Jakob von Ermarth

Jakob von Ermarth

Jakob Ermarth , knight of Ermarth since 1855 , (born October 26, 1790 in Ingolstadt , † April 3, 1865 in Augsburg ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general .

Life

family

Ermarth was the son of a Bavarian sergeant who came from Wachenheim an der Pfrimm in Rhineland-Hesse . He was married to Maria, nee Popp. She was the daughter of the ennobled Higher Appeal Court director Friedrich von Popp (1757–1837).

Military career

Due to the military environment in which he grew up, Ermarth occurred on 1 July 1801 Pfeifer in the Bavarian Army one. He served in the later 6th Infantry Regiment , his father's unit. Here the boy became a Hautboist in 1803 and then embarked on the career of an officer. In 1815 he was a first lieutenant and on February 22nd of that year he was transferred to the Infantry Body Regiment . In 1831, Ermarth was promoted to captain there . a. acted as adjutant to General Karl Theodor von Pappenheim (1771-1853). In 1839 he became a major , at the same time he worked as a consultant in the War Ministry and in 1843 received the Cross of the Order of Ludwig .

As a colonel , Ermarth was promoted to commander of the Infantry Leib Regiment in 1848 and remained so until 1851. On June 30, 1851, Ermarth was appointed Major General and Commander of the Federal Fortress of Ulm , and on December 28, 1852, Commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade in Ingolstadt. Finally he became city commander of Augsburg and received as such on January 1, 1855 the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility status and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Ermarth after his entry in the nobility register .

On May 9, 1859, Ermarth retired as Lieutenant General, was transferred to Munich after his death and buried there in the Altes Südfriedhof .

The general appears in 1860 as a member of the association for the support of needy residents of Munich with fuel and in the Munich Art Association .

tomb

Grave of Jakob Ermarth on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Jacob Ermarth is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 21 - number 12 - Position 1) Location .

literature

• Obituary in the daily newspaper for the cities of Dillingen, Lauingen, Höchstädt, Wertingen and Gundelfingen , No. 80, dated April 8, 1865
• Bernd Philipp Schröder: The generals of the German middle states 1815-1870. Volume 2. 1984. ISBN 3764811587 . P. 205. Extract from the source
• F. von Fabrice: The Royal Bavarian 6th Infantry Regiment, Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia. Volume 2. 1896. pp. 43, 59. Excerpts from the source

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wormser Familienforscher website (first section) ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ The Bavarian Landbote. No. 30 of January 30, 1837. P. 136 of the year, obituary notice of the father-in-law.
3. ↑ Website of the University of Jena on Friedrich von Popp ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Franconian Mercury. No. 182, Bamberg, July 1, 1839
5. ↑ Der Bayerische Eilbote , No. 83, Munich, July 12, 1843, page 670 of the year
6. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria. No. 35, Munich, July 19, 1851, column 798 of the year
7. ^ General newspaper Munich. P. 5815 of the year 1852
8. ↑ Bavaria. (...) 4th Infantry Brigade. (Ingolstadt). In:  Austrian soldier friend. Journal for Military Interests , No. 4/1854 (Volume VII), January 14, 1854, p. 30, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ^ Münchner Bote for town and country. No. 4 of January 5, 1855.
10. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry. No. 22 of May 13, 1859. Sheet 152 of the year.
11. ^ Morgenblatt zu Bayerische Zeitung. No. 95 of April 5, 1865. p. 324 of the year.
12. ^ Annual report of the association 1860/61, page 10.
13. ^ Annual report of the Kunstverein München 1860/61, page 9.