Maximilian von Schlägel

Maximilian von Schlägel , also Schlaegel , (born December 19, 1788 in Amberg ; † November 6, 1863 in Kronach ) was a royal Bavarian officer, most recently in the rank of major general , and from 1855 in command of the Rosenberg fortress .

Life

family

Maximilian Thomas Ritter (Max) von Schlägel was the son of the royal Bavarian major, out of service, Johann Michael Ritter von Schlägel (* March 12, 1755, † January 6, 1836 in Amberg). His father was raised to the personal nobility status in the Kingdom of Bavaria on April 15, 1808 when he was awarded the Military Max Joseph Order . He received the award as first lieutenant for his brave behavior during the storming of the camp and the fortress Glatz on June 24, 1807. His entry in the Bavarian aristocratic registers for the knight class took place on May 11, 1816. He married on October 20, 1783 in Amberg Rosine Miller (born October 31, 1762 - † January 8, 1811 in Amberg), the mother of Maximilian.

Military background

Schlägel completed the first four preparatory classes and joined the 11th Infantry Regiment "Junker" on February 1, 1803 as a commoner . With this unit he fought against Austria in the Third Coalition War in 1805 . On August 1, 1806 he was promoted to corporal and as such took part in the campaign against Prussia in the same year . He fought, among other things, in the sieges of the fortresses Großglogau , Brieg and Cosel as well as in the battles near Kanth (May 14, 1806) and Niederhannsdorf (June 23, 1806) in Silesia . Corporal Schlägel was also named in the army order when he stormed the Galtz Fortress, for which his father received the Military Max Joseph Order.

In the campaign against Austria in 1809, Schlägel fought against the rebels in Tyrol , since February 28, 1809 as a second lieutenant . In the following Russian campaign of 1812 he was with the 6th company of his regiment and received a serious wound on his right lower leg on August 18, 1812 during the Battle of Polozt (August 17 and 18, 1812). Promoted to lieutenant on October 11, 1812, Schlägel marched with the 5th Company in June 1813 to the field camp in Munich .

In the autumn of 1813, during the fighting against France, Schlägel had several opportunities to distinguish himself. On October 31, 1813, he defended the Main Bridge , which led from Sachsenhausen to Frankfurt . Even after the battle at Brienne (February 2, 1812), Schlägel was mentioned in the army order because of his bravery. On February 12, 1814, he managed to occupy the churchyard in the city of Nogent-sur-Seine, which was occupied by French troops, after a bayonet attack. On October 27, 1814, the 1st Battalion of the 10th Regiment under Colonel Karl Peter von Theobald stormed the town of Bar-sur-Aube during the battle of Bar-sur-Aube , whose entrances were occupied by French units and were stubbornly defended by them . The advancing Bavarian battalion had to give way. Oberleutnant Schlägel collected the retreating crews and stormed the city again. He succeeded in conquering an entrance and thus occupying the entire city for units moving up. His brave work was recognized several times in the army orders of March 7th and June 24th, 1814.

A Chapter of the Military Max Joseph Order, which met in the headquarters in Munich on August 25, 1814 , and was chaired by General Heinrich von Reuss , voted with a majority in favor of Schlägel's admission to the Order. However, in his report to the Grand Master of the Order of June 20, 1815, the Order's Grand Chancellor found that Schlagel’s act was not so unusual that it deserved the Military Max Joseph Order. The request was therefore not granted. On April 20, 1820, Schlägel again requested admission to the order. He had submitted further statements and documents that proved his independent action. Another chapter of the order, held in Munich on June 21, 1820, again chaired by General von Reuss, now voted unanimously for Schlägel's admission to the order. The Grand Chancellor of the Order now also saw an act fully in accordance with the statutes of the Order, quite voluntary, brave and carried out with the greatest success. Schlägel was accepted as a knight in the Military Max Joseph Order with the highest signature from June 26, 1820, with an army order from October 1, 1822, because of the award at Bar-sur-Aube on February 27, 1814.

On September 1, 1814, Oberleutnant Schlägel was transferred to the Grenadier Guard Regiment, which was newly established in June 1814, with which he experienced the campaign in France in 1815. He fought on horseback because his lower leg wound in August 1812 made it impossible for him to walk for a long time. On April 30, 1818 he was promoted to Captain 2nd Class in the Grenadier Guard Regiment. On September 24, 1823, instead of the personal nobility to which he was entitled when he was awarded the Military Max Joseph Order and which his father already possessed, Schlägel became the hereditary "proof of the utmost satisfaction with his war service, which was most praiseworthy for the fatherland" Nobility conferred in the Kingdom of Bavaria. The entry in the Bavarian nobility register took place on October 1, 1823.

With the reshuffle of the Grenadier Guard Regiment, Maximilian von Schlägel was transferred to the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" in January 1826 and on January 1, 1832 appointed captain 1st class. In the same year he was one of the co-organizers of the troops destined for Greece. On December 25, 1841, Schlägel was promoted to major in the 6th Infantry Regiment "vacant Duke Wilhelm von Bayern" and in October 1842 again transferred to his old unit, the 10th Infantry Regiment. On January 26, 1845, after 50 years of service, he received the Cross of Honor of the Order of Ludwig . On March 31, 1848 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on October 9, 1848 to colonel in the 12th Infantry Regiment of King "Otto of Greece" . On March 31, 1855 Mallet was appointed commander of the fortress Rosenheim and also the character bestowed as a major general. On January 1, 1859, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael .

On April 27, 1859, he was retired as a colonel in recognition of his many years of loyal service and with the retention of his salaries. Four years later, on November 6, 1863, Maximilian von Schlägel died in Kronach at the age of 74.

Marriage and offspring

Maximilian von Schlägel married Karoline von Gugler on August 4, 1817 (* 1794; † June 13, 1869 in Bamberg ). The couple had seven children, four sons and three daughters. All sons served as officers in the royal Bavarian army . The eldest Heinrich Theodor Max (born May 31, 1822 in Munich; † September 23, 1850 in Amberg) as sub-lieutenant, Ludwig Karl August (born February 16, 1826 in Munich, † February 26, 1862 in Kronach) as sub-lieutenant and Karl Michael (* February 27, 1828 in Munich; † February 5, 1853 in Landau in the Palatinate ) also as a lieutenant. Maximilian Joseph (born December 24, 1823 in Munich), the second oldest son and the only one who survived his parents, died on March 22, 1870 in Bamberg as a captain out of service. With his death, the male line died out . Of the daughters, the eldest Henriette Maximiliane Karoline Helene Rosine (born June 17, 1819 in Munich) was the prelude to the income of the Military Max Joseph Order. She died unmarried on December 17, 1901 in Bamberg. Her younger sister Auguste Ursula Karoline (born March 2, 1830) married the royal Bavarian judge of Bamberg Andreas von Haupt in the Rosenberg Fortress on May 2, 1858 . The youngest daughter Sophie (born December 26, 1834 in Munich; † August 5, 1902 in Bad Hindelang ) married the royal Bavarian chamberlain and post office clerk Anselm Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach on October 17, 1858, also in the Rosenberg Fortress . Their common sons were the local historian and writer Oskar Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach and the farmer and forester Maximilian Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach .

literature

• Baptist Schrettinger: The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. Oldenbourg, Munich 1882. Volume 2. Pages 754–758.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadelige houses, first year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907. Pages 677–678.

annotation

1. ↑ Schrettinger's birthday is The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. the 19th December indicated, the Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1907. names the 21st December.