Bernhard de Huet

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Bernhard de Huet , also: von Hutten (* 1630 in Switzerland ; † June 15, 1698 in Magdeburg ) was Major General in Brandenburg and most recently in command of Magdeburg Fortress .

Life

Military career

In 1666 he became captain of the Brandenburg Guard. During the war of 1672/79 he took part in the campaign to the Rhine . He fought against the French in Alsace and against the Swedes in the battle of Fehrbellin . This was followed by the siege of Stettin and the campaign to Prussia. Huet was seriously injured in the fighting for Anklam . On November 14, 1678 he became lieutenant colonel and on February 20, 1679 first commander of the newly established "Zieten" regiment . On May 17, 1682, the Great Elector appointed him in command of the Minden Fortress . On August 5, 1688, Huet was transferred to Magdeburg as a colonel and on September 6, 1688. On July 1, 1694 he rose to major general and commanded a free company before he died on June 15, 1698 in Magdeburg.

family

Huet married on October 27, 1692 in Halberstadt in the presence and at the request of his prince, a Kolb von Wartenberg , sister of the Kurbrandenburg minister Johann Kasimir Kolb von Wartenberg . The couple had a daughter named Katharina Elisabeth. She married Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Moritz von Bequer (also: Becker). After his death she married Colonel Noel de Artois de Bequinolle on April 3, 1713. Their son was Colonel Johann Leonhard d'Artois von Bequignolle , who became known as a free corps leader during the Seven Years' War .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Sigismund von Buch : Diary. 1674 to 1683. p. 205.
  2. ^ Johann Vulpius, Heinrich Merckel: Magnigicentia Parthenopolitana, that is the city of Magdeburg's peculiar glory, to which come vota devota publica Magdeburgensia. P. 196. Here as von Hutten
  3. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Bernhard de Huet . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 196 ( Bernhard de Huet at Wikisource [PDF]).
  4. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Volume 2, pp. 451 f.
  5. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German adels-lexicon. Volume 1, p. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Huet, Bernhard de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutten, Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg Major General and Commandant of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1698
Place of death Magdeburg