Ludwig von Lyncker (General, 1780)

Ludwig Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm von Lyncker (born August 20, 1780 in Pirmasens , † July 21, 1844 in Bad Homburg ) was a major general in Hesse , general quartermaster and chief of the general staff.

Life

origin

Ludwig was a son of the Hessen-Darmstadt lieutenant Balthasar Lyncker (1725–1798) and his wife Maria Magdalena, née Gangloff (1744–1815).

Military career

Lyncker had to contribute to the family's upkeep at an early age, as his father had been taken to France as a hostage in 1793. He gave writing and reading lessons. After the father's return, the von Pirmasens family moved to Darmstadt. There he was able to attend a better school and took lessons from the captain of the artillery, Haas. Lyncker learned mathematics and drawing and accompanied his teacher in mapping the terrain. He must have done a good job, because the captain made sure that he got a job in the Hesse-Darmstadt engineering corps. There he was on May 7, 1803 Second Lieutenant in the General Staff. He got the opportunity to go to Gotha and studied there with the astronomer Zach from July 1st, 1804 to October 1st, 1805 higher mathematics and practical astronomy.

On August 14, 1806, Hessen-Darmstadt joined the Rhine Confederation and with it Napoleon . Therefore, Lyncker fought in the Fourth Coalition War on the French side at the siege of Graudenz. He mapped the area in enemy fire so well that the maps even later appeared in bookshops. For this he was appointed Knight First Class of the newly founded Grand Ducal Hessian Order of House and Merit on January 16, 1808 and promoted to Premier Lieutenant on August 17, 1808 . After the Battle of Aspern , he was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1809 .

He used the rest to do scientific work. But for Napoleon's Russian campaign , he was made chief of the general staff of the grand-ducal Hessian contingent. He took part in the whole campaign and on his return on January 14, 1813 was promoted to Captain First Class. During the war years from 1813 to 1815 he was also Quartermaster General. During this time he received the Order of St. Anna II. Class and the Commander's Cross II. Class of the Hessian House and Merit Order.

After the war I was in charge of drawing the border between Hesse and Baden. He also began his military-scientific lectures again. In the winter of 1817/18 he lectured on weapons and military constitution, in the winter of 1821/22 he lectured on military command. His lectures were very popular with the officers. He was appointed lieutenant colonel on June 14, 1820, and commander of the general staff on October 8, 1822. He wrote numerous papers on the reorganization of the Hessian contingent in the German Confederation and ordered a topographical survey of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The work started in 1823 and was completed shortly before his death on a scale of 1 / 25,000.

On February 19, 1827 he rose to colonel and on August 26, 1840 to major general. During that time he wrote many regulations for the army. For his merit, he was raised to the hereditary Hessian nobility on May 30, 1835. He died on July 21, 1844 in Bad Homburg, which he sought to alleviate his suffering.

family

Lyncker married on February 1, 1811 Luise Praun (1789-1852), a daughter of the court clerk Georg Philipp Praun (1756-1796) and Sofie Siebert (1760-1857). The couple had several children:

• Juliane (1812-1813)
• Emil (1814-1820)
• Gustav (1816–1888), Grand Ducal Hessian Major a. D. ⚭ 1845 Marie Schührer (1825–1871)
• Hermann (1818-1818)
• Caroline (1819-1820)
• Ludwig (1821–1882), Prussian Lieutenant General ⚭ Kathinka von Marquard (1825–1917)
• Amalie (1822-1888)
• Julius (1825–1907), Prussian major general
• Emilie (1827-1828)
• Ernst (1829-1830)

Works

• Brouillon An area of ​​the Odenwald. 1795, digitized
• Map of the siege of Graudenz. 1807, digitized
• Instructions for drawing a situation. 1811, digitized

literature

• Lyncker, Ludwig Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm von. Hessian biography (as of September 10, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 12, 2019 . 
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 500 f.
• Heinrich Eduard Scriba : Biographical-literary lexicon of the writers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. P. 228 f.

• Philipp Walther:  Lyncker, Ludwig Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 736 f.