Friedrich Georg Christian von Wichmann

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Friedrich Georg Christian von Wichmann , also short Georg von Wichmann (born March 20, 1779 in Celle ; † October 11, 1861 in Göttingen ) was a German officer and prince educator.

Life

Friedrich Georg Christian Wichmann was the second son of the pastor and educator Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann and his wife Catharina Dorothea, née. Lassius († 1806).

He studied law , initially for two and a half years at the University of Göttingen , and from October 1805 at the University of Heidelberg . After completing his studies, he worked in the administration of Calenberg-Göttingen at the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia . in September 1810, however, he joined the King's German Legion . First as an ensign , from 1812 as a lieutenant in the 1st Line Battalion, he fought in the campaigns of 1811–1813 in Spain , in 1813 in southern France and in 1814 in the southern Netherlands, partly as senior adjutant to General Carl von Alten . In February 1814 he was wounded off Bayonne . 1815 took part in the Battle of Waterloo . With the dissolution of the Legion in 1816 was lifelong him a half pay - Pension granted. Shortly afterwards he was promoted to captain and company commander in the Hanover Guards Grenadier Regiment. In 1833 he took his leave as a major because at that time he had no prospect of an early promotion.

In this situation, the Hanoverian Oberhofmarschall Georg Christian von Wangenheim , whom he had known since his pupil days at his father's educational institution in Celle , beat him in 1835 to Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as governor of his two sons, Princes Ernst and Albert von Sachsen- Coburg and Gotha from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . Ernst II accepted this proposal, and by decree of February 20, 1836, Wichmann was appointed lieutenant colonel à la suite and adjutant to the duke and was elevated to the rank of nobility . On August 18, 1836, the royal Hanoverian recognition of nobility and rank took place. His role as governor was to oversee the princes and manage their finances during their studies, first in Brussels , then in Bonn ; Responsibility for the content lay with her long-time educator Johann Christoph Florschütz as Director of Studies . Wichmann, however, instructed the princes in military matters.

On leaving the ducal service, Wichmann was appointed colonel on October 18, 1838 . He first spent his retirement in Elfenau near Bern , the house of Juliane von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , then briefly in Hanover and from 1844 in Göttingen. He remained unmarried.

Awards

literature

  • Franz Bosbach : The study of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , in: John R. Davis (Ed.): Prince Albert - A Wettiner in Great Britain. Munich: Saur 2004 ISBN 978-3-598-21422-6 , pp. 51-74
  • Franz Bosbach (ed.): The studies of Prince Albert at the University of Bonn (1837-1838). Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2010 (= Prinz Albert Research 5) ISBN 978-3-598-44187-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Körner (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien 14 (1908), p. 511 f
  2. ^ The register of the University of Heidelberg. Volume 4, Heidelberg 1903, p. 390
  3. ↑ North Ludlow Beamish: History of the King's German Legion. Volume 2, Thomas and William Boone, London 1837, p. 537 No. 395 George baron Wichmann
  4. ↑ The Hanoverian state calendar led him to the end as a major ; from the 1850s as Freiherr von Wichmann
  5. ↑ See Bosbach (Lit.), p. 62
  6. ^ Franz Bosbach : Prince Albert and the development of education in England and Germany in the 19th century. Munich: Saur 2000 (= Prince Albert Research 18) ISBN 9783110954401 , p. 148
  7. ^ Georg Lantz: History of the regular troops of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 as German federal contingents from 1814-1867: A contribution to the German army and regional history. Braunschweig: Sattler 1897, p. 18
  8. ↑ According to the state calendar
  9. ^ A Military General Service Medal to Baron George Wichmann; King's German Legion , Kunsthandel, accessed October 8, 1019
personal data
SURNAME Wichmann, Friedrich Georg Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichmann, Georg von; Wichmann, Friedrich Georg Christian (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and prince tutor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1861
Place of death Goettingen