Friedrich August von Schack (officer)

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Friedrich August von Schack (born December 18, 1818 in Wolken ; † August 16, 1870 near Vionville ) was a Prussian colonel and commander of the 1st Hanoverian Uhlan Regiment No. 13 .

Life

August Friedrich came from the Uradels gender von Schack . He was the son of the Protestant forest master Friedrich Ferdinand von Schack (born November 7, 1780 in Copenhagen; † May 30, 1855 in Wolken) and his wife Friederike Charlotte Ulrike, born von Lützow (born September 11, 1789 in Ticino; January 9 1828 in clouds).

Schack was first in the cadet corps behaved and on 1 March 1835 as uncharacterized Portepeefähnrich the 5th Lancers Regiment of the Prussian army remit. There in Düsseldorf he received the patent for his rank on December 18 of the same year and on January 10, 1838 he was promoted to second lieutenant . Just over a decade later, he was on 19 December 1848 the character as first lieutenant of parting with his army uniform approved. He then entered service in Schleswig-Holstein and took part in the uprising against Denmark from January 13, 1849 to May 7, 1850 as Rittmeister of the 2nd Holstein Dragoon Regiment .

On May 28, 1853, Schack was re-employed in the Prussian Army under position à la suite of the 6th Uhlan Regiment , and on September 10 of the same year he received the patent as Prime Lieutenant. After he had been transferred to the 8th Uhlan Regiment on May 19, 1855 , he was aggregated to the 6th Uhlan Regiment on July 10, 1855 .

On October 9, 1855, Schack married Marie von Borke in Langensalza (* July 2, 1836 in Langensalza; † September 6, 1858), with whom he had no children and who died barely three years later in her place of birth.

On December 14, 1858, Schack was promoted to Rittmeister and Chief of the 1st Squadron . From this position he was assigned to the 3rd combined, the later 2nd Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment No. 11 on May 12, 1860 , to this regiment on July 1, but already on October 1 of the year with a patent dated 16. July 1855 transferred to the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment . On May 9, 1863, Schack was promoted to major while retaining his squadron , and on December 19 of the same year was appointed commander of the headquarters for the army destined for Holstein . On September 10, 1864, Schack was made a regular staff officer , but returned to the regiment on the 28th of the same month. For the duration of the mobile relationship he was appointed commander of the headquarters of the 1st Army on May 21, 1866 , a task from which he was relieved on September 17, 1866.

On October 30, 1866, Schack was appointed as a lieutenant colonel in command of the newly established Uhlan Regiment No. 13 in Hanover, which was garrisoned in what would later be the Hanover zoo district . In this capacity he was promoted to colonel on July 26, 1870 .

Schack was killed on August 16, 1870 during the war against France in the battle of Mars-la-Tour . He was initially considered missing until a field gendarmerie patrol of the VII Army Corps found the fallen in the field march of Ville sur Yron , "not far from la Grange F e on a small wood", where residents of the village of Ville sur Yron on 20 August 1870 had buried the man who had been fatally wounded by a bullet.

Schack was also buried in Mars-la-Tour on August 20, 1870 .

Schackstrasse

Schackstrasse in today's Hanover district of Zoo, which was laid out in 1906 at the time of the German Empire , has since honored the colonel of the former barracks of the King's Uhlan Regiment (1st Hannoversches) No. 1 with its name .

Archival material

Archival material from and about Friedrich August von Schack can be found, for example

literature

  • Hans von Boehn : History of the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5. Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1890, appendix, p. XIX.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Schackstrasse. in: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 217.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Compare the yearbooks for the German army and navy . Vol. 99, Bath, Berlin 1896, p. 71; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b o. V .: Friedrich August von Schack ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page in "Kaestner & von Urach's Genealogical Database" on the page adelsmatrikel.de in the version of October 30, 2013, last accessed on March 7, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / adelsmatrikel.de
  4. ↑ Carl Gesterding (Ed.): Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families, collected, organized and further elaborated by Carl Gesterding. Vol. 1, G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, pp. 287, 299; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ n.v .: joint note in the family database entwisle.net [ undated ], last accessed on March 7, 2018
  6. ↑ Compare the information from the German Digital Library
personal data
SURNAME Schack, Friedrich August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Clouds
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1870
Place of death at Vionville