Baron Karl Wilhelm von Willisen ( German: Karl Wilhelm von Willisen ; 1790-1879) - Prussian general; the author of a number of works on military subjects.
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| Date of Birth | April 30, 1790 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Stasfurt | ||||||
| Date of death | February 25, 1879 (88 years old) | ||||||
| Place of death | Dessau | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Kingdom of Prussia Duchy of Schleswig and Holstein | ||||||
| Type of army | Prussian army Schleswig-Holstein troops | ||||||
| Years of service | 1804-1807, 1809, 1813-1849, 1850 | ||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant general | ||||||
| Commanded | Schleswig-Holstein troops | ||||||
| Battles / wars | Napoleonic Wars Danish-Prussian War (1848-1850) | ||||||
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Biography
Karl Wilhelm von Willisen was born on April 30, 1790 in the city of Stasfurt .
During the Napoleonic Wars he participated in campaigns of 1813-1815 [1] .
Since the early 1820s, Karl Wilhelm von Willisen has been reading the history and theory of military art at the Allgemeine Kriegsschule [1] .
When the Polish uprising of 1830 broke out, he began to post reports on hostilities in the Militärwochenblatt . These articles aroused attention with the author's undisguised warm sympathies for the Poles. Due to this, they brought to Willisen the disgrace of the royal court. His Theorie des grossen Kriegs (Berlin, 1840–50) aroused lively controversy in military circles and in the press. The connections he established while serving in Poznan and Breslavl , in conjunction with his well-known sympathy for the rebels, briefly put him on the political field in 1848. Both German and Polish deputies from the Grand Duchy of Poznansky asked the king to appoint von Willisen as royal commissar in Poznan , and this request was granted by the new ministry [1] .
His first actions were successful; he managed to persuade some Polish detachments to lay down their arms, but then, on the one hand, the distrust that he met among his fellow Germans, on the other, the limited powers he had prevented von Willisen from working successfully, and he saw that his activities were in conflict with his eyes. Therefore, he left Poznan and soon retired [1] .
The provisional government, which led the struggle of the Elbe duchies against Denmark, entrusted him with command over the Schleswig-Holstein army. His military operations against the Danes ended in 2] , the loss of strategic initiative under Missund and the on Friedrichstadt , which prompted him to resign [1] .
Karl Wilhelm von Willisen died on February 25, 1879 in the city of Dessau .
His merits to the fatherland were marked by the orders of St. Anne and the Red Eagle (2, 3 and 4 degrees).
Selected Bibliography
- Theorie des grossen Kriegs (Berlin, 1840-50).
- Die Feldzüge von 1859 und 1866 (Leipzig, 1868, published as the 4th volume of Theorie des gr. Kriegs).
- "Acten und Bemerkungen über meine Sendung nach dem Grossherzogthum Posen im Frühjahr 1848" (Kiel, 1850).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Willisen, Wilhelm // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Idstedt // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
Literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff . "Soldatisches Führertum." Band 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1938, S. 82–87 (German) .
- Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz . "Aktenmäßige Darstellung der Polnischen Insurrektion im Jahre 1848." Berlin 1848 (German) .
- Theodor Lüders . "Generallieutenant v. "Willisen und seine Zeit: Acht Kriegsmonathe in Schleswig-Holstein." Stuttgart 1851 (German) .
Links
- Wilhelm Ruestow. Die Feldherrnkunst des Neuenzehnten Jahrhunderts . Zürich, 1857 (German) .