Kurt Ewald from Germar

Bertha von Germar born Countess von Wallwitz

Kurt Ewald von Germar (born April 2, 1793 in Mensdorf , Eilenburg ; † May 26, 1875 in Cölln ) was a royal Saxon major of the infantry and knight of the royal Saxon military order of St. Heinrich as well as feudal lord and court lord on purgatory in the Rochlitz administration .

Life

origin

He belonged to the ancient Thuringian, imperial knightly noble family von Germar , with the progenitor Heinrich von Germar (1567 - 1638), (1st line, 2nd branch) on Gorsleben and Martha von Bendeleben (1578 - 1635) from Kannawurf . His father was Karl Friedrich August von Germar (1753–1799), his mother Martha Juliane von Preuss (1754–1813). His brother was the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel Albert Joachim von Germar (1786–1849). His father's first wife was Auguste Theodore Henriette Edle von Le Coq, she was the sister of Carl Christian Erdmann Edler von Le Coq (1767-1830).

Military career

Kurt Ewald was born on his father's estate at Mensdorf near Eilenburg and joined the royal Saxon infantry regiment Prince Anton as a cadet in November 1807 , became a flag junior on April 15, 1809 and carried the flag from his first battalion to Austria until after the battle Linz . When the sniper battalion von Metzsch - later 2nd Light Infantry Regiment von Sahr - was formed in June 1809, Kurt Ewald became ensign with the same, on October 1, 1809, Sousleutnant , on September 26, 1813, Premier Lieutenant , on October 1, 1817, Adjutant to Lieutenant Colonel Bevilaqua , Commander of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, Captain on September 10th, 1824, moved to the budget of the Leibinanzregiment on February 1st, 1826 and took his leave on April 26th, 1838 as a major with pension and army uniform.

He attended the campaigns in Austria and Hungary in 1809 , in Russia in 1812 , in Germany in 1813, in Holland and France in 1814 as an orderly officer of the commanding Lieutenant General Carl Christian Erdmann Edler von Le Coq and in France from 1815 to 1817 - and in these campaigns Battles in Wagram , Podobna , Kalisch , Bautzen , Großbeeren , Jüterbog and Leipzig , the relief of Wittenberg and Coswig and the blockades and sieges of Torgau , Antwerp, Momburg, Condé and Schlettstadt.

In the Battle of Wagram , K. was shot in the chest and in the Battle of Podobna was shot in the thigh. The first wound gave him repeated suffering, even in old age.

Award

Kurt Ewald von Germar, Sousleutnant, light Inf. Rgt. Sahrer von Sahr, was born on September 15, 1813 with the Mil. Order of St. Heinrich - Virtuti in bello - entrusted for brave behavior in the battle of Bautzen on May 20, 1813 and in the battles near Reichenbach and in Silesia (Leopoldshain and Zieserwitz) according to the order book on page 49.

Family and offspring

He married on June 3, 1830 with Bertha Countess von Wallwitz on Schweikerhain and Gepülzig (born October 10, 1806 in Dresden; † June 3, 1886 in Meißen-Kölln) as the daughter of Christian Reinhard Count von Wallwitz (1761-1835) and his wife Erdmuthe Marianne von Erdmannsdorff (1775–1832).

In the Dresden address calendar of 1832, K. is listed, residing at Moritzstrasse 758. On July 1, 1835, he accepted the Gut Gepülzig estate from the estate and, after leaving the army, devoted himself entirely to agriculture. In 1853 he sold Gepülzig and bought the Paulsberg winery near Kötzschenbroda. Today the Paulsberg is one of the vineyards in the Radebeuler Johannisberg area.

Kurt Ewald fathered twelve children in his very happy marriage, of which the first and the ninth, both boys, died early:

Martha Erdmuthe Therese (born 1832) married to Theodor Graf
Bertha Mathilde (1833–1926) married to Maximilian August von Schmieden (1817–1893)
Thekla Pauline (1834–1902) married to Carl Hermann Alexander Gause (1818–1881)
Stella Louise (born 1836)
Kurt Albert (1837-1899)
Emma Franziska (1839–1934) married to Karl Heinrich Bartzsch von Kracht (1828–1867)
Bertha Helene (1840–1931) married to Ado Karl Heinrich Frh. Von Wirsing (1839–1918)
Georg Dietrich (1844–1911) married to Hedwig Rosalie Haubold (1856–1905)
Agnes Isidore (1847-1939)
Hans-Richard (1852–1931) married to Hedwig Thiergen (1858–1935)

Kurt Ewald and Albert Joachim von Germar were brothers. Albert Joachim was on the Prussian side, Kurt Ewald on the Saxon side . Both took part in the Battle of Bautzen , so that the not uncommon case at that time occurred that two members of the same family faced arms in battle. Albert Joachim later received the Iron Cross, Kurt Ewald the Order of St. Heinrich.

In the local administrative center Langebrück , Weißiger Straße 5 in Dresden, there is a picture by the painter Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener (1812–1879), which used to hang in the former restaurant Hofewiese. It shows King Friedrich August I of Saxony hunting on January 4, 1848 in Lastauergrund near Colditz. On this picture Major von Germar is painted as a rear view (No. 26) (oil, 130 × 193 cm).

Individual evidence

↑ Justus Perthes (Ed.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen houses 1902, The nobility in Germany (Uradel) . 3rd year Gotha.
↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser part A, 40th year 1941, Gotha: Justus Perthes .
↑ Genealogical manual of the aristocracy, aristocrat of houses A . tape XV . CAStarke, Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1979.
^ The Ministerials and Knights of Germar. From Bruno von Germar in Mühlhauser history sheets . 1902, p. 9-17 .
^ Lieutenant General Carl Christian Erdmann Edler von Le Coq on the 150th anniversary of his death on June 30, 1980, writings from the Stockalper archive in Brig, edited by Prof. Dr. Louis Carlen, No. 34 .
↑ ^a ^b Copy of the news about the von Germar family, which is contained in a Bible from 1700 .
^ Letter from the clerks in the St. Heinrich Order Association from 1988 .
↑ The knights and medalists of KS Mil. St. Heinrichs Order and the Organizing Committee for the 250th Anniversary of the Order (Ed.): 250 Years of KSMil. Order of Saint Heinrich 1736-1986 . St. Otto publishing house, Bamberg.

personal data
SURNAME	Germar, Kurt Ewald from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Royal Saxon major in the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mensdorf , Eilenburg Office
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1875
Place of death	Cölln near Meißen

[1] Justus Perthes (Ed.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen houses 1902, The nobility in Germany (Uradel) . 3rd year Gotha.

[2] Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser part A, 40th year 1941, Gotha: Justus Perthes .

[3] Genealogical manual of the aristocracy, aristocrat of houses A . tape XV . CAStarke, Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1979.

[4] The Ministerials and Knights of Germar. From Bruno von Germar in Mühlhauser history sheets . 1902, p. 9-17 .

[5] Lieutenant General Carl Christian Erdmann Edler von Le Coq on the 150th anniversary of his death on June 30, 1980, writings from the Stockalper archive in Brig, edited by Prof. Dr. Louis Carlen, No. 34 .

[Bibel_1700-6] Copy of the news about the von Germar family, which is contained in a Bible from 1700 .

[7] Letter from the clerks in the St. Heinrich Order Association from 1988 .

[8] The knights and medalists of KS Mil. St. Heinrichs Order and the Organizing Committee for the 250th Anniversary of the Order (Ed.): 250 Years of KSMil. Order of Saint Heinrich 1736-1986 . St. Otto publishing house, Bamberg.