Karl von Canitz and Dallwitz
Karl Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von Canitz and Dallwitz (born November 17, 1787 in Kassel , † April 25, 1850 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and statesman .
origin
Canitz and Dallwitz came from the noble family Canitz and Dallwitz , which was temporarily resident in the Meissnian-Saxon Mulde region in today's municipality of Thallwitz , but had to sell the manor there in 1592 due to debts. His parents were the court marshal in Hessen-Kassel Wilhelm von Dallwitz (1744-1805) and his wife Charlotte, née von Haudring (1757-1825). His father was a Prussian colonel and heir to Großburg and roast pork. The grandfather Melchior Friedrich von Canitz-Dallwitz (1700-1759) fell on June 23, 1758 as a Hessian major general from the consequences of an injury from the battle near Sandershausen .
Life
He studied in Marburg jurisprudence and then went into Hessian services. During the Fourth Coalition War , he joined the Prussian Army in 1806 and took part in the battle of Heilsberg as a second lieutenant . He was wounded and awarded the Order of Pour le Mérite for his behavior on July 18, 1807 . In 1812 he was assigned to the general staff of General Yorck von Wartenburgs when part of the Prussian army set out for Russia . After the conclusion of the Treaty of Tauroggen , he went into Russian services. Here he made the train to Berlin and Hamburg under Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn . During the armistice in 1813 he returned to Prussian service and served again in the general staff of Yorck's army corps . After the war he was with the general command in Breslau .
In 1821 Canitz became adjutant to Prince Wilhelm, the brother of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , and at the same time teacher at the General War School in Berlin. At that time he wrote the book anonymously: Reflections on the deeds and fate of the cavalry in the campaigns of Frederick II and the modern era (2 vols. Berlin 1823-24). When Prussia took on the role of mediator in the Russo-Turkish War in 1828, Canitz and Dallwitz were sent to Constantinople as ambassadors extraordinary .
In 1830 he was appointed chief of the general staff in the Guard Corps and soon afterwards commander of the 1st Hussar Regiment . During the uprising of the Poles against Russia , he was at the headquarters of Russian Field Marshal Diebitsch . In 1833 he was envoy to the Hessian court and was promoted to major general. From 1837 he was envoy in Hanover , Oldenburg and Braunschweig , and between 1842 and 1845 in Vienna .
After the resignation of Minister Heinrich von Bülow (1845), Canitz was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs . He oriented his politics to the Austro-Russian and also influenced domestic politics in the sense of a strictly ecclesiastical conception. On March 17, 1848, he resigned - like the other members of the Bodelschwingh cabinet . In May 1849 he was sent to Vienna to get Austria's consent to the closer federal state planned by Prussia . But Canitz had to return without having achieved anything. He took over command of the 5th Division in Frankfurt (Oder) .
Karl Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von Canitz and Dallwitz died on April 25, 1850 in Frankfurt (Oder).
family
He married Auguste von Schmerfeld (1787-1825) in Großburg (Silesia) in 1809. She was the daughter of the Hessian privy councilor Jakob Sigmund von Schmerfeld and his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth Ihring. The couple had six children including:
- Adolph (1810–1868), Colonel a. D. ⚭ Countess Luise von der Recke (* 1815) widow of Karl von Schlippenbach († 1832)
- Karl Friedrich Ernst (1812–1894), Prussian envoy extraordinary and authorized minister in Naples ⚭ 1860 Helen Giorgeana Knight, daughter of Esq. John Knight on Woverlew
- Julius Ernst Konstantin (1815–1894), Minister-Resident in Lisbon and Minister Plenipotentiary in Darmstadt ⚭ 1856 Aurelie Groeninx van Zoelen van Ridderkerk
- Auguste (1822–1904)
- ⚭ 1849 Ludwig von Massow (1794-1859)
- ⚭ 1868 Ferdinand Stiehl (1812–1878)
- Christiane (1824-1880)
- ⚭ 1845 Otto Graf von Westphalen (1807–1856), Prussian envoy and authorized minister in Petersburg
- ⚭ 1864 Friedrich Joseph von Westphalen
Works
Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz and Dallwitz is believed to be the author of the work
- A layperson's reflections on the new way of looking at the Gospels of Dr. DF bouquet . Dieterich, Göttingen 1837 ( digitized version )
literature
- Hartmann: Canitz and Dallwitz, Carl Wilhelm Ernst Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 757-759.
- Gerhard Kaiser: Canitz and Dallwitz, Karl Wilhelm Ernst Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 124 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , pp. 373-377, no. 1603.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1866, p. 122
Individual evidence
- ↑ the NDB wrongly names him Schmerling according to the Hochfürstl.-Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adreß-Calendar. P. 56, digitized , it is Schmerfeld
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1870, p. 691.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Canitz and Dallwitz, Karl von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canitz and Dallwitz, Karl Wilhelm Ernst Freiherr von (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general, statesman |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1787 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1850 |
Place of death | Frankfurt (Oder) |