Karl Peter von Theobald

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Karl Peter von Theobald , full name Karl Peter Wilhelm Apollinaris von Theobald (born October 22, 1769 in Rastatt , † October 10, 1837 in Nuremberg ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general who was awarded the Military Max Joseph Order as a personal title of nobility a knight had received from.

Life

He was born as the son of Johann Peter Theobald (1717–1802), Lieutenant Colonel and War Councilor from Württemberg, and his wife Maria Barbara von Gauthier (1745–1785) from Wissembourg in Alsace. The father's brother, Johann Wilhelm Theobald , was a Catholic religious priest, first provincial of the Lazarists in the Electoral Palatinate and pastor of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

Karl Peter Theobald attended schools in Heidelberg and Strasbourg , then moved to the High Charles School in Stuttgart and joined the Palatinate-Bavarian army in 1790 . He became a lieutenant in the 8th Fusilier Regiment and fought in the First and Second Coalition Wars . In the Third Coalition War, the officer fought as a Bavarian captain against the Tyroleans in 1805 and as a major in Silesia in 1807 .

He took part in the Austro-French War in Tyrol in 1809, as a lieutenant colonel and battalion chief, he fought in Russia in 1812 . In May 1809 he became a Knight of the French Legion of Honor .

During the Wars of Liberation against France, Karl Peter Theobald commanded the 1st Battalion of the 9th Line Infantry Regiment on October 30 and 31, 1813, in the Battle of Hanau , as a colonel , with General Joseph Maria von Rechberg (1769-1833) serving him Defense of the Main Bridge and of Sachsenhausen transferred. He then advanced to the command of the 10th Infantry Regiment . Theobald distinguished himself as such during the siege of Belfort on December 28, 1813, when he, together with the cavalry officer Carl von Mannlich , rejected a violent enemy attack, taking several opponents prisoner and not suffering any losses of their own. In 1814, he and his troops played a decisive role in the victorious outcome of the Battle of Bar-sur-Aube on February 27, 1814. For storming the city, Karl Peter Theobald was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order and was named a “Knight von “raised to the personal nobility. At the same time he received the Knight's Cross of the Austrian Leopold Order and the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Russian Order of St. Anne .

After the war, Theobald was appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" in Munich in 1815 . In 1823 he was appointed major general and brigadier in Augsburg , and in 1825 he took up the same position in Speyer . In 1828 he was promoted to head of division in Würzburg and received the Order of Ludwig on his 50th anniversary in service . In 1832 Theobald advanced to the rank of Lieutenant General , in 1836 he retired and died in Nuremberg in 1837, where he had spent the last months of his life.

Karl Peter von Theobald was buried in the Nuremberg military cemetery ( Gostenhof ), which adjoins the historic Rochusfriedhof . There he has the most elaborate and beautiful grave, donated by his wife and daughter. The bronze sculptures in the grave were made by the famous ore caster Jakob Daniel Burgschmiet .

The Theobald barracks in Germersheim was named after the officer; it was demolished in 1962. Likewise, there is reminiscent Theobald Street at him.

His brother Joseph von Theobald (1772–1837) was a general from Württemberg and a member of the state parliament. Joseph Karl Valentin Theobald (1800–1862), another brother, worked as a lieutenant general in Baden.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To Johann Peter Theobald
  2. ^ Genealogical page on the family of Johann Peter Theobald
  3. ↑ Werner Gebhardt: The students of the Hohan Karlsschule. A biographical lexicon . Stuttgart 2011, p. 523
  4. ↑ According to the epitaph
  5. ^ Carl von Plotho: The war in Germany and France in the years 1813 and 1814. Volume 2. Berlin 1817. P. 450, 462. Scans from the source
  6. ↑ Karl Gemminger: Bavarian That book , Passau, 1830, page 282; (Digital scan)
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich von Cotta: Allgemeine Zeitung Munich. Year 1814. p. 284. Scan from the source
  8. ↑ The Bavarian soldier in the field. Volume 1. P. 506. Bavarian War Archives . Munich 1898.
  9. ↑ Photos of the tomb
personal data
SURNAME Theobald, Karl Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theobald, Karl Peter Wilhelm Apollinaris von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Lieutenant General, Knight of the Max Joseph Order
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1837
Place of death Nuremberg