Wilhelm von Felden

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Wilhelm Gottfried Erdmann von Felden (born October 12, 1788 in Berlin , † June 13, 1864 in Danzig ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

origin

Wilhelm was the son of the captain of the staff in the infantry regiment "von Möllendorff" Gottfried Erdmann von Felden (1764-1803) and his wife Johanna Dorothea Friederike, née Lachmann (* 1761).

Military career

Felden visited the cadet house in Berlin and was then employed on April 12, 1806 as a private corporal in the infantry regiment "Alt-Larisch" of the Prussian army . In the fourth coalition war he fought near Jena and goods . When the Blücher corps capitulated in Ratekau after the battle of Lübeck , Felden was wounded and taken prisoner.

In 1807 he came as a Junker in the 3rd Neumärkische Reserve Battalion and on August 20, 1808 as an ensign in the Leib-Infanterie-Regiment . There Felden advanced to secondary lieutenant in August 1809 and as such took part in the campaign against Russia in 1812 . Despite being wounded in battle at Eckau , he fought at Tomoscno and Ruhenthal . After the campaign he came in February 1813 to the voluntary hunter company in Berlin. On December 8, 1813, he was transferred to the General Staff.

During the Wars of Liberation , Felden took part in the battles near Bautzen , the Katzbach , Laon , Montmirail , the crossing near Wartenburg and the battles near Siegersdorf, Königswartha, Buntzlau, Freyburg , Mery, Compiegne, Nanteuil and Severes. Felden received the Iron Cross II. Class for Leipzig and the First Class Cross for Waterloo . In the campaign of 1815 he also took part in the battle near Isny ​​and the sieges of Avesnes and La Fere.

With his promotion to Prime Lieutenant Felden was transferred to the General Staff of the I. Army Corps under General von Zieten on February 5, 1815 . From May 14, 1816 to March 25, 1820 he was active in the general staff of Major General von Katzler in Danzig . He then had a job as a captain in the general staff of the 2nd Division and rose to major at the end of March 1822 . In 1825 Felden was transferred to the General Staff and from June 27, 1831 to June 26, 1832 , he was commanded to the General Staff of the General Government of the provinces of Lower Rhine and Westphalia . For one year Felden acted as head of the war theater before he was appointed chief of the general staff in the VII Army Corps on April 5, 1835 . In this position he was promoted to colonel by the end of March 1839 . On the occasion of the autumn exercises of the corps he received 100 Friedrichsdor from the king on September 12, 1842 as aid for his additional expenses.

In mid-July 1847, Felden took command of the 12th Infantry Brigade in Neisse and was aggregated to the General Staff two months later . After his promotion to major general in 1846, he was sent to Krakow with a troop contingent to suppress the uprising there. For this he was awarded the Red Eagle Order II. Class with Oak Leaves on August 4, 1846 and the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Leopold Order on January 5, 1847 . On December 16, 1848, he was appointed commander of the 9th Division and, at the same time, on January 13, 1849, he was commissioned to take on the business as commandant of Glogau . Felden was given the character of Lieutenant General and retired on March 21, 1850 with a pension . He died in Danzig on June 13, 1864.

General von Krauseneck wrote in his assessment in 1831: “Very educated. through diligence and thoroughness in his work excellently useful and valued. Perfectly suited for the service of the general staff, including teaching. Not physically strong enough to serve in the line. "

family

Felden married on May 27, 1821 in Elbing Karoline Ida Jebens (1803-1857), a daughter of the industrialist Friedrich August Jebens (1768-1834). The couple had several children:

  • Auguste Karoline Erdmuthe (* 1823), died single
  • Karoline Mathilde Erdmuthe (* 1825)
  • Wilhelmine Erdmuthe Luise (* 1829) ∞ Theodor von Stoc, gentleman on Tarnowo near Posen

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und learned things. 1857, 1/2 p. 105.
  2. ↑ Pudor, Fritz:  Jebens, Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 382 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Polish branch of the Counts and Lords of Stosch, after Hubertus Mackensen von Astfeld: Genealogical Streifzüge. Volume 2, p. 117.
personal data
SURNAME Felden, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felden, Wilhelm Gottfried Erdmann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1864
Place of death Danzig