August von Krohn

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August Friedrich Nikolaus von Krohn (born February 23, 1781 in Neustadt in Holstein , † June 12, 1856 in Ballenstedt ) was a Holstein major general and minister of war . He had received the Danish officer nobility , had been a knight of the Dannebrog Order from 1809 and later commander of the order.

Life

origin

His parents were the Lübeck notary Christian Friedrich Krohn and his wife Fredrike, née Fruehl.

Career

Krohn joined the Oldenburg infantry regiment as a free corporal at the age of 14 and was promoted to prime lieutenant by 1807 . In 1809 he received the Dannebrogden for his bravery in the storming of Stralsund . He was promoted to captain in 1813 and was adjutant to General Friedrich von Hessen , who commanded a Danish auxiliary corps. When he was able to defeat the Russian general von Wallmoden in the battle of Sehested , Krohn was his chief of staff . Denmark nevertheless lost the war and now turned against Napoleon Bonaparte .

After the end of the war, Krohn joined the Schleswig Jägerkorps, but remained an adjutant until he became a wing adjutant to the Danish governor in Schleswig and Holstein , Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel , in 1825 . Promoted to major , he became court marshal of Duke Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg after the death of the Landgrave . In 1839 he became commander of the Danebrog Order. In 1840 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in 1843 to colonel . The latter was only possible because he was considered one of the most capable officers in the army.

During the Schleswig-Holstein uprising from 1848 to 1850 he was major general in the Schleswig-Holstein army. After the end of the survey, he retired to Rendsburg and then went to his daughter in Ballenstedt around 1852.

Between 1820 and 1848 Krohn was director of the military-run Christians nursing home in Eckernförde , an educational institution for children and orphans of nationwide Danish soldiers and NCOs.

There is a portrait lithograph of him, made in 1851 by Friedrich Adolf Hornemann .

family

Krohn married Charlotte Thomsen († 1885) on January 4, 1810. The couple had several children:

  • Ludwig (1812–1886), Saline Director in Lüneburg ⚭ 1854 Charlotte Harding (1824–1885)
  • Auguste (1814–1902), lady-in-waiting in Anhalt-Bernburg (Anhalt-Bernburg nobility 1834) Ad 1836 Adolf von Moltke (1804–1871), lord of Ratzau
  • Clairant (1816–1867), mayor of Bielefeld ⚭ Ida Diederichsen (1821–1860)
  • Alfred (1820–1877), Prussian major general, (Prussian nobility 1871) ⚭ 1863 Mathilde Freiin Braun von Wartenberg (* 1839)
  • Julius (1828–1904), Lotzenkommandant (Prussian nobility 1891) ⚭ Louise Karoline Messing (1834–1921)

Works

  • Basics of the art of war of our time. Schleswig, 1824, Deaf-Mute Institute (publisher)
  • Pedagogical remarks: with special reference to the nature and value of the mutual school arrangement. 1825, digitized
  • Carl Friedrich Heinrich von Lange, Colonel and Commander of the Schleswig Jäger Corps, Grand Cross from Dannebrog and Dannebrogsmann. a biographical sketch, 1830, Deaf-Mute Institute (publisher)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kongelig Dansk Hof-og Stats-Calender 1842. p. 23.
  2. ^ Petra Dollinger: Women at the Ballenstedter Hof. Volume 1, p. 1025.
  3. ↑ Werner Schmidt: Lorenz von Stein. A contribution to the biography, the history of Schleswig-Holstein and the intellectual history of the 19th century. Eckernförde 1956, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Krohn, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krohn, August Friedrich Nikolaus von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Major General and Minister of War (Holstein)
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Holstein
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1856
Place of death Ballenstedt