Viktor von Prott

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Viktor Lebrecht von Prott

Viktor Lebrecht Heinrich von Prott (born September 21, 1781 in Hameln , † February 16, 1857 in Hanover ) was a Hanover general.

origin

His grandfather was the first lieutenant Johann Bernhard Prott (around 1687–1732) from Kurfürstendamm-Lüneburg . His parents were the captain of the artillery in the Hameln garrison, Major Johann August Prott, and Louise Sophie Kotzebue . His godfather was Viktor Leberecht von Trew.

Life

He joined the army as a cadet in 1795 and became an officer in 1802.

During the Hanoverian occupation and the dissolution of the Braunschweig-Lüneburg troops in 1803, he went to England, where he was employed as a lieutenant in the engineering corps of the King's German Legion on April 20, 1804 . In 1805 he took part in the expedition led by William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart to Northern Germany and in 1807 in the siege of Copenhagen .

In 1807 he became an engineer officer in Sussex and Jersey , where he led the construction of Martello towers to protect the port of Saint-Hellier. In 1814 he returned home.

After the Hanoverian troops were reorganized and merged with the Legion in 1816, he found employment again as a lieutenant colonel in the engineering corps . He was also lieutenant general quartermaster and took over the business of the general staff.

As in 1817 for the reconstruction of roads , the general road building commission was founded, he was charged with regulation of April 26, her first and only technical manager. Route construction director Anton August Wilhelm Eichhorn was responsible for the administrative business.

Chain Bridge Hameln

With the bridge engineer and master builder Georg Dietrich Wendelstadt, the Wilhelmsbrücke near Kuventhal was built around 1830 and the chain bridge designed by Georg Theodor Wendelstadt (1790–1860) in Hameln from 1836–39 (moved to Hessisch Oldendorf before the war ) .

In 1843 civil officials took over the technical management.

When the General Staff Academy was founded in Hanover in 1823 , he also became its highest director. His penchant for mathematical studies did not quite meet the needs of the troop.

In the spring of 1845 he led the royal Hanover engineer captain Anton Heinrich Dammert jun. the measurement of the railway line Emden-Papenburg .

In 1845 he was appointed adjutant general and in March 1848 he joined the Stüve-Bennigsen Ministry as Minister of War.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Limburg an der Lahn 2000, p. 54
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ www.garnisonkirche-hameln.de/001_Trew,%20V.L.htm ( Memento from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Strassenbau.Niedersachsen.de .
  5. ^ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in the early industrialization. State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815–1873). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 49, footnote 45 (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Prott, Viktor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prott, Viktor Lebrecht Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian general and minister of war
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1857
Place of death Hanover