Karl von Jacobi (General)

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Karl Jacobi , von Jacobi since 1866 (born June 24, 1790 in Celle , † June 4, 1875 in Hanover ) was a Hanoverian general of the infantry and minister of war.

General von Jacobi

Life

Jacobi was a son of Andreas Ludolf Jacobi (1746-1825) and his second wife Wilhelmine Thaer, a sister of Albrecht Thaer . He grew up in Celle and Hanover. From 1808 he studied law at the University of Göttingen , where he was a co-founder and member of the Corps Hannovera . He continued his studies in Heidelberg in 1809 after the Göttingen gendarme affair and was one of the founders of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg . After finishing his studies he became a lawyer in 1811, first in Celle, then in Hanover.

During the Wars of Liberation he discovered his preference for the military and on April 13, 1813, joined the Hanover Army as a sergeant in the light battalion "Lüneburg" . After three weeks of service, without ever having been an ensign , he was promoted to lieutenant . Five weeks later he took command of a company and a month later, on July 27, 1813, he was captain . He took part in the battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo . His company was the victim of a French cavalry attack. The company was sent to the farm orchard just after 2 p.m. from its position about 600 meters northwest of La Haye Sainte , while the other companies were scattered around the house to fight the French skirmishers . In the event of an unexpected cavalry attack, due to the distribution of the individual companies, it was no longer possible to form a square . The men were slaughtered individually and without a chance to defend themselves. 20 were killed, 37 wounded. With that the battalion had lost more than a third of its original strength; it no longer existed as a unit. After the war, Jacobi was awarded the Guelph Order for his service in both battles .

After the war Jacobi was a member of the General Staff until 1850 and was an extraordinary member of the Hanover State Council from 1839 to 1848 . As head of the Adjutantur General, he gained direct contact with King Ernst August and in 1850, as Major General, he became Minister of War of the Kingdom. After the death of King Ernst August (1851) he resigned because of divergent views with his successor King George V , became a member of the Hanover State Council, from 1852 to 1855 appointed member from 1856 to 1866 again an extraordinary member of the Hanover State Council. From 1854 he was also Bundestag envoy for the Kingdom of Hanover at the German Federal Assembly of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main.

At the end of May 1854 Jacobi resigned from service with the appointment of commander of the 2nd Infantry Division , one year later he was promoted to Lieutenant General and on May 18, 1859 was given command of the 1st Infantry Division . In this capacity he rose to General of the Infantry on December 3, 1860. In 1862 he retired and was raised to hereditary nobility on May 17, 1866. As a friend and connoisseur of Prussia, he anticipated the deployment of the Hanoverian troops to the battle of Langensalza with “Finis Hannoverae”.

The Hanover General Staff Officer Bernhard von Jacobi was one of his sons.

Awards

Jakobistraße

The path that existed as a garden path in 1850 in what is now the Hanover district of List was officially named Jacobistraße in 1854. The street, which leads from today's Lister Platz to Isernhagener Straße, was named after "the royal Hanoverian general of the infantry Karl von Jacobi" according to the Hanover history papers from 1814. According to the same source, however, the street is "named after a Jakob Buchhol who built the first house on it", possibly the bricklayer Jakob Christian Ludwig Buchholz (November 1, 1799 - July 21, 1855 in Hanover).

Works

  • The military budget of the Kingdom of Hanover in political and financial terms: illuminated to correct public opinion. Hahn, Hanover 1831.
  • The X Army Corps of the German Armed Forces. Hanover 1847 (2nd edition, ibid. 1858, published by his son Bernhard v. Jacobi)
  • The Jacobi forefathers: a memorial book for the descendants. [Jänecke], Hanover 1856 ULB Düsseldorf
  • From my youth. Memoirs, Verlag Gebr. Jaenicke, Hanover 1866.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Jacobi, Karl von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on December 2, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Jakobistraße. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 132.
  3. ^ Matriculation in Göttingen May 9, 1808
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 6
  5. ↑ Mastnak: The Hanoverians at Waterloo. P. 12.
  6. ↑ Mastnak: The Hanoverians at Waterloo. P. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Carl; Jacobi, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian General of Infantry and Minister of War
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1875
Place of death Hanover