Wilhelm von Kamienski

Friedrich Wilhelm Johann von Kamienski (born December 31, 1809 in Prenzlau , † May 11, 1867 in Dresden ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 5th division .

Life

origin

Wilhelm von Kamienski was the son of the Prussian Colonel Joseph von Kamienski (1751-1820) and his wife Juliane, née Salzmann. His father was in command of the "Braunschweig-Oels" infantry regiment .

Career

Kamienski visited the Berlin Cadet House and on March 30, 1827 was transferred to the 25th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a Second Lieutenant . For further training he was commanded at the General War School in 1831/34 and then acted as an adjutant of the 2nd Battalion. From March 30, 1839 to March 26, 1847 Kamienski was commanded to serve as an adjutant in the 14th Landwehr Brigade and in the meantime rose to prime lieutenant . From March 27, 1847, he was promoted to captain and returned to his regiment as a company commander. On January 13, 1853 he was appointed major in command of the III. Battalion in the 25th Landwehr Regiment in Malmedy . This was followed by a position as commander of the Fusilier Battalion in the 28th Infantry Regiment on November 13, 1856, and in this position he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 22, 1858 . On May 25, 1858, Kamienski was first ordered to serve in the War Ministry and was transferred to the Ministry on January 20, 1859 with the appointment as head of the clothing department. He was commissioned on June 12, 1860 with the command of the 24th Combined Infantry Regiment, from which the 8th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 64 emerged on July 1, 1860 . Kamienski was promoted to colonel commander of this regiment on that date. In this position he received the Order of the Red Eagle III in autumn 1863 . Class with ribbon and the crown medal III. Class.

Kamienski led his regiment in 1864 in the war against Denmark in the battle near Büffelkoppel and the storm on the Düppeler Schanzen . For his work he received the Crown Order II. Class with Swords and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords. In position à la suite of his regiment, he was appointed commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade on April 21, 1864 and promoted to major general on June 25, 1864. Kamienski received the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross and the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Leopold Order with war decoration from the allies .

Even in the war against Austria , Kamienski and his large association were able to prove themselves in the battles at Gitschin and Königgrätz and on September 20, 1866 was awarded the Pour le Mérite order . He was promoted to commander of the 5th division on October 30, 1866 and on December 31, 1866, with a patent from October 30, 1866, to lieutenant general. He died a short time later on May 11, 1867, unmarried in Dresden.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , Volume 7, p. 272, No. 2291.
• Otto Zimmer-Vorhaus: 1813/1913 List of officers of the Lützow Infantry Regiment (1st Rheinisches) No. 25 and its tribe, the Kgl. Pr. Von Lützow Free Corps. Otto Beckmann Verlag, Berlin 1913, p. 255.