Christopher von Krogh
Gerhard Christopher von Krogh , (born October 10, 1785 at Gut Aastrup near Haderslev , † April 12, 1860 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish lieutenant general .
family
He came from a noble family from Lower Saxony , which derives his descent from the area of the Archbishopric of Bremen-Verden ( 13th century ), came to Denmark in the 17th century and, as a result of the political changes in 1864, had partially transferred to Prussia , and was the son and tenth of 14 children of the landlord and royal Danish chamberlain and court hunter Friedrich (Fritz) von Krogh (1737–1829), lord of the Aastrup and royal Danish secret conference councilor, and his first wife Rosine Elisabeth von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1751–1798).
Krogh married on February 6, 1813 in Christiansborg Siegfriede Countess Knuth (house Liliendal) (born February 26, 1790 in Copenhagen; † August 3, 1866 ibid), the lady in waiting of Queen Marie Sophie Friederike of Denmark (1767-1852). The following children are known from this marriage:
- Fritz (1813-1842)
- Marie Sophie Frederike (born November 18, 1815; † 1899) ∞ Valdemar Tully Oxholm (1805–1876)
- Adam Christopher Friedrich Ferdinand (* April 14, 1819 † 1898)
- Siegfriede Viktorine (April 12, 1823; † 1898) ∞ Josias Raben-Levetzau (1796–1889)
Life
Krogh was major general at the outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848-1851) in 1848 and in July succeeded General Hans Christopher Georg Fredrik von Hedemann as Commander in Chief of the Danish Army . Immediately after the accident in Eckernförde Bay in April 1849, Krogh was replaced by General Frederik Rudbek Henrik von Bülow .
Since Bülow was ill at the opening of the third campaign in 1850, Krogh received the command again and won the battle of Idstedt on July 25th over the Schleswig-Holstein army . Shortly after the battle he was made lieutenant general and defeated General Karl Wilhelm von Willisen in the battle of Missunde .
Krogh commanded the army until peace in 1851 and was then appointed commanding general , first in Schleswig and then in Holstein , but resigned in 1857 because of a stroke .
Relief and grave
A plate on the base of the Idstedt lion , which the Dane Herman Wilhelm Bissen erected as a memorial for the victory of the royal Danish troops near Idstedt, shows Christopher von Krogh in profile.
Opposite this monument, the waking lion, you can also find his grave, which is part of a burial mound in which other Danish soldiers from the battle of Idstedt were buried.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Noble Houses , Part B 1928, page 327, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1928
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krogh, Christopher von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krogh, Gerhard Christoph von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish Lieutenant General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Aastrup near Haderslev , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1860 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |