Ernst von Linsingen

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Poster stamp of the seriousness of Linsingen: the crest of those of Linsingen : on a torse a lens plant with seven lenses between a flight , each of the two wings inwards wound with three bands, it seven (3, 3, 1) lenses; the whole thing enclosed in a circle by a belt, on it the motto: "SPES PATIENTIA ET PERSEVERENTIA"; the belt topped with a British barons crown

Ernst von Linsingen (born July 21, 1775 in Adenstedt , † June 21, 1853 in Hanover ) was a cavalry general of the Kingdom of Hanover .

origin

Ernst von Linsingen was the son and one of ten children of General Wilhelm von Linsingen from Hanover and Luise Antonie Schrader. Caroline von Linsingen was his older sister. He is named as a witness for her alleged secret marriage to Prince William , the Duke of Clarence .

Life

In 1795 he joined the Queen's 9th Light Dragoon Regiment as a cadet , commanded by the Duke of Cumberland and later King Ernst August . As a secondary lieutenant , he fought with this association in 1793/95 in the Netherlands . With the dissolution of the Electoral Hanoverian Army in 1803 due to the Artlenburg Convention , he immediately became enthusiastic about the idea of ​​the King's German Legion and was initially a captain in the 1st light dragoon regiment, later in the 1st hussar regiment, where he participated in the fighting proven in the Iberian Peninsula . In 1811 he became a staff officer as Brigade Adjudant and was deployed in north-west Germany from 1813 under the Duke of Cambridge , with whom he had been on friendly terms since his youth.

Linsingen organized the new cavalry units to be set up in the wake of the wars of liberation , from which the new cavalry troops of the Kingdom of Hanover later emerged and rose continuously in the Hanoverian military hierarchy. King Ernst August appointed him adjudant general and head of the kingdom's military affairs in 1837 . In 1845 he was reassigned to active service as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division and retired in 1848 due to health problems.

His diaries, letters and records formed an important basis for the history of the King 'German Legion, written by the Irish military historian North Ludlow Beamish (1797–1872).

family

He married Emilie Viktoria Berhardine von Jeinsen on October 12, 1802 (* September 6, 1876, † May 27, 1859). The couple had several children:

  • Karl August (born August 3, 1803; † December 30, 1899), mining captain
⚭ 1833 Bertha Wilhelmine Frederike von Gruben (* 7 August 1807, † 24 March 1834)
⚭ 1841 Mathilde von Schwarzkopf (* February 6, 1813; † August 4, 1889)
  • Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm (May 17, 1805 - May 28, 1883), Major General and Chief of the Cadet Corps ⚭ 1834 Mathilde Johanne Sara Virginia Meyer von Kronenberg (May 6, 1815 - May 15, 1883)
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Klaus (February 4, 1815 - June 7, 1889) ⚭ 1842 with Marie von Berlepsch (April 24, 1814 - June 28, 1890). Parents of Alexander von Linsingen
  • Ernst Georg (1816–1848), Prussian lieutenant
  • Adolf Friedrich Georg (* October 25, 1819 - † March 28, 1880) ⚭ Sophie Charlotte Johanne Hofmann (* June 19, 1838)
  • Georgine Julie Marie Charlotte Albertine (* December 1, 1821) ⚭ 1849 Ottomar von Reden († April 20, 1870), retired lieutenant colonel. D.

Awards

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karoline von Linsingen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linsingen in the Pierer
  2. ↑ North Ludlow Beamish : History of the King's German Legion. 2 volumes, London, 1834/37 (German: History of the Royal German Legion , 2 volumes, Hahn, Hanover 1832/37).
  3. ↑ Pictures of the tombstone
personal data
SURNAME Linsingen, Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Hanoverian General of the Cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Adenstedt
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1853
Place of death Hanover