Christian Friedrich Claude du Plat

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Christian Friedrich Claude (Glode) du Plat (born December 11, 1770 in Aumund near Lesum , † August 28, 1841 in Copenhagen ) was a royal Danish major general , commander of the state cadet corps and chamberlain .

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. Descendants of this German line later entered royal Danish and British services.

Plat was a great-grandson of Pierre Joseph du Plat and the son of the electoral Hanoverian cartographer and chief dichgrave Peter Joseph du Plat (1728–1782) and Anna Dorothea Feind (t) (1738–1811) from Jork . His siblings were Peter Joseph (1761-1824), royal Hanoverian Major General, Ernst Friedrich (1767-1796), like as a lieutenant in kurhannoverschen Grenadier - Battalion , Johann Heinrich (1769-1852), royal Danish Major General cartographer and Anna Dorothea Helena (1773– ??) and Bernhardine Antoinette du Plat (1774– ??). Plat was baptized five days after his birth on December 16 in the Church of St. Martini in Lesum.

Plat made his first military experience as a cadet at the artillery school under Gerhard von Scharnhorst . Plat came in 1789 with his older brother Johann Heinrich Christian du Plat to Denmark and began his military career as Stykjunker in an artillery - Regiment . On October 23, 1789, he was promoted to second lieutenant. A week later, on October 30th, he and his brother were granted Danish citizenship . For three years he was a teacher at an artillery school. On August 23, 1795 he was promoted to prime lieutenant. On April 18, 1800 he became assistant to the Quartermaster General . In 1801 he became an adjutant to Crown Prince Frederik VL.

In 1805 he was appointed captain to lieutenant general quartermaster in the Duchy of Holstein with his seat in Kiel and in 1806 he was sent on a mission to Germany. As a major he was senior quartermaster in the general staff . In the war of 1807 you were Plat - now a confidante of King Friedrich VI. - from Kiel for the field post service , in 1811 responsible for checking all correspondence from Duke Friedrich Christian II to and from Augustenburg Castle .

From 1810 to 1831 he was - probably as the successor to his older brother - commander of the National Cadet Institute in Copenhagen. In 1812 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, in 1817 to colonel and in the same year to chamberlain. From 1831 he was in command of the Copenhagen Castle . In 1838 he finally became major general.

He was buried in the Copenhagen Garrison Cemetery on September 2, 1841.

In 1795 he married Christine Schiøtt (Schott) (* 1777; † March 31, 1842), the daughter of the royal Danish councilor Siegfried Schiøtt and Dorothea Mandix .

Orders and decorations

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fr. Tobiesen: Om Slægten du Plat , in: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift , Volume 63, Samfundet for Dansk genealogi og personalhistorie, 1942, page 211 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ "Stykjunker" was the name given to the youngest officers in the artillery. The syllable "Styk" was borrowed from the German "Stück", which denoted a ship's gun. Junker was the (usually noble) officer candidate.
  3. ^ The Postmaster, The Duke, and the Shire
  4. ↑ Danske Magasin. 5. R. IV.
  5. ↑ Julius Clausen, P. Fr. Rist: Memoirer og Breve , Volume 41. August Bang, 1971, ISBN 87-7226-001-7 and ISBN 978-87-7226-001-3
personal data
SURNAME Plat, Christian Friedrich Claude you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plat, Christian Frederik Glode you
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Danish major general
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Aumund near Lesum
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1841
Place of death Copenhagen