Michael Lorenz von Pirch

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Michael Lorenz von Pirch (born December 13, 1687 in Klein Nossin , † September 12, 1761 at the Königstein Fortress ) was a Lieutenant General of the Elector of Saxony .

Life

family

Michael Lorenz came from the Pirch family and was the middle son of Ulrich Felix von Pirch (1656–1726) and Elisabeth Sophia von Zastrow (1665–1725) from the Wusterhanse family . He was not married.

Military career

Pirch began his career in 1702 with the Lithuanian Guard Regiment, in Polish service. He was immediately taken prisoner by Sweden and as a result spent three years in Stockholm . Immediately after his release he went to the 1st Saxon Guard.

In 1706 he took part in the Battle of Fraustadt , and then took part in the War of the Spanish Succession with a Saxon auxiliary corps - especially in the theaters of war in the Netherlands , such as in 1708 at the siege of Ryssel , 1709 at the Battle of Malplaquet , 1710 during the siege of Douay or finally in 1711 the conquest of Béthune , where he was badly wounded.

As an adjutant in Poland, Pirch was in the field against the Confederates in 1715 and was sent as a courier to the king by Major General Adam Heinrich Bose , where he was promoted to captain. In this rank he stood with the 2nd Infantry Regiment on foot and was involved in the Turkish War in Hungary with Saxon auxiliary troops until the Peace of Passarowitz in 1718 .

In 1729 Pirch became a major in the Leib-Grenadier-Regiment, and in 1734 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel . In the same year he took part in the siege of Danzig in the War of the Polish Succession , was promoted to colonel in 1738 and was in command of the body grenadiers from 1741.

As regimental commander of the Pirch infantry brigade , he took part in the battle of Kesselsdorf , in which his brothers Dubislav Nikolaus von Pirch (1693–1768), who also later became a Saxon lieutenant general, and Caspar Franz von Pirch, who remained in the field in Kesselsdorf, fought . Immediately after the battle, escaping capture, he was promoted to major general.

In 1752 he was promoted to lieutenant general of the infantry, and in 1753 Pirch was appointed commander of the Königstein fortress . After the Saxon army surrendered after the siege at Pirna , Pirch was under Prussian command as the fortress commander. Nevertheless, the Saxon state treasure was entrusted to him, which he conscientiously kept in the fortress, which was declared neutral by a convention.

Pirch died as a fortress commander at the age of 73 and was buried in the garrison cemetery in a separate crypt with a sandstone epitaph .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Ranft : New genealogical-historical news Volume 59, Issue 147-150, Leipzig 1762, p. 538, No. VII.
personal data
SURNAME Pirch, Michael Lorenz from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirch, Michael von; Pirch, Michael Lorentz von; Pirch, Michel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Saxony Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Nossin
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1761
Place of death Koenigstein Fortress