Georg Ludwig Korfes

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Korfes monument in Ottenstein

Georg Ludwig Korfes (born October 29, 1769 in Ottenstein , † December 31, 1810 in Lisbon ) was a Brunswick major and artillery officer .

Life

At the age of eighteen in 1787, Korfes joined the Ducal Braunschweig Artillery Battalion and initially became a free corporal. His good math skills were noticeable . On March 16, 1794 he was promoted to lieutenant and in 1795 took part in the campaign in Holland. Korfes was appointed staff captain shortly before the battle of Jena and Auerstedt in October 1806 and was decommissioned on the 26th of the month when the Brunswick artillery was disbanded.

After the Duchy of Braunschweig had become part of the Kingdom of Westphalia as a result of the French occupation as part of the newly created " Départements Oker " , Korfes worked as a tutor to secure his livelihood .

With the black crowd

In March 1809, Korfes followed a call from Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , the "Black Duke", and became battery boss and captain in the Braunschweig Freikorps , which was called the " Black Group " after the color of the uniforms . In June of that year he was first major and on July 18 chief of the general staff. He had a share in the success of the march from Bohemia through northern Germany (for example, on August 1, 1809 in the battle near Ölper ). The Brunswick Freikorps embarked in Elsfleth in autumn , from where the soldiers came to Great Britain on requisitioned ships via Heligoland . There Korfes became lieutenant colonel and commander of a British-Brunswick infantry regiment on September 25 , which continued the fight against Napoleon in Portugal from September 1810 .

Korfes died on December 31, 1810 in Lisbon of complications from an illness.

Afterlife

Street sign in Braunschweig in memory of Korfes

The figure of Major Georg Ludwig Korfes appears in the German film " Schwarzer Jäger Johanna " from 1934 (directed by Johannes Meyer ), which is set during the time of the Napoleonic occupation of Germany. A street in the eastern ring area of Braunschweig was named after Korfes, as was a street in his birthplace.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kortzfleisch: Korfes, Georg Ludwig. in: The Black Corps 1809 and the Anglo-Braunschweig Infantry Regiment until 1814. P. 335.
  2. ^ Roger Reckewell: Korfes, Georg Ludwig. in: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 341 .
personal data
SURNAME Korfes, Georg Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig artillery officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottenstein
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1810
Place of death Lisbon