Heinrich von Mühlbach

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Heinrich von Mühlbach in a Turkish uniform in the 1830s

Traugott Wilhelm Heinrich Mühlbach , from 1825 from Mühlbach , (born October 17, 1795 in Old Stettin , † July 18, 1848 in Bad Ems ) was a Prussian major .

Life

Heinrich comes from a middle-class family, which is presumably derived from an old Saxon family. At the time of his birth, his father was a war and domain councilor in Old Stettin.

He attended high school there until 1810 and from the age of 16 took private lessons in mathematics and plan drawing from an artillery officer . From 1812 onwards, he attended lectures on forestry and construction in Berlin . He finally passed the exam to become a conductor .

As part of the mobilization of the wars of liberation , he joined as a volunteer hunter of hunters kompanie the Pomeranian grenadier - Battalion of the Brigade " Borstell " of the " Bülow's " Corps of. Here he took part in fighting in front of Magdeburg and Möckern , as well as at Hoyerswerda and Luckau . After he was promoted to Oberjäger, he was promoted to secondary lieutenant and was transferred to the 2nd Neumärk Landwehr Regiment, where he was later also adjutant of the 3rd battalion. Thus he belonged to the " Tauentzienschen " army corps and was subordinate to General Dobschütz . In this formation and position he took part in the battles near Jühnsdorf, Zahne and Coswig, the battle near Dennewitz and the sieges of Torgau and Wittenberg. After being wounded while storming Wittenberg, he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

Mühlbach joined the engineer corps in 1815. After a short visit to the General War School , he was used by the fortification service , first in Wittenberg, then in Jülich. In 1816 he advanced to prime lieutenant and was transferred to Koblenz . Here he was placed alongside Le Bauld de Nans . From 1817 to 1820 he was involved in construction activities, in the course of which he developed a close friendship with General Aster . He was promoted to captain in 1818, was transferred to Mainz in 1820 and commuted to Berlin quarterly between 1824 and 1825 for reporting.

From this time comes a corps order that says about Mühlbach that he “belongs to the category of excellent and very useful officers.” He then became captain of the 3rd engineer inspection on December 31, 1825 with his brothers Adolph Bernhard Ludwig , first lieutenant in the 7th Landwehr regiment and Franz Wilhelm August, customs inspector in the hereditary Prussian nobility lifted .

At the end of 1827 he was appointed Garrison Building Director of the VIII Army Corps , which made him subordinate to General Borstell again. He and General Pfuel repeatedly attested him “tireless activity, expertise and prudence.” Mühlbach earned special merits and recognition during reconnaissance of the Moselle - also the Saar - and the near run .

He was sent to Neuchâtel in 1832 as an adjutant to General Pfuel and to Antwerp in 1833 with a new command . This is where his work Memoire about the siege of the Citadelle of Antwerp in 1832 was created , which remained unpublished, but was significantly incorporated into the work of Heinrich von Reitzenstein The Expedition of the French and English against the Citadelle of Antwerp (Berlin 1834).

From 1837 to 1839 he was a. a. Commanded together with Moltke as a trainer in Turkey. Here he was u. a. Involved in a campaign against the Kurds and in the Syrian War as part of the Orient Crisis . Together with Moltke, but numerically before this, he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite for his service in Turkey on November 29, 1839 .

Back in Prussia, he was promoted to a characterized and then to a patented major in 1840 , and at the same time was appointed director of genius in Luxembourg . After complaints from the fortress commanders Dumoulin and Wulffen because of arbitrariness or over-zeal, Mühlbach was transferred from the square to Saarlouis as an engineer officer. In 1847 he became inspector of the 6th fortress inspection in Cologne with Jülich, Wesel and Minden.

Mühlbach died unmarried and without leaving an heir.

literature

  • Reinhold Wagner: Moltke and Mühlbach together under the crescent moon. A. Bath, Berlin 1893, pp. 304-309.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families. Second year, Brno 1877, pp. 527–529.
  2. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 89.
  3. ↑ Through the wild Kurdistan archive of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .
  4. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 2, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1913, p. 404, No. 2453.
personal data
SURNAME Mühlbach, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühlbach, Traugott Wilhelm Heinrich von (full name); Mühlbach, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1848
Place of death Bad Ems