Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl

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Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl (born August 10, 1768 in Stolpe near Oranienburg , † March 19, 1837 in Berlin ) was a German educator and teacher of important Prussian soldiers.

Life

Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl was born as the third child of the second marriage of his father Johann Adam Kuhfahl (* unknown; † 1791) when this first preacher was in the place of birth.

He received his first school education from his father and the sexton Nikolai. In 1781 he came to secondary school in Berlin and after the first year switched to the third class of education . In 1785 he visited the Gray Monastery , where the archdeacon Friedrich Sigismund Augustin (1739-1818), his father's superintendent , first gave him the Schindler free table and later the Schindler grant. In 1789 he received his secondary school leaving certificate and then studied at the University of Halle , where he heard lectures from Johann August Nösselt , Georg Christian Knapp , Johann Gebhard Maaß and Johann August Eberhard and specialized in church history .

After finishing his studies in 1791, his father died. Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl, who had only been back home for a few weeks, preached in his father's congregation for a few weeks and then became a private tutor to the chief forest master Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorff . Shortly thereafter, his students joined the Berlin Cadet Corps , so that on December 16, 1791, at the request of the Chief Forester, he was appointed governor of the Cadet Corps, for which he was employed as a teacher of the military encyclopedia. After ten years a professorship was established for this and the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed him professor in 1801. During this time, Colonel Gerhard von Scharnhorst founded a military society , in which the later Minister Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Professor August Christian Stützer (1765-1824) also became members. Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhlfahl, who was also a member of the society, became its secretary and conducted all correspondence with the external members, recorded the weekly meetings and reported the results of the editors' negotiations on the memoirs published in the society. Due to the war, the society dissolved again in 1806.

When the state reorganized itself, Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl was appointed a member of the Military Examination Commission, later the Senior Examination Commission, on May 24, 1809. In this commission he was given the test in the German language and later also in history. In this office he examined around 9,000 young soldiers by the end of his life.

When the Prussian War Academy was established in 1810 , at the instigation of Lieutenant General von Scharnhorst, he was employed as a secretary at the Directorate of Studies at the General War School.

In 1831 he was appointed captain and later battalion commander of the Berlin Landsturm .

Major general Johann Georg Emil von Brause entrusted him with the duties of professor and librarian Wilhelm Jakob Wippel , who was no longer able to exercise the office for health reasons; Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl officially took over this office after his death in 1834.

In 1835 he asked to be relieved of his position as secretary of the student administration.

After the transfer of Major General Johann Georg Emil von Brause as cadet commander to director of the Prussian War Academy in 1834, the former student of Otto Christian Friedrich Kuhfahl, Major General Ludwig von Below, as commander of all cadet institutes. The field marshal of the Russian army, Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski, was one of his students.

On February 11, 1811 he married Bertha Therbusch, a daughter of the painter Anna Dorothea Therbusch , the marriage remained childless.

He found his final resting place in Berlin's Nikolaikirchhof .

Honors

In 1836 he received from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Order of the Red Eagle 4th class.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The higher education system in Prussia. Historical-statistical representation . S. 88. Wiegandt and Grieben, 1864 ( google.de [accessed on October 9, 2018]).
  2. ^ Military Society (Berlin): Memories of the Military Society in Berlin, Volume 1 . 1802 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kuhfahl, Otto Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1837
Place of death Berlin