Georg Karl von Dyherrn

Baron Georg Karl von Dyherrn , also Dyhrrn or Dyhern (born April 13, 1710 , † April 25, 1759 in Frankfurt ) was a Saxon lieutenant general .

Life

family

Georg Karl was a member of the Silesian - Meißnian noble family Dyhrn .

Career

Dyherrn joined the Saxon army and in 1730 was a lieutenant in the "Crown Prince Cuirassiers" . He was promoted to Rittmeister in 1732 , Major in 1738 and Lieutenant Colonel in 1741 . In 1745 he became a colonel in the "Count Rutowski" dragoon regiment . Here he also held the office of Quartermaster General for a time . Dyherrn received his promotion to major general in 1752 and was again quartermaster general and chief of the engineering corps in 1753 . In 1757 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

As head of the engineering corps, Dyherrn was also director of the fortification and military buildings. In this function, he had a reformist influence on the training of engineers at the engineering academy in Dresden .

Dyherrn took part in the War of the Polish Succession , the Turkish War, where he distinguished himself in the battles on Timok in 1737 , and the Silesian Wars , in particular the battles of Hohenfriedberg and Kesselsdorf . After the capitulation of Pirna , he gathered Saxon troops in Hungary and Poland and led them to the French in Alsace . At its at Bergen -sustaining severe injuries, he died a few days later in Frankfurt and was ibid. Buried.

literature

• Johann Philipp Fresenius : Strange news of the wonderful conversion of a great naturalist on the example of Mr. Georg Carl Baron von Dyhern , Magdeburg 1759, ( online ) on Google Books
• August Verlohren: Family register and chronicle of the Electoral and Royal Saxon Army. Beck, Leipzig 1910, p. 192
• Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt: The secrets of the Saxon cabinet, end 1745 to end 1756 , Volume 1, Stuttgart 1866, pp. 96–97
• Andreas Georg Wähner : Diary from the Seven Years War , Göttingen 2012, p. 244

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1860, pp. 613-614.
2. ^ Johann Gottlieb Tielke : Lessons for the Officiers , Dresden 1769, p. 21.
3. ↑ Hansch: History of the Royal Saxon Engineer and Pioneer Corps , Dresden 1898 p. 111.
4. ^ Johann Friedrich Seyfart : History of the war that has been waged in Germany and its neighboring countries since 1756 , Volume 2, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1760, p. 519, FN 1167.