Ferdinand von Fidler

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Friedrich Ferdinand Ludwig Leopold Fidler , von Fidler since 1856 (born November 6, 1791 in Breslau , † January 5, 1874 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 4th division .

Life

origin

The members of the Fidler family had long served in the Prussian artillery. The grandfather was a lieutenant colonel in the artillery under Frederick the Great . Ferdinand was the son of the Prussian captain Heinrich Karl Daniel Fidler and his wife Friederike, née Schütz.

Military career

Fidler attended the high school in his hometown and went on May 2, 1806 Bombardier in the riding ends artillery of the Prussian Army in Berlin. In the Fourth Coalition War he fought in battle near Halle (Saale) , where his battery was almost completely wiped out. He came to Magdeburg with the survivors and was made inactive after the surrender near Prenzlau.

After the war, Fidler returned to the artillery and was transferred to the Silesian Artillery Brigade as a Second Lieutenant on November 15, 1811 . During the Wars of Liberation he took part in the battles at Großgörschen , Bautzen , Dresden and Laon and Waterloo . Fidler received the Iron Cross II. Class for Paris and the First Class Cross for Ligny . He also fought in the battles near Bunzlau, Haynau , Peterswalde, Nollendorf, Meaux, Sezanne, Claye , Gosselies, Compiegne, Sepres, Meidon and the siege of Avesnes.

On June 7, 1815, Fidler was promoted to prime lieutenant and on May 23, 1816 transferred to the Guards Artillery Brigade . There he became captain at the beginning of January 1817 and at the end of March 1828 he moved from the square to the Torgau fortress as an artillery officer . This was followed from mid-February 1830 as a major in the 6th Artillery Brigade and from the beginning of December 1831 in the 5th Artillery Brigade . After his promotion to lieutenant colonel , Fidler was commissioned on March 17, 1842 with the command of the 2nd artillery brigade and on January 10, 1843 he was appointed brigadier. In this position he rose to colonel in March 1843.

In 1848 Fidler came at the request of General Wrangel 's Mobile Corps to the commander of the artillery Schleswig-Holstein and was after taking the fortress Fredericia to their commanders appointed. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with swords, for his achievements . On July 20, 1848, he was transferred to Münster as commander of the 13th Landwehr Brigade, and on September 11, 1848, he was promoted to major general . As such, he was appointed commander of Saarlouis on November 20, 1848 , as the previous commander, Major General von Strotha, moved to Berlin as Minister of War. From September 25, 1849 to March 15, 1852, Fidler was inspector of the 4th Artillery Inspection. Subsequently, he was commander of the 4th division in Bromberg and on March 22, 1853 was promoted to lieutenant general. This made Fidler the first artilleryman to command a division in Prussia. He received on 2 May 1856 Red Eagle, First Class and participated in the June 7, 1856 his parting with inn . On the occasion of his adoption, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV raised him to the hereditary Prussian nobility.

He died in Berlin on January 5, 1874 and was buried as the garrison cemetery on January 8, 1874 .

family

Fiedler married Karoline Charlotte Scholtz (1801–1874) on September 6, 1820 in Trebnitz . The Prussian lieutenant colonel Hugo Emil (1823-1883) emerged from the marriage. The district president Carl von Fidler was his son.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the coat of arms. In: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, p. 248.
  2. ^ According to the catalog of the German National Library Winkler cf. [1]
  3. ^ To Priesdorf: 1806
  4. ↑ She was the cousin of Karl Werder and a well-known poet, cf .: Fidler, Frau Karoline von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 505 f. ( Digitized version )., List of her poems
personal data
SURNAME Fidler, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fidler, Friedrich Ferdinand Ludwig Leopold von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general, commander of the 4th division
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1874
Place of death Berlin