Johann Ludwig von Ingersleben

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Memorial plaque for Ingersleben on the obelisk in Rheinsberg

Johann Ludwig von Ingersleben (born October 16, 1703 in Lippehne , † November 22, 1757 near Breslau ) was a Prussian major general . He belonged to the immediate environment of Frederick the Great .

Life

origin

He came from the noble family of Ingersleben . His father Kaspar Heinrich von Ingersleben (born January 29, 1672, † January 10, 1739) was chief forest master in Mansfeld and owner of the order de la Générosité . The mother was Wilhelmine von Lautensack (born May 14, 1685 in Braunschweig). His brother was Colonel Rudolf August von Ingersleben .

Military career

Initially educated by private tutors, Johann Ludwig attended the pedagogy in Halle from 1718 to 1721 . In 1722 he joined the Infantry Regiment "Anhalt-Dessau" of the Prussian Army as a private corporal , from where he, promoted to ensign , transferred to his "Tall Guys" - the royal regiment in Potsdam - in 1723 at the request of King Friedrich Wilhelm I. Second lieutenant since 1726 , Ingersleben was part of the personal contact of Crown Prince Friedrich in the residence and was involved in his escape plan in 1730. He came before the court martial in Köpenick , which sentenced him to six months in prison. Friedrich Wilhelm, who liked him, released him from the sentence and wrote to him “he should let this serve as a warning”. The king pulled Ingersleben close to him and sent him to the Netherlands and the empire as a recruiter . After the death of his father, he awarded Ingersleben his order De la Générosité in 1739.

After Friedrich II ascended the throne on May 31, 1740, Ingersleben, in contrast to which Friedrich had maintained the friendly attitude, went through a career in the 1st Battalion of the Guard Regiment in the same year from prime lieutenant to company commander and captain . He also received the post of governor of Kolberg . As an officer of the Guard Battalion, Ingersleben was now a constant companion of the king, even on his travels. Occasionally, Friedrich sent him to the Reich with special assignments. In the First Silesian War Ingersleben fought in the battle of mollwitz and distinguished himself in the Second Silesian War variously made. In 1747 the king promoted him to colonel of the army. In 1754 he appointed him Chief of the Feldjägerkorps and Hofjägermeister . A year later he rose to the position of colonel and commander in the 1st Guard Battalion and in May 1756 became major general with an annual allowance of 1200 thalers.

During the Seven Years' War , Ingersleben took part as a troop leader in the siege near Pirna and the battle near Lobositz and was commandant of Dresden for three months . From December 1756 the king granted him an additional pension of 500 thalers. He was shot through the body in the battle of Prague . In the Battle of Kolin , one shot struck his wallet and another shot into his foot. On November 22nd, 1757 he was seriously wounded in the Battle of Breslau and died of a leg amputation on November 27th, 1757.

He was a knight of the order Pour le Mérite . Prince Heinrich of Prussia dedicated a plaque on his Rheinsberg obelisk to him .

family

On July 11, 1742, he married Charlotte Dorothea von Herold (* September 4, 1712; † 1777), widowed von Platen, daughter of the secret finance councilor Christian von Herold . With her he had two sons and four daughters:

⚭ NN von Brösigke († 1796)
⚭ NN from Massow

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Priesdorff: p. 412 (lit.).
  2. ↑ Großer Generalstab (Ed.): 1806. The Prussian officer corps and the investigation of the war events. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1906, p. 49f., 268–277, especially on Ingersleben p. 273.
personal data
SURNAME Ingersleben, Johann Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippehne
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1757
Place of death Wroclaw