 Then he was invited to be baptized, to make the promotion possible, what Burg ultimately rejected.Burg requested the baptism once in 1824, but then he postponed his request "because of family relationships" on 16 November 1824.On 6 December 1830 Burg had to learn, that the King did not even want to appoint him to the rank of a captain of the army, because he had not attained "the salvation of the Christian faith".