Christian Friedrich von Berner

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Christian Friedrich von Berner (actually: Barner , † after 1763) was a Prussian colonel and chief of garrison regiment No. 5 as well as a knight of the order Pour le Mérite .

Life

He comes from the old Mecklenburg family Barner .

He was a major in the Anhalt-Bernburg infantry regiment , took part in the Seven Years' War and was wounded in the Battle of Kolin . In February 1760 he became a lieutenant colonel and in February 1761 colonel and regimental commander. For the storm on the Burkersdorfer heights he received the order Pour le Mérite on July 21, 1762. On December 12, 1763 he was appointed chief of garrison regiment No. 5. In 1770 he received his resignation and a salary from grace .

literature

  • History and news of the royal. prussia. Infantry regiments Prince Franz Adolph von Anhalt-Bernburg. P. 226.
  • Anton Balthasar König : Christian Friedrich von Berner . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 129 ( Christian Friedrich von Berner at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great , Hermann Mendelssohn, Leipzig [1853], p. 265.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, p. 48.
  2. ^ Continued new genealogical-historical news. Volume 62, p. 274.
personal data
SURNAME Berner, Christian Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berner, Christoph Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel and chief of garrison regiment No. 5
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1763