Levin von Heister

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Levin Karl von Heister (born May 22, 1757 in Homberg , † July 22, 1816 in Karlsbad ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Levin was a member of the untitulierten Hessian line of the noble family of Heister . His parents were the Hesse-Kassel lieutenant general and commander of the Hessian troops during the American War of Independence Philipp von Heister (1716–1777) and Katharina Elisabeth Hilchen von Lorch (1730–1791).

Career

Heister began his officer career in 1772 as a second lieutenant in the Hessian Leibdragonerregiment . He was promoted to prime lieutenant in the Gens d'Armes regiment in 1776 and was his father's adjutant in the North American War of Independence until 1777 . In 1778 he became adjutant to the English general Lord Erskine, but returned to Kassel in the same year. There he was promoted to captain in 1780 and became adjutant to the ruling Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse-Kassel . He took part in the first coalition war, rose to major in the Leibdragonerregiment in 1792 and received the order Pour le Mérite for the storming of Frankfurt am Main . In 1795 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and adjutant general of the ruling Count Landgrave Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel .

Heister changed in 1798 as lieutenant colonel and squadron chief in the dragoon regiment "von Voss" in Prussian services and became the regiment's commander the following year. He was promoted to colonel in 1800 and took part in the campaign against Napoleon in 1806/07 . After the Peace of Tilsit he was dismissed from Prussian service as a foreign officer, but reinstated in Kassel after approval by the royal Westphalian government. In 1809 he was brigadier of the cavalry of the Lower Silesian Troop Brigade and in 1810 advanced to major general . In 1812 he was relieved of his duties as a brigadier, but retained the status of an active general. In 1813 he did his farewell with an annual pension received in the amount of 1,200 dollars, but returned at the beginning of the liberation war returned to active duty. He was then in April 1813 in command of Leipzig , in August in command of Breslau and from September in command of the siege corps in front of Glogau , and finally in 1813 military governor of the country between the Rhine and Weser rivers.

Also in 1813, Heister received the Iron Cross 2nd class for his services in the siege of Glogau. In 1814 permission to wear the Hessian Order of the Golden Lion followed . In 1815 he became after the abolition of the Provincial Military Governments by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed lieutenant general and first commanding general in Westphalia . Due to a serious illness, however, he handed over the business of his corps district to his successor General von Thielmann in October 1815 . In November 1815 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III for "his well-run business in Westphalia" . Class excellent.

family

Heister married Justiane Sophie von Westernhagen (1758–1798) from the Berlingerode family in Kassel in 1789 . The couple had several children:

In 1800 he went into Freystadt as a widower with Florentine Sophie Friederike von Taubenheim (1775-1835) a second marriage. The couple had several children:

⚭ 1828 (divorce 1837) Emilie Susanne Simon (born June 16, 1798)
⚭ 1845 Klara Antoinette Adelheid von Bredow (* September 22, 1823 - † October 20, 1901)
  • Leopold Karl Gustav Wilhelm Friedrich (born June 21, 1804; † 1843), Russian captain of the artillery in the Caucasus
  • Florentine Charlotte Sophie Frederike Luise (* April 16, 1803; † 1869)
  • Elisabeth Henriette Wilhelmine Sophie (* May 19, 1808; † August 12, 1867) ⚭ 1835 Ernst von Niebelschütz († May 12, 1882), Herr auf Gleinitz

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 3, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1861, p. 285.
  2. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, Mittler , Berlin 1913, pp. 224-225.
  3. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. 1915. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1914, p. 808.
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Tenth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1869, p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Heister, Levin from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heister, Levin Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1816
Place of death Carlsbad