Adolf von Hake

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Adolf Christian von Hake (born September 3, 1747 in Hanover ; † June 21, 1825 ) was an infantry general .

Life

origin

He came from the Hake house . His father was the Royal Prime Minister (Privy Council) and Consistorial President Levin Adolph von Hake . His mother was Renate Sophie von Alvensleben .

Military career

He received his education from private tutors. His military service began in 1762 as an ensign in the Hanover Infantry Guard Regiment. He took part in several skirmishes during the Seven Years' War and was promoted to lieutenant in 1769.

Through a trip to England with his father, he made contact with King George III. As a result, he became an unscheduled staff captain in 1773 and captain in the 7th Infantry Regiment in Hameln the next year . In 1789 he was promoted to major and was employed with the 6th Infantry Regiment. When his uncle, who had been a manager in Bremen-Verdens until then , died, he inherited the manors in Diedersen and Dassel . Again Georg III appointed him unscheduled. 1793 to lieutenant colonel and adjutant wing of Friedrich August, Duke of York and Albany . During his attack on Valenciennes , he fell from his horse and suffered a hip damage. In 1794 he became a wing adjutant to Field Marshal Wilhelm von Freytag .

In 1797 Hake became a colonel and in 1800 major general . He was made a member of the Royal War Chancellery . In 1803 he moved with the army from Kurhannover to the Duchy of Lauenburg because of the Napoleonic Wars and became director of the affairs of the war chancellery in Wismar after the Artlenburg Convention . He continued this position in Hanover after the Russian army moved there in the Third Coalition War . When Hanover was occupied again by the French army and fell to the Aller department , Hake went to his estate in Diedersen.

After George III. Having become king of the Kingdom of Hanover , Hake was reappointed to the war chancellery in Hanover and promoted to lieutenant general of the Hanoverian army . In 1815 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Guelph Order . In the war chancellery he soon became vice-president and general of the infantry.

In 1825 he asked, now working for George IV , to be released, which was approved. He then sold his house in Hanover, bought the mayor's house in Hameln and moved there. He and his wife, who died in the same year, were buried in the family vault in Bisperode .

family

On February 22, 1775 he married Amalie Ernestine Freiin von Kipen (1748–1825), who brought Gut Imbshausen into the marriage as a trousseau, which Hake then exchanged for Gut Hasperde . The couple had several children:

  • Sophie Eleonore Christopheline (* / † 1776)
  • Anton Christoph Friedrich (XI.) Wilhelm Ludwig (1777–1851), Herr auf Hasperde ⚭ November 20, 1804 Luise Charlotte von Ketelhodt (1782–1870), sister of Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt
  • Georg Ernst Adolf (1786–1865) ⚭ 1817 Louise von Reden (1799–1880)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hake, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hake, Adolf Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1825