Ludwig von Reiche (Major)

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Ludwig von Reiche (born May 17, 1774 in Hanover , † February 25, 1840 in Weimar ) was a German military man , inventor , cartographer , lithographer and company founder . The honored with a medal founded and led the foreign voluntary hunter corps named after him "von Reiche" against Napoleon .

Life

origin

The von Reiche family belonged to the so-called pretty families in the 18th and 19th centuries . He was the son of the bailiff of Ehrenburg Georg Ludwig von Reiche (* October 31, 1735; † 1816) and his second wife Anna Dorothee Luise, née Culemann († March 14, 1780) from Minden . Ludwig von Reiche was a cousin of General Ludwig von Reiche .

Career

Like his cousin in 1778, Reiche joined the “von Romberg” infantry regiment of the Prussian Army and in 1792 was promoted to officer . First he fought with his cousin against the Napoleonic troops until the Peace of Basel . He then took part in the mapping of General Le Coq in Westphalia , which encouraged his talent for drawing .

In 1806 Reiche was taken prisoner of war while defending the city of Nienburg an der Weser after the surrender of the commanding major general von Strachwitz . After another peace agreement, von Reiche became a member of the Tugendbund in Königsberg . As early as 1809, however, he went back to Westphalia - disguised as an amber dealer - to secretly incite an uprising against the French occupation. But the same correspondence , the Baron and from the stone as a traitor to France made it seem, at the same time led to a wanted, union persecution also of Empire. He returned to Berlin , but then fled to Austria and there joined a legion of Franconia , in which he himself led a company .

After another peace agreement with France, Ludwig von Reiche returned to Berlin and founded a "drawing academy" there. In 1813 - the year of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig - he formed a free corps on Dönhoffplatz in Berlin , the "Foreign Jäger Battalion" (from which later the fusilier battalion of the 2nd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment emerged ), which was named and led after him Fought against French troops in 1814.

After a renewed armistice , the Freikorps von Reiches belonged to the Northern Army , especially the Army Department commanded by General Count Wallmoden on the Niederelbe, and later moved to Holland with Bülow . Reiches Freikorps fought at the "meetings at Vellahn and near Göhrde , [... during the storms] on Bremen , Zütphen and Arnheim , [... the battles] of Aalst , Crèvecœur and Hoogstraten and [during the ...] Siege of Gorkum [...], was entrusted [...] with the enclosure of Venlo ; also with the establishment of Dutch units ”.

In 1815 Reiche was given the task of setting up military forces “in Kleveschen ”, but then dismissed because he “got into a dispute with authorities and private individuals because of his ruthless zeal for fire”: An indictment before the court martial led to the verdict “that he was fulfilling his duties as a soldier always did an excellent job ”- nevertheless he was retired .

1815 Rich went back to Berlin, where he founded after the lithography was invented shortly before a "lithographic institution" that soon the Ministry of War was adopted and was a director in the kingdom until the 1820th

Reiche was awarded the Golden Medal for Art and Science for his services. In old age Reiche dealt with several inventions in the art of guns . He died during a trip to Weimar .

family

He married Antonie von Rodenberg on October 22, 1802 (born May 26, 1776 in Cranenburg / Ruhr; † December 29, 1852). The later Prussian judiciary Johann Ludwig (* September 12, 1803; † September 13, 1887) emerged from the marriage and married Luise Emilie Karoline von Kessel (* August 15, 1812; † September 13, 1876).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Bernhard von Poten:  Reiche, Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 654 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek : REICHE, Ludwig von. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 294. ( online in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
personal data
SURNAME Reiche, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, inventor, director, winner of the golden medal for art and science
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1840
Place of death Weimar