Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer
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Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer (born April 11, 1715 in Versin ; † August 12, 1759 near Kunersdorf ) was a royal Prussian major general and lord of the Pawonken and Petrowice in Upper Silesia ; he came from the Puttkamer noble family in Rear Pomerania .
family
Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer was the third son of the landlord zu Versin and Viartlum (with shares in Reinwasser and Vorwerk Dulzig) Andreas Joachim von Puttkamer (born September 12, 1665 in Versin; † June 14, 1721 in Klein Volz ) and Margarethe Dorothee von Below (* October 10, 1684 in Klein Machmin ; † August 11 or 12, 1755 in Versin). Georg Ludwig had seven sisters and three brothers, one brother and four sisters who died very young. He was married to Luise von Weißenfels and had two daughters and two sons; There are no further records of another child who died very young.
Life and military background
Puttkamer was first taught by a private tutor and was then to attend high school in Gdansk . He had an appointment there with a befriended cousin, but he never saw him again because he had already moved to the University of Konigsberg . Sixteen-year-old Georg Ludwig set off for Konigsberg, but on the way met a Rittmeister von Bandemer who persuaded him to become an officer in the Prussian army . He first came to the Cuirassier Regiment No. 4 . In 1735 he became Kornet and went to Poland to advertise, which was very successful and so King Friedrich Wilhelm I noticed him . In 1740, under the new King Friedrich II , he became the oldest lieutenant in Hussar Regiment No. 3 (Köhler).
In August 1741 he was able to distinguish himself at Leubus Monastery when the regiment was attacked by the Austrians. He fled to a small island in the Oder, where he was captured by the Austrians and brought to Olomouc . He was replaced and appointed commander of a squadron. With this he was able to prove himself further in the campaign.
In 1744 he fought under General von der Marwitz , Hautcharmoy and Nassau in Silesia. At Plesse he was able to take many prisoners and steal 300 horses and other material. In 1745 he fought under Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau in Upper Silesia. The hussars bore the brunt of the fighting. Puttkamer was also able to gain a lot of fame under General Winterfeld. On February 6, 1745 he drove the Pandurs from Torgau . He was in the capture of Ratibor and in the battle near Groß-Strelitz. Then he covered the siege of Cosel. He was seriously injured in the face in the cheek near Oderberg by a dragoon from the Lichtenstein Regiment . During his convalescence he was appointed commandant of Troppau . On October 17, 1745 he became major and at the end of the campaign was under the command of General Nassau.
During the ensuing peace he occupied himself with the training of his hussars. The king also noticed this during his inspections. On August 26, 1756 he became a lieutenant colonel. Meanwhile, the king sent many cavalry officers to Puttkamer to learn from him. In 1755 he became a colonel and commander of the white hussar regiment (later: "Puttkamer Hussars").
With the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756 he was able to take the city of Görlitz by surprise. In 1757 he joined the army of the Duke von Bevern. On April 21, 1757 he was able to distinguish himself in the battle near Reichenberg . In the Battle of Prague on May 5, he fought on the left wing and pursued the enemy as far as Gassava. On June 18, he fought in the Battle of Kolin . At the end of the year he became seriously ill but recovered. So at the beginning of 1758 he became major general and received a pension of 1,500 thalers.
Together with General Wobersnow , he advanced to Poland to destroy Russian magazines there. On August 12, 1759 he fell in the battle of Kunersdorf . His body was brought to Küstrin and buried there.
The equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in Berlin was recorded by Major General Putkamer as GL v. Putt chamber Gn. M. alongside other contemporaries of the king who are considered worthy in an inscription on the base.
However, the following admonition from "Old Fritz" to Major General von Puttkamer from 1759 was also passed down:
The king to Major General von Puttkamer, Bolkenhain, April 3, 1759 :
“He should detach something against Naumburg and Bunzlau in order to chase the enemy away. Does he think he's standing there with 1,500 horses to scratch his pants? He should reach out and not be lazy. "
In Upper Silesia, Puttkamer left the two estates Pawonken and Petrowice, about the whereabouts of which nothing is known.
Literature and source
- Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , pp. 354 and 376-377
- Karl Friedrich Pauli: Life of great heroes of the current war. Volume 5, 1760, pp. 93ff., Digitized
- Anton Balthasar König : Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 241 ( Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer at Wikisource [PDF]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The King to Major General von Puttkamer, Bolkenhain, April 3, 1759 , in The King by Gustav Mendelssohn Bartholdy (author), Langewiesche Brandt Verlag, Munich, 1913. P. 232
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puttkamer, Georg Ludwig von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1759 |
| Place of death | Kunersdorf |