Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn

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Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn
The tomb of Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn zu Munster

Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn (born October 31, 1762 in Warmbrunn , † October 31, 1829 in Münster ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Heinrich Wilhelm was the son of Johann Christian von Horn (1722–1797) and his wife Maria Rosine, née Becker (1724–1794).

Military background

Horn went from 17 November 1774 the Berlin cadet school and was on March 25, 1778 Corporal Corporal in the Infantry Regiment " Luck " ( Fusilier regiment no. 53) of the Prussian Army hired. With this he took part in the War of the Bavarian Succession and was second lieutenant on August 10, 1782 . From May 12, 1790, Horn was adjutant to General Franz Andreas von Favrat . In the campaign in Poland in 1794/95 he took part in the battle of Rawka and the siege of Warsaw and received the order Pour le Mérite for his services on June 6, 1794 .

Horn led a brigade of the Prussian auxiliary corps under General Yorck von Wartenburg as a lieutenant colonel in the Russian campaign in 1812 and also a brigade as a colonel near Möckern , Königswartha / Weißig and Bautzen in the wars of liberation in 1813 . His ruthless bravery and at the same time his exceptional coarseness made the " old gentleman " one of the most popular generals of the wars of liberation. On December 8, 1813, Horn received the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite for the Battle of Leipzig .

On October 3, 1815, Horn became the commandant of Magdeburg and, on November 23, 1815, he was also inspector of the Landwehr in his administrative district . In these positions he was promoted to lieutenant general on March 30, 1817 . In 1820 Friedrich Wilhelm III. him commanding general of the VII Army Corps . In Magdeburg he became a member of the Masonic lodge Ferdinand zur Glückseligkeit in 1814 .

In 1828 Horn, who had already introduced mandatory vaccination for recruits in 1827 , made the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. draws attention to the fact that the factory areas are no longer able to recruit enough recruits due to the physical impairment of young men caused by child labor , and denounced the fact that children "are used en masse by factory entrepreneurs to work even at night ". As a result, the “ Prussian Regulation ” of 1839 forbade children under nine years of age to work, for young people it was limited to ten hours a day and forbidden entirely at night.

family

Horn's first marriage in 1790 was Wilhelmine von Holwede († 1792), daughter of Lieutenant General Friedrich Christian Karl von Holwede . The couple had the daughter Wilhelimine Karoline Auguste (1792-1816). In his second marriage, he married Regine Marie Elisabeth Wilhelmine von Raabe (1768–1800) on March 13, 1796. The later Lieutenant General Rudolf (1798–1863) emerged from this marriage . In his third marriage, he finally married Henriette Konstantia Sidonie von Blankenstein (1781-1846) in Danzig on September 13, 1802 . From this marriage came Adolfine Henriette Amape Ludowika (* 1803) - married General Eduard von Schlegel in 1824 - and Albertine Henriette Josephine Marianne (1808-1818).

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Nobility Research: Aristocratic German Freemasons in 1817. On the pages of www.adelskartei.de (accessed on June 24, 2015).
  2. ↑ Priesdorff (Lit.), p. 89
  3. ↑ Hornstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Heinrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Warmbrunn
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1829
Place of death Muenster