Johann Karl Leopold von Larisch

Johann Karl Leopold von Larisch (born January 23, 1734 in Dzielna, near Ciasna , Lublinitz district , † May 16, 1811 in Charlottenburg ) was a Prussian officer , most recently lieutenant general and chief of infantry regiment No. 26 . He is the namesake for the Larisch embroidery .

Life

origin

Johann Karl Leopold was the son of Johann Adam von Larisch (* 1690; † March 13, 1783 in Breslau ) and his wife Anna Helene, born von Schneckenhaus (* 1712; † October 25, 1776). His father was master of Dzielna and march commissioner of the Lublinitz district.

Military career

Larisch first entered the Infantry Regiment “von Anhalt-Dessau” No. 3 and participated in the Seven Years War and the War of the Bavarian Succession . In 1789 he received the Pour le Mérite . He became the commander of the Infantry Regiment "von Braunschweig" No. 21 with whom he took part in the First Coalition War in 1792/94 . From December 29, 1794 he was chief of the infantry regiment "von Wildau" No. 14 on January 5, 1795 he was major general and on June 4, chief of Infantry Regiment No. 26 , which was dissolved after Blucher surrender at Ratekau , making Larisch the last commander of the Regiment was. On May 22, 1801 he was promoted to lieutenant general. On August 6, 1803 he received the Great Red Eagle Order . In 1805 he commanded the reserve of the Lower Saxony Army. In 1806 he joined the Prussian Army in Hanover. After the Prussian defeat in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , he took command of the Rüchel corps , as the general had been wounded in the battle. The corps lost its way on the retreat and went to Erfurt . When the fortress surrendered on October 16, 1806, he was taken prisoner by the French. He returned to Prussia on August 20, 1807, but received no further command due to his old age.

family

Larisch married Juliane Magdalene, widowed von Bosse, née Guichard (born January 20, 1740 in Magdeburg; † September 1, 1807 in Berlin) on December 27, 1768 in Magdeburg. The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , pp. 434-435, no. 912.
• Tilman Stieve (arrangement): Gerhard von Scharnhorst. Private and official publications. Volume 4: General Staff Officer between Crisis and Reform. Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-27105-5 , p. 121.
• Leopold Zedlitz: New Prussian Nobility Lexicon. Reichenbach, Leipzig 1837, pp. 203/204. (Digitized on: books.google.de )
• Kurd Wolfgang von Schöning: The generals of the Chur-Brandenburg and royal Prussian army from 1640-1840. Lüderitz, 1840, p. 163. (digitized on: books.google.de )

Web links

• Larisch