Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke

Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke ( born February 18, 1776 in Stargard in Pomerania, † December 15, 1830 ) was a Prussian general.

Life

Borcke was the son of a Prussian Major retired Kurt Ernst Gottlieb (1757-1816) from the altpommerschen family Borcke, Mr. Dewsberg on, and the Anna Greinert, widowed Hallensleben born. From April 1787 to April 1789, he attended high school in Stargard and a year later, the cadet school in Berlin. In 1790 he appeared as a corporal corporal in the Prussian Infantry Regiment of Raumer (No. 36), serving from 1793 as an ensign in the depot battalion. 1794 einrangiert in the regiment, he received the rank of Sekondeleutnants in July 1795.

Since May 1802 Borcke exercised the function of a governor at the Académie militaire in Berlin, whose Director ad interim he, now a captain, was established in July 1809. In May 1810 promoted to Major, he took over in 1811 the command of the Fusilier Battalion of the 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regiment (No. 2), with whom he took part in the Russian campaign of Napoleon. For bravery and wounded in battle at Dahl churches on the Daugava in Riga on August 22, 1812 Borcke received the Pour le Mérite.

Under the command Dornberg Borcke fought with his battalion on April 2, 1813 successfully in combat in Lüneburg. In this first major engagement of the wars of liberation itself Borcke earned a promotion to lieutenant colonel and recently by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated Iron Cross Second Class. He is considered the first organization to win. Appointed in July 1813 Commander of Infantry Regiment Brandenburg (No. 12) and in September promoted to colonel, Borcke took part in the campaigns of 1813/14 and 1815. In the Battle of Leipzig, he earned the Iron Cross, First Class, the, the Swedish Sword Order and the Russian Vladimir order. In May 1814, he became major general and brigade commander. He fought in the Battle of Ligny, and was then assigned to the occupation forces in France until 1817. Since 1818, he commanded the 4th Division in Stargard i Pomm. , Where he was in 1824 appointed lieutenant general.

On December 15, 1830 accident Borcke on a hunt in Frederick Walder Forestry and died the same day in Stargard, where he was buried.

Since 1806 Karl August von Borcke with Johanna Ernestine Christiane von Broesigke ( 1764-1836 ), divorced from Le Coq, married.