Hermann von Knobelsdorff

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Karl Friedrich Hermann von Knobelsdorff (born September 6, 1807 in Blankenfelde , † August 30, 1888 in Schmiedeberg ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

origin

Hermann was the son of the Prussian prime lieutenant a. D. and heir to Ibsdorf Christoph von Knobelsdorff (1774–1841) and his wife Dorothea, née von Barfus (1783–1831).

Military career

Knobelsdorff visited the cadet houses in Kulm and Berlin . Subsequently, on April 8, 1825, he was transferred to the 18th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant . For further training, he completed the General War School in 1828/32 and was adjutant of the 2nd Battalion from April 1833 to April 1835 . Knobelsdorff was then assigned to the topographic office until 1838 and, in the meantime, to the 6th Hussar Regiment for three months in 1837 . After his return he was commanded on October 13, 1840 as an adjutant of the 9th Landwehr Brigade and on April 7, 1842 as an adjutant of the 10th Division and promoted to prime lieutenant in mid-June 1842. He was promoted to captain on March 27, 1847 and was transferred to the adjutantage. From November 1850 to February 1851 he was a general staff officer of the 10th Division. On February 10, 1853, he was a major in the 21st Infantry Regiment . From there Knobelsdorff came to Stralsund as commander of the 2nd Battalion in the 2nd Landwehr Regiment . Promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 22, 1858, he was in 1859 commander of the mobile 11th Landwehr Regiment for the duration of the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War . On May 8, 1860, Knobelsdorff was initially commissioned to lead the 51st Infantry Regiment and on July 1, 1860, he was appointed as the commander of this regiment with the promotion to colonel .

Under position à la suite of his regiment, he was appointed commander of the Rastatt fortress on April 5, 1864 and promoted to major general on June 25, 1864 . On October 17, 1864, he was given command of the 23rd Infantry Brigade , with which he took part in the German War in 1866 . He led a detachment composed of all troops at Troppau to cover Silesia . On September 20, 1866 he received the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords. After being transferred to the army officers, Knobelsdorff was appointed commander of Leipzig on October 30, 1866 and promoted to lieutenant general on December 31, 1866 with a patent from October 30, 1866. He was released and on 27 December 1867 by his post in Leipzig under the star ceremony for the April 4, 1868 Red Eagle . II Class with oak leaves with board for disposition made. He died in Schmiedeberg on August 30, 1888.

family

He married Theodore von Niebelschütz (* 1823) on November 29, 1849 in Polgsen . From the marriage, the son Hermann (1850-1870), who died as a lieutenant from the wounds suffered at Le Bourget , and the daughter Adelheid (* 1851) emerged.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1903, fourth year, p.613f
personal data
SURNAME Knobelsdorff, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knobelsdorff, Karl Friedrich Hermann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and legal knight of the Order of St. John
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenfelde
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1888
Place of death Schmiedeberg