Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb von Brauchitsch

General von Brauchitsch

Grave of Lieutenant General Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb von Brauchitsch in the old garrison cemetery in Berlin-Mitte

Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb von Brauchitsch (born May 7, 1757 in Breslau , † January 19, 1827 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and chief of the rural and border gendarmerie , city commander and governor of Berlin.

Life

origin

Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb came from the old Silesian noble family von Brauchitsch . He was the son of the Prussian captain of the artillery Mathias Friedrich von Brauchitsch (1712–1757) and his wife Marie Magdalene Elisabeth, née von Oertzen (1736–1766).

Military career

Brauchitsch was a page at the court of Prince Ferdinand of Prussia from 1770 and was then employed as a private corporal in the prince's infantry regiment from May 13, 1772 . With his regiment he took part in the War of the Bavarian Succession . On July 1, 1781 he was promoted to second lieutenant and on April 19, 1790 to prime lieutenant. As a staff captain , Brauchitsch took part in the First Coalition War against France and took part in the siege of Mainz . During the subsequent battle near Mombach, he was wounded in the head. For his services during the defense of Danzig in 1807 during the Fourth Coalition War he received on June 19, 1807 by Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Pour le Mérite .

In 1809 he was appointed lieutenant colonel and city ​​commandant of Berlin. In 1813, during the Wars of Liberation, he took part in the organization of the Landsturm against the Napoleonic army, became lieutenant general in 1814 and succeeded August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenaus as governor of Berlin on duty ( governor's house ) in 1820 . On May 19, 1822 he became the fifth honorary citizen of Berlin.

His grave of honor is in the old garrison cemetery . The tomb, based on designs by Schinkel and the sculptor Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann (1788–1859), is one of the most accomplished works by the Berlin iron foundry, which chose the tomb as the motif for its New Year's plaque as early as 1828.

family

Brauchitsch had married Wilhelmine Sophie Charlotte Luise (1761-1841), the sister of Field Marshal Friedrich von Kleist , on February 24, 1782 in Neuruppin . The daughter Luise Sophie Albertine Julie (* 1784) and the son Karl Philipp Friedrich Ludwig (* 1785) emerged from the marriage.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , pp. 371-374, no. 1179.
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The state forces of the Prussian monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm III. Volume 3, p. 352.
• New Nekrolog der Deutschen 1829. Volume 5, part 1, p. 88 ff.