Julius von Wickede

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Julius von Wickede

Anton Julius von Wickede (born July 11, 1819 in Schwerin ; † March 22, 1896 ibid) was a German officer, journalist and writer who wrote mainly about military and regional history topics.

Life

Julius von Wickede (No. 137 of the gender census ) came from the so-called Tolziner line of the Luebeck patrician family von Wickede . His ancestor Gottschalk Anton von Wickede (1689-1740) had acquired the Mecklenburg estates of Nigleve, Tolzien and Fredenhagen (today Niegleve, Tolzin and Friedrichshagen, all districts of Lalendorf ) and was accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood in 1702. His father, Friedrich von Wickede (No. 117 of the gender census), was a chamberlain and hunting squire and later a forestry councilor in Schwerin. In 1836 Julius von Wickede joined an Austrian cadet , and in 1839 he joined the 1st Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 17 . In 1842 he retired as a second lieutenant . He began studying history and economics at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg .

Landing place in Varna, illustration from Wickede's report "Pictures from Varna" (1854)

In the course of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising in 1848 , however, he was again active as an officer and served in the Schleswig-Holstein army , where he was last brigade adjutant of the cavalry . After the end of hostilities in 1851, he went to France , participated in the ranks of the Chasseurs d'Afrique in a campaign against Bedouin tribes in Algeria . The insights he gained in this way with the French army he processed in his work The French Army in Its Relation to the Emperor Louis Napoleon and the German Army. This was followed by other works of various kinds in quick succession, and Julius von Wickede developed more and more into a military writer. A London newspaper sent him to the Crimean War as a war correspondent . After returning to Germany, he continued to work as a writer until in 1859, when the German federal contingents were mobilized against France in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, he was appointed captain and commander of the field gendarmerie of the X Federal Army Corps. Since the expected war did not (yet) occur, he again took his leave. He traveled to Italy, from where he reported on Garibaldi , and in 1864 as a correspondent for the Kölnische Zeitung on the theater of the German-Danish War . He was also a correspondent for this newspaper in Bohemia in 1866 and in France from 1870–1871 .

From 1867 to 1875 he lived in Gotha , then he came back to his hometown Schwerin.

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Apart from his war reports, whose exceptional quality is praised to this day, the books he left behind form a collection of more than 60 volumes. Almost all of them deal with warfare and the life of a soldier. Many were published by Eduard Hallberger Verlag in Stuttgart in a series of entertainment readings for the military and their friends . Von Wickede often gives his historical stories the form of compilations from diaries or papers that have been left behind , giving them a special touch. Today the genre would most likely correspond to documentary fiction . His contemporaries valued their personal character , in addition to a winning freshness, warm patriotism , as well as beautiful scenic images and historically interesting descriptions, especially in novels, the scene of which is the author's Mecklenburg homeland. Even then, however, it was clear: Later times will be comfortable with Wickede's books don't deal.

Fonts

  • The abolition of the English navigation file and the German, especially Mecklenburg, Rhederei. Hamburg: Perthes-Besser & Mauke 1850
Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  • From the life of a tourist. Altona: Hammerich 1852
  • The French Army in Relation to the Emperor Louis Napoléon and the German Army Parts / From a German Officiere a. D. Leipzig: Herbig 1853
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  • Images from war life. Stuttgart: Hallberger 1853
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  • From the south. Stuttgart: Hallberger 1853
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  • A Soldier's Life , Hallberger, 1854
Part 1, campaigns in Spain, Russia and France
Part 2, campaigns in the Netherlands, Belgium and South America, and establishment in Central America
Part 3, Campaigns in Greece, Poland, Algeria and Spain
  • The French army in 1854-55. Leipzig: Herbig 1855
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  • The son of the regiment: Austrian soldiers' history. 2 volumes, Stuttgart: Hallberger 1855/56
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  • Comparative characteristics of the Austro-Hungarian, Prussian, English and French land armies. Stuttgart: Hallberger 1856
  • The Officer's Rights and Duties: A Guide for Young Men. Stuttgart: Hallberger 1857
  • The soldiers of Frederick the Great: Prussian soldiers' stories. 4 volumes, Leipzig: Herbig 1858
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  • Germany's and France's power: a protective and defensive writing. Potsdam: Stein 1859
  • A German equestrian life: memories of an old hussar officer from the years 1802-1815. Berlin: Duncker 1861
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  • Long Isaack: historical novel from the time of the German war of liberation. Leipzig 1863
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  • Memoirs of a legitimist from 1770 to 1836: based on handwritten diaries, letters and notes from the estate of the Marquis Henri Gaston de B. ... Potsdam: Stein 1858
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  • A recent German Landsknecht: from the life of a deceased person, according to the papers he left behind. Jena: Costenoble 1864
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  • From the diary of a French officer in Mexico. Leipzig 1864
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  • War and camp images from the current Schleswig-Holstein war. Leipzig: Purfürst 1864
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  • Duke Wallenstein in Mecklenburg: historical novel. Jena [u. a.]: Costenoble 1865
  • A hussar officer of Frederick the Great: According to Hans Leberecht von Bredow's handwritten notes. Jena [u. a.]: Costenoble 1866
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  • A German bourgeois family: edited from a family chronicle. Jena: Costenoble 1867
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  • The 25-year government of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: a popular script for Mecklenburg. Schwerin: Stiller 1867
  • The organization of the army and warfare according to the authorizations of the present: for thinking officers, statesmen and members of the state parliament. Jena: Costenoble 1867
  • From old diaries: Following "A German Citizens Family". Jena: Costenoble 1868
  • Joachim Slüter or the introduction of the Reformation in Mecklenburg: Historical novel. Berlin: Janke 1869
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  • A Prussian officer: edited from the notes of someone who remained in the field. Hanover: Rümpler 1872
  • A busy life / according to the records of the quay. Russian Colonel Friedrich Reinhardt. Hanover: Rümpler 1873
  • History of the wars of France against Germany over the past two centuries. Hanover: Rümpler 1874
  • Life, deeds and adventures of Freiherr Gustav vd Ostau. Berlin: Wedekind & Schwieger 1875
  • What a German lieutenant can become: a novel from the present. Leipzig 1878
  • Die Streber: Social novel from the present. Wroclaw 1884

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Julius von Wickede  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The note from Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the small German courts. (History of the German courts since the Reformation, Volume 36) Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1856, p. 166 that the tax director of Wickede in Rostock is said to be the father of this tourist - that would have been the state tax director and Drost Ludwig August Leonhard von Wickede so incorrect.
  2. ↑ According to Vehse (ibid.), He was dismissed from the Mecklenburg military service in a sonic manner because he was riding around the table for the ladies of his regiment chief. No one believed what he said about not being able to hold his horse.
  3. ^ Commentaries of unusual excellence , Joseph Mathews: Reporting the Wars. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1957, p. 250
  4. ↑ The GBV catalog lists 160 entries!
  5. ↑ ADB
personal data
SURNAME Wickede, Julius of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wickede, Anton Julius von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1896
Place of death Schwerin