Louis of Marées

Louis von Marées (born April 23, 1787 in Dessau , † September 16, 1864 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Louis was a son of the ducal Anhalt-Dessau cabinet councilor Otto Ludwig von Marees (* October 30, 1748, † April 6, 1833) and his wife Johanna Dorothea Wilhelmine, née Werner. His brother Heinrich († August 30, 1813) acquired the order Pour le Mérite near Graudenz and later fell in the battle near Nollendorf .

Military career

On April 16, 1804 Marées resigned as Corporal Corporal in the Infantry Regiment "Winning" the Prussian army . In the Fourth Coalition War he was wounded in the Battle of Jena . He came to Erfurt and after the surrender of the fortress was taken to Nancy as a prisoner of war . He did not return home from captivity until 1809.

Thereupon Marées was hired on July 28, 1809 as Portepeefähnrich in the regiment of the guards and in mid-August 1809 advanced to secondary lieutenant . On September 12, 1812, he was transferred to the East Prussian Jäger Battalion . With the association he took part in the campaign against Russia in 1812 . During the Wars of Liberation , Marées was wounded in the battle of Großgörschen and awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. At the beginning of 1814 he was able to take part in the Battle of Paris again .

By the end of July 1815, Marées rose to captain and company commander in the Kaiser Alexander Grenadier Regiment . On August 29, 1825 he was promoted to major with a patent from August 22, 1825 and as such on September 30, 1835 on the occasion of the revue of Kalisch with the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus III. Class awarded with diamonds. On June 7, 1838, Marées received the Order of St. Anne II. Class. At the same time he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, he was commissioned on March 30, 1839 to lead the 8th Infantry Regiment (known as the Leib-Infanterie-Regiment) . On January 28, 1840 he was appointed regiment commander and on September 11, 1840 he was promoted to colonel . In this position he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III on September 17, 1843 . Awarded class with a ribbon. Although designed for higher uses had Marées illness in his resignation as a major general with the June 25, 1845 board take.

He died unmarried on September 16, 1864 in Frankfurt (Oder).

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , pp. 452-453, no. 1642.