Friedrich Christian von Liebenau

Friedrich Christian von Liebenau (* 1764 in Pretsch , † September 18, 1832 probably in Zwickau ) was a royal Saxon colonel .

Life

After joining the Saxon Army, von Liebenau held the rank of cadet in 1778 after joining the Dresden Cadet House . In 1781 he was a cadet corporal and in 1783 was promoted to ensign in the “Zanthier” infantry regiment , where he also received his officer license as a Sousleutnant in 1791 . As such, he also took part in his regiment's campaign in 1796 and in the battle near Wetzlar . During this campaign he became adjutant of a grenadier battalion.

In 1797 von Liebenau was promoted to prime lieutenant, regimental adjutant in 1801 and captain in 1803 . In 1806 he took part in the Napoleonic Wars as such . In 1809 von Liebenau was promoted to major . In the same year he was wounded in the Battle of Wagram against Austria and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry for his bravery . When the Saxon army was reorganized in early 1810, von Liebenau was appointed commander of a grenadier battalion, which was also formed by grenadiers from the regiments "Prince Friedrich August" and "Prince Klemens" in Wittenberg .

With this battalion von Liebenau took part in the Russian campaign in 1812 as part of the 7th Army Corps . He was particularly praised for the battle on October 18, 1812 at the Bialka and during the retreat on February 13, 1813 near Kalisch, where he successfully defended himself with the rest of his battalion against the numerically superior Russian cavalry, but at the same time seriously wounded by a grape shot has been. In March 1813 von Liebenau was promoted to lieutenant colonel, but due to his wounded he could not resume his service until after the Battle of Leipzig . In addition, he was given the command of the 3rd provisional line regiment , which he led to the Netherlands during the 1814 campaign . In the same year von Liebenau served in the command staff of the infantry.

After the return of King Friedrich August of Saxony to his homeland after the Congress of Vienna , von Liebenau was promoted to colonel in 1815 while maintaining command of the infantry regiment "Prince Friedrich August" . In 1821 he was given the Cross of the Legion of Honor that Liebenau was awarded in 1813. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service, King Anton entrusted him with the Commander's Cross, Class II, of the Military Order of St. Henry on August 15, 1831. The following year Liebenau fell seriously ill, so that he could not attend the autumn exercises of his regiment. He did not recover from this illness. In 1832 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Zwickau.

family

Friedrich Christian von Liebenau came from the noble family von Liebenau .

He married on October 28, 1807 in Torgau Christiana Susanna Perpetua von Egidy (* March 25, 1778 in Dresden ; † April 2, 1856 ibid), daughter of the royal Saxon lieutenant colonel Karl Christoph von Egidy (1728-1809) and his wife Maria Louisa Friederika Henriette Edle from Le Coq (1752–1799). The couple had the following known children:

• Friederike Susette von Liebenau († 1869 in Dresden)
• Mathilde von Liebenau ⚭ Friedrich Albert Hase.

literature

• Heinrich August Verlohren: family register and chronicle of the cure a. Royal Saxon Army from 1670 to the beginning of the twentieth century '. 1983 Reprint (Degener Verlag) of the edition of 1910 Verlag Carl Beck in Leipzig, p. 333.
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1837, p. 236.
• Friedrich Christian von Liebenau. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 10th year 1834, 2nd part, Ilmenau 1834, digitized on Google Books, p. 690f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 53.
2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser B, Vol. 1 (1954), Vol. IX (1970), Vol. XVI (1985), Vol. XXV (2004), Limburg