Georg von Mölter

Portrait from tombstone

Tumba tomb, Landau cemetery (Palatinate)

Georg Mölter , knight of Mölter since 1815 (born August 5, 1775 in Bastheim , † October 25, 1846 in Landau ) was a Bavarian major general .

Life

family

He was the son of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Captain Adam Mölter. His older brother Joseph Mölter (* 1773) was a Catholic priest and pastor in Schweinfurt and Eltmann .

Military career

Mölter entered the military service of the Würzburg bishopric in 1795 and was taken over in the Bavarian canton of Bavaria in 1803 after secularization . In 1807 Mölter was promoted to first lieutenant . In 1812 he fought with the Bavarian contingent on the side of Napoleon in Russia. He stood out against the French in the battle of Hanau in 1813 , as well as in La Rothière on February 1, 1814, for which Georg Mölter received the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order in 1815 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Mölter after his entry in the nobility register . He was also a member of the French Legion of Honor and Knight II Class of the Russian Order of St. Anne .

From 1827 to 1837 Mölter acted as commander of the 5th Chevaulegers Regiment in Zweibrücken . In 1837 he was promoted to major general and took the position of commandant of the Landau fortress . Here he worked for nine years, died there and was buried according to the Catholic rite in the cemetery, where his ornate Tumba tomb with a reclining figure has been preserved. It comes from the Mannheim sculptor Wilhelm Hornberger , a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , a student of Bernhard Würschmitt and Ludwig Schwanthaler . Later he created a similar tomb for Mölter's successor Karl Freiherr von Pflimmern (1787–1850).

literature

Jutta Franke: Mölter, Georg von. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 530 ( digitized version ).
Emil Buxbaum: The Royal Bavarian 3rd Chevaulegers Regiment "Herzog Maximilian" 1724 to 1884. Oldenbourg, 1884, p. 21 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
Georg Gilardone: Mölter, Georg von. In: Anton Chroust , Sigmund Freiherr von Pölnitz (Hrsg.): CVs from Franconia. Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1936, pp. 223–232 ( limited preview in the Google book search). In addition register entry in: Elisabeth Friedrich: (Ed.): Lebensbilder-Register. Neustadt / Aisch, Degener 1971, ISBN 3-7686-2001-8 , p. 89 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ CVs from Franconia. Volume 5, 1936, p. 232. Excerpts from the source
^ Website on the battle of Hanau, with the mention of Mölter (under October 30, 1813) ( Memento from March 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
^ Emil Buxbaum: The Royal Bavarian 3rd Chevaulegers Regiment "Herzog Maximilian" 1724 to 1884. pp. 20-21. Excerpt from the source
^ Scan from the State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1833
↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1833. p. 165.
^ Herrmann Julius Meyer: New conversation lexicon. Volume 9, 1865, p. 98.Scan from the source

personal data
SURNAME	Mölter, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mölter, Georg Ritter von; Mölter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian Major General, Knight of the Max Joseph Order
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bastheim
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1846
Place of death	Landau in the Palatinate

[1] CVs from Franconia. Volume 5, 1936, p. 232. Excerpts from the source

[2] Website on the battle of Hanau, with the mention of Mölter (under October 30, 1813) ( Memento from March 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Emil Buxbaum: The Royal Bavarian 3rd Chevaulegers Regiment "Herzog Maximilian" 1724 to 1884. pp. 20-21. Excerpt from the source

[4] Scan from the State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1833

[5] Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1833. p. 165.

[6] Herrmann Julius Meyer: New conversation lexicon. Volume 9, 1865, p. 98.Scan from the source