May 6, 1832 in Köthen Luise Schöner (1810–1874), a daughter of the bailiff in Groß-Wülkitz Karl August Schöner. The couple had several children:
- Ernst Karl (1833–1910), German consul in Toronto ⚭ 1865 Olga Crome (1839–1912)
- Marie Therese Luise (1838–1842)
- Elise Klothilde Luise (1838–1840)
- Elise Amalie Luise (* 1844), canoness
- Heinrich Albert Moritz (1851–1871), died of the wounds preserved at Beaumont . There is a memorial plaque in the St. Jakob Church in Köthen.
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , Volume 7, pp. 484-485, No. 2425.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heimrod, Ernst Moritz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Anhalt Colonel, later Royal Prussian Major General and finally in Grenadier Regiment No. 2 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1877 |
| Place of death | Dessau |