Karl Christoph Wilhelm von Hessberg

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Karl Christoph Wilhelm von Hessberg (also: Hesberg, Heßberg; * December 2, 1775 in Laar ; † January 1, 1813 in Königsberg in Prussia ) was an Elector of Hesse and then a royal Westphalian officer, most recently a brigadier general and commander of the 2nd Westphalian hussar regiment .

origin

His parents were the Hesse-Kassel captain a. D. Ernst Ludwig von Heßberg (* August 24, 1738 - September 21, 1796) and his wife Marie Wilhelmine born. Goddaeus (* 1749 - † May 16, 1788).

Two of his brothers died before him in Napoleon's Russian campaign Wilhelm Ernst Ludwig (1773-1812) as a lieutenant colonel and commander of the Westphalian Guard - Hunters in the Battle of Smolensk , and Christoph Karl (1779-1812) was a lieutenant since the Battle of the Beresina missing. His brother Georg Wilhelm Ernst (1777-1852) survived the campaign and became lieutenant general and war minister in Hesse-Kassel. The youngest brother Louis / Ludwig (1788–1872) retired in 1833 as a Hesse-Kassel lieutenant colonel and then became known as a religious zealot.

Life

He rose to the rank of non-commissioned officer in the cadet corps of the Electorate of Hesse, and in 1806 he became a staff commander. During the establishment of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he was taken over in its service, where in January 1808 he became a captain adjutant to the Minister of War Morio . In March 1808 he came as a second lieutenant in the Westphalian Garde du Corps , where he was appointed squadron chief on July 7, 1808 . On February 23, 1809 he became chief of the staff of the approximately 6,000 strong Westphalian division ordered to Spain under General Morio, who was dismissed as Minister of War at the behest of Emperor Napoleon in August 1808 , and their two brigades on May 6 and 7, 1809 for the third siege arrived from Gerona before Gerona and stayed there until December of that year.

In 1810 he was briefly commander of the 1st Chevauleger regiment. On June 16, 1810 he was promoted to colonel and transferred to the 2nd Hussar Regiment as commander. On June 1, 1811, King Jérôme appointed him his honorary stable master.

As commander of the 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment, he took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812 and was seriously wounded in the Battle of Borodino on September 7, 1812. He was promoted to brigadier general and returned to Königsberg , where he succumbed to his wounds and fever on January 1, 1813.

literature

  • Jakob Meyer, story of the fates and war adventures of the Westphalian artillery sergeant Jakob Meyer from Dransfeld , p. 39 partial view , ISBN 978-3940980076
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1902. Third volume, p.354

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Hohenhausen: Biography of General von Ochs . Luckhardt, Kassel, 1827, p. 241
  2. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility ; Second volume, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1893, p. 332
  3. ^ Leopold von Hohenhausen: Biography of General von Ochs . Luckhardt, Kassel, 1827, pp. 217, 239, 255-256
personal data
SURNAME Hessberg, Karl Christoph Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl Christoph Wilhelm von Hesberg; Karl Christoph Wilhelm von Heßberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Westphalian brigadier general, most recently commander of the 2nd hussar regiment
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Laar
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1813
Place of death Königsberg in Prussia