Karl Heinrich von Poseck

Karl Heinrich von Poseck (born February 7, 1718 , † 1784 in Stettin ) was a Prussian major .

Life

origin

Karl Heinrich came from the Schwarzburg noble family von Poseck . His parents were the Schwarzburg captain Heinrich Friedemann von Poseck († 1753) and Dorothee Elisabeth von Saltza .

career

Poseck began his career in 1734 in a Schwarzburg regiment, which came to Prussia via Mecklenburg in 1742. In the “Forcade” regiment he advanced to major. In 1762 he became the commander of a grenadier battalion which emerged from the grenadier companies of regiments No. 1 and No. 23 . January 23, 1770 to his death Poseck served as regimental commander of Szczecin Country Regiment supplied.

He took part in the battles near Hohenfriedeberg , Soor , Reichenberg , Prague , Roßbach , Leuthen , Zorndorf , Liegnitz , Hochkirch , Torgau and Freiberg . He was lightly wounded off Prague and badly wounded at Torgau. At Freiberg, his grenadier battalion made the first attack together with the "Woldeckschen", where he acquired the order Pour le Mérite .

Poseck was the heir to Wolfshausen , Bösleben and Rottenbach .

literature

• Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807 , Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 4, 80, 325 u. 582 ( digitized on Google Books )
• Anton Balthasar König : Karl Heinrich von Poseck . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 199 ( Karl Heinrich von Poseck at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses , 12th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1911, p. 594ff .
2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon , Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, p. 224.
3. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, Mittler , Berlin 1913, No. 633, p. 113.