Ulrich Pultz from Carlsen

Ulrich Pultz from Carlsen

Ulrich Pultz von Carlsen (born August 25, 1773 in Roskilde , Denmark , † April 15, 1863 in Darmstadt ) was a lieutenant general of the Hessian Grand Duke who was made the first honorary citizen of Offenbach am Main in 1837 .

Life

Ulrik Pultz Edler von Carlsen was the fifth of the seven sons of the royal Danish major Michael von Carlsen and his wife Louise Augusta von Pultz. At the age of twelve, Carlsen became a seaman and made two trips that took him to China and Java . Since the service at sea impaired his health, Carlsen joined the Danish Army's Cavalry Corps as a cadet in 1790 . On March 17, 1794 he said goodbye as a cornet and on the recommendation of Prince Friedrich of Hesse was hired on August 27 of the same year as a second lieutenant in the Princely Hesse-Darmstadt Chevauxlegers Regiment. The regiment was at that time in the Netherlands, where Carlsen took part in the battles at Ingelmunster and Boxtel during the First Coalition War . In this battle he was wounded and after his recovery was used as an orderly for his regimental commander. In 1796 the regiment returned home and Carlsen was transferred to the light infantry battalion, which was to be embarked from Trieste to Gibraltar . After reaching Trieste at the end of February 1797, the association received the order to join the Austrian army and occupy the Adriatic coast near Trieste and Fiume and later Karlstadt . As a former seaman, Carlsen was given the task of taking over command of the sea transport.

In 1797 Carlsen returned to Darmstadt with his troops. It was not until 1806 that the Hessian troops moved back into the field as allies of Napoleon . During the Fourth Coalition War , Carlsen fought as Prime Lieutenant in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt against the Prussians and took part in the sieges of Graudenz and Stralsund in 1807 . In 1809, during the war against Austria, he took part as a captain in the battles of Wagram, Pressburg (Engerau) and Znaim, as well as in the siege of Raab in Hungary. In the campaign of 1812 in Russia v. Carlsen was initially appointed commander of the "Fort Napoleon" (before and afterwards called Prosnitzer Schanze) on the island of Rügen in order to prevent enemy ships from entering Stralsund. On September 19, 1812, Carlsen marched from Rügen via Stettin, Koenigsberg, near Kaunas over the Memel, to Wilna and arrived on November 30 in Wileika, where his regiment is currently under the command of General Franzcesky (to the Corps of the Bavarian General Graf Belonging to Wrede). In an attack by the superior Russian cavalry on December 7th, Carlsen was able to defend General v. To protect Wrede from being captured by the Russians, for which he received the Legion of Honor . On his retreat from Russia, again near Kaunas on December 13, 1812, Carlsen, with the energetic help of the fireworker Peter Sommer, managed to save the Hessian gun division and bring it back to Darmstadt on February 8, 1813, both of which were provided by the Grand Duke were promoted. Appointed major on February 18, 1813, Carlsen took part in the Battle of Lützen under Marshal Ney and in the capture of Großgörschen. Thereupon Carlsen and his battalion were ordered to the honor guard of Napoleon in his headquarters. He successfully escorted the imperial safe from Dresden to Torgau, where he then had to endure one of the worst sieges of the time. Since the Battle of Leipzig took place at the same time and with it the danger that Hesse would terminate the Confederation of the Rhine, Carlsen was arrested by the French and arrested in the fortress. Although he was promised to be released immediately, it was not possible to get him to sign a lapel in which he undertook not to serve with his battalion against France for a year. When he was dismissed a month later at the request of the Prussian General Tauenzien, the French generals paid him the highest appreciation for his steadfastness and saluted the fortress crew. After the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation, Carlsen marched at the head of his battalion in France as far as Lyon in 1814, but was not involved in any engagement. In 1815 he marched for the second time to France, attended the battle of Strasbourg and later cantonned on the Loire until the conclusion of the Paris Peace.

In 1819 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and from 1823 to 1837 commanded the regiment "Grand and Hereditary Prince" in Offenbach am Main as a colonel . When he left, the city was the first to give him honorary citizenship. On November 8, 1837, Carlsen was appointed commander of the residential city of Darmstadt while being promoted to major general . He was a member of the Darmstadt Masonic Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht .

In recognition of his services, the Grand Duke awarded him the Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Louis and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit . On November 18, 1840, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Danebrog Order by the King of Denmark. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service, Carlsen was promoted to lieutenant general on August 27, 1844. He was released from his command on April 12, 1848, and served in the military administration until his retirement on August 27, 1854.

Ulrich Pultz von Carlsen married Friedrike Jäckel in 1801, * 1775 in Hatten, Alsace, died 1853 in Darmstadt. She was a granddaughter of Chamber Councilor Friedrich Reuss, 1710–1763, the grandfather of Caroline Reuss, married Büchner, mother of Georg Büchner . Of the couple's five children, only one son and one daughter grew up. Son Hermann von Carlsen, 1802 (?) - approx. 1880, studied in Gießen and was retired as Secretary of War in 1870. He remained unmarried, as did his daughter Julie von Carlsen (1817–1878). The two were cousins ​​and second cousins ​​of Georg Büchner and his siblings.

literature

• Alexander Keim: History of the 4th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment (Prince Karl) No. 118 and its tribes. 1699-1888. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1879. pp. 477-483.
• Christian von Bechtold: Ulrich Pultz von Carlsen, a real soldier's life. Eduard Zernin. Darmstadt and Leipzig. 1874

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 304.