Julius von Hartmann (General, 1774)

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Georg Julius Hartmann , von Hartmann since 1856 (* May 6, 1774 in Hanover ; † June 7, 1856 ibid) was a royal Hanoverian general of the artillery .

family

He was the son of Gustav Wilhelm Christian Hartmann (1738–1798). Hartmann's first marriage was on February 18, 1816 in Hanover, Sophie Hausmann (born November 7, 1788 in Hanover; † August 19, 1824 there). After her death, he married Marianne Meyer (born March 20, 1789 in Achim ; † July 4, 1885 in Hanover) on September 7, 1826 in Hanover . She was widowed from her first marriage to a bailiff Heise.

Shortly before his death, Julius Hartmann was raised to the royal Hanoverian hereditary nobility in Hanover on May 15, 1856 with a diploma from June 6, 1856 by King George V of Hanover .

He had five biological children, one of whom is the royal Prussian cavalry general Julius von Hartmann (1817–1878). His daughter Helene Franziska Friederike (* April 27, 1831, † April 11, 1915) was married to the historian Georg Waitz .

Military background

Hartmann joined the artillery in 1787 as a volunteer cadet and then completed the "Artillerie-Ekole" in Hanover , where he learned to serve as a gunner under the influence of Gerhard von Scharnhorst . From 1793 to 1794 Hartmann took part in the campaigns against France in the Netherlands . From 1797 to 1799 he worked under Gerhard von Scharnhorst in the staff of the Quartermaster General and in 1803 became a captain in the King's German Legion after the dissolution of the Electorate of Hanover .

Hartmann took part as a member of the King's German Legion in the war on the Iberian Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington and was most recently commander of the artillery. Finally he took part in the Battle of Waterloo and was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of Bath on January 2, 1815 . After his return to the Hanoverian service in 1816 he was appointed commander of the entire artillery in 1833 , for the organization of which he rendered great services. In 1836 he was promoted to lieutenant general and finally took his leave in 1850.

Honor grave

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Hartmann, who died of a stroke in 1856 , was first buried in the garden cemetery in Hanover . In 1885 he was on the city cemetery Engesohde reburied . His grave is one of the honor graves of the state capital Hanover. It can be found in section 35, number 36a – b.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Waitz: Hartmann, Julius von (see literature)
  2. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 226.
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Hartmann, (1) Georg Julius von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 152.
  4. ↑ . O V. : Project Scientific viewing eponymous personalities. Final report. Recommendations of the Advisory Board , ed. from the state capital Hanover, Central Affairs Culture, Urban Remembrance Culture, Hanover: LHH, September 2018, Annex 2: List of honorary graves (as of September 2015); also as a PDF document from hannover.de
  5. ↑ top v .: Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde city cemetery , 3 pages DIN A 4, Hanover: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Städtische Friedhöfe, status: July 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Georg Julius; Hartmann, Georg Julius from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1856
Place of death Hanover , Lower Saxony