Gustav von der Schulenburg

Gustav Adolf Mathias Graf von der Schulenburg-Altenhausen (born December 30, 1793 in Altenhausen , † August 2, 1855 in Karthaus ) was a Prussian major general and member of the manor house .

Life

origin

He came from the extensive aristocratic family von der Schulenburg and was the eldest son of August Karl Jakob Graf von der Schulenburg (1764-1838) and his wife Marie-Luise, née von Kleist (-Karchnitz) (1772-1827). His father was the master of Altenhausen and Ivenrode . He still had eight siblings, including the later district administrator Wilhelm Leopold von der Schulenburg .

Military career

Schulenburg attended the Brandenburg Knight Academy and the Pedagogy of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg before he began to study law in Berlin in 1813 . However, in the same year he gave up his studies in order to join Prussian troops in the Wars of Liberation . Schulenburg was then employed as a volunteer in the Guard Jäger Battalion of the Prussian Army . On June 6, 1813, he was second lieutenant and at the same time commanded to serve in the Guard Regiment . In the campaigns of 1813/14 Schulenburg fought in the battles near Großgörschen and Leipzig . For his service near Paris he received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Order of St. Vladimir IV. Class.

Promoted to Prime Lieutenant on March 30, 1824 , he was assigned to the Great Military Orphanage from January 21, 1829 to July 11, 1837 . Subsequently appointed commander of the school department of the training infantry battalion, Schulenburg also acted from the end of April 1840 to the beginning of November 1841 as president of the examination commission for portepeef ensigns of the 1st Guard Division . On March 26, 1841, when he was promoted to major, he was appointed second commander of the III. Battalion of the 4th Guards Landwehr Regiment. In November 1849 Schulenburg was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on October 3, 1850, was commander of the Guard Fusilier Regiment . As a colonel , he was also a member of the military directorate of the Central Gymnasium in Berlin from September 16, 1851 . In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III on September 21, 1853 . Excellent with a bow. On May 10, 1855 Schulenburg was finally commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade and in this position was promoted to major general on July 12, 1855. He died shortly afterwards of cholera while exercising his ministry .

Schulenburg had been a member of the Prussian manor house since 1854 as a representative of the Count's Association of Saxony.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 283, no. 1899.
• Johann Friedrich Danneil : The family from the Schulenburg. 2nd volume, p. 592ff. on-line
• Hermann Krüger (ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary. Berlin 1885, p. 27.