Gottlob Karl Ludwig von Corvin-Wiersbitzki

Gottlob Georg Karl Ludwig von Corvin-Wiersbitzki (born November 12, 1756 in Perleberg , † January 4, 1817 in Kienwerder, Templin district ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

His parents were General Georg Ludwig von Wiersbitzki and his wife Julia Sophie von Graevenitz (born March 26, 1729, † August 20, 1811).

Military career

Gottlob von Corvin-Wiersbitzki joined the cuirassier regiment "von Manstein" (K 7) in 1770 , with whom he took part in the 1787 War of the Bavarian Succession in the Holland Campaign in 1778/79 . He managed to take a hill by surprise , for which he received the order Pour le Mérite on September 17, 1787 and was promoted to staff assistant master in 1791 . In May 1792 Corvin-Wiersbitzki took over as chief of a squadron in the regiment of the brown hussars ("von Wolffradt") . Praised and promoted to major during the First Coalition War , he was promoted to colonel in May 1805 .

Superiors Corvin-Wiersbitzkis regretted in 1803 "that his quick tempered temper too often led him to very absurd actions". Such an act resulted in a prison sentence of one year on August 27, 1805 . A month later, when a third coalition war was imminent, he was released from arrest for mobilization. In 1806, the imprisonment in the fortress Cosel lasted only briefly from April , because the mobilization against France began in the summer . In the Fourth Coalition War he was assigned to the regiment of the yellow hussars "von Koehler" (H 7) from September 1806 , with whom he participated in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt and in the retreat in the Blücher corps . Because Blücher had detached Corvin-Wiersbitzki's troops before the surrender at Ratekau , they were able to escape to East Prussia . At the end of January 1807 he became the commander of the 1st Hussar Brigade, which consisted of the remnants of the red or “Blücher Hussars” (H 8) , the yellow, the Rudorff (H 2) and Usedom Hussars (H 10) .

On July 18, 1807, the day of the Peace of Tilsit , King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Corvin-Wiersbitzki to major general. In December 1807 he put him on half his salary as an "active general" . At the beginning of the war, 142 generals had served in the Prussian army . After the reorganization of September 1808 and according to the findings of the commission of inquiry established after the end of the war into the behavior of the officers, Corvin-Wiersbitzkiz was one of the 22 generals who remained in the Prussian army. At the beginning of the Wars of Liberation in March 1813, Corvin-Wiersbitzki was not given a command, but was given permission to enter Russian services . However, this failed, as did the search for a position as a general in other allied armies. On July 1, 1813, the king granted him the requested departure from the Prussian army and granted him a pension of 1000 thalers, which increased by 100 thalers annually from 1815.

Corvin-Wiersbitzki died on January 4, 1817 in Kienwerder in the Uckermark .

family

His first wife was Amalie Caroline Jacobine von Weyher († October 11, 1784), she was the widow of General Christian Rudolf von Weiher . After her death, he married Johanna Charlotte Friederike von Krahn († October 12, 1834), with whom he had eight children. Two sons and a daughter reached adulthood, including the later Prussian Lieutenant General Ludwig von Corvin-Wiersbitzky (1789–1872).

literature

Tilman Stieve [arr.]: Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst. Private and official publications. Volume 4., General Staff Officer between Crisis and Reform (Prussia 1804-1807). Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-27105-3 , p. 428.

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , p. 248, no. 1119.

Individual evidence

↑ Priesdorff (literature), p. 248.
↑ On the fate of the hussar regiments see Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. 3. 1763–1807. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1967, pp. 598, 667.
↑ Großer Generalstab (Ed.): 1806 - The Prussian Officer Corps and the Investigation of War Events , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son , Berlin 1906, pp. 103-107.

personal data
SURNAME	Corvin-Wiersbitzki, Gottlob Karl Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wiersbitzky, Gottlob Karl Ludwig von; Wiersbitzky, Gottlob Karl Ludwig Corvin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pearl Mountain
DATE OF DEATH	January 4, 1817
Place of death	Kienwerder, Templin district

[1] Priesdorff (literature), p. 248.

[2] On the fate of the hussar regiments see Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. 3. 1763–1807. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1967, pp. 598, 667.

[3] Großer Generalstab (Ed.): 1806 - The Prussian Officer Corps and the Investigation of War Events , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son , Berlin 1906, pp. 103-107.