Julius von Grawert

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Julius August Reinhold von Grawert (born December 28, 1746 in Königsberg , † September 18, 1821 in Oberthalheim / Landeck ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Julius was the son of Johann Benjamin von Grawert (1709–1759) and his wife Christiane Sophie, born von Schollenstern (1717–1796).

Military career

Grawert entered on May 1, 1759 as a private corporal in the infantry regiment "von Tauentzien" of the Prussian army . As commander of the "Duke of Braunschweig" infantry regiment and governor of Wetter in the county of Mark , Grawert was awarded the Pour le Mérite order on May 27, 1789 . Grawert was a member of the military society . After he had become Lieutenant General on May 20, 1805 , he acted from August 1, 1807 as Commanding General in Silesia and was governor of this province. In this position, King Friedrich Wilhelm III beat him . September 9, 1810 Knight of the Black Eagle .

On March 24, 1812, he was promoted to General of the Infantry. As such, he was in command of the Prussian auxiliary corps during Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812. In the same year he was replaced by General Yorck due to illness . He retired to his country estate near the spa town of Bad Landeck in the Lower Silesian district of Habelschwerdt , where Grawert was finally retired on March 24, 1820 with an annual pension of 4,000 thalers.

Grawert was active in military science and, in addition to a large number of maps and plans, also created a treatise on the battle of Pirmasens in 1793.

family

Grawert was married to Franziska Elisabeth Freiin von Chlum (1745-1825) since 1776, whose gravestone is preserved on the churchyard wall in Bad Landeck.

Works

  • Detailed description of the battle of Pirmasenz, September 14, 1793 in three sections, along with a battalion plan and the associated general charter . Horvath, Potsdam 1796. Digitized

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard von Meerheimb :  Grawert, Julius August Reinhold von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 617 f.
  2. ^ Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in Old Prussia 1738-1806: the lodges in Pomerania, Prussia and Silesia. Studienverlag, 2009, p. 590.
  3. ↑ Karlheinz Gerlach ( see above ) gives the dates of life as 1746–1825. In the grave inscription, which is illegible in some places, is clearly born August 1745 .
  4. ^ Photo of the tombstone of Elisabeth Freiin von Chlum on the churchyard wall in Bad Landeck
personal data
SURNAME Grawert, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grawert, Julius August Reinhold von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1821
Place of death Oberthalheim, Landeck