Viktor Lebrecht from Trew

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Viktor Lebrecht von Trew (also: Viktor Lebrecht von Treu ; * 1730 in Stade ; † 1803 ) was a Hanoverian officer , lieutenant general and initiator of the Hanover artillery school . His attempts with tubes of different lengths preceded the reduction of the weights of Hanoverian cannons .

Life

Viktor Lebrecht von Trew was born in Stade in 1730 at the time of the Electorate of Hanover .

After initial military training in the Hanoverian army , von Trew was first appointed lieutenant colonel of the artillery on March 9, 1781 and was transferred as such from Harburg to Hanover . In the same year von Trew suggested the establishment of the Hanoverian Artillery School, which he managed to persuade Gerhard von Scharnhorst to switch from cavalry to artillery. However, the relationship with von Scharnhorst, with whom he also corresponded in writing, was “not without problems”, as von Trew preferred individual officers.

In the following year, 1782, von Trew received approval to set up the artillery school, which began operations in September of the same year.

In 1784 von Trew was made a colonel . In the following year 1785 he carried out various attempts to reduce the weight of Hanoverian cannons.

In 1789, Trew was promoted to the rank of major general . Under the direction of von Trew, the regiment received reformulated service regulations in 1792 and, from 1793, mounted artillery .

Also from 1793 and until 1795 von Trew commanded the artillery of the Electorate of Hanover Field Corps .

From 1796 to 1801 von Trew commanded the artillery of the Hanoverian corps in the observation army in Westphalia . During this time he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1798 .

Von Trew had joined the commission for the reorganization of the artillery and designed a new type of howitzer for this purpose .

Viktor Lebrecht von Trew married Eleonore Christa von Ahrenhold (1743-1819).

Tomb

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The tomb of Victor Lebrecht von Trew with the family coat of arms and other grave slabs of his family can be found in the Hameln garrison cemetery .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1916, p. 518
  • Johannes Kunisch : Private and official writings / Gerhard von Scharnhorst (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property , vol. 52), vol. 1: pupils, teachers, war participants. Kurhannover until 1795 , edited by Michael Sikora and Tilman Stieve, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-14700-6 and ISBN 3-412-14700-1 , pp. 799f. and passim ; limited preview in Google Book search

Archival material

Archives by and about Viktor Lebrecht von Trew and von Treu can be found, for example

Web links

  • Martin Arends: Victor Leberecht von Trew (v. Treu) , page with photos of the grave slab at the Hameln garrison cemetery and further cross-references and - in some cases unoccupied - biographical information

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ The year of death 1804 is mentioned differently, compare the note in Georg Heinrich Klippel: The life of General von Scharnhorst. According to mostly unused sources , vol. 1: first and second book. 1755 to 1793 , Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1869, p. 81; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ The year of birth 1736 and the year of death 1804 were given differently; compare Johannes Kunisch: Private und Dienstliche Schriften / Gerhard von Scharnhorst (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property , vol. 52), vol. 1: students, teachers, war participants. Kurhannover until 1795 , edited by Michael Sikora and Tilman Stieve, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-14700-6 and ISBN 3-412-14700-1 , pp. 799f .; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o.V. : Trew, Viktor Lebrecht from in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on April 22, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Johannes Kunisch: Private und dienstliche Schriften / Gerhard von Scharnhorst (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property , vol. 52), vol. 1: pupils, teachers, war participants. Kurhannover until 1795 , edited by Michael Sikora and Tilman Stieve, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-14700-6 and ISBN 3-412-14700-1 , pp. 799f. and passim; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Georg Heinrich Klippel : The life of General von Scharnhorst. According to mostly unused sources , vol. 1: first and second book. 1755 to 1793 , Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1869, p. 81 u.ö .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineering School 1786 to 1803 , in: Engineers in early industrialization / State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815 - 1873) , at the same time dissertation from 1977 at the Technical University of Hanover, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences , in the series Studies on Natural Science, Technology and Economics in the Nineteenth Century , Vol. 10, P. 52ff., online via Google books
  5. ↑ Martin Arends: Victor Leberecht von Trew (v. Treu) ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Page with photos of the grave slab at the Hameln garrison cemetery and further cross-references and - in some cases unoccupied - biographical information @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.garnisonskirche-hameln.de
personal data
SURNAME Trew, Viktor Lebrecht from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treu, Viktor Lebrecht from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Hanover Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH 1803