Friedrich von Delitz

Friedrich Ernst Theodor von Delitz (born June 13, 1789 in Temnick , † November 29, 1848 in Königswinter ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Friedrich was the son of Ernst Ludwig von Delitz (* December 11, 1752; † 1809) and his wife Moritiana Friederike Amalie, born von Borcke (* April 13, 1754). The father was an ensign a. D. , most recently in the infantry regiment “von Pirch” , district deputy and Mr. auf Termnick and Raakow.

career

Delitz visited the cadet houses in Stolp and Berlin and was employed on October 19, 1806 as a private corporal in the infantry regiment "von Rüts" of the Prussian army . After the beginning of the Fourth Coalition War , he came on December 15, 1806 as an ensign in the 1st Neumark Reserve Battalion. After the Peace of Tilsit , Delitz came on January 8, 1808 as a second lieutenant with a patent from April 21, 1807 in the 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regiment . On October 5, 1812, he received his requested farewell to go into Russian services. In 1813 he was Prime Lieutenant in the General Staff of the Russian-German Legion and took part in the battles at Vallahn (August 21) and Hamburg (December 30) during the Wars of Liberation . For his work on the Göhrde , Delitz acquired the order of St. Anna III. Class and with Sehestedt the Order of St. Vladimir IV. Class. On February 2, 1814, he was promoted to captain .

Since the Legion was taken over by Prussia in 1814, he changed back to Prussian service as an adjutant on June 8, 1814 and was transferred to the headquarters of Prince Blücher von Wahlstadt on April 29, 1815 . Delitz took part in the Battle of Ligny and received the Iron Cross II class for Belle Alliance . After the end of the campaign, he was transferred to the adjutantage on June 21, 1815. With his promotion to major , from March 31, 1816 to April 2, 1820, he was employed as an adjutant at the Landwehr inspection of the Frankfurt (Oder) administrative district . Then Delitz acted as adjutant of the 16th division in Trier . From December 23, 1822, he was also the President of the Examination Commission for the Portepeefähnriche and director of the division school. On March 30, 1824 he was then an adjutant at the General Command of the VIII Army Corps and on June 18, 1825, the 28th Infantry Regiment aggregated and awarded the service cross . On March 19, 1827, Delitz was appointed battalion commander in the 15th Infantry Regiment , but was transferred to the 16th Infantry Regiment on May 10, 1827 in exchange with Major Karl von Lilljeström . There he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 30, 1832 . With promotion to colonel , Delitz was commissioned on March 30, 1834 with the command of the 36th Infantry Regiment and a year later he was appointed regimental commander. On June 15, 1836 he received the Red Eagle Order IV class. Under awarding of the character he was on 15 March 1838 as a major general of the statutory board of farewell granted. He died on November 29, 1848 in Königswinter.

family

Delitz married Gertrud Klein on January 24, 1815 in Königswinter (born January 9, 1792, † August 16, 1834). The couple had two children:

• Anna Gertrudis Helena (born March 12, 1821)
• Hermann August Friedrich Wilhelm (born August 11, 1823)

After the death of his first wife, he married Marie Anna Bailly (* 1811; † June 28, 1890), the daughter of the rentier Karl Bailly from Pau in France, on August 8, 1836 in Bonn . The couple had at least one son and one daughter:

• Carl (born September 19, 1838), probably emigrated in 1857.
• Augusta (* approx. 1840)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , pp. 336–337, no. 1582.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Government of Frankfurt ad Oder. 1835, p. 199. Raakow division
2. ^ Anton von Mach: The second infantry regiment. P. 46.
3. ^ Johann Heinrich Schroers: The Koelner Wirren (1837). P. 454, To the wedding
4. ^ Nineteenth-Century Germans to America, p. 11.