Helmuth Dietrich von Maltzahn

Helmuth Dietrich von Maltzahn (born December 9, 1761 in Wolde in Mecklenburg , † December 15, 1826 in Demmin ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Helmuth Dietrich was a son of the Prussian captain Bogislav Helmuth von Maltzahn (1724-1800) and his wife Dorothea, born von Maltzahn (1732-1801) from the house of Cummerow. His father was Herr auf Wolde, a knight of the Order of St. John and court marshal from Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The Oldenburg diplomat and district president Hans Albrecht von Maltzan was his older brother.

Military career

Maltzahn joined the Gensdarmes Regiment of the Prussian Army as a standard junker in 1774 and was accepted as a future knight in the Order of St. John on January 7, 1775. By the beginning of June 1777 he was promoted to cornet in the hussar regiment "von Zieten" and took part in the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778/79 . On June 28, 1781 he became second lieutenant and on May 15, 1790 Rittmeister and inspection adjutant of General von Prittwitz . During the suppression of the Kościuszko uprising , Maltzahn took part in the battles near Warsaw and Rawka in Poland in 1794/95 . On June 6, 1794 he received the order Pour le Mérite for Rawka . Shortly thereafter, on June 17, 1794, he became a major and again an adjutant of the inspection.

On July 3, 1800 he became a Knight of St. John. On June 1, 1804 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on December 20, 1804 appointed squadron chief in the dragoon regiment "von Pastau" . On June 1, 1806 he was promoted to colonel and fought during the Fourth Coalition War at Preussisch Eylau and Heilsberg . On November 12, 1806 he was appointed commander of the Litthauischen Dragoon Regiment and in this position in early May 1808 with the Order of St. Vladimir III. Class excellent. On February 16, 1810 he became commander of the East Prussian Light Brigade. On April 1, 1812, he became the commander of the depots of the demobile cavalry regiments in East Prussia, and in the same year he was commissioned with the management of business as the commander of Memel . After Maltzahn had been released from his command on June 30, 1813, he was assigned to III on August 7, 1813 as Landwehr Brigade Commander. Army corps under Bülow transferred. On November 28, 1813, he received his departure as major general with a pension of 800 thalers. He died unmarried on December 15, 1826 in Demmin in Pomerania.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , p. 413, no. 1193.