Johann Karl von Horlacher

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Knight Johann Carl von Horlacher , lithograph from the 19th century.

Johann Karl von Horlacher (also: Ritter Johann Carl von Horlacher ; born March 26, 1769 in Crailsheim ; † March 26, 1852 ibid) was a German physician, Prussian senior surgeon and general division doctor . He was also a student of the general surgeon Johann Friedrich Goercke , family doctor of the Prussian Foreign Minister Karl August Freiherr von Hardenberg and personal doctor of the Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt . He was the owner of the manor, lord of Amlishagen Castle .


Life

Johann Karl von Horlacher was born in Crailsheim on March 26th, 1769 as the son of a family of hospital bathers and hospital surgeons. After studying in Erlangen and training to become a senior physician at the military medical training institute in Berlin , he accompanied King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1806 and 1807 . including in the double battle of Jena and Auerstedt , then as part of the Fourth Coalition War after Tilsit and Königsberg .

In 1809 he became the personal physician of the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt, who was known from the Wars of Liberation, with whom Horlacher was deeply friends. Horlacher, who was almost always in the field, took part in the Wars of Liberation and the battles of Ligny and Waterloo from 1813 to 1815 . Horlacher healed Blücher several times as a regimental physician and later as a general physician from various diseases, which led Blücher to the following statement:

“Yes, Horlacher! You are a good guy! In my whole life I will not forget what you did to me. "

- Gebhard Leberecht Blücher from Wahlstatt on Johann Karl von Horlacher

On October 17, 1821, Johann Karl von Horlacher acquired the 183 ha Amlishagen manor, on which Amlishagen Castle is also located, from the bankruptcy estate of the Barons von Holtz for 60,000 guilders . During his time as a landlord, he was considered caring, among other things, he supported the affected residents in rebuilding after a major fire, improved the roads and financed the expansion of the school house.

Johann Karl von Horlacher died highly decorated and respected at the age of 83 on his birthday in 1852 in his hometown Crailsheim.

Honors and nominations

For his services in the Wars of Liberation, Johann Karl von Horlacher received from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Iron Cross 2nd class. In addition, he was awarded both the Imperial Russian Order of Saint Anne (2nd class) and the Imperial Russian Order of Saint Vladimir (4th class) by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. While the Order of Saint Anne led to personal nobility , the Order of Saint Wladimir Johann Karl von Horlacher, which was awarded before 1900, elevated to the hereditary Russian nobility .

In 1850 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal nobility . A year later (1851), he was appointed honorary senior of the royal Prussian Iron Cross 2nd class.

A street in Crailsheim was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königlich Statistisches Landesamt (Ed.), The Royal Württemberg - A Description by Districts, Upper Offices and Municipalities , Third Volume, Stuttgart 1906, p. 62.
  2. ↑ Sven-Uwe Bürger, Amlishagen Castle - Notes on Property History, in: Historischer Verein für Württembergisch Franken (Ed.), Württembergisch Franken - Yearbook 1992/1993, Schwäbisch Hall 1992, p. 57.
  3. ↑ a b Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.), New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 30 II, 1852 , Weimar 1854, p. 902, no. 498.
  4. ↑ a b Sabrina Ott, Das Crailsheimer Spital , in: Historischer Verein für Württembergisch Franken (Ed.), Württembergisch Franken - Jahrbuch 2006/2007, Schwäbisch Hall 2007, p. 37.
  5. ↑ Carl Ludwig Bieske: The Field Marshal Prince Gebhard Leberecht Blücher von Wahlstatt - A biographical sketch. Berlin 1862, p. 51.
  6. ↑ Sven-Uwe Bürger, Amlishagen Castle - Notes on Property History, in: Historischer Verein für Württembergisch Franken (Ed.), Württembergisch Franken - Yearbook 1992/1993, Schwäbisch Hall 1992, p. 58.
  7. ↑ Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.), New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 21 I, 1843 , Weimar 1845, p. 90, No. 28.
  8. ↑ Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau (ed.), Königlich Württembergisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch , Stuttgart 1854, p. 50.
  9. ↑ Alexander Göschen (ed.), Deutsche Klinik - newspaper for observations from German clinics and hospitals, Volume 3, year 1851 , Berlin, p. 412.
personal data
SURNAME Horlacher, Johann Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horlacher, knight Johann Carl von; Horlacher, Carl; Horlacher, knight Johann Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, personal physician to Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Crailsheim
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1852
Place of death Crailsheim