Friedrich Wilhelm von Loßberg (1776–1848)

Friedrich Wilhelm von Loßberg (* 19th November 1776 in Kassel , † 1. April 1848 ) was a Kurhessischer Lieutenant General and Minister of War.

Life

origin

Friedrich Wilhelm was a son of the Hesse-Kassel lieutenant general Heinrich August von Loßberg (1717–1793) and his wife Wilhelmine, née von Piderit.

Military career

Loßberg joined the Hessen-Kassel Army in 1790 and took part in the First Coalition War as a young officer in the Guards Grenadiers Regiment . In 1799 he left to pursue scientific studies, but returned to the military in 1803. After the defeat in the Fourth Coalition War , he went to Westphalian service in 1808 . He fought in the Fifth Coalition War in Saxony as a company commander and was battalion commander in the Russian campaign in 1812 . He took part in the withdrawal from Russia and brought his people back to Kassel. After the collapse of the kingdom and the restoration of the Electorate of Hesse, he joined the Hessian Army and took part in the Wars of Liberation in 1814/15 .

Since 1821 Loßberg was director of the War Constitutional Department and a member of the general staff as well as the commandant of Kassel. In April 1831 he was appointed provisional director of the War Ministry , which he remained until October, when the head of the War Department, Major General Georg von Heßberg , succeeded him in front of a threatened vote of no confidence by the Hessian Estates Assembly . On August 29, 1836, Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm finally appointed him to be Heßberg's successor as Minister of War. In 1842 he was retired.

family

Loßberg married Amalie Knoch in 1803. The marriage resulted in the son Friedrich Georg (* / † 1803) and the daughter Mimi (* 1804), who married the Hessian captain Schmidt.

Works

• Letters written home during the 1812 campaign in Russia. A contribution to the history of this campaign. Th. Fischer, Cassel 1844, digitized ; [Ed. by Theodor Rehtwisch], Wigand, Leipzig 1910 (= From yellowed parchments . Volume 8).
• Memories from the campaigns of 1792 and 1793. (= magazine for the art, history and science of war. 66th – 73rd volume).
• Correspondence between two Protestants of different religious views. Along with some timely comments. Keßler, Frankfurt am Main 1846, digitized .

literature

• Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first Hassenpflug era 1830–1837. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on constitutional history. Volume 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
• Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831-1866. phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.
• Bernhard von Poten :  Loßberg, Friedrich Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 216 f.
• Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , NG Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , Volume 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Volume 8) , ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical paperback of noble houses. 1883. Eighth year, Buschak & Irrgang, Brünn 1883, p. 328.