Ferdinand von Goetze

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Ferdinand Alexander von Goetze (born March 22, 1794 in Posen , † November 8, 1863 in Magdeburg ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Ferdinand von Goetze was the son of Ferdinand Viktor Julius von Goetze (1765–1841), President of the Higher Regional Court in Köslin , and his wife Friederike Wilhelmine Karoline, née Patzke (1766–1822).

Military career

Goetze attended the Roßleben monastery school and then studied law at the universities in Berlin and Jena . At the beginning of the Wars of Liberation he enlisted in the Prussian Army and joined the 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regiment as a volunteer hunter . There Goetze advanced to secondary lieutenant in mid-September 1813 and took part in the sieges of Magdeburg , Wittenberg and Maubeuge as well as the battles near Großbeeren , Hoyerswerda , Marzahne , Schmilkendorf and Thießen during the war. He was badly wounded in the battle of Dennewitz . On October 14, 1814, he joined the Emperor Franz Grenadier Regiment with his grenadier battalion, and in early December 1814 he became an adjutant of the fusilier battalion. During the summer campaign , the regiment marched to Paris in 1815 without a fight .

After the war, Goetze was appointed regimental adjutant on March 29, 1817 and commanded as adjutant of the 12th Infantry Brigade in the mobile army corps in France in mid-February 1818 . On March 30, 1819, he was transferred to the adjutantage and at the beginning of April 1820 he rose to prime lieutenant . Goetze was promoted to captain on March 30, 1824, as adjutant to the 9th Landwehr Brigade in Glogau . When the November uprising in the Grand Duchy of Posen took place in 1830/31 , Goetze was involved in suppressing the unrest there. From the end of March 1833 he was then commanded for three years as an adjutant to the 2nd division in Danzig . He then served as company commander in the 30th Infantry Regiment . This was followed from March 30, 1837 to March 30, 1844 as a major and battalion commander in the 16th Landwehr Regiment. Goetze then worked in the same capacity with the 25th Infantry Regiment and advanced to lieutenant colonel at the end of March 1847 . On April 13, 1848, he was initially commissioned to lead the 27th Infantry Regiment , and on May 7, 1848, Goetz was appointed regiment commander, and on November 19, 1849, he was promoted to colonel . As such, he was placed in command of the 7th Infantry Brigade in Magdeburg on April 15, 1852 and at the end of April 1852 à la suite of his previous regiment. With the renaming of his large unit at the beginning of May 1852 to the 13th Infantry Brigade , Goetze kept command. He was promoted to major general on May 22, 1853 , and at the beginning of June 1855 he was awarded Commander I Class of the House Order of Albrecht the Bear . Under awarding of the character as General Lieutenant Goetze was for the July 13, 1857 Disposition asked. On the occasion of the festival of the order, King Wilhelm I awarded him the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves, in January 1862 . After his departure, Goetze took up residence in Magdeburg, where he died on November 8, 1863.

family

Goetze married Henriette von Beyme (1800–1855), a daughter of the magistrate Josef von Beyme , on May 16, 1822 in Neisse . The couple had several children:

  • Joseph Wilhelm Ferdinand (1825–1828)
  • Karoline Marie Henriette (1826–1828)
  • Eugen Viktor Julius Ferdinand (* 1832) drowned young in the Neisse
  • Bruno Eugen Viktor Ferdinand (1833–1868), captain ⚭ 1862 Wally von Necker (1829–1919)
  • Heinrich August Ferdinand (1834–1905), Major a. D. ⚭ 1872 Agnes Friederike Ida Bergmann (1847–1887)

literature

  • Max von Lessel: Commemorative sheets of the Officer Corps Infantry Regiment Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (2nd Magdeburgisches) No. 27. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1890, p. 128.
  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 322, no. 1943.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). Old nobility and postal nobility: at the same time the nobility register of the German Aristocratic Association . 1922, p. 291 Internet Archive .
  • Ernst Heinrich Ludwig Stawitzky, History of the Royal Prussian 25th Infantry Regiment and its tribe, the infantry of the von Lützow'schen Frei-Corps. P. 299.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 322 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Volume 1, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Goetze, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goetze, Ferdinand Alexander von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1863
Place of death Magdeburg