Wilhelm von Meyern-Hohenberg
Friedrich Justus Karl Alexander Wilhelm von Meyern , since 1817 Meyern-Hohenberg , (born October 19, 1773 in Holzminden , † December 9, 1848 in Dresden ) was a Prussian major general .
Life
origin
His parents were Johann Gottlob von Meyern (* February 29, 1720; † March 27, 1789) and his second wife Johanna Christiane Wilhelmine, born von Schauroth (* April 9, 1741; † December 25, 1800). The father was a Bavarian chamberlain , court and landscape councilor and ducal Brunswick Landdrost of the Weser district.
Military career
Meyern came on November 21, 1786 as a private corporal in the infantry regiment "von Bonin" of the Prussian army . There he became an ensign on October 22, 1788 and second lieutenant on June 17, 1790 . As such, he fought in 1794/95 during the campaign in Poland near Rawka, Wola and Powonst and when taking Warsaw . He was wounded in the battle at Powonst. On August 4, 1801 Meyern advanced to prime lieutenant and when the Fourth Coalition War broke out in 1806 , he fought near Halle . At that time he became a staff captain on September 6, 1806 . After the war, he became captain on August 16, 1807 , before being put inactive on October 22, 1807.
Meyern was scheduled for re-employment, but it was not until April 3, 1813 that he came to the 2nd Reserve Battalion in the 4th East Prussian Infantry Regiment . On September 5, 1813 he was promoted to major and battalion commander in the 5th Reserve Infantry Regiment. During the Wars of Liberation , he fought in the battles near Großbeeren , for which Meyern received the Iron Cross 2nd class, with Dennewitz and Laon . He was also in the assault on Arnhem , for which he acquired the Iron Cross First Class and the sieges of Stettin , Wittenberg as well as the income from La Fere, Soissons and the battles at Trebbin, Wilmersdorf, Rohlsdorf, Coswig, Druiten, Loenhut, Westmalen, Wineghem and Merkun.
On October 3, 1815, Meyern came to the 17th Infantry Regiment as a lieutenant colonel and was promoted to colonel on March 30, 1823 . In the meantime, on June 5, 1817, he had received permission to call himself von Meyern-Hohenberg . In 1825 he received the service cross and on March 26, 1828 he was retired with a pension of 1000 thalers. Shortly afterwards, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. him on April 30, 1828 the character of major general. He moved to Dresden and died there on December 9, 1848.
family
Meyern married on June 22, 1803 in Tauersee (Solau in East Prussia) Sophie Charlotte Eleonore kitchen master von Sternberg (born August 31, 1784; † February 13, 1827), heiress of Tauersee. The couple divorced in 1810. The daughter Elise (* July 17, 1808, † December 29, 1885), who married Gerno von Kownacki, emerged from the marriage.
After the divorce, he married Friederike Marianne Antoniette von Clausnitz (* 23 August 1792, † 16 April 1832), a daughter of Major Ernst Franz von Clausnitz, in Berlin on November 28, 1814. The couple had several children:
- August (14 November 1815 - 11 November 1830), cadet
- Wilhelm Anton (born December 26, 1816 - † July 16, 1866), killed as Kuk captain in Condino
- Leo (October 14, 1818 - November 28, 1818)
- Ernst Anton Wilhelm (born May 31, 1820 - † September 13, 1830)
- Antonie Elise Auguste (January 1, 1822 - February 5, 1857) ∞ Richard von Wurmb (August 27, 1806 - September 18, 1880), royal Saxon major general
- Friedrich Wilhelm Anton (July 12, 1824 - April 29, 1825)
- Alfred Karl Wilhelm (born February 26, 1826 - † March 13, 1908), Colonel ret. D.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ottomar (* 1830 - 23 January 1830)
After her death, on April 9, 1836, he married Dorothea Elisabeth Kersten (* 1794), widowed Sasse, in Berlin's Georgenkirche , a daughter of Gottfried Kersten, who was a slaughterer.
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , p. 487, no. 1409.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1860. Tenth year, p. 554.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Gottlob von Meyern at online-ofb.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyern-Hohenberg, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyern-Hohenberg, Friedrich Justus Karl Alexander Wilhelm von (full name); Meyern, Friedrich Justus Karl Alexander Wilhelm von (until 1817) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzminden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1848 |
| Place of death | Dresden |