Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (1755–1813)

Gerhard Johann David (from 1802) von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and military reformer, first in Hanoverian, from 1801 in Prussian service; 1807 appointed head of the Military Reorganisation Committee by King Friedrich Wilhelm III (1770–1840); he was mainly responsible for the Prussian military reforms (abolishment of corporal punishment, 1808; introduction of universal military service, 1814).

Friedrich Bury (1763–1823), Gerhard David von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), black and white reproduction of an oil painting, ca. 1810; source: Schulze, Friedrich (ed.): Die Franzosenzeit in deutschen Landen 1806–1815: In Wort und Bild der Mitlebenden, Leipzig 1908, vol. 1: 1806–1812.