Adolf Friedrich Konrad von Hake

Adolf Friedrich Konrad von Hake (born December 8, 1778 in Berlin , † December 20, 1862 in Friedeberg (Neumark) ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

He comes from the post-aristocratic line of those von Hake and was the son of the Prussian staff captain in the Berlin invalids' house Friedrich von Hake (1747-1815) and his wife Martha Marie, née Wieblitz (1746-1822)

Military career

Hake visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . On September 27, 1794 he came as a corporal in the infantry regiment "von Schladen" of the Prussian Army . In the First Coalition War he took part in the campaign on the Rhine at his own request and was stationed in Worms . On April 11, 1795, he became a porter ensign. He was stationed in Minden and learned from a captain de la Motte who spoke no German, in addition to topographing , the French language . His superior, Lieutenant Colonel Le Coq, made Hake to de la Motte's assistant in topography in the summer of 1796 and by October 1801 he was promoted to second lieutenant . As such, he was transferred to the infantry regiment "von Wartensleben" on January 24, 1803 with a patent from October 4, 1797 . On March 20, 1804, he was Adjoint 2nd class in the Quartermaster General , but remained in his position in the regiment. By 1805, Hake had independently mapped the whole of Westphalia, in September 1805 he joined the Blücher staff as a general staff officer and was used there for large-scale explorations and long reporting rides . In the Fourth Coalition War he fought in the Battle of Auerstedt and was wounded on the retreat near Greußen . He then took part in the battles near Nordhausen , Waren and Lübeck . With the 2nd Division, Hake was supposed to stop the French at Schlutup before he withdrew to Travemünde on express orders and was taken prisoner there. He was brought to Spandau and quartered in the invalids' house. In April 1807 he escaped together with Captain Schöler II and initially made his way on foot via Altona , Kiel , Copenhagen to Königsberg , where the remnants of the army gathered.

In June 1807 he was transferred to the General Staff, where he was promoted to staff captain until mid-October 1808 and was assigned to the General of the Cavalry Blücher. With the promotion to captain, Hake came to Osterode as a border brigadier on October 27, 1810 , advanced to major in mid-July 1812 and was appointed district brigadier at the end of October 1812. During the Wars of Liberation , he came to the Siege Corps in front of Danzig as a general staff officer on July 1, 1813 . He constantly had to mediate between the commander of the Landwehr, Ludwig Graf Dohna, and the commander-in-chief of the siege corps, the general of the cavalry Duke of Württemberg . Hake, he fought in the front row with the Russian soldiers, was wounded, praised and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. He was also awarded the Order of St. Vladimir IV Class and the Order of St. George IV Class.

He was transferred back to the gendarmerie on February 6, 1814 . On April 2, 1815 he was appointed battalion commander in the 4th Kurmärk Landwehr Infantry Regiment, and on May 29, 1815 he was appointed commander of the regiment. He fought in the battle of Ligny , where the regiment stood between the Lignebach between Sombres and Tongrimme and fought off the attacks of the French until evening. During the night the regiment then withdrew to Wavre, where the regiment arrived on June 17th at 8.45 p.m. At Wavre was the III. Army Corps and now had the task of stopping the French so that Blücher could come to the aid of Field Marshal Wellington with three army corps . The corps repelled 13 attacks on Wavre, after which the French turned their attention to the village of Limale. Colonel von Clausewitz gave Hake the order to defend the place to the last man. Ultimately, the village was conquered by the French and the Dijle crossed. The III. The Army Corps withdrew to Leuven during this time. Hake received no news of this, as he was now behind the lines with two battalions. At the top of the III. He stormed the battalion with a fallen bayonet through the ranks of the surprised French troops and was thus able to escape captivity with the loss of 18 men and a few prisoners. The better positioned 2nd Battalion under Major von Schmude also managed to escape with their own losses of 90 men. In the battle for Paris it took part again in the battles at Versailles.

After the war, on February 9, 1816, Hake was transferred to Steinau an der Oder as a district brigadier . From December 30, 1820 to August 22, 1821 he was department commander in the 6th Gendarmerie Brigade and then brigadier of the 5th Gendarmerie Brigade in Poznan. In this position he was promoted to colonel by the end of March 1829 with a patent from April 1, 1829 . Hake resigned from his post on November 22, 1830 and was assigned to the III. Battalion of the 4th Landwehr Regiment. On May 19, 1846 he got his departure with the character as major general and a pension . He died on December 20, 1862 in Friedeberg (Neumark).

family

Hake married Karoline Adolfine Friederike Albertine von Wedel (1789–1839) from the Braunsforth house on June 28, 1810 in Menz . She was a daughter of Rittmeister Hans Wilhelm von Wedel (1757-1808). The marriage resulted in four children, of which only the daughter Mathilde (1813-1834) reached adulthood . She married Heinrich von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff (1798–1846) in 1833

After the death of his wife, Hake married Antonie Auguste Pohlandt (1809-1891) on March 20, 1840 in Friedeberg. The later Prussian Colonel Adolf Anton (1840-1896) emerged from the marriage.

Works

• Contributions to the history of the Blucher Corps.
• Thoughts on military educational institutions and officer training.
• Impartial remarks by Duke Alexander von Württemberg on the campaign of 1806.
• Plan of the Klutert cave from 1804/1805. [1]

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 141-145, no. 1763.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Louise von Bornstedt: The battle near Wavre on the Dyle on June 18 and 19, 1815. P. 26.
2. ↑ Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff: The von Knobelsdorff'sche family in family tables from the oldest to the most recent time. Plate 32a.