Heinrich Adolph von Gablenz

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Heinrich Adolph von Gablenz on a portrait from 1841.
Lithograph by Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch

Heinrich Adolph von Gablenz , from 1836 Freiherr von Gablenz (born October 25, 1762 in Weida , † May 11, 1843 in Leipzig ) was a Saxon lieutenant general and temporarily governor of Dresden .

Life

origin

Heinrich Adolph was the son of the electoral forest and game master Hans Adolf Heinrich von Gablenz (* 1724) and his wife Johanna Frederike, née Astern.

Military career

Gablenz visited the Dresden Cadet House , was employed in October 1778 as Sousleutnant in the cuirassier regiment "Elector" of the Saxon Army and took part in the War of the Bavarian Succession . When the hussar regiment was re-established in 1791, he moved there as Rittmeister . As such, he acquired the Klettstedt manor in the Langensalza district . During the First Coalition War , he fought with the Saxon troops on the Rhine and in the battle of Kaiserslautern in 1793/94 and 1796 . In 1804, Gablenz sold this property to Gottfried August von Lorenz for 36,000 Reichstaler. But he soon regretted the sale and ultimately tried to repurchase this manor, which was successful in 1806 for the same price. In the same year he advanced to major and had settled in Gebesee . In the fourth coalition war he fought with the troops in Saxony, but also in the battle near Saalfeld . He was then assigned to the Duchy of Warsaw .

In 1809 Gablenz was promoted to colonel and appointed royal adjutant general. He took part in the fighting in Poland, Saxony and Bohemia during the Fifth Coalition War. In 1810 he was appointed commander of the "Prince Clemens" dragoon regiment. Since 1811 he was a knight of the Military Order of St. Henry and the Order of the Westphalian Crown . In 1812 he was promoted to major general and brigadier. In the same year he took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign, fought in Poland and in Russia near Pruszanne and Wolkowice. When the Saxon Lieutenant General Christoph Sigismund von Gutschmidt fell in Russia, Gablenz was given command of the vanguard of the Reynier Corps. In 1813 he took part in the fighting in Saxony. After the Saxons turned away from Napoleon and sided with the Allies , Gablenz fought in France and the Netherlands.

After the end of the wars of liberation and the formation of the Prussian province of Saxony , he was appointed lieutenant general in 1817. He sold his estate in Klettstedt and finally moved to Dresden, where he was appointed governor of the residence in 1830. On February 24, 1836 Gablenz was elevated to the Saxon-Coburg and Gothaischen Freiherrnstand . He received the royal Saxon confirmation on May 8, 1837.

In 1843 he was buried in the Hundschen crypt in Kittlitz .

family

Gablenz married Charlotte von Stieglitz (1772–1842) in Dresden in 1799, a daughter of the Electorate Colonel Wilhelm Ludwig von Stieglitz and Christiane Charlotte Elisabeth von Ziegesar . The couple had several children including:

literature

  • Reinhold Lorenz: Ludwig Freiherr von Gablenz. A German soldier in the 19th century. Berlin 1936.
  • Wolfgang Gülich: The Saxon Army at the time of Napoleon. 2006.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1877. Seventh and twentieth year, p. 226f.
  • New German necrology for the year 1843. S. 422f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ loebaufoto.de: Hundsche Gruft
personal data
SURNAME Gablenz, Heinrich Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon lieutenant general and temporarily governor of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Weida
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1843
Place of death Leipzig