Wilhelm Knibbe

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The family of the Landdragoner Knibbe
Oil painting around 1833, unknown artist, owned by the Historisches Museum Hannover

Wilhelm Knibbe (also: Philipp Wilhelm Knibbe ; * February 12, 1791 in Braunschweig ; † April 10, 1862 in Bodenfelde am Harz ) was a German officer .

Life

Born during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Philipp Wilhelm Knibbe already served as an officer during the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia in the so-called " French Era ". Similar to officers of the Royal German Legion , for example , Knibbe was also awarded the Russian Gold Medal of Merit. In the Kingdom of Hanover , Knibbe then initially served as Rittmeister in the Hanoverian Landdragoner Corps in Hildesheim .

The Landdragoner married Anna (Anna Maria Magaretha Stake; * July 11, 1790; † March 5, 1862 in Bodenfelde), daughter of the businessman Johann Stake and Martha Katharina Schönhütte. The couple had several children, including their daughter Mathilde. Even before the start of industrialization , Knibbe had an unknown artist paint an oil painting of the family as a full portrait in an interior room of himself and his wife and two children. It shows Knibbe around 1833 as a father in the uniform of a prime lieutenant , as it was also the style for the male civilian population in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic times. In the picture, Knibbe is wearing his shako in the crook of his right arm, his wife Anna and daughter Mathilde stand by him in lace-trimmed clothing from the early Biedermeier period . In front of the group of three, a toddler asks the father for attention. The family's painting later became the property of the Historisches Museum Hannover .

From 1840 to 1860, Knibbe, awarded the Hanoverian Wilhelms-Kreuz , worked as an official rentmaster at Bodenfelde, where he died in 1862 a few weeks after the death of his wife at the age of 73.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Urban: Between Uniformity and Individuality. About the relationship between fashion and freedom , in Lutz Hieber , Andreas Urban: Body shapes. Mode macht Erotik , (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover, vol. 32), catalog for the exhibition at the Historisches Museum Hannover from August 31, 2008 to February 1, 2009 as part of the series of events Hannover goes fashion , Hannover: Historisches Museum, 2008, ISBN 978-3-910073-33-3 and 978-3-910073-33-63 (false), pp. 104-117; here: p. 108, illustration p. 109; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Bernhard Koerner : German gender book. Genealogical manual of bourgeois families , Volume 16, Limburg an der Lahn: CA Starke, 1910, p. 318; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ North Ludlow Beamish : Designation of the various orders , in ders .: History of the royal German Legion. With 5 battle plans, a lithograph and several tables , Volume 2, Verlag Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1837, here: Page 12; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1847 ; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Knibbe, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knibbe, Philipp Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Westphalian and Royal Hanoverian officer, dragoons and captain
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1862
Place of death Bodenfelde on the Harz