Georg Spangenberg (General)

Johann Georg Friedrich Ernst Spangenberg (* 12. March 1789 in Kassel , † 2 June 1850 ) was a Kurhessischer major general and brigade commander.

Georg Spangenberg

Life

Military career

Spangenberg was an officer in the Hessian army . As a captain , he served in the 1826/33 2nd Infantry Regiment in Fulda and Hersfeld . He then became a major in command of the Jäger Battalion in Kassel, advanced to lieutenant colonel in 1843 and was briefly in charge of the 1st Infantry Regiment . He then took over command of the 3rd Infantry Regiment , rose in this position to colonel in 1844 , was commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment in 1848 and in the same year as Major General, commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade. As the commander of the Hessian troops, he took part in the war against Denmark in 1849 . In 1850 he was appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade in Kassel.

He was in command of the second class of the House Order of the Golden Lion and Knight of the Order of the Iron Helmet .

family

Spangenberg married Dorothea Molter (1806-1883) on November 6, 1823 in Fulda . From the marriage the son Ludwig (1826-1896) emerged, who rose to the rank of Prussian general of the infantry and was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility by Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1871 .

literature

Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1910 . Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, p. 762 f.
Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. First volume, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 544.

Individual evidence

^ Loeffelholz von Colberg: History of the 1st Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 81 from 1866 to 1888. Mahlau, Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 125.
↑ von Dalwigk and Lichtenfels: History of the Waldeck and Kurhessian troops of the infantry regiment v. Wittich (3. Kurhess.) No. 83. 1681–1866. Littman, Oldenburg 1909, p. 517.
↑ History of the Royal Prussian 2nd Hessian Hussar Regiment No. 14 and its Hessian regular troops. 1706-1886. Verlag Dürr, Leipzig 1887, p. 302.
↑ Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook for the year 1850. Kassel 1850, p. 36.

personal data
SURNAME	Spangenberg, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spangenberg, Johann Georg Friedrich Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kurhessischer Major General
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1850
Place of death	kassel

[1] Loeffelholz von Colberg: History of the 1st Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 81 from 1866 to 1888. Mahlau, Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 125.

[2] von Dalwigk and Lichtenfels: History of the Waldeck and Kurhessian troops of the infantry regiment v. Wittich (3. Kurhess.) No. 83. 1681–1866. Littman, Oldenburg 1909, p. 517.

[3] History of the Royal Prussian 2nd Hessian Hussar Regiment No. 14 and its Hessian regular troops. 1706-1886. Verlag Dürr, Leipzig 1887, p. 302.

[4] Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook for the year 1850. Kassel 1850, p. 36.