Hermann von Staff called von Reitzenstein

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Karl August Wilhelm Heinrich Hermann von Staff gen. Von Reitzenstein (also: Staff-Reitzenstein , born March 2, 1790 in Ilmenau , † April 10, 1867 in Tückelhausen ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and military historian .

Life

origin

Hermann was the son of the Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar's chief hunter Christian Friedrich August von Staff (1755–1823) and his wife and niece Amalie Frederike, née von Voss (1764–1796). He was adopted in 1821 by the grandfather of his second wife, the Chamberlain von Reitzenstein from the Electorate of Cologne , and was thus allowed to append to his name "called von Reitzenstein".

Military career

Staff was founded in 1802 Page on Hof in Weimar , was the end of February in 1807 as second lieutenant hired in Weimar Infantry Battalion and made the same year siege of Kolberg with. In 1809 he became brigadjutant of the troops of the Rhine Confederation of the "Rouin" division and moved against Austria in the same year . Under Napoleon's leadership he took part in the campaign in Spain in 1810/11 and on August 18, 1811, he became Premier Lieutenant . In the same year he joined the Saxonia Jena country team . Staff entered Russian services at the end of December 1812. As captain in the General Quartermaster's Staff of the Imperial Russian Army , he took part in the battle of the Göhrde, the sieges of Hamburg , Rendsburg , Glückstadt and Antwerp during the Wars of Liberation and, after joining the Prussian Army on September 11, 1814, in the battles near Ligny and the Wavre part.

After the peace treaty was signed in 1816 to service the 1st Guard Regiment on foot , Staff was made available to the Minister of War the following year and attended the General War School . On May 25, 1818, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Breslau Brigade. From January 31 to September 21, 1821 Staff was assigned to Major General von Natzmer , who was commanded as military commissar to the Imperial Austrian Army in Naples . During this time he took part in the battle at Antrodoco . As a major , he then joined the General Staff of the IV Army Corps . From there, on January 4, 1823, he was transferred to the General Staff . Staff were sent several times in the coming years to observe maneuvers abroad, until he was finally appointed chief of the General Staff of the VI on April 3, 1834 . Army Corps and appointed in this position on March 30, 1835 to lieutenant colonel , and on March 30, 1837 Colonel was promoted. As such, Staff briefly commanded the 1st Infantry Brigade in April 1842 . Promoted to major general on March 22, 1843 , he was also commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade . Under awarding of the character as a lieutenant general was Staff on May 14, 1846 released from this post and pension retired from military service.

On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves, on February 12, 1857 .

politics

He dedicated himself to the management of his Tückelhausen estate near Ochsenfurt . In 1858 he was elected to the district administrator of Lower Franconia . Because of the simultaneous election to the Chamber of Deputies , he resigned from the district administrator. In the state parliament there was an election complaint because he could not prove the Bavarian indigenous population . Maximilian II Joseph dissolved the state parliament prematurely on September 30, 1858. In 1862 Staff successfully applied for permission to emigrate to the Kingdom of Prussia . Five years later he died at the age of 77.

family

Staff had married Auguste Luise von Milkau (1794-1822) from the Wormstedt house on August 1, 1814 in Weimar . After her death he married Karoline Amalie Auguste Flavie Countess von Beust (1802-1851) in Weimar on March 1, 1824 . She was the daughter of Friedrich August Leopold Graf von Beust, chamberlain of the Electorate of Mainz, a councilor in Erfurt and the ruler of Neu-Sulza, Stadtsulza and Burgsulza. The following children emerged from the marriages:

  • Hermann Thuiskon Friedrich Eugen (* 1815)
  • Ferdinand Klemens (1816–1886), retired Prussian captain . D.
  • Karl Ferdinand Wilhelm (* 1819), Prussian Premier Lieutenant a. D.
  • Leopoldine Christa Ottilie (1825–1857) ⚭ 1847 Karl von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1811–1889), chief steward in Saxony
  • Gabriele Thekla (1826–1895)
⚭ Baron von Groß
⚭ Friedrich Sigismund Freiherr von Zedlitz (1823–1882), chief steward of the widowed Grand Duchess of Saxony in Weimar
  • Berta Johanna Marie Klementine (* 1831)
  • Anna Elisabeth Flavie (1834–1854) ⚭ Friedrich Sigismund von Zedlitz (1823–1882)

Works

  • The war of liberation of the Catalonians in the years 1808 to 1814. 2 volumes. Breslau 1821/1827. GoogleBooks
  • The outpost service for German troops, according to the requirements of the latest warfare. Berlin 1827. GoogleBooks

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Staff-Reitzenstein, Carl August Wilhelm Heinrich Hermann von (House of Bavarian History)
  2. ^ State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony. 1823, p. 13.
  3. ^ Lorenz Wilhelm Schweitzer: On the history of forestry in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. P.130
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 127/94.
  5. ↑ StB Vol. 307, pp. 22-23, 29-30.
  6. ↑ Royal resolution to dissolve the state parliament in 1858 (House of Bavarian History)
  7. ^ Genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses for the year 1847. P. 76.
  8. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. 1905. Sixth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1904, p. 908.
personal data
SURNAME Staff named von Reitzenstein, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staff named von Reitzenstein, Carl August Wilhelm Heinrich Hermann von (full name); Staff-Reitzenstein Hermann von; Staff, Hermann from (until 1821)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1867
Place of death Tückelhausen