Wilhelm von Tschirschnitz

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Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Tschirschnitz , from Tschirschnitz since 1856 (born May 16, 1796 in Fraustadt , † June 22, 1873 in Dresden ) was a Hanoverian general of the infantry .

Life

Tschirschnitz was the son of a pastor. He actually wanted to follow his father professionally, but became a soldier through the wars of liberation . He entered the service of Wilhelm von Dörnberg on the Lower Elbe and in April 1813 was a cadet in the light battalion in Bremen and Verden, where he was promoted to prime lieutenant on August 13, 1813 . He fought under Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn in the battle of the Göhrde and in Holstein. In the battle of Groß Boden on December 4, 1813, he was wounded in the arm. After participating in the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent reorganization of the Hanoverian Army , he became an officer in the 7th Infantry Regiment , where he was promoted to captain on September 26, 1826 .

Tschirschnitz embarked on an adjutant career and was appointed brigade adjutant in 1831 and division adjutant in 1833. On May 1, 1838, he was transferred to the General Adjutantur of the Kingdom and, after Major General Carl Jacobi changed to the post of Minister of War in 1850, he was promoted to head of this authority. In 1853 he was appointed real adjutant general and promoted to colonel . With that he had become the actual master of the Hanoverian army, since the war minister only had a say in administrative matters of the army through the war chancellery. Of King George V , whose full confidence he possessed, he was in the hereditary Hanover on May 15, 1856 peerage charged . He was a member of the Hanover State Council . On June 17, 1866 Wilhelm von Tschirschnitz was honored by Georg V when the troops were gathered in Göttingen shortly before the battle of Langensalza with other older Hanoverian generals and promoted to general of the infantry. Friedrich Dammers was his successor . Tschirschnitz spent his retirement in Dresden.

estate

In connection with the Guelph Legion that lists Central database discounts the Federal Archives , the discounts of Wilhelm and especially his son Adolf von Tschirschnitz in the Central State Archive Hanover .

Criticism of office management and suitability

As the head of the Hanoverian Army Tschirschnitz, he was often questioned by contemporaries. He was allowed to be a hardworking office worker. On the other hand, his military competence was often questioned. He was also accused of not taking a position of his own; the latter probably especially against his blind King George V, who, as commander in chief, considered himself a competent military leader.

The criticism of von Tschirschnitz came in the person of the eccentric Hanoverian Rittmeister a. D. and Waterloo veterans of the King's German Legion Staats Nanne (* around 1790, † between 1864 and 1866) to the scandal. This attacked von Tschirschnitz in two publications that appeared in Berlin in 1864: Public grounds for the complaint at the Hanover General Court Martial against Lieutenant General and Adjutant General v. Tschirschnitz and letters from the Welfische Landen in the 19th century. A call to public opinion for morality and the common good . Because of these allegations, Nanne responded to an extradition request from the Kgl. Hanover General Police Director Louis von Engelbrechten arrested in Berlin, extradited to Hanover and ("allegedly") committed suicide in custody shortly before the first court martial. The contemporary press reported that the Prussian King Wilhelm I tried to prevent his extradition to Hanover by means of a dispatch from Bad Gastein ; the dispatch was, however, a few hours too late.

A certain justification of the criticism of von Tschirschnitz can not be denied in view of the state and the readiness of the Hanoverian army in the federal execution against the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg in 1863 and in the war against Prussia in 1866 .

family

Tschirschnitz married Auguste Bock von Wülfingen (1800–1861) on November 12, 1828 in Stade . The marriage resulted in four sons:

  • August (1829–1916), Real Secret War Councilor and Head of Department in the War Ministry ⚭ Minna Werner (* 1838)
  • Julius (1834–1890), Saxon Lieutenant General ⚭ Mary Ahrbeck (1840–1890)
  • Adolf (1837–1911), Prussian district administrator
⚭ Ida von Issendorff (1848–1879)
⚭ Josefine Countess von Baudissin (1845–1932)
  • Theodor (* 1842), second lieutenant a. D.

Awards

Fonts

  • Anonymous: A few words about the exorbitant demands made by the royal Hanoverian government regarding the military in the drafts to the general meeting of the estates , Hanover 1856

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Search results in the database
  2. ^ Staats Johann Heinrich Nanne was the son of the bailiff Staats Johann Heinrich Nanne (1754–1814) in Lüchow and a cousin of the Hanover bailiff Georg Christian Nanne . To both Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen . Volume 1 (1809-1899), Göttingen 2002, nos. 20 and 65
  3. ↑ digitized version
  4. ^ Entry: Kingdom of Hanover in: General German Real Encyclopedia for the educated classes: Conversations Lexicon in fifteen volumes. Suppl .: Encyclopaedic representation of the latest time together with additions to earlier articles; Vol. 1: Aachen-Honved. Volume 16, Brockhaus, 1872, p. 895
  5. ^ Bernhard von Poten: ADB: Wilhelm von Tschirschnitz and Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie. Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, pp. 305-325 ( The four leaders of Langensalza. Pp. 307 ff. The Tschirschnitz system. )
  6. ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, No. 525.
  7. ^ Orders and their order according to the Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover. 1865, p. 224

   

personal data
SURNAME Tschirschnitz, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschirschnitz, Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Woman city
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1873
Place of death Dresden