Philipp von Wussow

Johann Georg Philipp von Wussow (born May 1, 1792 in Potsdam , † September 7, 1870 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Prussian infantry general and adjutant general of King Wilhelm I.

Life

origin

Philipp was a son of the Prussian captain and lord of Wulkow Franz von Wussow (1752-1800) and his wife Dorothea, née Schmidt (1753-1835).

Military career

Wussow visited the Berlin cadet school and was on 12 April 1811. second lieutenant the body Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army transferred. In the campaign against Russia in 1812 he took part in the battles near Eckau , Tomosna, Mesothen , Dahlenkirchen, Wollgund and the siege of Riga . After the campaign Wussow was commanded on July 22, 1813 as General Staff Officer to Lieutenant General von Yorck . During the Wars of Liberation he fought in the battles near Großgörschen , where he received the Order of St. Vladimir IV Class, near Bautzen and on the Katzbach . During the transition near Wartenburg , he acquired the Iron Cross, 2nd class. Wussow fought at Laon and Paris . At Ligny he was wounded and Waterloo awarded the Iron Cross First Class. He also took part in the battles at Möckern , Königswartha , Bunzlau, Löwenberg, the transition at Taub and the fights at Chalons, Montmirail , Saint-Dizier , Meaux, Issy and St. Cloud. At that time he was transferred to the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps on December 22, 1813 and to the General Staff of Prince Blücher on March 22, 1815 .

On June 9, 1815, he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant and on August 3, 1815, he was assigned to the General Staff. At the end of March 1817 Wussow was promoted to captain and on May 5, 1818 he was transferred to the cadet corps. Left in this position, he was transferred to the General Staff on May 26, 1818 and at the same time worked as an examiner for the Upper Military Examination Commission in 1823/25. On June 18, 1825, he was charged with patent of 23 June 1825 as Major in the General Staff of the VIII. Corps added. From there he was transferred to the General Staff of the II Army Corps on April 5, 1830, and in 1832/35 Wussow was also a teacher at the General War School . On January 5, 1835, he was transferred to the 8th Army Corps as Chief of the General Staff. In this capacity, at the end of March 1838, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and two years later to colonel . On September 12, 1842, Wussow was awarded the Order of St. John and on September 17, 1842, while remaining in his position, he was appointed wing adjutant to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the castle captain of Stolzenfels on the Rhine.

On March 22, 1845 he came as a commander in the 16th Infantry Brigade and was promoted to major general on March 31, 1846 . In the same year Wussow was commanded to inspect the German federal troops in Kurhessen , Nassau and Luxembourg . He received the House Order of the Golden Lion on December 1, 1846 . On March 9, 1848, he became Chief of the General Staff of the Prince of Prussia as military governor of the Rhine provinces and Westphalia. During the March Revolution he took part in the street fighting in Berlin.

From April 8, 1848 to May 1, 1850 Wussow was in command of the Koblenz Fortress . This was followed by his appointment as commander of the 5th Division and on January 2, 1851, he became the commander of the Prussian mobile corps stationed on the border with Mecklenburg. On April 19, 1851, he was promoted to lieutenant general and at the end of June 1856 he was awarded the Order of St. Anne 1st Class. On May 7, 1857 he was appointed Commanding General of the II Army Corps and on May 31, 1859 was promoted to General of the Infantry. During the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , he was the military governor of Pomerania. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary of service, Wussow received the diamonds for the Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class with oak leaves. He was also awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and the Order of Albrecht on February 16, 1861 . On October 18, 1861, he received the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order. Removed from his position as commanding general, he was appointed adjutant general to the king on January 29, 1863 - which earned him an additional 1000 thalers - and on March 17, 1863 he was made a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle .

On June 24, 1863 he was ordered to inspect the German federal troops in Braunschweig and Hanover, on September 20, 1863 he received the Grand Cross of the Guelph Order and on June 11, 1864 the Alexander Nevsky Order . Wussow was retired on January 19, 1869 and put up for disposal on February 9, 1869 . He died on September 7, 1870 in Frankfurt (Oder).

family

Wussow married Auguste Düring (1800-1821) on March 16, 1819 in Berlin. The later district administrator Karl Friedrich Alexander (1820–1889) emerged from the marriage, and married Anna von Byern (1821–1893). After the death of his first wife, Wussow married Ernestine von Lücken (1800-1824) on October 16, 1822 . After she also died early, he married Georgine von Hülsen (1804–1887), daughter of Hans von Hülsen, on October 10, 1825, in the Berlin Cathedral . The later Prussian Lieutenant General Botho (1828-1891) was their son, who married Anna von Bernuth (1840-1917), daughter of August von Bernuth .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, o. O. [Hamburg], o. J. [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 185-187, no. 1811.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. 1903. Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1902, pp. 944f.