Otto von Zieten (General, 1786)

Ernst Ludwig Otto von Zieten (born May 22, 1786 in Pasewalk ; † July 7, 1850 in Barsikow ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Königsberg Otto von Zieten (1747-1817) from the Brandenburg family von Zieten and his wife Marie Luise Amalie, born von Winterfeldt (* May 4, 1763; † January 16, 1831).

Military career

Zieten visited the cadet houses in Stolp and Berlin . From there he was transferred to the infantry regiment "von Tresckow" of the Prussian army on December 30, 1803 as portepeef ensign. As a second lieutenant , Zieten took part in the defense of Danzig and the battle at Bohnsack during the Fourth Coalition War and was awarded the Pour le Mérite order on June 19, 1807 .

In his application for the award of the order Pour le Mérite, General von Rouquette wrote on May 18, 1807: “Lieutenant von Zieten has as much presence of mind as he has enterprising intelligence. At the end of February 1807, as the enemy was taking the Elbingen and Marienburg lowlands from Marienburg, Zieten and 20 grenadiers were cut off between Marienburg and Dirschau in the Neuteich and Lissau area. During the occupation of Marienburger Werder, the enemy captain Malet was sent by Emperor Napoleon to Marshal Lefebre in Dirschau with despatches and had ordered a detachemant chasseurs halfway between these two points to be on the safe side, but they missed the assigned village, and with him Return from Dirschau, Malet fell into the hands of Lieutenant von Zieten, who, disregarding the villages already occupied by the enemy behind it, led him through the night with so much caution between these cantons over the Vistula with his command that had already been lost that the prisoner led me Captain Matel couldn't praise enough of Lieutenant von Zieten's shrewd precautions with which he had transported him. Zieten also behaved very well on all occasions, especially on April 13th, 1807, where, after the hill had been conquered, he advanced with some teams and pursued the enemy. "

After the Peace of Tilsit , Zieten was transferred to the 2nd Brandenburg Infantry Regiment on February 25, 1808 and to the 2nd East Prussian Infantry Regiment on November 30, 1808. This was followed on March 21, 1809 with a patent from October 11, 1805, his transfer to the fusilier battalion of the Guards Regiment on foot . At the beginning of the wars of liberation Zieten was wounded in the battle of Großgörschen and rose to captain and company commander by mid-June 1813 . As such he fought near Leipzig and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. For his work in the Battle of Paris , Zieten received the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Order of St. George IV Class.

After the war, he was promoted to major and regular staff officer on February 20, 1816 with a patent from January 15, 1816 . From July 8, 1816 he was commander of the Fusilier Battalion in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot and at the same time from January 18, 1821 to September 27, 1823 as President of the Examination Commission for Portepeefähnrich of the Guard Corps and the division school in Potsdam. On June 18, 1825 he received the service cross and on January 18, 1827 the Order of St. John . Zieten was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 30, 1829, with the command of the Guard Reserve Infantry (Landwehr) regiment and on September 27, 1829 he was appointed regiment commander. With a patent from April 12, 1832, he was promoted to colonel on March 30, 1832 and at the same time appointed commander of the 2nd Guards Regiment on Foot . In this position Zieten received the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with ribbon as well as the diamonds for the Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus II class. Under awarding of the character as a major general , he was on 20 June 1837 board for disposition made to the management to take over his estate. On the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Battle of Paris, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV gave him the character of Lieutenant General on March 30, 1848.

family

Zieten married on November 13, 1817 in Berlin Luise von Bonin (* 1793; † 1820) from the house of Schönwerder, a daughter of the landscape director Otto Friedrich Fürchtegott von Bonin . The couple had two daughters: Friederike Luise (* 1818; † 1820) and Sophie Marie (* 1820; † 1846), who married the later Prussian infantry general Adolf von Bonin (* 1803; † 1872).

After the early death of his first wife, Zieten married Friederike Wilhelmine Emilie Sophie von Arnim (* 1798, † 1869) in Neuensund on February 20, 1823 . She was the youngest daughter of Hans Anton Joachim von Arnim (* 1753; † 1823) and Helene Caroline von Rieben (* 1768; † 1835). Only one son who died in childhood emerged from the marriage.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , pp. 328-329, no. 1577.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Udo von Bonin (ed.): History of the rear Pomeranian family von Bonin. Berlin 1864, p. 179 ( online ).
2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1903. P. 57.