Georg von Heßberg

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Georg Wilhelm Ernst von Heßberg (also: Hesberg ; born October 17, 1777 at Gut Laar ; † October 10, 1852 in Betzigerode ) was a German officer, most recently Lieutenant General and Minister of War in the Electorate of Hesse .

family

Georg von Heßberg was the third eldest son of the landowner and retired captain of Hesse-Kassel . D. Ernst Ludwig von Heßberg (1738–1796) and his wife Marie Wilhelmine born. Goddaeus (1749-1788).

He himself remained unmarried throughout his life.

career

Heßberg entered Hesse-Kassel service as a cadet in 1785 and became a second lieutenant in 1798 . After the Napoleonic occupation of Kurhesse and its incorporation into the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807, he was taken over into the Westphalian army, in which he became Premier Lieutenant in 1808 and took part in the campaign in Spain in 1809 . In 1811 he became a captain and shortly afterwards battalion commander in the 3rd Westphalian line regiment and aide-de-camp of the general and grand stable master Joseph Antoine Morio . On April 17, 1812, Heßberg became the orderly officer of King Jérôme and in this position took part in the Napoleonic campaign in Russia , in which three of his brothers were killed. In March 1813 he became chief of the 3rd company of the Jäger battalion of the Guard Royale von Westphalen. On September 28, 1813, the first attack on Kassel by Cossacks of the Russian General Alexander Chernyshev , he was, as well as the head of the 2nd Company of the Guard Hunter, Captain Karl Ferdinand of Altenbockum caught by the Cossacks taken; the two managed to escape later on the march to Melsungen .

After the restitution of Kurhessen, he was back in the Kurhessian service from the end of 1813 and took part in the campaigns against Napoleon in 1814/15.

In 1827 he became the commander of the bodyguard regiment. In 1829 he was promoted to colonel and in 1831 to major general . On April 10, 1831, he was entrusted with the management of the War Department, which was newly established according to the constitution of 1831 . On October 13, 1831, after the replacement of his predecessor Friedrich Wilhelm von Loßberg by Prince Elector and new co-regent Friedrich Wilhelm, he was appointed provisional director of the War Ministry and on December 17, 1831 he was appointed real Minister of War.

In August 1836 he said goodbye , meanwhile promoted to lieutenant general, and retired to his estates in Betzigerode and Zwesten . His successor as Minister of War was again Friedrich Wilhelm von Loßberg.

literature

  • Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on the history of the constitution , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
  • Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831–1866 , phil. Diss., Giessen 1981, pp. 170-175.
  • Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3 -7708-0993-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morio was a favorite of Jérôme, who raised him to Count of Marienborn in 1810. Morio was murdered by a farrier on December 24, 1811.
  2. ^ Arthur Kleinschmidt: History of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Perthes, Gotha, 1893, p. 614 .
personal data
SURNAME Heßberg, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heßberg, Georg Wilhelm Ernst from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lieutenant General and Minister of War in the Electorate of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Laar (Zierenberg)
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1852
Place of death Betzigerode