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See also:WINTERFELDT, HANS KARL VON (17o7–1757) , Prussian See also:general, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:April 1707 at Vanselow in See also:Pomerania. His See also:education was imperfect, and in later See also:life he always regretted his want of familiarity with the See also:French See also:language. He entered the cuirassier See also:regiment of his See also:uncle, See also:Major-General von Winterfeldt (now the 12th) in 1720, and was promoted See also:cornet after two years' service. But he was fortunate enough, by his stature and soldierly bearing, to attract the See also:notice of See also:Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I., who transferred him to the so-called See also:giant regiment of grenadiers as a See also:lieutenant. Before See also:long he became a See also:personal aide-de-See also:camp to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and in 1732 he was sent with a party of selected non-commissioned See also:officers to assist in the organization of the See also:Russian See also:army. While the See also:guest of See also:Marshal See also:Munnich at St See also:Petersburg, Winterfeldt See also:fell in love with and married his See also:cousin Julie von Maltzahn, who was the marshal's stepdaughter and a maid-of-See also:honour to the See also:grand-duchess See also:Elizabeth. On returning to See also:Prussia he became intimate with the See also:crown See also:prince, afterwards Frederick the See also:Great, whom he accompanied in the See also:Rhine See also:campaign of 1734. This intimacy, in view of his personal relations with the king, made Winterfeldt's position very delicate and difficult, for Frederick William and his son were so far estranged that, as every one knows, the prince was sent before a See also:court-See also:martial by his See also:father, on the See also:charge of attempting to See also:desert, and was condemned to See also:death. Winterfeldt was the prince's See also:constant friend through all these troubles, and on Frederick II.'s See also:accession he was promoted major and appointed aide-de-camp to the new See also:sovereign.
When the first Silesian See also:War See also:broke out Winterfeldt was sent on a See also:mission to St Petersburg, which, however, failed. He then commanded a See also:grenadier See also:battalion with great distinction at Mollwitz, and won further See also:glory in the celebrated See also:minor combat of Rothschloss, where the Prussian hussars defeated the Austrians (May 17, 1741). One See also:month from this See also:day Winterfeldt was made a See also:colonel, as also was See also:Zieten (q.v.), the See also:cavalry See also:leader who had actually commanded at Rothschloss, though the latter, as the older in years and service, bitterly resented the rapid See also:pro-See also:motion of his junior. After this Frederick chiefly employed Winterfeldt as a confidential See also:staff officer to represent his views to the generals, a position in which he needed extraordinary tact and knowledge of men and affairs, and as a See also:matter of course made many enemies.
In the See also:short See also:peace before the outbreak of the second war he was constantly in attendance upon the king, who employed him again, when the war was resumed, in the same capacity as before, and, after he had been instrumental in winning a See also:series of successful minor engagements, promoted him (1745) major-general, to date from See also:January 1743.
For his great services at See also:Hohenfriedberg Frederick gave him the captaincy of Tatiau, which carried with it a See also:salary of 500 thalers a See also:year. At Katholisch-Hennersdorf, where the sudden and unexpected invasion of the Austro-See also:Saxons was checked by the vigour of Zieten, Winterfeldt arrived on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to take a decisive See also:share. Once again the rivals had to share their laurels, and Zieten actually wrote to the king in disparagement of Winterfeldt, receiving in reply a full and generous recognition of his own See also:worth and services, coupled with the curt remark that the king intended to employ General von Winterfeldt in anyway that he thought See also:fit. During the ten years' peace that preceded
the next great war, Winterfeldt was in constant attendance upon the king, except when employed on confidential See also:missions in the provinces or abroad. In 1756 he was made a lieutenant-general and received the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Black See also:Eagle.
In this year he was feverishly active in See also:collecting See also:information as to the See also:coalition that was secretly preparing to crush Prussia, and in preparing for the war. He took a leading See also:part in the discussions which eventuated in Frederick's decision to strike the first See also:blow. He was at See also:Pirna with the king, and advised him against absorbing the Saxon prisoners into his own army. He accompanied See also:Schwerin in the advance on See also:Prague in 1757 and took a conspicuous part in the See also:battle there. After the defeat of See also:Kolin, however, .Winterfeldt, whom Frederick seems to have regarded as the only See also:man of See also:character whom he could See also:trust to conduct the more delicate and difficult operations of the See also:retreat, found himself obliged to See also:work in See also:close contact with the king's See also:brother, Prince William, the See also:duke of See also:Brunswick-Bevern, Zieten and others of his enemies. The operations which followed may be summarized by the phrase " everything went wrong "; after an angry See also:scene with his brother, the prince of Prussia retired from the army, and when Frederick gave Winterfeldt renewed marks of his confidence, the general animosity reached its height. As it chanced, however, Winterfeldt fell a victim to his own bravery in the skirmish of Moys near See also:Gorlitz on the 7th of See also:September. His See also:wound, the first serious wound he had ever received, proved fatal and he died on the 8th. The court enmities provoked by his twenty years' unbroken intimacy and See also:influence with the king, and the denigration of less gifted or less fortunate soldiers, followed him beyond death. Prince William expressed the bitterness of his hatred in almost his last words, and Prince See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry's See also:memoirs give a wholly incredible portrait of Winterfeldt's arrogance, dishonesty, immorality and incapacity. Frederick, however, was not See also:apt to encourage incompetence in his most trusted officers, and as for the See also:rest, Winterfeldt stood first amongst the very few to whom the king gave his friendship and his entire confidence. On See also:hearing of Winterfeldt's death he said, " Einen Winterfeldt finde ich nie wieder," and a little later, " Er war ein guter Mensch, ein Seelenmensch, er war mein See also:Freund." Winterfeldt was buried at his See also:estate of Barschau, whence, a See also:hundred years later, his See also:body was transferred to the Invaliden Kirchhof at See also:Berlin. A statue was erected to his memory, which stands in the Wilhelmsplatz there, and another forms part of the memorial to Frederick the Great in Linter den See also:Linden.
See Hans Karl v. Winterfeldt and der Tag von Moys (Gorlitz, 1857) ; and K. W. v. Schoning, Winterfeldts Beisetzung; eine biographische Skizze (Berlin, 1857).
End of Article: WINTERFELDT, HANS KARL VON (17o7–1757)
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