Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz

Who was Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz?

Karl Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von Canitz und Dallwitz was a Prussian general and statesman.

Canitz und Dallwitz came from an aristocratic family with roots in the present-day municipality of Thallwitz, in the Meissen-Saxonian area of the Mulde. At the University of Marburg he studied jurisprudence and then entered the service of Hesse-Kassel. During the campaign of 1806 he joined the Prussian Army. In 1812 he was assigned to the general staff of General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, as a part of the Prussian army departed for Russia. After the signing of the Convention of Tauroggen he entered Russian service. Here he participated in the campaign on Berlin and Hamburg under Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn. During the cease-fire in 1813 he returned to Prussian service and again served in the general staff under Yorck. After the war he belonged to the Generalkommando in Breslau.

In 1821, Canitz und Dallwitz became adjutant to Prince Wilhelm, the brother of Frederick William III of Prussia, and simultaneously was a teacher at the Allgemeine Kriegsschule, which later became the Prussian Military Academy, in Berlin.