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Personal data Justus Philipp Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen zu Neuhaus 

• He was born on February 4, 1773 in Meiningen.
• Profession: Generaal der Infanterie .
• He died on July 4, 1845 in Halle an der Saale, he was 72 years old.
• A child of Ernst Ludwig von Wolzogen und Neuhaus and Wilhelmin Christiane Henriette Johanna Marschalk von Ostheim

Household of Justus Philipp Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen zu Neuhaus

He is married to Dorothea Therese Emilie von Linienberg,.

They got married on December 2, 1820 at Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, he was 47 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Therese Auguste Pauline Freinn von Wolzogen und Neuhaus  1822-????
2. Karl August Alfred Freiherr von Wolzogen und Neuhaus  1823-1883
3. Caroline Auguste Emilie Helene Anne Freinn von Wolzogen und Neuhas  1824-????
4. Bernhard Gustav Hermann Freiherr von Wolzogen und Neuhaus  1826-1877
5. Friedrich Karl Ernst Eduard Freiherr von Wolzogen und Neuhaus  1827-1884

Notes about Justus Philipp Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen zu Neuhaus

Justus Philipp Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen (4 February 1773 – 4 July 1845) was a Württembergian military officer, who served during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography

Early life

Wolzogen's father, Ernst Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen (1723–1774), was a diplomat who served the Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Both his parents died when he was an infant, and he entered the Karlsschule Stuttgart military school in 1781, at the age of eight. He joined the 1st Battalion of the Guards at the Army of Württemberg in 1792. In 1794, after being commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was transferred to the Hügel Infantry Regiment. Shortly afterwards, he entered the Prussian Army's Hohenlohe Regiment as an ensign, hoping to participate in the War of the First Coalition against Napoleon; before he had a chance to be sent to the field, the Peace of Basel ended hostilities between the states. While in Prussia, he met Gerhard von Scharnhorst and became a member of his Military Society, a club of like-minded officers who discussed military affairs.

Wolzogen was also entrusted with the education of young Duke Eugen of Württemberg in 1801. In 1804, he returned to Württemberg and was promoted to major. In November 1805, he was the deputy quartermaster general of the Württembergian detachment, commanded by Honoré Charles Reille, which took part in the War of the Third Coalition. In 1806, he attended the wedding of Catharina of Württemberg and Jérôme Bonaparte. On 6 October, he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel, and appointed commander of the Foot Guards.

In Russia

Wolzogen attempted to rejoin the Prussian Army. His resignation from his post in Württemberg was accepted on 16 May 1807, but the Prussians refused his offer. Instead, he used his connections with Duke Eugen and was given the office of a staff officer in the Imperial Russian Army, which he entered on 23 September. During the following years, he compiled several scholarly works. On 14 June 1812 he was promoted to colonel, and assigned to the headquarters of Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly. As such, he served during the French invasion of Russia. In early 1813, Alexander I of Russia appointed him as one of his adjutants in the War of the Sixth Coalition. During the Battle of Leipzig, he noted the precarious disposition of the reserves of Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and hastened to warn his superiors. In recognition of this, he was promoted to major-general. He was later appointed chief of staff in the III Corps under Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

Post-war years

On 5 May 1814 he resigned from the Russian Army, and after attending the Congress of Vienna, was given the rank of a major-general in the Prussian Army on 24 May. He was a member of the commission which reorganized the Prussian Cadet Corps, and was responsible for the military education of the future Wilhelm I. He also joined the reformatory Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin. In 1818, he was sent by Frederick William III of Prussia to serve as his country's plenipotentiary in the Military Commission of the German Confederation, which directed the union's armed forces. He remained in this position until his retirement, at the rank of general, on 12 March 1836. In 1820, he married Dorothea Therese Emilie von Lilienberg (1797–1872), with whom he fathered three sons and two daughters.

Wolzogen is remembered today mainly for his wartime memoirs, as well as for his brief appearance in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Militärische Beförderungen

württembergischer Leutnant 1794

preußischer Fähnrich 1797

preußischer Sekondeleutnant 1797

württembergischer Kapitän und Flügeladjutant 1805

württembergischer Major 1805

württembergischer Oberstleutnant 1806

russischer Major 1807

russischer Oberstleutnant 1811

russischer Oberst 1812

russischer Generalmajor 1813

preußischer Generalmajor 1815

preußischer Generalleutnant 1820

preußischer General 1836

Orden und Ehrenzeichen

Ritterkreuz des Russischen Ordens der Heiligen Anna am 14. Juni 1812

Pour le mérite am 18. November 1813

Schwert-Orden am 24. April 1814

Großkreuz des Ordens vom Weißen Falken am 12. Januar 1816

Roter Adlerorden III. Klasse am 16. Januar 1819

Roter Adlerorden II. Klasse mit Eichenlaub am 18. Januar 1824

Großkreuz des ö.k. Leopold-Ordens am 18. Dezember 1824

Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz am 27. September 1825

Stern zum Roten Adlerorden II. Klasse am 24. Januar 1830

Roter Adlerorden I. Klasse mit Eichenlaub am 18. Januar 1833

Jürgen W. Schmidt: Ludwig von Wolzogen, Herzog Eugen von Württemberg und die Denkschrift über die Abwehr einer russischen Seelandung in Ostpreußen, in: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv Bd.31 (2008) S.289-303

Alfred Freiherr von Wolzogen: Memoiren des königl. preuß. Generals der Infanterie Ludwig Freiherrn von Wolzogen, aus dessen Nachlaß unter Beifügung officieller militärischer Denkschriften mitgetheilt, Leipzig: Otto Wiegand 1851

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