Gabriel von Kühlen
Johann Gabriel Michael von Kühlen (baptized September 27, 1655 in the Marienkirche in Berlin ; † December 9, 1715 near Stralsund ) was Prussian major general and chief of the Prussian artillery .
Life
origin
By cooling the parents were Spielmann Jürgen cooling from Lubben and his wife Maria Wartenberg.
Military career
He joined the Brandenburg artillery in 1682 as a bombardier . As early as 1683 he became a stuff writer and in 1686 a witness lieutenant. On May 1, 1690 he was then Premier Lieutenant in the artillery. From 1689 to 1697 he took part in the siege of Bonn during the campaign against France as part of the War of the Palatinate Succession . From 1702 to 1713 he then took part in the War of the Spanish Succession . In 1703 he fought in the renewed siege of Bonn , took part with 6,000 men in the campaign on the Danube and in the battles of Oudenaarde and Malplaquet . On October 19, 1701 he became a major and on January 1, 1704 a lieutenant colonel . After Colonel Schlund was released in 1707 , Kühlen was appointed commander of the entire artillery under Margrave Philipp Wilhelm . In addition, he became a colonel on January 15, 1709 and major general and chief of the Prussian artillery on December 2, 1713. During the Pomeranian campaign , he fell on December 9, 1715 during the siege of Stralsund . While inspecting a position, he was fatally hit in the head by the splinters of a stone ball hitting nearby.
funeral
At the funeral, 500 men with rifles and three cannons appeared under Colonel Lüderitz . The body was followed by the son, who was then a lieutenant in the artillery, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau and Prince Ludwig of Württemberg , the Saxon General Wackerbarth , General Finck von Finckenstein, other generals and colonels. Then the officers and men of the artillery followed.
family
He married Margarete Budin (* 1652, † March 29, 1727). She was buried on April 2, 1727 in the Dorotheenstadt Church . The couple had several children including:
- Johann Friedrich Gabriel († October 25, 1768), Major and Chief of the Garrison Artillery Company in Magdeburg ∞ Philippine, illegitimate daughter of Margrave Philipp Wilhelm
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 108, no. 179.
- Anton Balthasar König : Gabriel von Kühlen . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 353 ( Gabriel von Kühlen at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Bernhard von Poten : cooling, Gabriel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 321 f.
- Louis von Malinowsky, Robert von Bonin : History of the Brandenburg-Prussian artillery. Volume 1, p. 198.
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 1, p. 489.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5, p. 316. (Quoted from Ledebur)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History. Volume 8, p. 98.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cool, Gabriel von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooling, Johann Gabriel Michael von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general and chief of the Prussian artillery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized September 27, 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1715 |
| Place of death | near Stralsund |