Friedrich Wilhelm August Pflug

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Friedrich Wilhelm August Pflug (born March 8, 1781 in Schweidnitz , † February 14, 1832 ) was a Prussian lieutenant .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm August Pflug was the son of a city director working in Schweidnitz. He attended the local high school and then studied from 1795 to 1799 at the Knight's Academy in Liegnitz . He then devoted three years to studying law at the University of Halle . In 1804 he got a job as a senator in Hirschberg . He lost this office when the town regulations were introduced in 1809.

Pflug had felt an inclination for the military class early on. He was introduced to Prince Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg in Liège by Count von Schasbeck, whom he accompanied to the Netherlands and, at his persuasion, entered French military service. Promoted to officer, he followed the 27th Chasseur Regiment, commanded by the prince, to Spain. For four years he shared the dangers of war there and at the same time performed the function of Maréchal des logis en chef . When the regiment to which he belonged was ordered to Germany in 1813, he joined the army of allies against Napoleon during the Battle of Leipzig . He was not assigned to the cavalry according to his wishes , but was employed with the rank of lieutenant in a Prussian infantry regiment, which also meant that his rank was significantly reduced. It was even more painful for him, after he had participated in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, to be unexpectedly bid farewell at the peace treaty. His efforts to get civilian employment were fruitless.

At Reichenbach in Silesia , Pflug was employed by the government there for a time, but the dissolution of this authority made him unemployed again. Eventually he got the job of district secretary in Reichenbach and, after having entered into a marriage earlier, married for the second time in 1826 with the widow Sopsky, who bore him a daughter. He died at the age of almost 51 as a result of a gout nuisance that occurred during the war and attacked the chest organs in late autumn 1831.

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SURNAME Plow, Friedrich Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1832