Karl von Canitz and Dallwitz

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Karl Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von Canitz and Dallwitz, 1847. Graphic by Eduard Kretzschmar.

Karl Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von Canitz and Dallwitz (born November 17, 1787 in Kassel , † April 25, 1850 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and statesman .

origin

Canitz and Dallwitz came from the noble family Canitz and Dallwitz , which was temporarily resident in the Meissnian-Saxon Mulde region in today's municipality of Thallwitz , but had to sell the manor there in 1592 due to debts. His parents were the court marshal in Hessen-Kassel Wilhelm von Dallwitz (1744-1805) and his wife Charlotte, née von Haudring (1757-1825). His father was a Prussian colonel and heir to Großburg and roast pork. The grandfather Melchior Friedrich von Canitz-Dallwitz (1700-1759) fell on June 23, 1758 as a Hessian major general from the consequences of an injury from the battle near Sandershausen .

Life

He studied in Marburg jurisprudence and then went into Hessian services. During the Fourth Coalition War , he joined the Prussian Army in 1806 and took part in the battle of Heilsberg as a second lieutenant . He was wounded and awarded the Order of Pour le Mérite for his behavior on July 18, 1807 . In 1812 he was assigned to the general staff of General Yorck von Wartenburgs when part of the Prussian army set out for Russia . After the conclusion of the Treaty of Tauroggen , he went into Russian services. Here he made the train to Berlin and Hamburg under Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn . During the armistice in 1813 he returned to Prussian service and served again in the general staff of Yorck's army corps . After the war he was with the general command in Breslau .

In 1821 Canitz became adjutant to Prince Wilhelm, the brother of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , and at the same time teacher at the General War School in Berlin. At that time he wrote the book anonymously: Reflections on the deeds and fate of the cavalry in the campaigns of Frederick II and the modern era (2 vols. Berlin 1823-24). When Prussia took on the role of mediator in the Russo-Turkish War in 1828, Canitz and Dallwitz were sent to Constantinople as ambassadors extraordinary .

In 1830 he was appointed chief of the general staff in the Guard Corps and soon afterwards commander of the 1st Hussar Regiment . During the uprising of the Poles against Russia , he was at the headquarters of Russian Field Marshal Diebitsch . In 1833 he was envoy to the Hessian court and was promoted to major general. From 1837 he was envoy in Hanover , Oldenburg and Braunschweig , and between 1842 and 1845 in Vienna .

After the resignation of Minister Heinrich von Bülow (1845), Canitz was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs . He oriented his politics to the Austro-Russian and also influenced domestic politics in the sense of a strictly ecclesiastical conception. On March 17, 1848, he resigned - like the other members of the Bodelschwingh cabinet . In May 1849 he was sent to Vienna to get Austria's consent to the closer federal state planned by Prussia . But Canitz had to return without having achieved anything. He took over command of the 5th Division in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Karl Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von Canitz and Dallwitz died on April 25, 1850 in Frankfurt (Oder).

family

He married Auguste von Schmerfeld (1787-1825) in Großburg (Silesia) in 1809. She was the daughter of the Hessian privy councilor Jakob Sigmund von Schmerfeld and his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth Ihring. The couple had six children including:

  • Adolph (1810–1868), Colonel a. D. ⚭ Countess Luise von der Recke (* 1815) widow of Karl von Schlippenbach († 1832)
  • Karl Friedrich Ernst (1812–1894), Prussian envoy extraordinary and authorized minister in Naples ⚭ 1860 Helen Giorgeana Knight, daughter of Esq. John Knight on Woverlew
  • Julius Ernst Konstantin (1815–1894), Minister-Resident in Lisbon and Minister Plenipotentiary in Darmstadt ⚭ 1856 Aurelie Groeninx van Zoelen van Ridderkerk
  • Auguste (1822–1904)
⚭ 1849 Ludwig von Massow (1794-1859)
⚭ 1868 Ferdinand Stiehl (1812–1878)
  • Christiane (1824-1880)
⚭ 1845 Otto Graf von Westphalen (1807–1856), Prussian envoy and authorized minister in Petersburg
⚭ 1864 Friedrich Joseph von Westphalen

Works

Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz and Dallwitz is believed to be the author of the work

  • A layperson's reflections on the new way of looking at the Gospels of Dr. DF bouquet . Dieterich, Göttingen 1837 ( digitized version )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the NDB wrongly names him Schmerling according to the Hochfürstl.-Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adreß-Calendar. P. 56, digitized , it is Schmerfeld
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1870, p. 691.
personal data
SURNAME Canitz and Dallwitz, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canitz and Dallwitz, Karl Wilhelm Ernst Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general, statesman
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1850
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)