Karl von Pflumper

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Portrait with medal, from the tomb
Portrait from the tomb
Tumbagrabmal, Landau cemetery (Palatinate)
Full figure from the tomb

Karl Johann Baptist Joseph Theodor Freiherr von Pflimmern (born January 30, 1787 in Bieringen , † May 31, 1850 in Landau ) was a Bavarian general and fortress commander.

Life

He was the son of Joseph Ferdinand von Pflummer and his wife Maria Franziska Freiin von Niedermayr zu Singenbach and Altenburg.

Pflummer joined the Bavarian Army , took part in the campaigns on the side of France and distinguished himself as a lieutenant of the 5th Line Infantry Regiment "Preysing", especially on May 12, 1809 in the battle at the Ursprung pass ( Kufstein ). During the Russian campaign he was awarded the cross of the French Legion of Honor for his bravery and on October 19, 1812 near Bononia (near Zamość , Lublin Voivodeship ), the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . He then fought in the Wars of Liberation .

Later he was promoted to commander of the 1st Chevaulegers regiment "Crown Prince" and in 1848 to the city commander of Nuremberg . In August 1849, Pflimmern took over the post of commander of the Landau fortress as major general . Here he was granted only a short period of activity. He fell from his horse on May 23, 1850, broke his thigh and died of it on May 31. The officer was buried in the Landau cemetery according to the Catholic rite and his ornate Tumba grave with a reclining figure has been preserved there (2012). It comes from the Mannheim sculptor Wilhelm Hornberger , a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , a student of Bernhard Würschmitt and Ludwig Schwanthaler . He made a similar tomb for Pflummer's predecessor Georg von Mölter .

Since 1816 Pflumper was married to Helena Jakobina Karoline Friederike Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (1794-1820). After her death he married Karoline Countess von Tauffkirchen auf Engelberg (* 1806), lady of honor of the Order of Theresa . Her sister Isabella Countess von Tauffkirchen-Engelberg (1808–1855) had King Ludwig I of Bavaria portrayed for his beauty gallery. There were children from both marriages, of which the son Konstantin Friedrich (* 1818) also became a cavalry officer and from 1869 commander of the 2nd Uhlan regiment "König" .

Pflummer was the Bavarian Chamberlain , owner of the Katzenberg estate in Upper Austria and, in addition to the Military Max Joseph Order and the Cross of the Legion of Honor, also wore the Austrian Leopold Order and the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus ; also the Bavarian military monument 1813/15 . On January 1, 1850, shortly before his death, he became a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

Varia

On March 11, 1850, Count Theodor Fugger von Glött (1823-1850) was executed under ploughters in Landau . He was the only Bavarian officer who defected to the other side in the Palatinate uprising in 1849. Although at the time of the revolution Pflummer was not yet officiating in Landau and was not to blame for passing the sentence, he was in charge of the execution as the fortress commander. That is why his tragic accident and death shortly after the execution were seen in popular belief as a sign of punishment. Pflummers was buried close to Fugger's grave and there is still a memorial plaque there for the executed person, whose remains were transferred to the family crypt in Kirchheim in Swabia in 1895 .

literature

  • Johann Samuelansch: General encyclopedia of the sciences and arts. 3rd section, 21st part, Brockhaus Verlag. Leipzig 1846. pp. 262-263. Online .
  • New necrology of the Germans. 28th year, 1850, second part, Weimar 1852, p. 1005. Online .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen Zoellner: History of the KB 11th Infantry Regiment “von der Tann”. 1805-1905. P. 491. Excerpt from the source on the life data
  2. ↑ Johann Samuelansch: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Brockhaus Verlag. Leipzig 1846, 3rd section, 21st part, p. 262. online .
  3. ↑ Royal Bavarian Government Gazette . Year 1809, column 1904. (online)
  4. ^ Munich political newspaper . 1848, p. 350 of the year (No. 87 of April 5, 1848). on-line
  5. ^ Herrmann Julius Meyer: New conversation lexicon. 1865, Volume 9, p. 98. online
  6. ^ Schrettinger: The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1882, p. 629. Excerpt
  7. ^ Report on Fugger's execution, from Die Volksbötin. No. 64, Munich, March 15, 1850
  8. ↑ Website on Graf Fugger and Freiherr von Pflimmern ( Memento from October 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Pflumper, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflummer, Karl Johann Baptist Joseph Theodor Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Major General, Knight of the Max Joseph Order
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Bieringen
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1850
Place of death Landau