Karl von Decker

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Karl von Decker (also Karl Otto Johann Decker ; born April 21, 1784 in Berlin , † June 29, 1844 in Mainz ) was a Prussian major general and a military and fiction writer .

Life

origin

Karl von Decker was the son of Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Decker (1744–1828), who died on July 14, 1828 in Carlsruhe (Upper Silesia) , and his wife Sabiene Sophie, née Moelter (1755–1785).

career

He began his military career in 1797 in his father's artillery regiment . In 1800 he became a lieutenant , took part in the campaigns of 1806 and 1807 and acquired the order Pour le Mérite near Eylau . In 1809 he joined the Corps of the Black Duke as Rittmeister, and in 1813 he returned to Prussian service as a captain in the General Staff and took part in the battles of Dresden , Kulm and Leipzig and in the campaigns of 1814 and 1815.

In 1816 he became the conductor of a department of the topographic bureau , in 1817 a major , in 1818 a teacher at the artillery and engineering school and on May 16, 1819 ennobled. From 1829 he was Brigadier 8th, the 1st Artillery Brigade, participated as Colonel in 1841 his farewell was even promoted to major general in 1842 and died on 29 June. 1844

With Otto August Rühle von Lilienstern , von Decker founded the military weekly paper in 1816 and was co-editor of the military literary newspaper from 1821 . Decker also wrote several comedies under the pseudonym Adalbert vom Thale . He was a member of the Berlin Freemasons' Lodge at the Golden Plow .

family

He married Amalie von Heydebrandt and the Lasa (1790–1864) in Königsberg on August 17, 1808 . The couple had several children including:

  • Amalie (1809–1877) ⚭ Stanislaus von Leszczynski († 1852), Major a. D.
  • Karl Friedrich Albert (1813–1867), retired lieutenant. D., Lord on Babalice and Gorzechowko
⚭ June 29, 1840 Bertha Julia Rafalski (1820–1860)
⚭ October 26, 1862 Natalie Schüßler (* 1832)
  • Hermann (1815–1872), Prussian Lieutenant General ⚭ 1838 Julia von Kybusch (1818–1874)
  • Sidonie (1817-1880)
  • Adolph (1821-1853), Prussian captain

plant

Karl von Decker

  • 1815: The military take-up. Berlin; Digitized
  • 1816: The artillery for all weapons. 3 volumes, Berlin, volume 1
  • 1817: Views on Warfare in the Spirit of Time. Berlin; Digitized
  • 1819: The combat theory of the two combined weapons: cavalry and mounted artillery. Berlin; Digitized
  • 1819: History of guns and artillery in Europe. Berlin, digitized , digitized
  • 1822: The little war in the spirit of modern warfare. Berlin (4th ed. 1844); 3. Edition
  • 1825: Bonaparte's campaign in Italy in 1796 and 1797. Berlin, digitized
  • 1828: Basic principles of practical strategy. Berlin, digitized
  • 1828: The Prussian pocket artilleryman. Berlin, digitized
  • 1830: General Staff Science. Berlin (revised by his son, 1862); Digitized version (handbook for officers part 8)
  • 1833–1834: Tactics of the three weapons: infantry, cavalry and artillery. (Berlin 1833-34, 2 parts.); Part 1
  • 1835: The troop meeting at Kalisch in the summer of 1835. [Self-published], on commission from JH Bon, Königsberg 1835.
  • 1837: The battles and main skirmishes of the Seven Years' War. Berlin; Digitized
  • 1837: Supplementary tactics for field artillery. Berlin;
  • 1839: Views of the use of artillery in the field maneuvers of the line troops. Digitized
  • 1842: Algeria and the warfare there. Berlin, Volume 1 , Part 2
  • 1840: Announcements of a trip through the southern states of the German Confederation. Digitized
  • 1842: The Shrapnels. Establishment and theory of the effect of this projectile. Digitized

Adalbert vom Thale

  • 1827: The bath of fate and birthday games
  • 1828: Margot Stofflet

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon or geological and diplomatic news . Leipzig, 1836, p. 403 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Literature Sheet No. 1, January 2, 1827, p. 183; ( Digitized version )
  3. ^ Margot Stofflet, Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler , Berlin, Posen and Bromberg, 1828, 170 p. ( Digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Decker, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1844
Place of death Mainz