Karl Ludwig von Schony

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From Schony's Freikorps. 1761

Karl Ludwig von Schony was a Prussian major and leader of a Prussian Freikorps (F IV).

He was a captain in a Württemberg hussar regiment before he received a patent for a Prussian free corps on March 17, 1761 and was made a major. According to the agreement of May 29, 1761, it was to consist of a Hungarian Free Hussar Corps of four companies (16 officers, 469 men) and a Hungarian Free Hussar Corps of two squadrons (19 officers, 226 men). This should be advertised among captured Hungarians in Breslau .

It took part in the battles at Kreyersbach and Börnichen, also fought in the battle of Burkersdorf and was then used for cover tasks at Schweidnitz . At the end of 1762 it was then merged with the Hüllessem Freikorps .

After the Treaty of Hubertusburg , the unit was dissolved in 1763.

Schony then went to Poland , where he recruited troops in 1767.

literature

  • The Royal Prussian Schonysche and Gschraysche Freikorps . In: The Soldier's Friend No. 48, 1880/81, pp. 476–478
  • Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th: Century to 1914 , Volume 2, p. 686
  • Anton Balthasar König : Karl Ludwig von Schony . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 426 ( Karl Ludwig von Schony at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. Hermann Mendelssohn, Leipzig [1853], p. 423
  • Gottlob Naumann : Collection of unprinted messages , Volume 2, Dresden 1782, p. 287
  • Frank Wernitz : The Prussian Free Corps in the Seven Years War, 1756–1763. Creation, use, effect . Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New genealogical-historical news , Leipzig 1762, p. 306.
  2. ^ Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807. A source manual . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 338.
  3. ^ State relation of the latest European news and events , Regensburg 1767, p. 697.
personal data
SURNAME Schony, Karl Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and leader of a Prussian volunteer corps
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century