Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Wundt

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Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Wundt with Military Merit Order (carte de visite around 1860 of an older portrait drawing)

Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Wundt , von Wundt since 1830 , (born March 17, 1778 in Heidelberg , † June 10, 1850 in Ludwigsburg ) was a major general in Württemberg .

Life

origin

Theodor Wundt came from a Protestant family who had been expelled from the Salzburg region in 1733 and settled in Heidelberg. His father was the invoice registrar Johann Ludwig Wundt (* July 22, 1717, † November 1, 1795).

Military career

At a young age, Wundt entered the Württemberg military service . He graduated from war school , became a lieutenant in the infantry and adjutant . Wundt thus got caught in the vortex of the looming coalition wars . He had to prove himself in a total of 23 battles, sieges and assault attacks in the years to come. His first campaign in 1799 did not yet lead him across the borders of the duchy, but in 1800 he was together with Austrian troops in the winter campaign on the Danube. In 1806 and 1807 he fought in Silesia and 1809 in Austria on the side of the French army. In the same year 1809 he had reached the rank of captain . He received the Order of Military Merit and the Cross of the French Legion of Honor . In the Russian campaign in 1812 , Wundt was wounded in the Battle of Smolensk . On September 19, 1812 he was promoted to major in Moscow . He became a Russian prisoner of war and was interned in Penza on the Asian border. Wundt was only released in July 1814 and was then able to take part in the later campaigns of the Wars of Liberation .

In 1815 he became a lieutenant colonel and took part in the battle near Strasbourg on July 6, 1814. For this he received the Russian Order of Saint Anne II Class. After the end of the war he became battalion commander in 1818 and colonel in 1821 . In 1830, Wundt received the Commentary Cross of the Order of Military Merit. With the award the elevation to the personal nobility and a pension were connected. In 1833 Wundt was transferred from Stuttgart to the garrison in Ludwigsburg and in 1835 promoted to major general. In 1838 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Friedrich Order .

family

After the end of the war, Wundt founded a family in Stuttgart. He married Caroline Sophie Wilhelmine Fanne von Hardegg, a daughter of the Württemberg Medical Council and personal physician Johann Georg David von Hardegg and Christina Regina Seeger. The couple had four sons and two daughters:

  • Sophia Jacobina Dorothea Maira Phillippine Emilla (born October 2, 1822), head of a secondary school for girls in Holland
  • Marianne Augusta (May 4, 1829 - 1844)
  • Eugenie (* 7 August 1830; † 1844)
  • Julia Septima Bonafine Albertine (born February 5, 1832)
  • Georg Ludwig Friedrich Hermann (born November 15, 1823) ⚭ 1857 Freiin Elvira von Wallbrunn
  • Theodor (born June 14, 1825), Württemberg Minister of War ⚭ 1854 Christina Franziska Auguste Huber
  • Ludwig Georg (born January 30, 1828) ⚭ 1855 Julia Wilhelmine Emilie d'Argent

literature

  • Swabian Kronik . No. 196, August 19, 1883, p. 1389.
  • Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau: Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Swabia. Volume 2, page 1116

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1843. P. 45.
  2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1843. p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Wundt, Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wundt, Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg major general
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1850
Place of death Ludwigsburg