Franz Karl of Werder

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General of the infantry Franz Karl von Werder

Franz Karl von Werder (born October 26, 1788 in Magdeburg , † June 30, 1869 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian infantry general and an honorary citizen of Kassel .

Life

origin

Franz Karl came from the noble Brandenburg family von Werder . His parents were the lieutenant a. D. , heir to Brettin and Kleinwusterwitz and customs director in Magdeburg Johann Karl von Werder (1751–1808) and Christiane Auguste, née Rauchhaupt from the Trebitz family (1756–1829).

Military career

Werder visited the Berlin Cadet House and in 1806 was initially employed as a sergeant in the Guard Regiment of the Prussian Army , but was promoted to Portepéefähnrich that same year . As early as 1807 he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Guards Regiment on foot with a patent from 1806 . Since 1813 First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Fusilier - battalion he made the liberation wars with and fought at Großgörschen , in Leipzig and Paris , where he is the Iron Cross deserved II class.. In 1814 he was promoted to staff captain and captain .

After the war he was promoted to major in 1818 and was appointed commander in 1825 to lead the training infantry battalion. In 1828 Werder was appointed battalion commander and aggregated to the 1st Guard Regiment . The award of the service cross took place in 1831, the promotion to lieutenant colonel in 1834 and in the same year the award of the order of St. Anne II class with crown. From 1835 to 1841 he was in command of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot, and in 1835 he was also awarded the Order of Saint Anne II Class with diamonds. He rose to colonel in 1836 and was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir III in 1838 . Class honored. Since 1841 Werder was in command of the 11th Infantry Brigade , although he was allowed to keep the uniform of the 1st Guard Regiment. The pertinent aggregation was also maintained. In the following year of his promotion to major general , he was given command of the 1st Infantry Brigade in 1843 and became the commandant of Potsdam . As commander of the 12th Division , Werder was involved in suppressing the revolution in Berlin in 1848 . In the same year, von Neisse was entrusted with the conduct of business as commandant . Werder rose to lieutenant general in 1849 and was relieved of the relationship in 1850 as commander of the Neisse. In 1854 he became the commanding general of the 1st Army Corps , received the Order of the Red Eagle 1st class with oak leaves in diamonds in 1856 on the occasion of his upcoming 50th anniversary in service, and in 1857 he advanced to the rank of infantry general. In the same year he was placed in the 1st Guard Regiment à la suite .

Werder received the Alexander Nevsky Order in 1858 and in 1859, while retaining his position as Commanding General of the 1st Army Corps, became the military governor of the province of Prussia . In 1861 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order and he became a Knight of the Black Eagle Order . Also from 1861 he was chief of the 3rd East Prussian Grenadier Regiment No. 4 . He was relieved of his position as commanding general of the I. Army Corps in 1863, but as military governor received supreme command of the I., II. , V. and VI. Army Corps . In 1864 he was awarded both the Order of the White Eagle and the Order of Saint Andrew the First Called . In the same year he was released from his position when he was awarded the Grand Commander's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern . Werder was left in 1865 in the ratio à la suite of the 1st Guard Regiment and as chief of the 3rd East Prussian Grenadier Regiment No. 4, where he had to wear the previous active badges, as well as the royal name and the crown in the epaulettes to create, had to board the disposition made.

After he was appointed military or general governor of Kurhessen, the city of Kassel awarded him “in appreciation of your special merits which you earned during your activity in an eventful time by alleviating the burden of war and by safeguarding the rights and interests of our city around them have ", the honorary citizenship" with the wish that this continued care is needed all the more since the city and country are undoubtedly only at the starting point of a development that is connected with many hardships urgently associated with mitigation and compensation. "The essence of Franz von Werders was described as jovial and friendly. He was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Since 1816 he was married to Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine Eleonore Amalie von Alvensleben (1797–1880) from the Hundisburg house and had five daughters and a son, who later became General of the Infantry Bernhard von Werder .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Ludwig von Prittwitz : Berlin 1848. de Gruyter, 1985, pp. 22, 426.
  2. ↑ Christine Goebel: The federal and Germany policy of Kurhessen in the years 1859 to 1866. Marburg 1995, p. 438.
  3. ^ Homepage of the city administration of Kassel.
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses . Justus Perthes , Gotha 1879, p. 57.
  5. ^ Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück , Hellmut Kretzschmar : Historical messages from the Alvensleben gender. Volume 3, 1829, p. 411 .
personal data
SURNAME Werder, Franz Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian infantry general and honorary citizen of Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1869
Place of death Potsdam