Ernst von Quistorp

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Ernst von Quistorp (born November 27, 1784 in Lassan , † November 14, 1831 in Berlin ) was a Prussian officer .

Life

Ernst Carl Gottfried was the fourth child of Johann Quistorp (1752–1825), ennobled in 1782, and his wife Dorothea, née von Behr (1756–1796). At the age of 15 his military career began as a junker with the cuirassier regiment No. 10 in Berlin. In 1802 he was promoted to second lieutenant.

In February 1809 Quistorp was assigned to the Schill Hussars . He took part in the battle near Dodendorf . After the shooting of one of his hussars for insubordination, he was tried in the summer of 1809 and sentenced to three years imprisonment in Kolberg . In December 1811, the detention ended with the pardon. Quistorp asked to be dismissed from Prussian service and became an orderly officer as Rittmeister to the Swedish Crown Prince Karl Johann . He took part in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig and in the 1814 campaign against Norway .

In May 1815 Quistorp returned to Berlin and joined the 8th Hussar Regiment . In 1816 he was assigned to the 12th Hussar Regiment in Eisleben and released from service in 1825.

His brother August wrote about Ernst von Quistorp on the occasion of his death:

“ He was one of the most beautiful people of his time, physically very abundant and spiritually endowed far beyond the ordinary; but his fate led him to the Gensdarmen regiment in Berlin, and he grew up in a corps of officers and a large world which led him to attach great importance to his naturally happy qualities, and thereby established a vanity that, for his own, was Dominating life, exposed him to great aberrations and very embittered the last third of his years. "

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SURNAME Quistorp, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quistorp, Ernst Carl Gottfried von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Lassan
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1831
Place of death Berlin