Karl August Pfannkuche

Karl August Pfannkuche (born May 5, 1794 in Verden ; † February 28, 1869 in Hamburg ) was a German officer and most recently Lieutenant General and President of the Hanover General Court of War.

Life

Karl August Pfannkuche was born as the thirteenth and youngest child of Pastor Christoph Gottlieb Pfannkuche (1745–1811) in Verden. He was a brother of the lawyer and historian Christoph Gottlieb Pfannkuche (1785–1868).

Pfannkuche attended grammar school and was actually intended for the clergy, but fled to Heligoland during the French occupation in 1809 and entered British military service. He stayed in England until 1812 and attended, among other things, the military training institute in Portchester . In 1812/13 he fought in the King's German Legion on the Iberian Peninsula . After the end of the Napoleonic Wars he joined the Hanoverian Army . In 1840 he was transferred to a major and shortly afterwards from Hanover to Stade . In May 1842 he held a leading position in fighting the Great Fire in Hamburg . In 1847 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. During the Schleswig-Holstein war he had in 1848 in command of the artillery of the X. Army Corps of Armed Forces . Then he was transferred back to Hanover. From 1853 he was colonel and director of the army equipment and became major general in 1854 and lieutenant general in 1859. For several years he served as President of the General Court of Justice. After the dissolution of the Hanoverian Army (1866) he said goodbye and moved to Wandsbek , where he died in 1869. He found his final resting place in Hamburg's St. George's cemetery.

literature

• Adolf Pfannkuche: History of the Hanoverian Pfannkuche family . o. O. [around 1965]