Joachim Christian Timm (Hussar)

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Memorial plaque in Neustrelitz

Joachim Christian Timm (born August 31, 1784 in Tornow ; † September 17, 1853 in Neustrelitz ) was a Mecklenburg-Strelitz hussar in the Wars of Liberation , who distinguished himself by capturing a French standard in the Battle of Leipzig .

Life

Timm was the son of a farm laborer and joined the Prussian army around 1800, where he served in Rudorff's body hussar regiment . He took part in the battle of Jena and Auerstädt . While he was in retreat he was shot in the mouth near Crivitz .

He volunteered when the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Hussar Regiment was set up on March 30, 1813 and was assigned to the commander Friedrich Wilhelm von Warburg as orderly. He took part with the regiment in the battles of Löwenberg (August 21) and at Goldberg (August 23) as well as in the battle of the Katzbach (August 26). On October 3, the regiment crossed in the battle of Wartenburg the same and particularly distinguished himself. Timm lost his horse in this battle and was slightly wounded.

On October 16, the regiment was deployed in the Battle of Leipzig near Möckern . Here Timm found himself after a storm attack in the midst of about 600 French. In the confusion he noticed how two French officers tried to escape capture and pursued them. After he had wounded one, he reached the second, defeated him in a duel and thus captured the standard hidden by this Frenchman under his clothes.

While the regiment's historiography assigned the standard to the Garde impériale , which was not used in Möckern at all, current research assumes that it was possibly the regimental standard ( eagle ) of the French 1st Marine Artillery Regiment, the Timm captured, even if this was traditionally attributed to a member of the Litthau Dragoon Regiment who was not known by name .

The eagle was erected in the garrison church (Potsdam) in 1816 and disappeared there with the other French standards in July 1919 to forestall extradition to France.

Timm was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class on December 8, 1813 and was later promoted to NCO . He took part with the regiment in the further campaign to Paris.

After the regiment was demobilized , he lived in Neustrelitz , where he received an honorary pension .

memory

Tombstone

Grand Duchess Marie donated Timm's tombstone to the Neustrelitz cemetery.

In the possession of Duke Georg zu Mecklenburg (1824–1876) at Remplin Castle there were a number of hussar pictures by the painter Wisniewski, one of which showed the French eagle to Möckern . The pictures were exhibited in Neustrelitz in 1863 for the anniversary celebration. Their further fate is in the dark, presumably they burned with the castle in 1940.

Also exhibited in 1863 was a large painting from the grand ducal possession, Hussar Timm with the conquered Franz. Adler near Möckern . A painting by the Berlin battle painter Raymond de Baux (1785–1862) The captured French standard was auctioned in 2000 in a Hamburg auction house.

In Neustrelitz, a plaque unveiled on October 19, 1924 on his house in Glambeck's secondary street commemorates Timm.

literature

  • August Milarch : Memories of the Meklenburg-Strelitz Hussar Regiment in the years of the liberation struggle from 1813 to 1815: written down from the diary of an old hussar and authentic sources. Neubrandenburg: C Brünslow 1854 ( digitized )
  • Gustav Lehmann: The trophies of the Prussian army in the royal court and garrison church in Potsdam. Berlin: Middle 1899
  • Jean Bellmann: The Hussar Timm and the Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Hussar Regiment in the Wars of Liberation 1813 to 1815. In: Orden und Ehrenzeichen 3 (2001), pp. 29–31
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10145 .

Web links

Commons : Joachim Christian Timm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bellmann (lit.)
  2. ↑ See the detailed discussion in this forum , accessed on October 7, 2013
  3. ^ The hussar and love money , report in the Nordkurier of April 27, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2013
  4. ↑ Presumably Oskar Wisniewski (1819-1891)
  5. ↑ See The Jubelfest der Mecklenburg-Strelitz Veterans , in: Archives for Regional Studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg 13 (1863), pp. 525–548, here pp.
  6. ↑ For this painting see Bellmann (Lit.), with ill.
personal data
SURNAME Timm, Joachim Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg-Strelitz Hussar in the Wars of Liberation
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Tornow (Oberhavel)
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1853
Place of death Neustrelitz