Karl von Kaphengst

Karl Ernst Ludwig Leopold von Kaphengst (born September 8, 1806 in Wredenhagen , † November 17, 1880 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Karl was a son of the domain tenant Friedrich von Kaphengst (1776-1850) and his wife Albertine, born von Zieten († 1824) from the Dechtow family .

Military career

Kaphengst visited the cadet house in Berlin and was employed in April 1824 as a portepeefähnrich in the 12th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army . There he was promoted to secondary lieutenant in mid-November 1824 and attended the General War School for further training in 1832/35 . This was followed by a command for the Guards Artillery Brigade for a year . From 1839 to 1847 Kaphengst acted as a teacher at the division school of the 5th division and in the meantime advanced to prime lieutenant in 1841 . After a deployment on the occasion of the suppression of the barricade uprising in Berlin, he rose to captain and company commander in early May 1848 . As such, Kaphengst took part in the battles near Schleswig , Veile and Aarhus during the war against Denmark the following year and was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords.

On June 6, 1854 he rose to major and regular staff officer . Kaphengst was then from March 12, 1857 to March 1, 1858 commander of the Landwehr battalion of the 34th Infantry Regiment and then commander of the 1st Battalion in the 6th Landwehr Regiment in Görlitz . In this position he was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the end of May 1859 and on May 8, 1860 he was entrusted with the command of the 22nd Combined Infantry Regiment, from which the 3rd Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment (No. 62) was formed shortly afterwards . Kaphengst was the first commander of this regiment until December 17, 1864, in the meantime he was promoted to colonel on October 18, 1861 and was then appointed commander of Rendsburg under position à la suite of the regiment . As major general he was given command of the troops remaining in the Elbe duchies during the mobilization on the occasion of the German War in 1866 . After the peace agreement , Kaphengst was appointed Commandant of Hanover on January 7, 1868 and promoted to Lieutenant General on March 22, 1868. He also held this position during the war against France in 1870/71 and received the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves and Swords, on June 3, 1871. In approval of his resignation request, Kaphengst was put up for disposal on August 18, 18771 with the statutory pension .

family

Kaphengst married on October 23, 1845 in Frankfurt (Oder) with Henriette Karbe (1819–1906), daughter of the district administrator of Lebus , Leopold Karbe . From the marriage, the son Ernst Julius (1847-1870), who fell as a Prussian Second Lieutenant in the Leib Grenadier Regiment (1st Brandenburg) No. 8 in the Battle of Spichern , and the daughter Leopoldine (1850-1851) emerged.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 359, no. 2345.
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Second volume, Verlag Bruer, Berlin 1898, p. 223.