William of Chappuis

Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich von Chappuis (born October 20, 1793 in Kleutsch , † February 9, 1869 in Liegnitz ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Wilhelm was a son of the Prussian Colonel François Louis von Chappuis (1751-1830) and his wife Sophie Elisabeth Eleonore Friederike, née Countess von Pfeil and Klein-Ellguth (1768-1848).

Military career

Chappuis entered on April 10, 1806 as a corporal in the infantry regiment "von Müssling" of the Prussian army . During the Fourth Coalition War he fought in battle near Saalfeld and was captured near Halberstadt , from which he was able to escape. Chappuis then took part in the defense of Glatz and in mid-December 1806 was portepeefähnrich . By the end of January 1808, he was promoted to second lieutenant in the 2nd Silesian Infantry Regiment . In mid-December 1809 Chappuis took his leave to study at the University of Breslau . On October 27, 1810, he went to the gendarmerie as a district officer and on November 1, 1812, he joined the Upper Silesian Gendarmerie Brigade as a district officer in Striegau . Chappuis was employed again in the Prussian Army on February 6, 1813 with the 1st Reserve Battalion of the Leib Infantry Regiment , before he was transferred to the 12th Infantry Regiment on July 1, 1813 . During the Wars of Liberation , both of his lower leg bones were smashed in the Battle of Bautzen . As a result of this serious wound, Chappuis was no longer fit for field service. Thereupon, in mid-March 1814, he was first aggregated on foot with the 2nd Guards Regiment and at the beginning of November 1814 transferred to the regiment's garrison company as a prime lieutenant .

On July 20, 1815, Chappuis came to the Berlin cadet house as captain , before he was transferred to the cadet house in Kulm as a company commander on October 25, 1816 . He rose to lieutenant colonel by the end of March 1838 and was appointed commander of the Cadet House in Wahlstatt on May 19, 1838 . Here he was promoted to colonel on March 30, 1840 with a patent from April 3, 1846 . In 1842 he received the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with a bow. Under awarding of the character as a major general Chappuis took his leave with the March 12, 1851 board . On January 4, 1853, he was awarded the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern , and on October 18, 1861, on the occasion of the coronation of King Wilhelm I, he was awarded the Crown Order II. He died on February 9, 1869 in Liegnitz.

In his assessment, the commander of the cadet corps, General von Below, wrote in 1847: “He is a genuinely military character, raised and refined by a versatile scientific education and the predominantly poetic direction of his mind and disposition. Belonging to the pedagogical profession that has become him with unlimited devotion, he fulfills all its duties with restless zeal and an activity that ignores the pain that he feels almost continuously as a result of his severe wounding in the battle of Bautzen, the results of his official activity have always been cheap. "

family

Wilhelm von Chappuis married on May 2, 1821 in Kulm Agnes Kittel (* January 28, 1802 - September 5, 1874), with whom he had the following children:

• Karl Friedrich (born May 25, 1822 - January 19, 1884), Counselor ⚭ 1850 Bertha Bail (born February 29, 1828), parents of Hermann von Chappuis
• Ulrich Wilhelm (born February 25, 1825; † September 5, 1871), Prussian major ⚭ 1852 Pauline Fischer (born October 26, 1829)
• Marie Anna Agnes (May 17, 1828; † June 9, 1900) ⚭ 1853 Karl von Liebenroth (born January 28, 1817 in Berlin; † May 30, 1907), Colonel and son of Karl Sigismund Wilhelm Gabriel von Liebenroth
• Hermann Heinrich (born December 26, 1838; † March 11, 1910), Prussian lieutenant general ⚭ 1872 Johanna Leonie Stern-Cotta (1848–1931)
• Rosa Sophie Mathilde (* * April 23, 1834)
• Elisabeth Ottilie Mathilde (born February 10, 1848)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, [Hamburg]: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, o. O., o. J. [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 280-281, no. 1895.
• Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 1, Berlin 1892, pp. 84-85.