Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Loeben

Baron Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Loeben (born April 30, 1730 in Königsberg in the Neumark , † after 1788) was a Prussian major .

Life

origin

Karl Friedrich Albrecht came from the Silesian noble family von Loeben . His parents were the Prussian major in the regiment Margrave Albrecht and Knight of the Order of St. John Heinrich Otto von Loeben († 1734) and Christine von Hagen .

career

Loeben began his career on 4 May 1743 as a Page in Margrave Karl , was also his body Page and entered on April 14, 1750 ensign in the old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 19 (1806) . He advanced on 30 November 1752 to second lieutenant , on January 8, 1758 to first lieutenant , on November 11, 1760 to staff captain , and on 22 February 1762 real captain . In January 1768 Loeben received the order Pour le Mérite . In 1773 he was finally promoted to major. At the same time he became the commander of a grenadier battalion which arose from the grenadier companies of regiments No. 19 and No. 25 . In the War of the Bavarian Succession he acted as chief of these grenadiers from 1778 to 1779 . On November 4, 1782 to its dissolution in 1788 Loeben served as regimental commander of the Berlin District Regiment supplied.

Loeben was taken prisoner in the battle near Maxen , but until then had participated in the campaigns of Frederick the Great since the siege near Pirna and distinguished himself several times. He took an active part in the sieges of Prague and Breslau, the battles near Prague , Roßbach and Leuthen (wounded), Hochkirch (seriously wounded), Kunersdorf and the battles near Meissen, Strehlen, Grätz and Lauban (wounded).

family

Löben married Philippine von Wollmirath in 1761.

literature

• Anton Balthasar König : Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Loeben . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 426 ( Karl Friedrich Albrecht von Loeben at Wikisource [PDF]).
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3, Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1837, p. 288
• Cast, Genealogical Yearbook of the German Nobility, p.378

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , Justus Perthes , Gotha 1905, pp. 453–464
2. ↑ History and news of the royal. prussia. Infantry Regiments Prince Friedrich August von Braunschweig, p.92
3. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, Mittler , Berlin 1913, No. 660, p. 118 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807 , Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, pp. 67, 86, 323 u. 578 ( digitized on Google Books )