Friedrich Blecken from Schmeling

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Peter Friedrich Blecken , from 1816 Blecken von Schmeling (born March 6, 1796 in Hamburg , † May 29, 1863 in Wussow ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

His parents were the merchant and sugar maker Martin Blecken and his wife Katharina Hedwig, née Hues (1771–1841). She later married the chief forester Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Schmeling († 1850). The stepchildren and adopted children were raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on October 22, 1816 as "Blecken von Schmeling" . His sister Amalie Johanna (1793-1835) was married to the Hessian politician and General Carl Breidenbach zu Breidenstein .

Military career

Blecken joined the Colberg Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a volunteer hunter on February 24, 1813 and was transferred to the 1st Neumärk Landwehr Infantry Regiment at the end of November 1813 as a second lieutenant . During the Wars of Liberation he was besieged at Wittenberg, Nijmegen, Gorkum and Antwerp. He also fought at Großbeeren , Dennewitz , Hoyerswerda, Luckau , Zytphen and Leipzig and took part in the assault on Arnhem.

After the war, Blecken was aggregated to the 33rd Infantry Regiment on April 20, 1816 and the 1st Engineer Brigade on June 29, 1816 and transferred to the Guards Pioneer Company. There he was promoted to prime lieutenant in mid-November 1817 and was assigned to the company. On May 26, 1820 he was promoted to captain , entrusted with the management of the company and in 1823 appointed commander. On September 29, 1829, he was transferred to the 3rd engineer inspection and commanded to build the fortress in Poznan. Left in this position, Blecken was transferred to the first engineer inspection in mid-December 1830. On October 5, 1832, he was subsequently awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class for the storming of Arnhem . On September 10, 1833, he was entrusted with the management of the business as construction director at the V Army Corps and from May 1835 as a teacher at the United Artillery and Engineering School . In addition, on October 2, 1835, he was transferred to the second engineer inspection and was also an examiner at the senior military examination commission and a member of the study commission. Left in his position, he was transferred to the 2nd engineer inspection on July 18, 1837 and the 3rd engineer inspection on March 24, 1839. In 1841 he came as a teacher at the General War School and from the end of March 1842 was also a member of the examination committee for captains II class and first lieutenants of the engineering corps. There he was promoted to major on March 22, 1843 .

But on March 27, 1848, he was transferred from the square to the Gdansk Fortress as an engineer officer. On May 30, 1850, he was promoted to inspector of the 1st fortress inspection and on April 19, 1851, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. On September 9, 1851 he came as an inspector to the 3rd Pioneer Inspection, where he was promoted to colonel on March 23, 1852. He was then transferred to the 2nd fortress inspection as an inspector on April 5, 1853 and on January 14, 1854 with the Order of the Red Eagle III. Excellent with a bow. On June 5, 1857, he was then put up for disposition as major general with a pension . He died on May 29, 1863 in Wussow, Schlawe district.

family

Blecken married Julie von Collin (1801–1876), a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Karl Gustav von Collin, in Berlin on November 22, 1819. The couple had several children:

  • Marie (* 1820) ⚭ 1837 NN Aichenborn, Counselor
  • Auguste (1822–1893) ⚭ 1853 August von Wedel (1801–1879), Lord of Kisin near Kulm
  • Karoline Friederike Hedwig (* 1823) ⚭ Hermann von der Marwitz , Major a. D., Mr. auf Rützow
  • Mathilde Anna (* 1824) ⚭ 1846 Adalbert von Blumenthal , Lord of Varzin
  • Karl Friedrich Johannes (1827–1870), Prussian major and battalion commander in the Guard Fusilier Regiment , killed at St. Privat ,
  • Karl (1832–1894), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Hermann (1838–1906), Prussian lieutenant general

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Voigt, Leipzig 1859, p. 464.
  2. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Eleventh year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1861, p. 65.
  3. August von Wedel . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 906-906 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
  4. Guard Fusilier Regiment, fallen list