Karl Ritter von Caspers

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Coat of arms after the ennoblement

Karl (Carl) Caspers , from 1807 Knight of Caspers (born August 29, 1776 in Düsseldorf , † October 28, 1843 in Augsburg ), was a Bavarian major general .

Life

origin

His father Carl Caspers (1744–1813) came from Mannheim and was a lieutenant colonel in the Bavarian engineering corps . From 1764 to 1784 he served as an officer in the Electorate of the Palatinate in Düsseldorf, which is why the son was born there.

Military career

Caspers joined the artillery troops of Kurpfalz-Bayern on April 1, 1791 as a volunteer, and in 1793 he became a corporal . His first combat mission was in the Second Coalition War , which he participated in from 1800 as a second lieutenant . Here he distinguished himself in the battle of Hohenlinden , where he was praised in the battle bulletin . In the Third Coalition War he held the rank of first lieutenant , in the Fourth Coalition War that of a captain . As a battery leader, Caspers had fought outstandingly with his unit on November 7, 1806 when the fortress Groß-Glogau was enclosed, for which he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor . On February 8, 1807, against all expectations , Caspers brought his battery up a snow-covered, icy mountain, which succeeded in conquering the city of Wartha and the surrounding area. For this achievement he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Caspers after his entry in the nobility register .

During the Russian campaign in 1812 , Caspers came as a courier to Moscow . In 1813 he fought in the battle of Hanau . For his bravery in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube on March 20, 1814, he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne II Class.

On October 9, 1825, Caspers was promoted to Colonel and Colonel Commander of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment in Augsburg, and from 1827 in Würzburg . He stayed in this position until January 19, 1840. Then Caspers was appointed city commander of Nuremberg and promoted to major general. In December of that year he became the commandant of the Germersheim Fortress , where he soon fell ill and had to be retired. Caspers retired to Augsburg, where he died in 1843.

His brother Wilhelm Caspers, a Bavarian first lieutenant, also carried the cross of the Legion of Honor.

literature

  • Obituary. In: Anton Johann Groß-Hoffinger: The eagle. No. 261. Vienna. November 6, 1843, p. 1069 of the year, (Digitalscan)
  • Rudolf von Xylander : History of the 1st Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment. Volume 1, Mittler Verlag, Berlin 1905, p. 432. (Tabular curriculum vitae)
  • Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria. No. 41. Munich. December 23, 1843. Column 813 of the year. (Digital scan)
  • List of all persons who died in the 1843th church year in the royal Bavarian capital Augsburg, Catholic part. Augsburg 1843, p. 19. (digital scan)
  • Bavarian War Archives (ed.): The Bavarian soldier in the field. Volume 1, Munich 1898, pp. 160-162; 192-194.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Heinrich Jäck: Most important life moments of all royal. Bavarian civil and military servants of this century. Volume 4, Augsburg 1819, pp. 43-44. (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ This episode was later published under the title Eine Kühne Bernung in Volume 1 of the memorial The Bavarian Soldier in the Field (pp. 160–162).
  3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . 1974. p. 251. (detail scan)
  4. ↑ This act also appeared later in Volume 1 of the book The Bavarian Soldier in the Field (pp. 192–194) and was entitled The Caspers Battery in the Battle of Wartha.
  5. ^ Military weekly paper . Volume 59, 1874. pp. 829, 831. (detail scans)
  6. ↑ Augsburger Postzeitung. No. 24 of January 24, 1840 (digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Caspers, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caspers, Karl; Caspers, Karl Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian major general
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1843
Place of death augsburg