Friedrich Leopold Fischer

Friedrich Leopold Fischer (born May 29, 1798 in Königsberg ; † March 7, 1857 in Koblenz ) was a Prussian major general , inspector of the 3rd engineer inspection and educator of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia .

Life

origin

His parents were the castle carpenter Wilhelm August Fischer and his wife Justine Charlotte, née Holstein.

Military career

Fischer enrolled at the University of Königsberg on January 11, 1814 to study architecture. On April 18, 1815 he became a volunteer geographer and on August 21, 1815, he joined the IV Army Corps of the Prussian Army as an engineering geographer . On December 16, 1816 he was promoted to second lieutenant , the 2nd Engineer Brigade was aggregated and on May 9, 1818 was assigned. At the end of May 1820 he was transferred to the 1st Engineer Brigade and on March 23, 1828 he was appointed second adjutant . On July 16, 1828, Fischer was promoted to Prime Lieutenant and on August 21, 1828, as an adjutant to the General Inspectorate of the Engineer and Pioneer Corps. He returned to the 1st Engineer Inspection on March 26, 1832, from there he was transferred to the 3rd Engineer Inspection on December 31, 1832, and on March 30, 1833 he was posted to the General Staff (officially on leave). On March 30, 1834 he became a captain in the general staff. From 1837 to 1839 he was posted to Turkey for military missions and received the order Nisham Issechar with diamonds for his work. He was promoted to major on April 7, 1841 and transferred to the General Staff of the VII Army Corps on April 24, 1841, and then returned to the General Staff on April 12, 1842. On April 3, 1845, Fischer received the Turkish saber of honor with the Prussian portepee that had been awarded to him to be worn on duty, but not in front of the troops, during parades or official reports. On April 1, 1847, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VII Army Corps, and on May 3, 1848 , he was transferred to the War Ministry as director of the Military Economics Department . There he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 10, 1848 and transferred back to the General Staff on September 11, 1848. On January 4, 1849, he joined the army officers and became military governor of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, over whom he had a great deal of influence. On January 18, 1851, he was promoted to colonel before he was transferred to the 3rd engineer inspection as an inspector on December 23, 1851. On March 13, 1852, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, Second Class with Oak Leaves, and was promoted to major general on July 13, 1854. He died on March 7, 1857 in Koblenz.

In his assessment from 1847, General von Krauseneck wrote: “A versatile, very useful and thoroughly respectable officer of the General Staff. Well educated through his previous employment and an appropriate education as an engineer, not foreign to any branch of military activity. During his command in Turkey, left to the King of the Gate by His Majesty for service, he has shown multiple proofs of his circumspection and thorough education and has earned himself a mark of the utmost satisfaction. As interim head of a war theater, he served well. After multiple unusual uses, it has confirmed its particular usefulness, it deserves special consideration completely. "

family

He married Emilie Luise Reinhold (1807-1891) in Berlin on February 3, 1832.

Fonts

• About the military use of the railways. May 7, 1836.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 354-355, no. 1975.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mehmet Cebeci: The German-Turkish Relations in the Epoch of Abdülhamid II. (1876-1908). , P. 334. (partial view)
2. ^ News of death. In: New Munich Newspaper. 1857, p. 320.