Ferdinand Wilhelm Franz Bolstern of Boltenstern

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Ferdinand Wilhelm Franz Bolstern von Boltenstern (born February 23, 1786 in Magdeburg , † January 3, 1814 in front of Mülheim am Rhein ) was a Prussian officer who died in the fighting around Cologne during the Wars of Liberation .

Life

Boltenstern came from the Pomeranian / Swedish noble family of Boltenstern . His father served as a major in Magdeburg. The son also entered the regiment of Prince Louis Ferdinand in Magdeburg as a Junker in 1798 . There he received instruction in orthography , mathematics and military plan drawing at the expense of the commander in addition to his military training . On March 8, 1810, he married Beate von Schlichting.

Wars of Liberation

During the Wars of Liberation in 1813, Major Boltenstern was a co-founder of the volunteer land storm Banner des Siebengebirge . From December 1813 he was with a company of the Guard Jäger Battalion on the right bank of the Rhine between Sieg and Mülheim. When Blücher crossed the Rhine near Kaub on New Year's Eve , Boltenstern's troops also tried to win the left bank . His cavalry, twenty Russian dragoons , and his approximately 150 Bergisch recruits were able to conquer a French hill in front of Cologne-Riehl on January 3rd , the cavalry even came to the Eigelsteintorburg , but had to cross the again before the superior strength of the French troops in Cologne Rhine draw back. Boltenstern was fatally injured by rifle bullets in battles near Mülheim. The Landsturm vom Siebengebirge under the adjutant Franz Bernhard de Claer and the commander of the outpost on the island of Nonnenwerth , the master stone carver Johann Joseph Genger , tried to win the left bank. This was killed.

The French finally withdrew from Cologne on January 14, 1814.

Honors

Memorial at the Drachenfels
Tram stop Boltensternstraße

For Boltenstern, Genger and the Landsturm, a first monument was inaugurated on the Drachenfels plateau in 1814 , which, having become dilapidated, was replaced in 1857 by a monument for the Landsturm donated by Wilhelm von Hohenzollern , on which the names were missing. A copy of the memorial bearing the two names was erected on the plateau at the 100th anniversary of the liberation. In the center of Königswinter at the foot of the Siebengebirge, Von-Boltenstern-Platz was named after him; to the north and south of it run the Genger and Von Claer streets.

In Cologne-Riehl, near the location of the Schanze conquered by Boltenstern, the street in front of the barracks complex built there around 1900 (today: Riehler Heimstätten ) was named after him; a nearby tram stop is also called Boltensternstrasse.

literature

  • Hann von Weyhern: Major Bolstern von Boltenstern. A short but honorable soldier's life, a military picture from the years 1798 to 1814 based on letters, diaries and files from his grandson. Mittler and Son, Berlin 1900.
  • Maria Siepen: From the last days of Major von Boltenstern. In: Heimatverein Siebengebirge (Hrsg.): Echo des Siebengebirge. Königswinter 1929.
  • Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt: Selected inventory stories and inventory contents. (PDF; 4.1 MB) p. 371. (Accessed September 2010)
  2. ↑ Ulrich S. Soenius: Boltenstern. In: Kölner Personenlexikon. P. 72.
  3. ^ SN 29 family archive of Claer. to: archive.nrw.de (accessed Sept. 2010)
  4. ↑ The history of the Siebengebirgsraum at a glance. Heimatverein Siebengebirge e. V., January 4, 2015, accessed February 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Monuments on the Drachenfels. Siebengebirgsmuseum Königswinter (archive pages), accessed on February 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Boltenstern, Ferdinand Wilhelm Franz Bolstern from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boltenstern, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1814
Place of death Mülheim am Rhein