Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann

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Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann, contemporary portrait

Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann (born October 24, 1756 in Schleswig ; † August 18, 1816 in Hanover ) was a German major general and city ​​commander of Hanover.

Life

Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann was the son of the gentleman on Hemmelmark with Morberg and Grünenhof, Louisenberg and Hohenstein Johann Christoph Georg von Hedemann (* July 18, 1729 in Dorste ; † June 17, 1781 in Hemmelmark ) and Davidia Margaretha von Drieberg (* 5 August 1735 in Schleswig ; † November 23, 1795 in Hemmelmark ). He was the eldest child by his father's second marriage and had nine brothers and two sisters.

Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann, aged sixteen, became an ensign in the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment in Stade in 1772 , where he was promoted to lieutenant . In 1793 he became senior adjutant to Major General Georg Ludwig von Mutio . When von Mutio died in Vilvoord near Brussels in May 1793 , Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann became senior adjutant to Field Marshal von Freitag (other spelling: von Freytag). Under this he was promoted to captain on October 7, 1793 . In early 1794 he became a cavalier with Prince Adolph of Great Britain . In 1796 he was awarded the character as Lt. Col. adopted and moved to Hanover. In 1800 his uncle Adam von Hedemann (1725-1813) ceded the Dorste and Elvershagen estates to him in an inheritance contract ; However, he only came to enjoy the fiefs after his death in 1813. From 1801 he was a knightly deputy of the Calenberg-Grubenhagen landscape .

In April 1804 Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann was sent to England by the Hanoverian Executive Commission to meet King George III. to inform about the conditions in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg after the Napoleonic conquest.

In March 1813, during the Wars of Liberation , he established a civil corps in Hanover . French troops, who were on the run after the campaign against Russia , were now in Hanover and were attacked by the pursuing Russians, whereupon the French evacuated the city. After most of the French garrison was withdrawn, unrest broke out in the city and the withdrawn French were replaced by five road companies led by Lieutenant Colonel von Hedemann. Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann was promoted to colonel and city commandant of Hanover. As a chivalrous deputy, he took part in the general state parliament on August 12, 1814, the forerunner of the state assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover .

In 1816 he was promoted to chief of the 1st Calenberg Battalion, the forerunner of the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 164 and major general of the Hanoverian army .

Shortly afterwards he died. The burial took place in the family crypt under the tower of the St. Cyriaci Church in Dorste .

Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann married Helene Friederike Luise Ludmilla von Mutio on December 2, 1782 in Stade (* May 12, 1765 in Stade; † January 21, 1804 in Hanover ). His second marriage was in 1804 in Celle Sophie Wilhelmine von Ahlefeldt (* February 12, 1769 in Ratzeburg ; † March 13, 1846 in Hanover), daughter of General Siegfried Ernst von Ahlefeldt .

From the first marriage, the following children reached adulthood:

  • Davide Magdalene von Hedemann (born January 26, 1787 in Stade , † May 8, 1825 in Hanover ) ∞ Ferdinand von Kielmansegg , Hanoverian Minister of War
  • Henriette von Hedemann (born February 22, 1788 in Stade; † January 16, 1860 in Celle) ∞ Johann Ernst August Philipp von Steinberg-Bodenburg (1789-1853), Hanoverian Oberhofmarschall
  • Helene von Hedemann (* February 21, 1789 in Stade; † June 27, 1858 in Celle) ∞ Anton Friedrich von Beulwitz (1770–1840), President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle
  • Friedrich Christoph Ludwig von Hedemann (born March 26, 1791 in Stade, † November 17, 1817 off the French coast), officer
  • Carl von Hedemann (born November 8, 1792 in Stade, † March 30, 1814 in front of Bayonne ), lieutenant in the King's German Legion
  • Adolph Friedrich von Hedemann (born June 28, 1797 in Hanover; † January 12, 1858 in Lüneburg ), officer and landowner on Keez (today part of Brüel )
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Hedemann (born August 22, 1798 in Hanover, † January 15, 1859 in Northeim ) on Dorste
  • Ernst von Hedemann (born October 10, 1800 in Hanover; † February 14, 1864 in Celle), Hanover major general and court and travel marshal
  • Marie von Hedemann (born September 9, 1801 in Hanover; † March 23, 1834 in Hanover), conventual at Barsinghausen Monastery
  • Dorothea Elisabeth von Hedemann (born July 27, 1803 in Hanover; † March 14, 1884 in Hanover) ∞ William Friedrich von der Betten (1783–1849), Hanoverian colonel; as widow chief stewardess of Queen Marie

writer

Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann was also known as a writer who dealt with political issues as well as poetic and prosaic works.

Freemasonry

Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann was from 1808 to 1810 master of the chair of the Masonic lodge "Friedrich zum white horses" .

Awards

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Since Detlev Lorenz Lübker, Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828 . Aue, 1829, p. 228 ( books.google.de ). Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann is sometimes confused or mixed up with his brother, the Danish Major General Bernhard Otto von Hedemann (born October 30, 1763 in Hemmelmark; † January 10, 1818 in Schleswig).
  2. ↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Red lips have been living since the Reformation in the Kingdom of Hanover The Hanover learned, or Lexicon of writers . 1823, p. 284 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ See the stem series in Danmarks adels aarbog , 15, 1898, pp. 162–186
  4. ^ Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, Tilman Stieve: Private and official writings: General Staff Officer between Crisis and Reform (Prussia 1804-1807) . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-27105-3 , p. 46 , 3rd footnote ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hanover Chronicle: from the beginnings to the present: numbers, dates, facts . Schlütersche, 1991, ISBN 978-3-87706-319-4 , pp. 112 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: History of the City of Hanover: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Schlütersche, 1994, ISBN 978-3-87706-364-4 , p. 282 ( books.google.de ).
  7. ^ Friedrich Voigts: History of the guv Freemason Lodge Friedrich zum Weissen Pferde im Orient von Hanover: Compiled from the acts of the lodge on the occasion of their Säcularfeier . Printed by Kius, 1846, p. 133 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ↑ Johann von Horn: The Guelph order of the Kingdom of Hanover according to its constitution and history. Leipzig: Hinrichs 1823, p. 412f
personal data
SURNAME Hedemann, Hartwig Johann Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general and city commander of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1816
Place of death Hanover