Weiz, Friedrich August
Weiz, Friedrich August
General
born: 09.05.1793 in Frankfurt am Main
died: 24.11.1871 in Wiesbaden
Weiz joined the Nassau military as a 16-year-old cadet in 1809 and took part in the campaign against Austria in the same year, which Nassau had to fight for Napoleon as a result of its membership of the Confederation of the Rhine. As a 17-year-old lieutenant, he fought in the 1st Nassau Regiment in Spain and as a captain against Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Weiz fought in Baden and Schleswig-Holstein as a lieutenant colonel and retired as a general in 1861 after more than 50 years of service.
Weiz was also one of the initiators of the Waterloo memorial erected on Luisenplatz in 1865. Weiz found his final resting place in the Old Cemetery.
Literature
Wacker, Peter: The generals of the Duchy of Nassau. In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde, vol. 34, 1972 [p. 191].
Wacker, Peter: Das herzoglich-nassauische Militär 1813-1866. Militärgeschichte im Spannungsfeld von Politik, Wirtschaft und sozialen Verhältnissen eines deutschen Kleinstaates (with contributions by Guntram Müller-Schellenberg), Taunusstein 1998 [pp. 472; 641].