Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm von Manstein

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Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm von Manstein (born October 16, 1729 in Juckstein , Ragnit district ; † August 26, 1800 in Opole ) was a Prussian general.

Life

His parents were Captain Friedrich Wilhelm von Manstein (* 1663; † August 10, 1741) and his third wife Katharina Elisabeth, née von Geßler (* 1685). His older brother was the future General Leopold Sebastian von Manstein (1717-1806).

In 1737 Johann Gottlieb Page became a member of his uncle Count Friedrich Leopold von Geßler . He was a Prussian colonel and chief of the cuirassier regiment "von Blankensee" in Mohrungen . King Friedrich II moved Gessler to his immediate vicinity to Rheinsberg and Berlin in October and November 1740 and entrusted him with important commands in the First Silesian War , such as the battle of Chotusitz .

Manstein entered 1744 as a cornet in an electoral Saxon cavalry regiment, in whose ranks he fought in 1745 in the battle of Kesselsdorf against Prussia. In the "Prince Albert" dragoon regiment he was first lieutenant in 1750 , Rittmeister in 1756 and took part in the battles of Kolin , Breslau , Leuthen , Torgau and Freiberg in the Seven Years' War . In 1757 she was also present at the siege of Schweidnitz and the capture of Breslau . On May 18, 1763 he became a Saxon major.

In 1777, on the recommendation of his brother, Manstein asked King Friedrich II to be employed in the Prussian army. The king kindly invited him to Potsdam, whereupon Manstein left the Saxon army in December and joined the Prussian army on January 5, 1778. The king dated his patent back to May 18, 1763, making Manstein the oldest major in the cavalry. In April 1778 he received a company in the Cuirassier Regiment " von Dalwig " (No. 12), with which he entered the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778/1779 . He became a lieutenant colonel in 1780 and a colonel in 1783. On 24 May 1787 the king appointed him Friedrich Wilhelm II. To Major General , on 14 October 1787 Chief of previously cuirassiers "Braunschweig" and in 1790 to lieutenant general . As such, he commanded a troop formation in 1794 when the Kościuszko rebellion was put down . Friedrich Wilhelm II reprimanded him for having carelessly given the rebels at Raszyn the opportunity to attack.

In January 1797 Manstein received his departure from the Prussian army and stayed in Opole, where he died on August 26, 1800.

family

Manstein was in his first marriage with Philippine Charlotte von Normann (* August 3, 1745; † 1782) from the Illmersdorf house from Niederlausitz and in his second marriage in 1792 with Helene Josepha von Skrbensky (* June 22, 1765; † November 15, 1793) married from Goldmannsdorf in Upper Silesia . After the birth of her son Franz Wilhelm Gustav Rudolf, she died on October 4, 1793 in Opole.

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SURNAME Manstein, Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Juckstein , Ragnit district
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1800
Place of death Opole