Justus Scheibert

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Justus Scheibert (born May 16, 1831 in Stettin ; † July 4, 1903 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a Prussian engineer officer with the rank of major and war correspondent .

Life

Justus Scheibert was a son of the Szczecin school director Karl Gottfried Scheibert and his wife Adelheid, daughter of the Szczecin high school teacher Justus Günther Graßmann . Scheibert graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Schule in his hometown Stettin and joined the Prussian army in 1849 . He started at the 2nd Pioneer Department in Stettin and attended the United Artillery and Engineering School in Charlottenburg near Berlin .

Since 1859 Scheibert has reported on numerous theaters of war on behalf of the Prussian government. His reports on the US Civil War , the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Boer War made him one of the most sought-after military writers of his time.

As a Prussian observer of the American Civil War, Scheibert was on the Confederate side for seven months from 1863, including with Generals Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart in the battles of Chancellorsville , Brandy Station and Gettysburg .

Scheibert had an obvious preference for the south, on whose side he reported. He viewed the military and political leadership of the northern states as a bureaucratic mess. In his report, which was written immediately after the war, Scheibert compared President Abraham Lincoln's military inexperience with the wartime experience of Jefferson Davis and ridiculed him as “failing to do the job” of transforming the Union army from an “armed mob” into a powerful combat unit transform. On the other hand, he compared the south with the old English cavaliers and their old literary and cultural traditions.

Scheibert was also involved in the war against Denmark in 1864 and in the war against France in 1870/71 . In 1872 he was promoted to major. Most recently he was a course engineer in Küstrin from 1876 . In 1877 he was retired from the Prussian Army.

From 1880 to 1884 he was editor of the Hirschberger Zeitung Post aus dem Riesengebirge and from 1885 to 1902 of the Kreuzzeitung . He was also editor-in-chief of the newspaper Heer und Flotte .

Scheibert was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th Class with Swords (1864) and the Lippe Cross of Honor (1875).

Scheibert was married and had five sons. The brigadier general and military writer Horst Scheibert (* 1918; † 2010) was his grandson.

Fonts

The year of the first publication is always given, if it can be determined. There are numerous new editions, some of which have been expanded, from various publishers.

  • In the Confederate camp. 1863.
  • Seven months in the rebel states during the North American War. Publishing house Th. Von der Nahmer, Stettin 1863.
  • The civil war in the North American states. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1874.
  • Justus Scheibert's US Civil War
Volume 1: Confederate Profiles.
Volume 2: Battles and Skirmishes.
Volume 3: Strategy and Tactics.
  • The war of 1870–1871 between Germany and France. Gustav Fock Verlag, Leipzig 1888.
  • The Great Horse Battle at Brandy Station. with Heros von Borcke , Paul Kittel Verlag, Berlin 1893.
  • The sailing sport. Publisher Grethlein, Leipzig.
  • Illustrated German military lexicon. W. Pauli's Nachf. (H. Jerosch), Berlin 1897.
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I and his time. Becker Verlag, Berlin 1898.
  • The war in China 1900–1901. Volume 1, Verlag A. Schröder, Berlin 1901.
  • The war in China 1900–1901. Volume 2, Verlag A. Schröder, Berlin 1902.
  • The Boers' struggle for freedom and the history of their country. Verlag A. Schröder, Berlin 1900.
  • With sword and pen. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1902.
  • The wars of 1864 and 1866: based on the large general staff works. Vaterländischer Verlag, Berlin 1904.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See the blurb of the republication in the Confederate Camp. 1991, written by Horst Scheibert, Brigadier General a. D. and grandson of Justus Scheibert
  2. ↑ Post on 1st-cs-battalion.eu retrieved October 13, 2018
  3. ↑ Justus Scheibert and International Observation of the Civil War , The Gettysburg Compiler , December 12, 2014
  4. ↑ a b J. Scheibert: With sword and pen . Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son, Berlin 1902.
personal data
SURNAME Scheibert, Jupiter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian engineer officer, war correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1903
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde