Karl Ernst Grießenbeck von Grießenbach

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Karl Ernst Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (born September 25, 1787 in Amberg , † January 3, 1863 in Munich ) was a royal Bavarian chamberlain and officer, most recently major general . From 1836 to 1848 he was commander of the Bavarian Cadet Corps .

Life

family

Karl Ernst Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach came from the old Lower Bavarian noble family Grießenbeck von Grießenbach and Hahnreit. In 1739 the family was elevated to the status of electoral Bavarian baron. His father Franz Christoph Balthasar Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (* 1739; † 1801), electoral councilor of Upper Palatinate and later royal Bavarian treasurer, married Sidonia (* 1784; † 1831), a born Freiin von Streit, the mother of Karl in 1784 Serious. He had six siblings, five sisters and one brother.

Military background

In 1801 Karl Ernst came to the pagerie as an electoral noble boy , where he was educated until 1804. He graduated from high school in 1804 at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . On September 29, 1804 he was appointed lieutenant in the royal Bavarian body regiment . In the 1805 campaign against Austria , Grießenbeck von Grießenbach was assigned to the depot .

During the fighting in the Fourth Coalition War against Prussia , Grießenbeck von Grießenbach had several opportunities to distinguish himself. During the storming of Breslau in December 1806, Grießenbeck von Grießenbach and numerous volunteers carried out a mock attack. Although the storm on the town and the mock attack failed, he was commended for his prudent and valiant behavior in an army order of March 1807. During the siege of the Cosel Fortress in January 1807, Grießenbeck von Grießenbach was able to repel a failure of the Prussian troops and was wounded by a grazing shot himself.

After the battle at Kanth in May 1807, he was given the task of taking the Mühlbrücke over the Schweidnitzer Wasser . Only with a small group did he manage to throw the attacking enemy back to the second larger bridge with a bayonet attack. This gave his superior time to take the Prussian prisoners brought in, the hand horses, the baggage of the French general François-Joseph Lefebvre with two Bavarian ammunition wagons and wagons on which the entire officers' baggage and the knapsacks of the crew of his battalion were to Schweidnitz to safety bring. He himself arrived in Breslau at night through the Prussian lines, accompanied only by one soldier. During the attack on the fortified camp in front of Glatz in June 1807 he was assigned to the vanguard and one of the first to take the entrenchments by storm.

A chapter of the Order of the Military Max Joseph Order held in Straubing on January 13, 1808, chaired by General Karl von Vincenti , was in favor of the fact that Grießenbeck von Grießenbach was excellent in the storm of Breslau during the campaign of 1806/1807 Failure before Kosel and in the storm of Glatz, but only his actions at Kanth entitle him to join the order. By army order of September 27, 1808, Grießenbeck von Grießenbach was accepted as a knight in the Military Max Joseph Order for his behavior in the battle near Kanth on May 14, 1807.

During the campaign against Austria and Tyrol in 1809, he was first lieutenant since February 8, 1808, and was shot in the thigh at the Battle of Abensberg in April 1809. During the fight against the Tyrolean rebels in October 1809, Grießenbeck von Grießenbach was able to storm the Bodenbühl and force the rebels to retreat. When storming the Isel mountain near Innsbruck , he and his riflemen played a decisive role. Promoted to captain on March 7, 1810 , for family reasons he asked for his departure, which was granted on October 18, 1810.

Through his marriage to Magdalena Caroline Freiin du Prel, he came into the possession of the Pilsach manor house . There was a protracted legal dispute with his wife's siblings, which he was able to win. Kaspar Hauser is said to have been imprisoned in Pilsach Castle when the castle was owned by Karl Ernst Grießenbeck von Grießenbach .

With the establishment of the royal gendarmerie on 11 October 1812 semolina Beck was of Grießbach on 24 November 1812 as captain and squadron of the 3rd Gendarmerie Legion in Regensburg reinstated and came after the lifting of the squadron at the gendarmerie in March 1816 as a company commander after Passau .

On May 31, 1817 he was appointed royal Bavarian treasurer and on March 17, 1821 Rittmeister and exempt in the Hartschiere's bodyguard . On November 24th he was promoted to major and on January 1, 1832 to lieutenant colonel . With an army order of December 30, 1836, Grießenbeck von Grießenbach was appointed colonel and commander of the Bavarian Cadet Corps. An office he held until 1848. On May 22, 1843 he was characterized as major general and on January 1, 1846 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

Karl Ernst Grießenbeck von Grießenbach retired on March 31, 1848 and, after receiving the Cross of Honor of the Order of Ludwig on May 15 , died on January 3, 1863 at the age of 75 in Munich.

Marriage and offspring

Karl Ernst Grießenbeck von Grießenbach married Magdalena Caroline (* May 30, 1784 - January 22, 1850) on March 25, 1808, the daughter of Johann Baptist Freiherr du Prel and his wife Theresia von Schmaus. They had two daughters and three sons. Christian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (born November 19, 1809; † May 16, 1853), his son and heir of the Grießenbach family estate, married Karoline von Kobell (born August 17, 1809; † December 9, 1899) in 1853 as a royal Bavarian Chamberlain and chief accountant in Munich. His son Karl Sigmund Christian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (* 1844; † 1881) became a district judge in Landshut and was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies from 1875 to 1878 . Christian's younger brother Maximilian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (* July 24, 1817 - † August 29, 1886) married Benigna Pfretzschner (* March 12, 1832 - October 29, 1889) in 1853 and became the royal Bavarian post office official in Regensburg. The youngest brother Friedrich Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach served like his father as an officer in the royal Bavarian army .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 224
personal data
SURNAME Grießenbeck von Grießenbach, Karl Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grießenbeck von Grießenbach, Karl Ernst Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian officer, most recently major general and commander of the Bavarian Cadet Corps
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1863
Place of death Munich