Richard of Mirus

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Florentin Richard Mirus , von Mirus since 1866 (born October 17, 1812 in Berlin , † October 5, 1880 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 7th division .

Life

origin

Richard was a son of the secret chief finance officer Johann Christian Mirus († 1827) and his wife Frederike Luise Florentine, née Schulz († 1826).

Military career

After attending the French grammar school in Berlin, Mirus joined the 10th Hussar Regiment of the Prussian Army on September 6, 1831 and was promoted to second lieutenant until the beginning of March 1833 . From October 1840 he was assigned to the teaching squadron for one year and was promoted to regimental adjutant on July 1, 1843. In this capacity, his regiment chief Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion in early September 1843 . On March 27, 1847, Mirus was initially commanded as adjutant of the 4th Cavalry Brigade in Stargard and, after his promotion to Prime Lieutenant, in the same capacity on October 9, 1847 of the 4th Division . In this capacity he took part in the fighting at Tzremesno and Wreschen the following year in the suppression of the unrest in Poland .

On December 18, 1851, Mirus was promoted to Rittmeister and squadron chief in his regular regiment. On July 3, 1856, he received the service cross and on August 27, 1857, while being promoted to major , he was transferred to the General Staff . From mid-January 1858 he was employed in the general staff of the 1st Guard Division and, from October 1858, he was also director of the division school in Potsdam. During the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , Mirus became general staff officer of the 1st Guard Infantry Division and on June 28, 1859, for the further duration of the mobile relationship, commander of the 2nd Guard Landwehr Cavalry Regiment.

In the demobilization Mirus initially remained in his position as a staff officer, but was the Hussar Guard Regiment allocated and in cases occurring with the representation of the commander of this association commissioned. In mid-November 1859 he returned to the General Staff. On May 12, 1860, he was commissioned to lead the newly formed combined Guard-Uhlan Regiment, from which the 3rd Guard-Uhlan Regiment emerged on July 1, 1860 . On this date he was appointed regimental commander. On June 11, 1864, Mirus was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class with crown, and was promoted to colonel by the end of the month . In the war against Austria in 1866 he was in the avant-garde of the 2nd Guard Division and took part in the battles at Hutberg, Trautenau and Soor , Königinhof and Königgrätz . At Červená Hora he was wounded. For his work, King Wilhelm I distinguished him with the commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords on September 20, 1866, and one day later he raised Mirus to the hereditary Prussian nobility . He was also awarded the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross , was transferred to Cologne on October 30, 1866 as commander of the 15th Cavalry Brigade and promoted to major general on March 22, 1868.

During the mobilization on the occasion of the war against France , Mirus was given command of the mobile 6th Cavalry Brigade , which he led in the battles at Noisseville , Amiens , Bapaume and Saint-Quentin as well as in the battles at Borny and Querrieux. Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , he took over his brigade in Cologne again after the peace treaty . On August 17, 1871 Mirus was transferred to the officers of the army and commanded with the new formation of the cavalry of the Württemberg army . On June 27, 1872, he was released from this command and given the rank and competencies of a division commander. On September 19, 1872 he was ordered to represent the commander of the 7th Division. He was promoted to lieutenant general on March 23, 1873 and four days later appointed commander of this large unit . In this capacity he received on September 8, 1873 the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves. With the award of the Crown Order of the First Class, Mirus was put up for disposal on October 15, 1874 with a pension . He died in Wiesbaden on October 5, 1880.

Works

In 1871 he published the Guide for Cavalrymen in His Conduct in and Out of Service , which was also translated into English .

family

Mirus married Franziska Schach von Wittenau (1827-1853), a daughter of Major General Leopold Schach von Wittenau , on June 20, 1848 in Stettin . The couple had several children:

  • Franziska (1849–1862)
  • Richard (1852–1870), killed at St. Privat

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Hiltl: The Bohemian War. Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1867, p. 268.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 30 of April 5, 1873, p. 267.
  3. ^ Cavalry Field Duty.
personal data
SURNAME Mirus, Richard from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirus, Florentin Richard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 7th division
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1880
Place of death Wiesbaden