Heinrich Fritze

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Johann Georg Heinrich Fritze (born April 18, 1792 in Groß Lübars , † March 19, 1879 in Stettin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Heinrich was a son of the chief forester Johann Karl Fritze and his wife Henriette Wilhelmine, née Oberdörffer.

Military career

In the run-up to the Wars of Liberation , Fritze joined the Jäger Detachement of the Colberg Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a volunteer hunter on March 7, 1813 and was promoted to second lieutenant in mid-June 1813 . During the campaigns he took part in the sieges of Soissons , Antwerp , Landrecies, Philippeville and Givet. Fritze fought at Großbeeren , Koenigsbrück, Antwerp, Soissons, Compiegne, Laon and Waterloo . At Dennewitz and Ligny he was wounded and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

After the war, Fritze was transferred to the 3rd and 4th Rifle Division on February 8, 1816, and was promoted to Prime Lieutenant in mid-September 1818 . From the end of March 1824 he was in command of the 13th Landwehr Brigade as adjutant for four years . On March 11, 1833 he was promoted to captain and company commander . On October 2, 1835, Fritze became commander of the 4th Rifle Division and in this position at the beginning of March 1842, major . As such, he received the command of the III on April 7, 1842. Battalions in the 8th Landwehr Regiment. This was followed by a position as commander of the Landwehr battalion in the 35th Infantry Regiment from November 3, 1842 . On September 24, 1850, he was transferred to the 7th Infantry Regiment as commander of the Fusilier Battalion , where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on September 26, 1850 . On January 7, 1851, he was commissioned with the command of the 8th Landwehr Regiment and on September 22, 1851 he was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the 36th Infantry Regiment. With the promotion to major general , Fritze was given command of the 4th Infantry Brigade on September 25, 1855 . In this position he was awarded the Red Eagle Order II. Class with Oak Leaves in mid-September 1856 . After being given the character of Lieutenant General, Fritze was put up for disposal on March 15, 1859 with a pension . He died in Stettin on March 19, 1879.

family

He married Sophie Emilie Rinck (1804–1852), a daughter of the chief forester Johann Friedrich Rinck , on May 25, 1827 in Wetzlar . The couple had several children:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich (* 1828)
  • Clementine (* 1832)
  • Emilie (* 1834)
  • Otto August Gustav (1837–1875) ⚭ 1868 Hildegard Scharlau (* 1846), parents of the numismatist Hans von Fritze (1869–1919)
  • Karl Friedrich Hubertus (* 1839)
  • Hedwig (* 1844)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On April 18, 1864, he was raised to the Prussian nobility for bravery at Düppel . see. Handbook of the Prussian Nobility . Volume 2, pp. 239f.
personal data
SURNAME Fritze, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritze, Johann Georg Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Lübars
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1879
Place of death Szczecin