Carl Friedrich Heinrich von Wylich and Lottum

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Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich and Lottum (born November 5, 1767 in Berlin ; † February 14, 1841 ibid) was a Prussian officer , most recently a general of the infantry and a minister in several functions.

Life

origin

Carl Friedrich Heinrich was the son of the Prussian major general Friedrich Wilhelm von Wylich and Lottum (1716–1774) and his wife Anna Dorothea, née Scherff (* January 7, 1744, † February 14, 1796).

Military career

After his training at the Académie militaire in Berlin, he became an ensign in the Infantry Regiment "Anhalt-Bernburg" No. 3 on April 9, 1784 , where he also received the lieutenant's license on October 26, 1786 . In 1787 he moved to the new fusilier battalion from Schenck to Halle . With this formation he took part in the campaign against the Netherlands . During the First Coalition War , von Wylich and Lottum were Ordonnanzoffizier of General Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert . At the beginning of the war in 1793 he broke his foot when he fell from his horse, so that he was no longer fit for field service. In the same year he returned to Berlin and entered the Ober-Kriegs-Collegium.

After the Peace of Tilsit he resigned from the committee in 1807 and was appointed adjutant general to one of the military advisers of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. With his conservative attitude, which rejected a large part of the Prussian reforms , he quickly gained the benevolence of the monarch, who initially made him chairman of the committee for the reorganization of the army and, in December 1808, head of department in the war ministry . With this change in administration, von Wylich and Lottum also gave up his military rank. As early as 1810, however, he returned to military service as major general . In the same year he became chairman of the board of directors of the Great Potsdam Military Orphanage. In 1812 he traveled to Warsaw to negotiate the planned passage of Napoleon's troops on the campaign against Russia .

State government

Lissa Castle near Breslau (acquired in 1836)

From the spring of 1813 Wylich and Lottum belonged to the government college to conduct state affairs in the absence of the king. From 1814 to 1818 he stayed in Paris as a diplomat to collect war taxes from the defeated country. From 1817 he returned to Berlin, left the military again and from that point on was a member of the State Council as Minister of State . In 1818 he became Minister of the Interior and in this function also administered the royal finances. In 1821 Wylich and Lottum became ministers of the treasury . In 1822, Wylich and Lottum succeeded Hardenberg , whose post as State Chancellor was no longer occupied, the role of cabinet minister. This was not linked to any official, but only purely formal priority in the cabinet. From 1825 he was head of the audit office , the general control. On August 3, 1827 Wylich and Lottum received the character of general of the infantry.

In recognition of his services, he was awarded the diamonds for the Order of the Black Eagle on January 1, 1830 . In addition, the king paid tribute to him on April 8, 1834 on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in military service with a grant of 100,000 thalers, with which he bought the Lissa estate near Breslau in 1836.

Berlin

His official residence was in the Treasury, Wilhelmstraße 79. From 1820 he lived at Leipziger Straße 2. In 1834 he was made an honorary citizen of Berlin on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as the ninth holder of this title . At the same time, the law faculty of Berlin University awarded him an honorary doctorate . His grave is unknown. The grave chapel of the von Lottum family at the village church of Buchholz was demolished in 1937 and the coffins it contained were buried near the church entrance. Lottumstraße in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg was named after him because it was laid out on his property in 1860.

family

He was married to Sophie Luise Friederike, née von Lamprecht (born November 2, 1772, † February 6, 1841) since June 6, 1795. The couple has two sons:

  • Hermann Friedrich (* May 3, 1796; † October 3, 1847), Prussian Chamberlain, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Sicilian court in Naples later at the Dutch court ⚭ October 7, 1828 with Klotilde zu Putbus (* April 25, 1809)
  • Hermann Heinrich (born September 24, 1797 - † November 9, 1859), retired Prussian Rittmeister. D. ⚭ Wilhelmine Henriette Karoline Luise von Beyer, daughter of the War and Domain Councilor Johann August von Beyer and widow of Rittmeister Wilhelm Heinrich Franz Rimpert von Pieper († September 6, 1813)

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 4, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Wylich and Lottum, Carl Friedrich Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wylich and Lottum, Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry, as well as politician and minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1841
Place of death Berlin