Ernst_Ludwig_von_Tippelskirch

Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch

Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch

Prussian Army officer

Lieutenant general Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch (26 July 1774 in Gut Görken, Prussia – 23 January 1840 in Berlin) was a Prussian Army officer during the Napoleonic wars. Later he was commandant of Berlin and commander of the Royal Prussian State Gendarmerie.[1]

Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch

His daughter, composer and singer Louise Tippelskirch Strantz, was born in 1823.[2]

He served as Fortress Commander (Festungskommandant) of Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt from 1825 to 1827.[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Bernhard von Poten (1894), "Tippelskirch, Ernst Ludwig von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 38, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 360–361
  2. [2]
    Ledebur, Carl Freiherrn von (1861). Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart (in German). Rauh.
  3. [3]
    Moritz, Horst (2002). Die Festung Petersberg unter Preußen 1802–1918. Erfurt: Stadtmuseum Erfurt


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