Johann Ernst von Pirch

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Johann Ernst von Pirch (* 1744 in Klein Nossin ; † February 17, 1783 near El Puerto de Santa María in Spain ) was a French colonel .

Life

origin

Johann Ernst came from the old Pomeranian noble family Pirch . His parents were the Polish - Electoral Saxon captain and heir to Klein Nossin, Podel and Daber , Georg Ernst von Pirch (1695–1765) and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Luise, born von Somnitz from the Beversdorf family (1701–1781). He had twelve siblings, including the three Prussian generals George Lorenz von Pirch (1730–1797), Franz Otto von Pirch (1733–1813) and Nikolaus Heinrich von Pirch (1736–1808).

career

Pirch enjoyed his upbringing with his brothers mentioned above in Dresden with his uncle Dubislav Nikolaus von Pirch (1693–1768). In 1758 he became the page of Frederick II, whom he accompanied on his last three campaigns of the Seven Years' War with the duties of an adjutant . In 1765 Pirch was in the Grenadier Battalion of the Guard in Potsdam as a free corporal . In 1766 he was promoted to ensign and in 1769 to the Jung v. Regiment. Stutterheim in Magdeburg , where he was again promoted to lieutenant in the function of an adjutant . In 1771 Pirch was dismissed from the Prussian service.

In the same year he went to France and in 1772 was employed as a captain in the Corsican Legion. Pirch openly and comprehensibly criticized the level of training of the French troops, whereupon he was promoted to major in 1773 and received the order from the Minister of War Louis François de Monteynard , much to his subsequent satisfaction, in the regiments v. Anhalt and v. Champagne to take over the training as crew of Landau . As a result, six French general inspectors and the Marquis of Contades received the order to go to Landau to inspect Pirch's newly introduced weapons exercises.

In recognition of his services, Pirch received the Order of St. Louis in 1776 from the then Minister of War, Count of St. Germain .

Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1777, Pirch was transferred to the Royal Bavière regiment. The promotion to colonel followed . Finally, he took part in the Anglo-Spanish War as regimental commander of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt regiment in 1779 and led his troops to the siege of Gibraltar in Spain. He received the order to embark with his regiment to America via Cadiz , to the main theater of war, but died surprisingly before Cadiz.

family

He married Philippine-Elisabeth de Vimeur de Rochambeau, comtesse des Salles. The son Ernst von Pirch (* 1779 in Nancy ) emerged from the marriage. The Prussian Crown Prince, later King Friedrich Wilhelm II, took care of his education and brought him to Berlin in 1786. Ernst von Pirch served 1806 Seconde lieutenant and regimental adjutant in the regiment Guard (No. 15) , fell in the Battle of Jena in captivity and joined the French regiment Isenburg, he is why in 1807 in the Prussian army as a deserter collected and was dishonorably dismissed. Allegedly, he was captured by British troops in 1809 and is said to have settled in England later.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen Häuser , Justus Perthes , Gotha 1923, pp. 492–493.
  2. ^ Karl Robert Klempin , Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and directories of the Pomeranian knighthood , Berlin 1863, p. 440
  3. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army for the year 1806 , 2nd ed. 1828, p. 3.
  4. ↑ On the history of the Pirch family, especially in aphorisms on the history of war. Three episodes in: Journal of Art, Science and the History of War . Volume 100, 4th - 6th Booklet, Berlin 1857, end: p. 206.
  5. ↑ Carl von Reinhard: History of the Royal Prussian First Guard Regiment on foot traced back to the historical origins of the regiment from the 1st Body Guard Battalion, the Guard Regiment and the Grenadier Guard Battalion 1740-1857 , Potsdam 1858.
personal data
SURNAME Pirch, Johann Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirch, Jean Ernest de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French colonel
DATE OF BIRTH 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Nossin
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1783
Place of death near El Puerto de Santa María , Spain