Georg Dietrich von der Groeben
Georg Dietrich von der Groeben (born October 22, 1725 in Prussia , † July 9, 1794 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , military writer and head of the military department at the General Directorate .
Life and military career
Groeben came from an originally Brandenburg aristocratic family von der Groeben , which produced a large number of high military personnel. His father was a Prussian court judge of the same name. After he was educated in the Groebenschen Scholarship House in Königsberg ( East Prussia ) in the 1730s , he began his military career. In September 1745 he was awarded the order of Pour le Mérite by King Frederick II with the rank of major in the Roeder Regiment . In 1780 he rose to lieutenant colonel and was promoted to colonel in 1782 . In May 1787 he became a major general appointed and assumed the same year the Cuirassier - Regiment "von Bohlen". At the same time he was appointed inspector general of the Lower Silesian cavalry by King Friedrich Wilhelm II .
In September 1788 he became head of the military department at the Prussian General Directorate, where he was a renewer of the Prussian cavalry, following the example of his teachers Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz and Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock . Shortly before his death in July 1794, he was promoted to lieutenant general.
On July 11, 1794, he was buried in the crypt of the Berlin garrison church. Almost 80 years after his death, his mummified corpse was one of the corpse portraits drawn by Adolph von Menzel . The drawing of an officer's corpse could be identified by Menzel's notes on the sheet as a picture of von der Groebens' mummy.
family
Groeben was married to Johanna Antoinette Charlotte von Koppy, with whom he had two daughters:
- Bernhardine Friederike Sophie Charlotte (* 1777)
- Wilhelmine Charlotte Luise Karoline Friederike (born November 29, 1788; † January 21, 1865) ⚭ 1805 Baron Karl Lebrecht Friedrich von Krafft (1784–1857), Prussian lieutenant general
Author and military scientist
At the age of 23, Groeben began translating French literature on military science topics. He wrote, mostly anonymously, his own articles on war studies, which he published in the series Trial of a War Library (10 volumes to 1772) and New War Library (8 volumes 1774 to 1780) , which he founded in 1754 . With these series he published the first war science journal in Europe. His explanations of the understanding of shipping and naval war in alphabetical order from 1774 were published in reprint more than 200 years later .
Works
- Explanations for understanding shipping , digitized
- Proposal and draft of a general book manufacture in and before Germany , digitalization
- Treatise on the tournaments , digitized
- New war library , digitized
- Greece and the Greeks, digitized edition from 1821
literature
- Kurt Forstreuter : Groeben, v. of the. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 105 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Explanations on understanding shipping and naval warfare according to alphabetical order , Neufahrn / Percha 1984 (reprint of the original Breslau edition 1774), ISBN 3-88706-235-3
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 266, no. 758.
- Anton Balthasar König : Georg Dietrich von der Groeben . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 69 ( Georg Dietrich von der Groeben at Wikisource [PDF]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Dietrich von der Groeben in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography for the Berliner Klassik project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Individual evidence
- ^ Gustav Lehmann: The Knights of the Order Pour le Mérite, Vol. I, Mittler, Berlin, 1913, p. 124, No. 708
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Groeben, Georg Dietrich from the |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1725 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prussia |
DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1794 |
Place of death | Berlin |