Vinzent von Lupinski

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Vinzent Louis Kajetan von Lupinski (born April 6, 1786 in Lipnicki-Lipnitz , Schwedt district, † May 15, 1862 in Guhrau ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and honorary citizen of Gleiwitz .

Life

origin

Vinzent was a son of the Lord on Lipnicki, Vinzent von Lupinski and his wife Leontine, born Countess von Szuminska.

Military career

After his education in his parents' house and in the missionary monastery Tyloczin in Poland , Lupinski joined the hussar regiment "von Günther" on April 6, 1801 as a volunteer without a salary. He was sworn in on April 6, 1802 and was promoted to cornet until the beginning of October 1805 . During the Fourth Coalition War he fought in the Prussian Eylau , Heilsberg , Labiau, Bieczun, Uderwangen and Königsberg and advanced to secondary lieutenant in mid-February 1807 .

After the Peace of Tilsit , Lupinski was transferred to the Silesian Uhlan Regiment No. 2 on January 20, 1808 with a patent dated August 11, 1805, and to the Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment No. 3 on July 10, 1809 with a patent dated January 12, 1806 offset. In 1812 he came with his association to the Grande Army , which moved against Moscow during Napoleon's Russian campaign. He fought in the skirmishes near Swenziany (July 15, 1812), Szerokopol, Lesnercerkenin and Rudnia (August 8, 1812). He was wounded in the battle of Smolensk , but fought again at Borodino and the Berezina . After the latter battle he came to Moscow wounded, where he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor . He was lucky and returned to Prussia.

On March 13, 1813, he became Premier Lieutenant and leader of the Jäger Detachements in the Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment. For the campaign of 1812 he received the order Pour le Mérite on June 14, 1813 . During the Wars of Liberation he fought on the Katzbach , Laon and Paris . Also in the battles at Lauterseifen, Goldberg, Löwenberg, Bunzlau, Bischofswerder, Reichenbach, St. Dizier , Chateau-Thierry , Sezannes, St. Jean, Meaux, Fleury, Crepy, and Nanteuil. Wounded as a staff commander in the battle near Issy (July 12, 1815), he came to Paris and was cared for in the house of Marshal Lefebvre by his wife, Madame San Gene. He acquired the Iron Cross II. Class near Leipzig and the First Class Cross from Ligny and the Order of St. Vladimir IV. Class for Belle Alliance .

After the war, Lupinski rose to Rittmeister and squadron chief at the end of July 1815 . In mid-February 1817 he was leader of the Polish Guard Landwehr Squadron and at the end of March 1817 he was promoted to Rittmeister 1st class. On April 14, 1819 he was transferred to the 1st Guards Landwehr Cavalry Regiment . On March 20, 1824 he was promoted to major with a patent from April 9, 1824 and came as a commander in the Gnesen Landwehr Battalion of the 37th Infantry Regiment . At the end of September 1835 he received the Order of St. Stanislaus III. Class and on March 30, 1836 he was commissioned to lead the 2nd Uhlan Regiment . On January 17, 1837 Lupinski was appointed regimental commander and advanced to colonel by March 30, 1839 with a patent from April 15, 1837 .

On May 15, 1845 he was promoted to major general and transferred to Cosel as commandant . On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service, he received the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves, on May 15, 1852 . Granted the character of Lieutenant General, he took his leave on May 15, 1856 with a pension of 2100 thalers. The following year he moved to Guhrau in Silesia and was put up for disposal on December 15, 1857 with his uniform . He died on May 15, 1862 in Guhrau.

family

On April 6, 1815, he married Emilie Therese Neugebauer (1795–1857) in Sulau, who was buried in the Bleich churchyard after her death in Guhrau. The couple had several children:

  • Valentin Heinrich Sylvius (1816–1884) on Nakel, lieutenant in the 2nd Hussar Regiment
  • Leontine (1818–1882)
  • Vincent Emil Moritz (1821–1866), Prussian major, killed near Uettingen in Fusilier Regiment No. 36
  • Alfred Karl Hugo (1823–1855), Prussian Premier Lieutenant in the Guard Rifle Battalion
  • Franziska Therese (* 1824) ⚭ NN von Mattesdorf († 1894)
  • Emma Julie Pauline (1826-1828)
  • Alexandrine (1827–1898) ⚭ Hugo von Below (1824–1905), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Wanda Emilie Olga (* 1832)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buried on August 4, 1855 in the Luisenfriedhof.
  2. ^ Genealogical paperback of the primeval nobility. Volume 2, 1893, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Lupinski, Vinzent von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lupinski, Vinzent Louis Kajetan von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and honorary citizen of Gleiwitz
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipnicki-Lipnitz , Schwedt district
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1862
Place of death Guhrau