Wilhelm von Salpius

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Johann Ludwig Wilhelm von Salpius called von Oldenburg (born September 28, 1785 in Nauen , † March 6, 1866 in Berlin ) was a German officer in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was major general and in command of the Gdansk Fortress.

Life

Wilhelm was the son of the superintendent in Nauen Christian Ludwig Salpius (1738–1834) and his wife Maria Elisabeth born. Sadewasser († 1831).

Military career

Salpius enrolled on May 1, 1804 as a candidate for law at the University of Halle . After his studies he came to the house of the secret councilor Peter Alexander von Itzenplitz as a private tutor . In the run-up to the Wars of Liberation , on April 2, 1813, he joined the 2nd Kurmark Landwehr Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a simple Landwehr man . Promoted to second lieutenant on May 30, 1813, he fought in the sieges of Wittenberg , Wesel , Lille , Condé, Maubeuge and Großbeeren , Dennewitz , Courtray and Oudenarde . For his behavior in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

On September 17, 1814 Salpius was promoted to prime lieutenant and commanded to serve at the General Command of the II Army Corps . This was followed by a job as an adjutant in the 4th Troop Brigade from January 14, 1816 . On April 1, 1816, Saloius was transferred to the general command of the 1st Army Corps as captain and adjutant . After four years he was transferred to the General Staff . There he rose to major on March 30, 1822 with a patent from April 11, 1822 . As such, Saloius joined the General Staff of the Guard Corps on March 30, 1827 . From April 15, 1830, he was also the President of the Examination Commission for the Portepeef Ensigns of the 2nd Guard Division . On June 16, 1832, Salpius was released from this position and on March 30, 1834 rose to Chief of the General Staff of the Guard Corps. In this position, he was awarded the Order of St. Anne II on November 26, 1834 and raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on February 21, 1835 .

With a patent from April 16, 1837, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 30, 1837, and as such he was appointed head of a theater of war in the General Staff on March 30, 1838. A year later Salpius was promoted to colonel . He received the Sword Medal with diamonds on August 9, 1840 and then on April 2, 1844 the General Staff on 30 March 1844 Commander of Gdansk aggregated . On April 9, 1844, he was given a three-month vacation with a full salary to organize his move from Berlin to Danzig. Salpius was also granted a relocation bonus of 200 thalers. On March 22, 1845 he was promoted to major general. Due to illness, he was put up for disposal on March 13, 1847 and was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves, with the statutory pension .

After his departure , Salpius received permission on March 12, 1855 to add the designation "called von Oldenburg" to his name. He also acted from March 29, 1855 to December 18, 1858 as a member of the General Order Commission. Wilhelm von Salpius died on March 6, 1866 at the age of 80 in Berlin and was buried three days later in the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof in front of the Potsdamer Tor . The grave was lost when the cemetery was leveled in 1922 at the latest.

Salpius was a well-known representative of the shorthand after Horstig . He had learned it as a boy and used it constantly when transcribing lectures, keeping diaries, and so on. He also supplemented the Horstig alphabet by inserting new characters for vowels and consonants and creating further abbreviations for syllables and final syllables. Through his work in the Great General Staff, he spread knowledge of this document among the officers of the General Staff and among the students of the Prussian War Academy , where he gave lectures on war science.

family

Salpius married Karoline Marianna Ulrike Kasimira von Oldenburg (1805-1891) on May 9, 1821 in Königsberg , daughter of Leopold Karl Ludwig Friedrich von Oldenburg (1778-1843) and Frederike Amalie Theophilie von Billerbeck (1782-1853).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 152–153.
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1905. Sixth year. P. 587.
  3. ↑ Negotiations of the German Juristentag 1874. P. 334ff. , Necrology.
personal data
SURNAME Salpius, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Salpius (until 1835); Johann Ludwig Wilhelm von Salpius (until 1855); Johann Ludwig Wilhelm von Salpius called von Oldenburg (from 1855)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general, commandant of Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauen
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1866
Place of death Berlin