Wilhelm von Jeetze

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Wilhelm von Jeetze with the Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Bavarian Military Memorial 1813–15

Christian Wilhelm Freiherr von Jeetze (born December 27, 1785 in Potsdam , † April 12, 1852 in Nuremberg ) was a Bavarian major general and commander of the Landau Fortress .

Life

origin

Wilhelm came from the originally Prussian noble family von Jeetze . He was the son of Carl Wilhelm von Jeetze (1766-1848), who had settled in Brandenburg-Bayreuth and in 1810 with the transition of the territory to the Kingdom of Bavaria , which became a citizen. Here he had his old nobility enrolled in the knighthood in 1813 and in the baron class in 1823 .

Military career

Since Brandenburg-Bayreuth belonged to France from 1807 to 1810, Jeetze first served in the French army, where he was promoted to captain in 1809 , was taken prisoner near Vlissingen and in 1813 reported for repatriation to Bavaria. In 1815 Jeetze joined the Bavarian Army and was also admitted to the Bavarian nobility in 1816. On January 17, 1815, the provisional French government, under Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord , awarded him the Cross of the Legion of Honor . He was also awarded the Bavarian Military Monument 1813-1815 .

Jeetze became a major in the Bavarian Army in 1828 , a lieutenant colonel in 1838 and a colonel in 1840 . From 1840 to 1842 he was commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment , from 1844 to 1847 chief of the Infantry Leib Regiment , on April 7, 1847 he was promoted to major general and quartermaster general in the general staff .

In view of the Palatinate uprising , he was appointed commander of the Landau Fortress in 1849 . Here he acted with great skill. On the one hand, he successfully repulsed an attack by the insurgents in May of that year; on the other hand, he released soldiers who had been arrested for mercy and who had sympathized with the insurrection movement. In this way, the population could be reassured and greater bloodshed avoided.

The assessment of his work varied. Immediately after the events he was relieved of his Landau post, as he was accused of being too lenient and indecisive. However, an investigative process that was initiated ended without result. Landau made Jeetze an honorary citizen of the city as early as September 3, 1849 , because in a dangerous time he “knew how to reconcile full service duty with the greatest possible humanity” . Reichsverweser Archduke Johann von Österreich , in a personal letter to the general, assessed his behavior in Landau, “under the most difficult conditions” , as exemplary.

As a result of the Landau incidents, Jeetze retired on September 9, 1849 and died of typhus in Nuremberg in 1852 . He is buried in the Nuremberg military cemetery ( Gostenhof ), which adjoins the historic Rochusfriedhof .

family

The first wife Caroline Maria von Köhring died in 1838, after which Jeetze married Clara von Countess Tattenbach and Rheinstein (1818-1852) in 1845 . Both connections resulted in children, but only two sons from their first marriage. One of them was the Bavarian lieutenant general , wing adjutant and confidante of King Ludwig I , Theodor von Jeetze (1811-1883). He was married to Louise von Tattenbach and Rheinstein, a sister of his stepmother.

literature

  • August Walter: Genealogical history of the family of Jeetze. Magdeburg 1860, p. 121 f. ( Digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital scans of the award documents
  2. ↑ Kießling: History of the Royal Bavarian 5th Infantry Regiment. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1898, p. 200.
  3. ↑ Sabrina Müller: Soldiers in the German Revolution of 1848/49 (=  War in History / War in History . Volume 3 ). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-74472-0 , p. 279 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Bavarian friend of the people. No. 149, Munich, September 18, 1849, p. 594 of the year
  5. ^ Bavarian friend of the people. No. 157, Munich, October 2, 1849, p. 626 of the year.
  6. ^ Theodor Fontane: Königlich privilegirte Berlinische Zeitung of state and learned things. No. 158, Berlin, July 10, 1849.
  7. ^ Website on the Nuremberg Military Cemetery
  8. ↑ Obituary. in: Military weekly paper . Volume 68, Berlin 1883, p. 38.
  9. ^ Register entry on Theodor von Jeetze in the German biography
personal data
SURNAME Jeetze, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeetze, Christian Wilhelm Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Major General and Commander of the Landau Fortress
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1852
Place of death Nuremberg