Immediate Investigation Commission

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As part of the Prussian army reform after the defeat of Prussia in the Fourth Coalition War in 1806/07 and the Peace of Tilsit , the behavior of all officers during the campaign was examined by the so-called Immediatkommission to investigate the surrenders and other events of the last war .

General Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq, member of the commission

Objects of investigation

Investigations took place, among other things, during the surrenders

Investigative commission

The commission came on the orders of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. from November 27, 1807 to December 6, 1807 and worked until 1812. At lower levels, individual officers were judged by regimental tribunals .

Results

Due to the work of the commission, numerous officers were dismissed, e. T. dishonorable . In several cases, court martial proceedings were also initiated; some of the judgments were imprisonment for a fortress - in the case of the commandant of Küstrin Obersten von Ingersleben and the commandant of Magdeburg, General of the Infantry Franz Kasimir von Kleist , the death penalty . Ingersleben was convicted in absentia and died abroad, Kleist had died before the trial.

Members

literature

  • Großer Generalstab (Ed.): 1806. The Prussian officer corps and the investigation of the events of the war. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1906 digitized