(sitting, middle) and Friedrich Friesen (standing, right) at a forward post, by
Georg Friedrich Kersting (1815). All three are wearing the uniform of the
Jäger and the
Iron Cross, 2nd Class. He studied at the
Academy of Architecture, Berlin, collaborated on the great atlas of
Mexico edited by
Humboldt, and from 1810 was an instructor in the
Plamann Institute. In 1810-12 he rendered important services to
Jahn in the establishment of German gymnastics.
War of the Sixth Coalition Upon the outbreak of the German
War of Liberation in 1813, he assisted in organizing the famous volunteer corps of
Major von Lützow, whose adjutant he became. In mid-June 1813, the Lützow Freikorps was ambushed by Napoleonic troops near Kitzen due to a delay in an agreed troop withdrawal despite an armistice. 105 Lützowers fell, 90 were captured and 300 fled, including Lützow, Friesen and the seriously wounded Körner, who dragged himself to Großzschocher, about 11 km away. Various monuments in the region bear witness to these days. ==Death==