Friedrich Magnus von Nothardt

Friedrich Magnus Nothardt , von Nothardt from 1798 , (* 1766 in Karlsruhe , † December 28, 1804 in Berlin ) was a Prussian officer and designer .

Life

Nothardt came from a Baden family of officers and civil servants and also began a military career. In 1788 he was second lieutenant in the field artillery corps, and in 1795 he served as royal. Prussian staff captain in the newly established Glogau Infantry Regiment Graevenitz (No. 57 of the regular roll) and became captain (captain) and chief of staff in 1800. Nothardt received the nobility patent on June 6, 1798. He was adjutant to Lieutenant General Ernst von Rüchel and, like him, a member of the Military Society .

For his services as a designer of the infantry rifle named after him, which was made by cabinet order of February 14, 1801 on the decision of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. when M / 1801 was introduced into the Prussian Army, he received the order Pour le Mérite and a generous endowment .

Nothardt recruited colonists from southern Germany as chairman of a commission for the settlement of the newly acquired provinces of South and New East Prussia in 1793/95 . With the rank of major, he retired on November 26, 1804 to become director of the South Prussian War and Domain Chamber in Kalisch, but died on December 28, 1804 in Berlin. He left a fiancée.

literature

• Erich Weise : The Swabian settlement in the Poznań Chamber of Commerce 1799–1804.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon (Volume 6).
• Justus Gruner, Gerd Dethlefs: On a critical pilgrimage between the Rhine and Weser. Justus Gruner's writings.
• Adalbert Salomo Cohnfeld: Detailed life and government history of Friedrich Wilhelm (Volume 3).
• Gottlob Benedict von Schirach, Wilhelm Benedict von Schirach: Political Journal: together with an advertisement of learned and other things (Volume 1).
• Gabriel C. Busch, Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff: Almanac of Advances, Inventions and Discoveries (Volume 6).
• The Times: or Archive for the Latest State History and Politics (Volume 63). Landes-Industrie-Comtoirs, Weimar.
• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
• C. Reuter: Battle of Jena and Auerstedt 1806
• Olaf Jessen: Prussia's Napoleon? Ernst von Rüchel (1754–1823). War in the Age of Reason , Verlag Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-506-75699-0 .