Wilhelm von Cloßmann

Wilhelm Nikolaus Cloßmann , since 1790 von Cloßmann (born April 24, 1788 in Mannheim ; † May 23, 1855 in Achern ) was a major general in Baden and a commandant of Rastatt .

Life

origin

Wilhelm was the eldest son of the Baden lieutenant general and governor of Karlsruhe Joseph von Cloßmann (1755-1826) and his wife Christine, née Minet (1755-1835). His father was raised to the hereditary imperial and electoral Palatinate nobility on May 25, 1790 by the elector Karl Theodor .

Military career

In 1801/03, Cloßmann was initially employed by the Bavarian electorate . After the Electoral Palatinate fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden, he joined the Army of Baden as a second lieutenant in the "Crown Prince" infantry regiment . He took part in the coalition wars from 1805 and was able to prove himself as a staff captain in the fighting in Vorarlberg in 1809 . During a foray with a mixed detachment against Tyrolean insurgents , he captured a captain and 15 men. He also captured a flag . During the Russian campaign in 1812, Cloßmann was company commander in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, which fought alongside France. He was wounded in the Battle of the Beresina and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit and the Cross of the Legion of Honor for his work .

In 1813 Cloßmann was promoted to major and led the 6th Landwehr Battalion outside Strasbourg, which he organized in the 1814/15 campaigns .

After the peace treaty, Cloßmann advanced to colonel and commander of the infantry regiment “Margrave Wilhelm” No. 3 until 1833. In 1840, when he was appointed commander of Rastatt, he was also commander of the 2nd infantry brigade and rose to this position three years later Major General up. In recognition of his services, Grand Duke Leopold awarded him the Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion in 1847 . During the Hecker uprising , Cloßmann led the Baden troops against the revolutionaries in the battles near Kandern and the storming of Freiburg . When the military mutiny broke out in the fortress of Rastatt on May 11, 1849, Clossmann tried to break up the mutineers at the head of an squadron of the 1st Dragoons Regiment. He was seriously wounded in the head by a stone throw and was able to escape from the fortress. He was then retired on August 13, 1849.

family

Cloßmann married Wilhelmine Keßler-Sarensheim von Kettenheim (1801-1882) on November 17, 1817. The following children were born from the marriage:

• Wilhelm (1820–1845), Prime Lieutenant in Baden
• August (1823–1874), writer
• Julius (* 1825), Imperial Senate President in Colmar
• Georg (* 1826), merchant in Antwerp
• Leopoldine (* 1829)

literature

• Friedrich von Weech (ed.): Badische biographies. First Part, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 150–151.
• Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Baden-Baden 1886, pp. 100-101.
• Friedrich Cast: South German noble hero. First section, first volume: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg. Stuttgart 1844, pp. 244-245.

Web links

• Cloßmann, Wilhelm von. Index entry: German biography. [15. June 2019].