Herrmann von Schwerin

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Johann Christoph Herrmann von Schwerin (1776-1858)

Count Johann Christoph Herrmann von Schwerin (born June 18, 1776 in Wolfshagen ; † August 6, 1858 there ) was a Prussian major general .

origin

He was the son of Otto Alexander Graf von Schwerin (March 20, 1737 - March 17, 1819) and Sophie Dorothee von Bissing (November 18, 1733 - January 31, 1801), a daughter of Major General Wilhelm Ludwig von Bissing .

Life

As the youngest of seven brothers, he joined the Prussian army in 1789. He came to the Kleist infantry regiment as a private corporal . There he was on June 4, 1791 portepeefähnrich and on May 18, 1792 real ensign. In the First Coalition War he took part in the Valmy cannonade . He was also at the siege of Landau, the battle of Kaiserslautern and the battles at Gleisweiler, Schierhähle and Johanniskreuz. At that time he was appointed second lieutenant on April 3, 1794.

After the war he was promoted to Premier-Lieutenant on September 27, 1804 and in 1806 a regimental adjutant. During the Fourth Coalition War he fought in the Battle of Auerstedt , was captured while retreating near Erfurt with the Grenadier Battalion von Hulsen and was brought to Chalon sur Marne . As a result of the Peace of Tilsit , he was able to return home. He resigned as a captain from the army on September 4, 1808 and took care of the management of his father's property.

In 1813 it was reactivated after the appeal to my people . He returned on April 7, 1813 as a real captain and company commander in the Leib-Infanterie-Regiment (No. 8) .

He fought in the skirmishes near Königswartha, was slightly wounded there and earned the Iron Cross 2nd class in the Battle of Bautzen . He also fought at the Katzbach , took part in the transition near Wartenburg , and near Leipzig he also earned the Iron Cross 1st class , as his battalion overpowered the French batteries in Möckern (Leipzig) . He also became an adjutant to General Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn . Subsequently he received the Russian Order of St. Vladimir 4th class for Paris . At that time he was appointed major of the 2nd West Prussian Infantry Regiment on April 13, 1814. On May 23, 1814, he resigned from the army and on August 14, 1814, he received permission to wear the uniform of the Leib-Infanterie-Regiment.

Since his older brother William in the Battle of Waterloo had fallen, Hermann von Schwerin was after the death of his father in 1819 Owner of the Manor at the headquarters of the branch Wolfhagen Schwerin Wolfshagen sex Schwerin . It greatly increased the number and value of family goods, including a. through the purchase of the Göhren and Georginenau estates in Mecklenburg and Lemmersdorf in the Uckermark. Through his marriage in 1816, the Tamsel estate in Neumark came into his possession.

On February 18, 1835, he received the Prussian Order of St John , on January 18, 1840, the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class, and on October 15, 1840, the star . He got on October 26, 1844 the character of a colonel and on December 17, 1853 the character of major general.

He had seven outbuildings built, which he named after the most famous generals of the war of liberation . He expanded the main castle in Wolfshagen by adding two important wings.

Hereditary funeral in Wolfshagen with a plaque for Count Herrmann v. Schwerin (left) and his wife (right)

The park, which used to be laid out in French style, “became an adornment of the area and a much-visited travel destination for the residents of the neighboring cities” by redesigning it according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné .

He had two towering monuments erected in this park. One to commemorate the Wars of Liberation, in which he himself took part as General Horn's adjutant and in which his brother, Count Wilhelm Werner von Schwerin , was killed when he commanded a brigade at Belle Alliance . The second monument, the King's Column , celebrated the Stein-Hardenberg reforms.

On August 6, 1858, he died as an honorary senior of the Iron Cross 2nd class in Wolfshagen. Shortly before his death, the new church was completed, near which his sons had a life-size statue erected after his death. He is buried in Tamsel .

Fontane mentions Herrmann Graf Schwerin several times in Volume II of his " Walks " in relation to the park in Tamsel.

family

On June 4, 1816, he married Countess Rosalie Ulrike von Dönhoff-Dönhoffstädt (* October 4, 1789, † August 4, 1865), the sister of his brother Sophie von Schwerin's widow . The family had several children:

  • Sophie Amalie Ulrike Marie (1817–1817)
  • Otto Wilhelm Bogislaus Hermann (1819–1821)
  • Amalie Sophie Frederike (* August 6, 1820 - † July 23, 1900), well-known patroness ⚭ 1840 Alfred Graf zu Solms-Sonnenwalde (* May 7, 1810 - January 31, 1870)
  • Anna Cäcilie Henriette (1821-1821)
  • Otto Wilhelm Ludwig (born August 26, 1822), lieutenant, inherited Amalienhof ⚭ Laura Luise Müller-Blumenbach, daughter of the royal personal physician
  • Karl Alexander (* 7 August 1824 - 23 August 1893), inherited Mildenitz ⚭ 1850 Gertrud Charlotte von Nostiz and Jänkendorf (* 9 November 1827)
  • Wilhelm Stanislaus Hermann (March 6, 1827 - March 8, 1896), Chamberlain, inherited Göhren ⚭ Louise Auguste Caroline Hedwig (Louise) Sartorius von Schwanenfeld (September 26, 1830 - September 21, 1910)
  • Bogislav Konrad Adolf (* November 30, 1833 - May 19, 1889), lieutenant, inherited Tamsel ⚭ 1851 Pauline von Sichart (* June 19, 1835 - March 16, 1902), a daughter of the Saxon Major General Carl Adolf von Sichart

Count Karl Alexander von Schwerin decided to pursue a career in agriculture and in 1861 bought Wolfshagen from his brothers.

Awards

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The regiment was formed from the grenadier companies of regiments No. 12 and No. 34 .
  2. ^ Obituary in Berliner Revue 14 (1858), p. 448
  3. ↑ Awards according to the obituary in Berliner Revue 14 (1858), p. 448
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Herrmann from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin, Johann Christoph Herrmann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolf Hagen
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1858
Place of death Wolf Hagen