Joseph von Cloßmann

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Johannes Joseph Cloßmann , von Cloßmann since 1790 (born June 7, 1755 in Mannheim , † January 19, 1826 in Karlsruhe ) was a lieutenant general and governor of Karlsruhe from Baden .

Life

origin

Joseph was the third son of the Palatine Hofkammerrates to Mannheim Georg Cloßmann (1731-1787) and his wife Leopoldine, nee Hartmann (* 1785). For his services, the father was raised to the hereditary imperial and electoral Palatinate nobility by the Palatinate-Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor on May 25, 1790 .

Military career

Cloßmann served from the age of 11 in the Palatinate and Palatinate-Bavarian army . In the First Coalition War he commanded the Electoral Palatinate Feldjäger Battalion as a major and led the assault on the Battenberg on September 18, 1794, under the command of the later General Field Marshal von Blücher , together with the Prussian Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Müffling . For his bravery in the battle of Kaiserslautern (November 1794), Cloßmann received the Kurpfalz-Bavarian military medal and the Prussian order Pour le Mérite . As a result of the abolition of the military emblem, he became a knight of the newly founded Military Max Joseph Order in 1806 . On September 6, 1802, Cloßmann took possession of the imperial city of Schweinfurt for Bavaria .

In 1803 Clossmann's home on the right bank of the Electoral Palatinate fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden , into whose military service he transferred. Cloßmann became the commander of a regiment and advanced to major general in 1805 . During the Fourth Coalition War in 1807 he took part in the siege of Kolberg and Danzig as the commanding general of the Baden contingent . For the storming of Dirschau on February 23 of that year, Cloßmann received the Commander's Cross of the Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit . After the end of the campaign and return home, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order in 1807 . He became lieutenant general, commander of the Leib-Infanterie-Regiment and military governor of the Baden capital. Retired in 1823, Cloßmann died here in 1826.

family

Cloßmann was married to Christine Minet (1755-1835) from 1787. The following children were born from the marriage:

• Wilhelm (1788–1855), Major General and Commandant of Rastatt from Baden
• Maria Gertrud (1792–1868) ⚭ Theodor August Seutter von Lötzen , lieutenant general of Baden and governor of the Rastatt fortress
• Josef (1794–1835), Baden captain ⚭ Marie Böcklin von Böcklinsau (1801–1835)

literature

• Ms. Cast: South German noble hero. Stuttgart, 1844, pp. 244-246; (Digital view)
• Friedrich von Weech (ed.): Badische biographies. First Part, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 148–150, (digital view)

Web links

• Website about the grave in the Karlsruhe main cemetery
• Close-up of the tombstone adorned with the family crest and the three orders
• Regest in the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Archives for the elevation to the nobility, 1790

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Baden-Baden, 1886, p. 100, (digital view)
2. ↑ Oscar von Sichlern: History of the royal Bavarian 5th Chevaulegers Regiment "Prince Otto". Munich 1876, p. 42, (digital scan)
3. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1812, p. 42, (digital scan)
4. ↑ Uwe Müller: Schweinfurt - from the imperial free imperial city to the royal Bavarian city. In: Rainer A. Müller, Helmut Flachenecker, Reiner Kammerl (eds.): The end of the small imperial cities in 1803 in southern Germany. Supplement to the magazine for Bavarian regional history, B 27, Munich 2007, pp. 139–163, (digital view )