Heinrich Adolph Buschbeck

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Heinrich Adolph Buschbeck (* around 1778 in Dresden ; † May 26, 1833 in Wesel ) was an engineer officer in the Saxon and then the Prussian army .

Life

On January 1, 1797, Heinrich Adolph Buschbeck joined the Saxon engineering corps as a non-commissioned officer . As a member of a surveying unit, he made city maps of Bautzen and Zittau during the Saxon land survey . Appointed second lieutenant on January 22nd, 1806 , he was transferred to the newly founded Saxon sappers company in 1810 and took part in the resignation of the Dresden fortifications. Since November 1811 he worked on the construction of the Torgau Fortress . In the course of the Sixth Coalition War , in May 1813, he belonged to a Saxon division, which initially advanced from Görlitz against Prussian troops in Silesia under French command . Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig ended the connection with France, his unit came under Swedish command and in autumn 1813 he took part in the siege of the Danish fortress Friedrichsort . Promoted to prime lieutenant at the end of 1813 , his Saxon unit was given to the Prussian III. Army corps ( General von Bülow ), which invaded northern France via the Netherlands in early 1814.

Buschbeck joined the Prussian engineer corps on February 26, 1815 and took part with the Prussian II Army Corps in the sieges of the northern French fortresses of Landrecies , Philippeville and Rocroi . After the French surrender, he was appointed Landrecies' place engineer . Promoted to captain on October 2, 1815, he came to Koblenz in early 1816 as an adjutant to General Aster , where he had been a member of the 3rd Engineer Brigade since April 20, 1816. He played a decisive role in the construction of the Koblenz fortress . As a site engineer for the fortifications on the left bank of the Rhine, he was responsible for the facilities on the Karthauser (system for the Kaiser Alexander festivals), in Lützel (for the Kaiser Franz system) and the city fortifications. Promoted to major on February 3, 1819, he was appointed field engineer for the Federal Fortress of Luxembourg on March 14, 1826 . Finally, on May 12, 1832, he was transferred to Wesel as a place engineer , where he died a little later on May 26, 1832. He was buried in the cemetery on Caspar-Baur-Straße . The classicistic tomb was preserved.

family

Heinrich Adolph Buschbeck was a son of the Saxon court confectioner Traugott Wilhelm Benjamin Buschbeck († June 14, 1799) from Dresden, was his first marriage (June 28, 1811 in Dresden) with Charlotte Wilhelmine Luise Morgenstern, and his second marriage (September 8 1830 in Luxemburg) married Franziska Steidel and had eight children. Anna Rosa (born February 25, 1817 in Koblenz) had married Franz von Chauvin . His three sons all joined the Prussian Army: Fridolin (born August 13, 1811 in Torgau, † October 4, 1855 in Berlin) was a prime lieutenant in Fusilier Regiment No. 40 and a teacher in the cadet corps. Hermann (born June 24, 1815 in Dresden; † July 6, 1851 in Berlin) was second lieutenant in Fusilier Regiment No. 40. Adolph (born March 24, 1829 in Koblenz; † May 26, 1883 in Florence) was Second Lieutenant in Fusilier Regiment No. 39, deserted from his garrison in Düsseldorf during the German Revolution of 1848/49 in August 1848, fled to the United States and later took part in the American Civil War as a colonel of the Union troops under the name of Adolphus Buschbeck .

Awards

Works

  • Floor plan of the six-town Zittau in Upper Lusatia . 1805 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  • Floor plan of the six-town Budissin in Upper Lusatia . 1805 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  • Sketch of a fortress practice (from the papers of the late Major Buschbeck) . In: Archives for the officers of the Royal Prussian Artillery and Engineer Corps . tape 1 , 1835, p. 77-88, 138-175 ( google.de ).
  • The naturalist and the fortifier. A conversation (from the papers of the late Major Buschbeck) . In: Archives for the officers of the Royal Prussian Artillery and Engineer Corps . tape 2 , 1836, p. 234-267 ( google.de ).

literature

  • Ranking and quarters list of the Royal Prussian Army for the year ... [1817–1832] . Berlin.
  • Louis Blesson: Contribution to the history of the fortress war in France in 1815 . Berlin 1818 ( google.de ).
  • Udo von Bonin: History of the engineer corps and the pioneers in Prussia . 2: From 1812 to the middle of the nineteenth century. Berlin 1878.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hansch: History of the Royal Saxon Engineer and Pioneer Corps (Pioneer Battalion No. 12) . Dresden 1898.
  • Hugo August Hermann Kosch: History of the Hohenzollern Fusilier Regiment No. 40 . Trier 1870.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Hable: Classicist and neo-Gothic tombs and their symbols in the cemetery on Caspar-Baur-Strasse in Wesel . Wesel 1989, p. 21-23 .
  2. ^ Archives: Dresden, Kirchliche Wochenzettel, 1685–1875. familysearch.org. 06/28/1811. Signature: 007954479. Link
  3. ↑ Archives: Military Church Books . Holdings: Luxembourg, Garrison Church Register, weddings 1816–1838. Evangelical Central Archive Berlin. 09/08/1830. Signature: M 800.
  4. ↑ Kosch, p. 242.
  5. ↑ Kosch, p. 248.
  6. ↑ Emigration file of the Koblenz City Archives . April 18, 2018, p. 30 ( wordpress.com [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Buschbeck, Heinrich Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION engineer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1833
Place of death Wesel