Franz Otto von Pirch

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Franz Otto von Pirch (born February 16, 1733 at Gut Klein-Nossin , † August 16, 1813 in Stargard ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Franz Otto came from the old Pomeranian noble family Pirch . His parents were the Polish - Electoral Saxon captain and heir to Klein Nossin, Podel and Daber , Georg Ernst von Pirch (1695–1765) and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Luise, born von Somnitz (1701–1781) from the Beversdorf family . He had twelve siblings, including the two Prussian generals George Lorenz von Pirch (1730–1797) and Nikolaus Heinrich von Pirch (1736–1808) and the French Colonel Johann Ernst von Pirch (1744–1783).

Military background

Pirch was raised in the house of his uncle, Lieutenant General Michael Lorenz von Pirch from the Electorate of Saxony , and attended grammar school in Dresden . In 1747 he joined the Electoral Saxon infantry regiment "Prince Anton" as a cadet . At the beginning of the Seven Years' War he was captured by the Prussians near Pirna on October 15, 1756 and, like all other 18,500 Saxon soldiers, pressed into the Prussian army .

Here Pirch was employed as a prime lieutenant with a patent from October 25, 1756 and assigned to the "von Manstein" regiment, which was built from captured Saxons . At the beginning of 1757 he served in the recruit battalion of the infantry regiment "von Bevern" and on September 2, 1757 he became captain of the grenadier battalion "von Ingersleben". In the further course of the war, Pirch fought near Reichenbach , Prague and the siege of Neisse .

In 1770 he became a major in the "Hessen-Kassel" infantry regiment and took part in Frederick II's campaigns in Bohemia , Pomerania and Saxony and in 1787 in the campaign in Holland . For his services Pirch had received the order Pour le Mérite at the Revue in 1774 . On May 25, 1781 he became lieutenant colonel and on June 7, 1782 colonel . In 1786 he was raised to the nobility.

On May 20, 1789 he was promoted to major general and was chief of the infantry regiment "von Gaudi" in Wesel from 1789 to 1791 , from 1791 to 1795 of the infantry regiment "von Scholten" and from 1795 to 1806 chief of the infantry regiment "von Klinckowström" .

In the First Coalition War against France , Pirch led the avant-garde of the Prussian army under the Brunswick Duke Friedrich Wilhelm on January 30, 1793 across the Rhine in 1792/97 . He later covered in the battle of Morlautern on 18./19. November 1793 the withdrawal of the Prussian troops and received for this act on December 7, 1793 the Order of the Red Eagle First Class. On May 23, 1795 he fought in the battle of Kaiserslautern .

After the Treaty of Basel (1795), he was Lieutenant General until 1805, Inspector General of the Pomeranian Infantry. On May 28, 1800, Friedrich Wilhelm III. Pirch to the Knight of the Black Eagle Order . In 1805 he moved with his corps to Thuringia and became chief of the main army corps of the Duke of Braunschweig. Since he was no longer able to cope with the stresses of the war, he was released from field service after the peace agreement and appointed governor of Kolberg with a salary of 3000 thalers . He lived in Stargard until his death in 1813.

family

Pirch married Charlotte Friederike (born August 3, 1740; † January 8, 1781 in Wesel ), the daughter of the Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber Director Christian Ludwig von Winckelmann and his wife Maria Hille , in his first marriage in Magdeburg in 1762 . After their death, Pirch married Eleonore Henriette, divorced Countess von Schwerin (born September 7, 1744 in Barten ; † July 30, 1806 in Stargard), the daughter of the Prussian war councilor Daniel Friedrich Hindersin , director, on January 31, 1785 in Danzig Mayor and Police Director of Königsberg . The following children emerged from both marriages:

  • Georg Dubislav Ludwig (1763–1838), Prussian lieutenant general and knight of the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves
  • Otto Karl Lorenz (1765–1824), Prussian lieutenant general and knight of the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves
  • Ernst Friedrich (* 1766), Prussian staff captain and knight of the Pour le Mérite
  • Christoph Wilhelm Rüdiger (1767–1846), Prussian major general
  • Hans Nikolaus Gützlaff (1768–1825), Prussian colonel and commander of Saarlouis
  • Karl Wilhelm Gottlob (1777–1846), Prussian captain
  • Franz Heinrich Gneomar (1785–1813), Prussian prime lieutenant
  • Charlotte Friederike Philippine (* 1786) ∞ Ernst Alexander von Unruh

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses . Justus Perthes , Gotha 1923, pp. 492-493.
  2. ^ Karl Robert Klempin , Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and directories of the Pomeranian knighthood. Berlin 1863, p. 440.
  3. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Volume 16-18, Historical Association for Lower Saxony (Ed.), 1962, p. 150 ( excerpt )
  4. ^ Günther Gieraths : The fighting of the Brandenburg-Prussian army. 1964, p. 581 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Pirch, Franz Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Klein-Nossin
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1813
Place of death Stargard