Johann Heinrich Carl von Bernewitz

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Johann Heinrich Carl von Bernewitz (born December 27, 1760 in Dresden , † December 12, 1821 in Braunschweig ) was a Brunswick lieutenant general who took part in the American War of Independence and the Wars of Liberation .

Early years

From Bernewitz came after visiting the Saxon Artillery School on May 1, 1774 14 years as a cadet in the Brunswick military service and was 1775 to Ensign promoted. He was one of the troops that Duke Charles I had made available to the British to support the rebels in America, and on May 15, 1776, he sailed from Stade for Canada .

There he was taken prisoner of war after the Saratoga campaign on October 17, 1777 . There von Bernewitz was accepted into the Freemasons ' League in Lodge No. 63 founded by English officers . From 1806 to 1809 he held the office of lodge master in the Braunschweig lodge Carl to the crowned column .

He did not return to Wolfenbüttel until 1783 , where he was promoted to lieutenant .

In 1793 he was promoted to staff captain, in 1798 he was given a company and on April 11, 1805 he was appointed major. After the dissolution of the Brunswick army in 1807, he was unemployed for two years, as he remained loyal to his Duke ( Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig ) and did not change to the Westphalian service.

In the service of the Black Duke (1809 to 1815)

Von Bernewitz was one of the first officers to join the Black Band in Silesia in 1809 and was appointed Colonel and Brigadier there. In this position he made a contribution to the organization of the corps. After the march through Northern Germany, he went into British service with the Duke and the Black Squad and then fought with the Brunswick troops in Portugal and Spain, where he was given command of the Brunswick infantry regiment on February 14, 1811 . On December 23 of the same year he was appointed major general in the British service and entrusted with the command of the first brigade of the 7th division of the British Army .

In Braunschweig after 1815

On February 27, 1813, at the special request of the Duke, he went back to England with the latter to prepare for the establishment of a new contingent of troops in northern Germany. On December 22nd, he returned to Braunschweig with Friedrich Wilhelm. He resigned from the English service, was promoted to lieutenant general in the service of Brunswick and received the post of city commandant of the garrison town of Brunswick . From March 26, 1818 he was in command of the field corps and died on December 12 in Braunschweig.

family

Von Bernewitz was married to Franziska Bodenstaff (1773-1846) and had at least four sons.

  • Ernst August Wilhelm (* December 2, 1798; † November 11, 1851) company commander in the Duke Braunschweig Infantry Regiment. ⚭ Antoniette von Bülow (born November 20, 1806)
  • Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand (February 18, 1802 - January 21, 1859), Prussian major. ⚭ 1830 Bertha Rupe (born October 18, 1809)
  • Ludwig Hermann Alexander (born September 25, 1804; † September 11, 1847), father of Max von Bernewitz (1839-1892) from whom the mining engineer Max Wilhelm von Bernewitz (1878-1940) descended. ⚭ Minette (Wilhelmine) Christiane Friederike von Bülow (* August 11, 1807; † February 6, 1860)
  • Karl Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (* October 10, 1808; † December 15, 1878), commander of the Duke Braunschweig Infantry Regiment, major general and chamberlain in Braunschweig ⚭ Auguste Bosse (1815–1880)
  • Minette (Wilhelmine) Caroline Amalie (born January 31, 1806) ⚭ 1822 Friedrich Ludwig von Trauwitz († September 11, 1835), Rittmeister
  • Marie (born November 27, 1815) ⚭ Eduard Degner (emigrated to Texas)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
  2. ^ Ernst August Wilhelm Freiherr von Bernewitz digisrv-1.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, p. 91).
  3. ↑ Kortzfleisch: v. Bernewitz, August. in: The Black Corps 1809 and the Anglo-Braunschweig Infantry Regiment until 1814. P. 335.
  4. ↑ daughter of Gottfried Philipp von Bülow and Antoniette von Rauschenplatt
  5. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Bernewitz in: New general German Adels Lexicon. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1973, ISBN 3-487-04550-8 , p. 365.
  6. ↑ Johann Heinrich Karl v. Bernewitz ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on wwperson.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
  7. ^ Daughter of Wilhelm August Heinrich von Bülow and Caroline Wilhelmine Eleonore von Münchhausen
personal data
SURNAME Bernewitz, Johann Heinrich Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1821
Place of death Braunschweig