Friedrich Wilhelm von Laue

Friedrich Wilhelm von Laue

Friedrich Wilhelm Laue, from 1858 von Laue , (born February 29, 1796 in Magdeburg , † December 16, 1862 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian major general and commandant of the Saarlouis fortress .

Life

origin

His parents were the bailiff Johann Friedrich Heinrich Laue (* October 24, 1775; † January 9, 1816) and his wife Katharina Dorothea Friederike, née Herling (* September 11, 1769; † July 26, 1850).

Military career

In the run-up to the Wars of Liberation , Laue became second lieutenant in the 5th Kurmärk Landwehr Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army on July 4, 1813 . After the Battle of Dennewitz (September 6, 1813) he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. He also fought in the battles near Paris and Ligny , the sieges of Wittenberg and Magdeburg, and in the battles near Blankenstein, Seyda, Reims, Claye and Wavre .

Laue was aggregated after the Peace of Paris on October 28, 1816 of the Guards Artillery Brigade and on April 17, 1817 appointed as Premier Lieutenant . As part of the Prussian-Turkish cooperation , he resigned from the army on May 27, 1824 and switched to Ottoman services . After his return to Germany, Laue was employed on August 12, 1831, as Prime Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion of the 20th Landwehr Regiment of the Prussian Army. Here he rose to company commander in July 1832 and was promoted to captain on January 6, 1833 in this capacity . At the end of April 1836, Laue was given leave to go to Turkey. With the army uniform he left the Prussian army on August 14, 1837 and returned to Ottoman service as a major on September 20, 1837 .

In the subsequent war in Syria of 1839/40 Laue fought in the Battle of Nisib . For the assault on Saida he was given a saber of honor and promotion to colonel . He was also on October 10, 1840 in the bombing of Acre and received the Turkish gold medal for the campaign in Syria. With his promotion to major general in 1840, Laue became commandant of the forts on the Dardanelles . Still, he took on 24 August 1841 his farewell from the Turkish service and took effect on 4 November 1841 back into the Prussian Army.

Laue was initially aggregated as a major on the General Staff . On April 12, 1842 he was assigned to the General Staff of the V Army Corps . After his graduation, he was transferred to the General Staff on April 1, 1847 . This was followed from May 16, 1848, a position in the General Staff of the Army and as the first personal adjutant of the Prince of Prussia. In this capacity, Laue received the Order of the Red Eagle III on September 19, 1848 . Class with swords. On January 6, 1849 he was appointed chief of the general staff in the III. Army Corps appointed. In this position Laue was appointed lieutenant colonel on November 19, 1849 , and on May 4, 1850, commander of Saarlouis . Left in this position, he was aggregated to the General Staff on May 14, 1850 and placed à la suite on November 18, 1850 . On September 22, 1851 he was promoted to colonel and on October 3, 1857 as major general with a pension for disposal .

Coat of arms of the von Laue family

In recognition of his many years of service , King Friedrich Wilhelm IV raised Laue to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 1, 1858 . Wilhelm I awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class, with oak leaves and swords on the ring on October 18, 1861 .

family

Laue married Charlotte Wilhelmine von Arnim on January 17, 1826 in Hohenfeden (born January 19, 1799 - April 19, 1868). The couple had the following children:

• Marie Friederike (born January 9, 1827 - † August 29, 1831)
• Hans Friedrich Georg (* May 16, 1828; † August 3, 1866), Prussian captain in the Guard Rifle Battalion , died of his wounding in the battle of Königgrätz ∞ Jakobine von Arnim (* October 30, 1835; † 1913)
• Hans Friedrich Heinrich (1829–1913), Prussian Lieutenant General ∞ Antonie Beckmann (* December 8, 1838)
• Friedrich Friedrich Jakob (born June 5, 1831 - † October 6, 1836)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 388–389, no. 2012.
• Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 1, Berlin 1892, p. 331.
• Reinhold Wagner: Moltke and Mühlbach together under the crescent moon. 1837-1839. History of the dispatch of Prussian officers to Turkey in 1837, the Kurdish campaign in 1838 and the Syrian war in 1839. Berlin 1893, p. 183.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutsche Wehr-Zeitung. Military magazine. Volume 4, 1851.