Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke

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Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke (born February 18, 1776 in Stargard in Pomerania ; † December 15, 1830 there ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He came from the Old Pomeranian Borcke family and was the son of the Prussian major a. D. Ernst Gottlieb Kurt von Borcke (1757-1816), gentleman on Dewsberg , and his wife Anna Greinert, widowed Hallensleben. His brother Ernst von Borcke (1774-1838) was a Prussian major general.

Military career

From April 1787 to April 1789 he attended high school in Stargard and then for a year the cadet school in Berlin . In 1790 he joined the infantry regiment "von Raumer" of the Prussian Army as a private corporal and from 1793 served as an ensign in the depot battalion . Assigned to the regiment in 1794, he was promoted to second lieutenant in July 1795 . From May 1802 Borcke exercised the function of governor at the Académie militaire in Berlin, whose interim director he, meanwhile captain , became in July 1809. Promoted to major in May 1810, in 1811 he took command of the fusilier battalion of the 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regiment (No. 2) , with which he took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign. Borcke received the order Pour le Mérite for bravery and wounding in the battle near Dahlenkirchen on the Daugava river near Riga on August 22, 1812 .

Under Dörnberg's command , Borcke fought successfully with his battalion on April 2, 1813 in the battle near Lüneburg . In this first major battle of the Wars of Liberation , Borcke earned the promotion to lieutenant colonel and that shortly before from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Donated Iron Cross 2nd class. He is considered to be the first to receive this award. On May 30, 1813, he was able to distinguish himself as commander of the fusilier battalion in the battle at the Nettelnburg lock . Appointed commander of the Brandenburg Infantry Regiment in July 1813 and promoted to colonel in September , Borcke took part in the campaigns of 1813/14 and 1815. In the Battle of Leipzig he acquired the Iron Cross 1st Class, the Sword Order and the Order of Saint Vladimir . On December 8, 1813, Borcke received the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite. In May 1814 he became major general and brigade commander . He fought in the Battle of Ligny and was then assigned to the occupation forces in France until 1817. From 1818 he commanded the 4th division in Stargard, where he was appointed lieutenant general in 1824 .

On December 15, 1830 Borcke had an accident on a hunt in the Friedrichswalder Forest and died on the same day in Stargard, where he was buried.

family

Borcke married Ernestine Johanna Christiane von Broesigke (1764–1836) in 1806 , divorced from Le Coq.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. von Mach: History of the Royal Prussian Second Infantry Genant King Regiment from its foundation in 1677 to December 3, 1840. ES Mittler, Berlin 1843, p. 227f.
personal data
SURNAME Borcke, Karl August Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1830
Place of death Stargard in Pomerania