Christoph Mühlenberg (* 9 April 1784 in Erxleben, † 20 July 1809 in Braunschweig) was a corporal participant in the rebellion of Major Schill against the French occupation under Napoleon and was therefore shot dead.
Christoph Mühlenberg was the eldest son of the shepherd master Johann Andreas Christoph Mühlenberg (* 1758) in Erxleben and his wife Friederica Charlotte Augusta Freyse (* 1764). He still had six younger siblings, but they all died as children. When the Prussian Major Ferdinand von Schill (1776-1809) began an uprising against the French occupation under Napoleon at the end of April 1809, Christoph Mühlenberg joined as a corporal of the Schillian troops. The insurrection was suppressed. Schill fell on 31 May 1809 in the defense of Stralsund. 557 squadrons were caught in French captivity. Eleven captured officers were placed in Wesel before a court martial and shot there on 16 September 1809. Fourteen Westphalian subjects, who were condemned to death, were shot and killed on 18, 20, and 22nd July, 1809, on a square near St. Leonhard in Brunswick. Among them was the corporal Christoph Mühlenberg. The rest of the prisoners came in large part to French galleys.
The mortal remains of the executed were excavated again in 1835 and surrounded to the churchyard of St. Leonhard. A monument with the names of the dead was erected here with the help of donations, which was solemnly inaugurated on 19 March 1837. The monument is still preserved today. In Erxleben, a street was named 'Christoph-Mühlenberg-Straße' in 1960. Edit source text
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