Karl Gottfried von Knobloch

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Karl Gottfried von Knobloch (born October 12, 1697 on Glittehnen in East Prussia , † May 25, 1764 in Schweidnitz ) was a Prussian major general , chief of infantry regiment No. 29 and commander of the fortress Schweidnitz. He was a knight of the Pour le Mérite , heir to Thieresdorf, Schubkeimen and Wanghusen.

Life

origin

Karl Gottfried was the son of Johann Ehrhard von Knobloch († 1728) and his first wife Euphosine (Euphemia) Rosina von Tettau († 1713) from the Sandlack family. His brother was the Prussian major general Dietrich Erhard von Knobloch . After the death of his wife, his father married Veronika Charlotte von Lehndorff from the Statzen family, widow of Friedrich Wilhelm von Tettau, in May 1714 .

Military career

Knobloch came to the Jesuits in Rößel , where he received his education. In June 1713 he went into Prussian service and came to the 8th Infantry Regiment "Anhalt-Zerbst" stationed in Bartenstein .

There he was initially a common soldier for three months, after which he was appointed Junker. He took part in the siege of Stralsund during the Pomeranian campaign in 1715/16 . On September 2, 1717 he was ensign , on December 27, 1720 second lieutenant and on August 13, 1723 prime lieutenant . In 1724 he went to Holstein as a recruiter , which he did to everyone's satisfaction. On July 13, 1728 he was appointed chief of staff and sent back to publicity. In 1733 he had the bad luck of breaking his foot. Since the fracture healed poorly, he broke his foot again after five weeks. Fortunately for him, the injury was healing better now. In May 1735 Knobloch received his own company and in the following year 1736 he was sent to Switzerland for advertising, which was also very successful.

During the First Silesian War he was stationed in the Brandenburg Army Camp, which was set up in 1741 under Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau . In 1742 he joined the king's army in Silesia . So he took part in the Battle of Chotusitz on May 17, 1742 . On June 2, 1742 he became a major . In the Second Silesian War he fought near Hohenfriedberg .

On December 31, 1750 he became lieutenant colonel and on September 13, 1753 colonel . In the battle of Groß-Jägersdorf he led his own brigade . On April 30, 1758 Knobloch took over the infantry regiment "Schulze" No. 29 as major general . In June 1758 he occupied Freiberg and received his own corps . He occupied Erfurt with the corps in February 1759 and advanced to Bamberg . In July 1758 he returned to the king's army to lead a brigade again from August 12th. This time in the battle of Kunersdorf . The brigade consisted of two battalions each of the "Prinz Heinrich" infantry regiment No. 35 and the infantry regiment "von Golz" No. 24 . During the battle, Knobloch was hit in the right eye by a bullet. He was taken to Szczecin and operated on, the bullet being cut out through the right jaw of the jaw. Although he was still very weak, in the spring of 1760 he wanted to join the king's army again. But he sent him back and when the wound broke open again, he went to Berlin. When the Russians and Austrians advanced there in the Seven Years' War , Knobloch tried to organize the defense together with Lehwaldt and Seydlitz . But the defenders had to retreat to the Spandau Citadel .

In 1761 he returned to the king's army and received his own corps with which he operated against the Austrians in Silesia. When the Russians and Chernyshev (Czernichef) threatened the city of Wroclaw , he successfully opposed the army. He then reunited with the king's army, which holed up in the camp near Bunzelwitz . When the camp was closed, Knobloch and his corps moved to Poland and Pomerania to drive out the enemy troops there.

In September he was in the corps under Lieutenant General Dubislaw von Platen , which destroyed the Russian magazines at Koblin and Gostin. He fought in Pomerania near Korlin and near Spie and united with the corps under Eugene of Württemberg , which was supposed to relieve the besieged Kolberg . In October he was surrounded by Russian troops with the Treptow garrison on Rega and had to surrender on October 25th. In April 1762 he was under the new Tsar Peter III. released again.

He went back to the army of the king in Silesia, who again gave him his own troops. On October 14, 1762 he became the commandant of the Schweidnitz Fortress. In January 1764, he was visiting the fortress repairs when his horse fell. He seemed only slightly injured, but it got worse. On May 24, 1764, the king visited him at his sick bed and Knobloch died the next day.

family

Knobloch had been married to Sophia Louise Konstantine Drost vom Fisch (see Droste zu Hülshoff ) since June 10, 1738 , with whom he had three sons and two daughters.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm (born May 13, 1739; † May 18, 1817) military, Adjutant General von Tauentzien ⚭ NN von Börstel
  • Charlotte Amalie (born August 10, 1740) ⚭ July 22, 1764 Friedrich Wilhelm von Klingsporn
  • Karl Gottfried Friedrich (born November 24, 1744; † January 2, 1834), military, gentleman on Puschkaiten, Schlenbuhnen ⚭ Henriette von Ostau (born June 24, 1865; † 1816)
  • Anne Albertine Usuline (born November 29, 1746 - † November 9, 1818)
⚭ January 12, 1765 Friedrich von der Groeben in Wehlack
⚭ Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Hausen (1739–1818)
  • Johann Friedrich Ferdinand (born September 5, 1748) military

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Kindler von Knobloch; Baden Historical Commission [Hrsg.]: Upper Baden gender book. Volume 1: A-Ha. 1894, p. 558, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Knobloch, Karl Gottfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knobloch, Carl Gottfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 29, Commander of the Schweidnitz Fortress. Heir to Thieresdorf, Schubkeimen and Wanghusen
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Glittehnen in East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1764
Place of death Schweidnitz