Wilhelm von Huene

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Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Georg Wilhelm von Hoiningen called Huene (born May 6, 1790 in Halle (Saale) , †  March 6, 1857 in Koblenz ) was a Prussian lieutenant general in the engineering corps .

Life

origin

Wilhelm was the son of the Prussian captain Christopher Wilhelm von Huene (1757–1814) and his wife Gustava Wilhelmine Margarethe, née Rosenkrantz (1769–1815), daughter of a commercial councilor .

Military career

Huene was initially a cadet in Potsdam and attended the engineering academy . In the Fourth Coalition War he was in the defense of Spandau and then came to Glatz as an engineer eleve . After the Peace of Tilsit he was hired on November 13, 1809 as a second lieutenant in the engineering corps. From October 1810 to December 1812 Huene was for further training at the General War Academy in Berlin and received his practical training at various fortresses in Silesia .

During the Wars of Liberation , in March 1813, Huene was in charge of building a bridge near Meißen and then building fortifications in Berlin. He was in the battles in Dresden and Kulm and Nollendorf. In Leipzig he was wounded, with the Iron Cross awarded II. Class and end October 30, 1813 to first lieutenant promoted. During the advance of the coalition troops to France, he came to Ehrenbreitstein for the first time on January 19, 1814 . He was at Montmirail and in action at Vitry, where he received the Order of Saint Anne III. Class received. He was then involved in the expansion of the Mainz fortress until the end of 1814 .

In June 1815 he received his command to Koblenz and the order to restore the Ehrenbreitstein fortress . There he was commissioned on August 2, 1815 with the management of the business as construction director of the fortifications on the right bank of the Rhine near Koblenz. On April 20, 1816, he joined the 3rd Engineer Brigade as Captain II. Class, and at the end of August 1818 he was promoted to Captain I. Class. From the laying of the foundation stone to completion, Huene played a key role in building the fortress. At the same time he was appointed site engineer for the fortresses on the right bank of the Rhine and, in 1825, for the entire Koblenz fortress . On March 23, 1828, he came to the 1st engineer inspection as a major and was transferred to the 2nd engineer inspection on June 25, 1829 while remaining in his employment. On April 18, 1837, Huene was entrusted with carrying out the business as inspector of the 6th (Rhenish) fortress inspection in Cologne and was appointed inspector on January 14, 1838. There he was in charge of the work on the fortress ring in Cologne and the fortress of Minden . In this position in 1839 rose Heune end of March to lieutenant colonel and in September 1840. Colonel on. As such, on November 25, 1843, Huene was initially commissioned to run the business as the inspector of the 2nd engineering inspection in Breslau and was appointed inspector on January 14, 1845. This was followed by his appointment as inspector of the 3rd engineer inspection in Koblenz on February 26, 1846, and on March 27, 1847, promotion to major general . In this capacity, Huene received the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves, in 1847 . Under awarding of the character as a lieutenant general Heune resigned on 25 November 1851 board from the service. He died on March 6, 1857 and was buried in the main cemetery in Koblenz .

In his assessment, General von Aster wrote in 1847: “This capable officer has always distinguished himself in both moral and official respects, but has shown his usefulness in the building business to a high degree and has always served faithfully in peacetime as in war. An activity that sometimes increases to the point of restlessness, which his subordinates do not always find benevolent, which also sometimes disrupts the business relationship with him, is fairly balanced by a prevailing cosiness of the character and does not make any significant contribution to his superior attitude. He is a respectable family man and his economy is in order. His physical strength has increased and he will therefore be able to lead the command of engineers in an army. "

family

Huene married on March 13, 1817 in Sayn Charlotte Franziska Lossen (1798–1869). The couple last lived in Koblenz, Neustadt No. 14 and had several children:

  • Anselm August (1817–1882), captain a. D. ⚭ 1846 Maria Longard (1823–1882), parents of General Ernst von Hoiningen
  • August (* 1821)
  • Gertrud Henriette (* 1824) ⚭ 1846 Rudolf Deinhard († 1869), engineer officer
  • Elisabeth Karoline Wilhelmine (* 1827)
  • Wilhelm Clemens Xaver (1834–1901), lieutenant in the Reitenden Feldjägerkorps, then chief forester in Homburg ⚭ 1868 Paula Lossen (1840–1914)
  • Karl Adolf Eduard (1837–1900) ⚭ Johanna von Blacha (1846–1895)
  • Hermann Joseph Maria (1841–1911), lieutenant colonel in the engineering corps ⚭ 1871 Minna Müller (* 1850)

His descendants received the Prussian recognition of the baron status on August 22, 1863 . Although the family already held the title of Freiherr or Baron in the Baltic States, it required official recognition from the Prussian king in order to be allowed to do this in Prussia.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical paperback of the primeval nobility. Volume 1, 1891, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Huene, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoiningen called Huene, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1857
Place of death Koblenz