Caesar du Plat

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Caesar du Plat

Friedrich Caesar Ludwig Rudolph du Plat , also Caesar (born December 21, 1804 in Copenhagen , † April 1, 1874 in Kiel ) was an initially royal Danish officer, later a general staff officer who acted as a Schleswig-Holstein colonel against Denmark .

Life

He came from the French noble family du Plat , whose first representative in Germany was Pierre Joseph du Plat (1657–1709), the progenitor of the Hanoverian line. Members of this German line again entered royal Danish and British services. Plat was one of five sons of Major General and Chamberlain Johann Heinrich Christian du Plat (1769-1852), then in command of the cadet institution in Copenhagen, and Alette Marie Amalia Wilster (1777-1853). His younger brothers were Major General Claude du Plat (1809–1864) and Ernst du Plat (1816–1892).

Plat received his military training at the Copenhagen Cadet Institute, which his father ran, and then became an officer in the Danish cavalry . From March 24, 1848, he was a major in Schleswig-Holstein's service in Rendsburg and, during the Schleswig-Holstein War, General Staff Officer and Adjutant to Prince Friedrich von Noer , who was the commanding general and Danish governor of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . In 1849 he was promoted to colonel à la suite in the general staff. As Friedrich's friend and military advisor, Plat rose to head of the War Department ( War Ministry ), but because of his Danish relatives - his own brother Claude fought on the Danish side - he could not or would not be active in active military service, but only in administration.

After peace agreement in Berlin to you pulled Plat in 1850 into exile after Hamburg back, founder and director of a "boarding-school" ( boarding ) for wealthy merchants' sons, to him Hereditary Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in December 1863 after Gotha cried. At his request he built for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha an own army on.

Caesar du Plat married on March 25, 1833 in the St. Peter's Church in Copenhagen Marie Louise Thomssen (born March 4, 1809 in Tonning , † September 8, 1893 in Kiel ), the daughter of the mayor and deputies Tönninger Peter Thomssen ( 1781–1839) and Christina Sophia Augusta Bentzen (1782–1862).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Henrik Krummacher, Herbert Meyer: Eduard Friedrich Mörike. Works and Letters, Letters 1864-1867 , 2006, page 299 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Prussian Yearbooks , Volume 15, 1865, page 568 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Plat, you Caesar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plat, you Caesar; Plat, Friedrich Caesar Ludwig Rudolph you
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish, later Prussian general staff officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1874
Place of death Kiel