Ludwig Wilhelm von Regulator

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Ludwig Wilhelm (von) Reg (e) ler (born June 7, 1726 in Altlandsberg as Wilhelm Ludwig Regulator ; † July 14, 1792 in Berlin ) was a Prussian officer, most recently major general and director of the Prussian engineering corps . Reformer of Prussian engineering.

Life

family

Regulator was born in Altlandsberg as the son of a town musician from Dessau's family (Kunstpfeiffers) and in 1767 married Christiane Sophie Wilhelmine Freiin von Richthofen (1747–1802), daughter of Baron Samuel von Richthofen and Freiin Sophie von Sandreczky and Sandraschütz. The marriage remained childless.

Career

He studied mathematics and engineering in Berlin. As an officer in the Royal Prussian Army , he took part in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and distinguished himself in the siege of the Olomouc Fortress . His cartography of Silesia is one of the "fundamental Prussian land surveys." Later he was in command of the city and fortress Glatz . On behalf of the Prussian King Friedrich II. He worked on plans for the expansion of the Glatz Fortress and a forts near Silberberg . Regulator is considered to be one of the "few capable" Prussian engineers and fortress builders in the Frederician era.

In 1787 Regulator, who had actually asked to leave, was appointed head of the Prussian engineering corps by the new Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II . Furthermore, he became director of the newly created 4th Department of the Prussian Higher War College (= department director in the War Ministry). As early as 1788, he set up an engineering academy on the Neuer Markt in Potsdam for the next generation of managers . Regulator was boss and director until his death in 1792. The "reorganization of Prussian engineering" goes back to regulators. His successor at the head of Prussian engineering officers was Madeleine Graf d'Heinze .

Honors

Regulator was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1778.

Works

  • Silesia on the left of the Oder without the County of Glatz (1764–1770), (colored hand drawings)

literature

  • Bernhard von Poten :  Regulator, Ludwig Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 567 f.
  • Udo von Bonin : [Friedrich II. And] buildings in Glatz, regulator . In: Ders., History of the Engineer Corps and the Pioneers in Preussen , Wiesbaden 1981 (reprint), Part 1, p. 104.
  • Klaus Lindner : Silesian maps from the time after 1763 . The recordings of the regulator and the hammer. In: Wolfgang Scharfe et al., Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium Wien '86, October 29–31, 1986, Bonn 2002, pp. 49–56.
  • Ders .: Between the Oder and the Giant Mountains. Silesian maps from five centuries (exhibition catalog No. 29 of the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin), Weißenhorn 1987.
  • Theodor Maschke: The topographical maps of Silesia from the time of Frederick the Great . In: Journal of the Association for History of Silesia 62 (1928), pp. 331–335.
  • Grzegorz Podruczny: Wilhelm Ludwig Regulator - kariera inżyniera wojskowego we fryderycjańskich Prusach . In: the same: Twierdza Srebrna Góra , Warsaw 2010, pp. 159–166.
  • Emil Freiherr Praetorius von Richthofen, History of the Praetorius von Richthofen Family, Magdeburg 1884, p. 126ff.
  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 247, no. 741.
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Regulator, Mr. von . In: Ders .: New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 98.
  • Lothar Zögner: Prussia in the map , Berlin 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Adalbert von Taysen, The military testament of Frederick the Great, Berlin 1879, p. 34
  2. ↑ Regler's brother was Johann Heinrich Regulator, chief magistrate in Trebatsch, Beeskow district; see. Selected pedigree of the EDDA, ​​Volume III, Gotha 1936, p. 38 (ancestry of Eberhard von Köppen).
  3. ↑ Cf. Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility. Freiherrliche Häuser B VII (Complete Series Volume 68), Limburg an der Lahn 1978. P. 305.
  4. ↑ Cf. Emil Freiherr Praetorius von Richthofen : History of the Praetorius family of Richthofen. Retrieved May 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Cf. Richard Regeler: A famous general. A child from Altlandsberg, article (single print), Altlandsberg town archive.
  6. ↑ Cf. Klaus Lindner, Schlesische Karten from the time after 1763. The recordings of regulator and hammer, in: Wolfgang Scharfe et al., Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium Wien '86, 29. – 31. October 1986, Bonn 2002, p. 53.
  7. ↑ Grzegorz Bukal: Prussian Star Forts in the late 18th Century. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2015 ; Retrieved June 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fsgfort.com
  8. ↑ Cf. Max Niemeyer: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries, Tübingen 1888, p. 278.
  9. ↑ Cf. Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great, p. 396
  10. ↑ See Adalbert von Taysen: The military testament of Frederick the Great, Berlin 1879, p. 34.
  11. ↑ Cf. Konrad Blažek : The dead nobility of the Prussian province of Silesia (J. Siebmachers's large book of arms, volume 6, section 8), plate 65, Nuremberg 1890.
personal data
SURNAME Regulator, Ludwig Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Regulator, Ludwig Wilhelm (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, most recently major general and director of the Prussian engineering corps
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Altlandsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1792
Place of death Berlin