Karl Friedrich von Selasinsky

Karl Friedrich von Selasinsky , also Carl Friedrich and von Selasinski (born January 24, 1786 in Vargow ; † April 26, 1860 in Berlin ) was a Prussian infantry general , member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and leading German Freemason .

Life

origin

Karl Friedrich was the son of the manor owner Friedrich Michael von Selasinsky (* 1755 in Schimmerwitz; † 1853 in Stolp ) and his wife Helene, born von Losthin (* 1749 in Vargow; † March 10, 1801 in Krampkewitz).

Military career

Selasinsky first visited the Stolp Cadet House on April 26, 1794 and then came to the Berlin Cadet Institute on May 18, 1799 . From there he was transferred on March 7, 1803 as an ensign in the infantry regiment "von Manstein" No. 55 . The following year, on June 3, 1804, he was promoted to second lieutenant . As such, he was on 13 May 1806 adjutant of Lieutenant General Hermann Johann Ernst von Manstein . During the Fourth Coalition War, 1806/07, Selasinsky fought at Praust , Zigankenberg, Friedberg and was in the defense of Danzig . After the defeat of Prussia and the peace of Tilsit he became inactive.

In December 1808 Selasinsky came to the 3rd East Prussian Infantry Regiment and was then transferred to the Cadet Corps in Berlin on March 17, 1810. Here he was used as a teacher until the beginning of February 1813 and was then commissioned to lead the institution's oldest pupils to Breslau . After the handover to General Tauentzien at the end of the month , Selasinsky first came to Scharnhorst and a few weeks later as an adjutant on the staff at Yorck . Selasinsky took part in the battle of Großgörschen with the Yorck Corps , where he was wounded and awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. He then fought at Bautzen , on the Katzbach and received the Iron Cross First Class for Leipzig .

After the Peace of Paris , Selasinsky became major and as such an adjutant under Lieutenant General von Zieten . Under him he was able to excel at Ligny and Belle-Alliance . For his brave behavior, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. on October 2, 1815 the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite . A few days later he was transferred to the 25th Infantry Regiment as battalion commander . At the beginning of July 1816 he joined the Erfurt Brigade as a general staff officer, received the Order of Saint Anne, 2nd class on December 10, 1816, and was transferred to the general staff of the 16th division on March 6, 1817. As early as March 1818, Selasinsky was assigned to General Ludwig von Wolhaben in Frankfurt am Main and to the Aachen Congress . On January 31, 1822, he was transferred to the General Staff in Berlin as head of section and on March 30, 1824, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel . Selasinsky was then Chief of the General Staff of the VII Army Corps from May 7, 1825 to March 29, 1835. In the meantime, on March 30, 1829, he became a colonel and then commander of the 10th Landwehr Brigade. He then changed the command post and took over the 13th Landwehr Brigade on April 11, 1835. In May 1835 he came back to the General Staff and was promoted to Major General on March 30, 1836 . On April 29, 1837, the king appointed Selasinsky as the successor to Lieutenant General von Stülpnagel as director of the Senior Military Examination Commission. In this position, Selasinsky was also a member of the commission for drafting new army regulations.

For his many years of service, Friedrich Wilhelm IV awarded him the star of the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves, on January 22, 1843 and promoted Selasinsky to Lieutenant General on March 30, 1844. Moreover Selasinsky was 1848 law Knights of St John .

Although Selasinsky was only partially able to serve due to his poor health, he became a member and chairman of the General Order Commission on January 15, 1850 and, additionally, on November 19, 1850, he was appointed General Inspector of Education . Under awarding of the character as General of Infantry Selasinsky received on 20 November 1851 board his farewell . As a farewell general, he remained chairman of the General Order Commission until December 2, 1852.

Social work

Selasinsky was from February 26, 1849 to May 12, 1849 a member of the first all-German parliament, the National Assembly in the Frankfurt Paulskirche , as a representative of the 13th electoral district ( Jüterbog ) of the province of Brandenburg . He belonged to the conservative Café Milani faction . On March 28th, he voted for the election of Friedrich Wilhelm IV as Emperor of the Germans.

Since 1848 he was a member of the Berlin Patriotic Association and since 1849 of the Treubunds with God for King and Fatherland .

Freemasonry

Karl Friedrich von Selasinsky was in 1816 in the the Grand National Masonic of Germany belonging Masonic Lodge Frederick William to the Iron Cross was added, which was then briefly in Erfurt worked. In later years he was a member of the Berlin lodge Pegasus . In 1838 Salinsky was elected to the assigned state grandmaster, in 1841 and 1842 he was state grandmaster. From 1849 until his death he held the highest office of this grand lodge as master of the order.

He was an honorary member of the Urania for friendship lodges in Bützow, for the temple of harmony and charity in Havelberg, Georg for loyalty in Neustrelitz and for the olive branch in Bremen. On December 1, 1853 he was made a knight of the Royal Swedish Order of Charles XIII. beaten, reserved for Freemasons.

family

Selasinsky had married Henriette Wilhelmine Juliane Jeannette von Knebel (born September 21, 1785 in Preußisch Stargard ; † February 5, 1872 in Berlin) in Friedrichsdorf near Falkenburg in Pomerania on September 28, 1810 . She was the daughter of the late Prussian Major General Christian Friedrich von Knebel . The marriage resulted in two daughters:

• Luise (* August 8, 1811 in Berlin; † November 26, 1833) ⚭ 1833 the government councilor Moritz Wilhelm Graf von Unruh (* June 18, 1804; † May 1, 1842). She died that same year in childbed, so that Selasinsky's family had no offspring.
• Elisabeth Amalie Bernhardine Wilhelmine (born November 19, 1812 in Berlin; † December 28, 1812 there)

Fonts

• Two lectures, given in the large order chapter of the Great State Lodge of Germany in Berlin. Manuscript printed for Bbr., Berlin 1849.
• Lectures on the files of the Scottish St. Andrew's Apprentice and Journeyman Degree. A gift of love from the great state lodge of the Freemasons of Germany to the glowing St. Andreas lodges. Great State Lodge, Berlin 1856.

literature

• Bernhard von Poten :  Selasinski, Karl Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 668 f.
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , pp. 287–290, no. 1553.
• Anton Frans Karl Anjou: Riddare af Konung Carl XIII: s order 1811–1900. Biografiska anteckningar. Eskjö 1900, p. 175 f.
• Roland Hoede: The Paulskirche as a symbol. Freemasons in their work for unity and freedom. Bayreuth / Frankfurt 1999, pp. 136-138.
• Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: International Freemasons Lexicon. Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition. Herbig, Munich 2006, p. 776.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses to the year 1840 , volume 13, p.513