Claude du Plat
Peter Henrik Claude du Plat (born September 28, 1809 in Copenhagen , † April 18, 1864 in Düppel , Denmark ) was a royal Danish major general and city commander .
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). On November 3, 1809, he was baptized in the Copenhagen Garrison Church. An older brother was the General Staff Officer Caesar du Plat (1804-1874), his younger brother Major General Ernst du Plat (1816-1892).
In 1818 Plat began his military career with training at the cadet institute run by his father. Five years later (1823) he was made an officer and assigned to the royal regiment as a second lieutenant , in 1825 he became a prime lieutenant . In 1830 he joined the army corps in the Duchy of Holstein . In 1839 - in the same year he was admitted to the Danish nobility - he became captain and in 1842 company commander in the 5th Battalion . He was also adjutant to Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim , the commander of the 2nd division of the Prussian 10th Army Corps ; military cooperation was based on common membership in the German Confederation .
After a mission in Saint Petersburg with Prince Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in August / September 1846, he switched to Russian services for a year in 1847 . The reason for this was that he had got a "basket" from Elisabeth Katharina von Scholten, the daughter of the Danish-West Indian Governor General Peter von Scholten . During a campaign in the Caucasus from March 1847 he was wounded twice and was awarded the Russian "gold sword" in recognition of his bravery and was made a knight of the Order of Dannebrog after his return to his Danish homeland (February 1848) .
On June 17, 1848 he was promoted to major and in November 1848 appointed chamberlain . Now Plat married his Elisabeth Katharina von Scholten on November 25, 1848 in the Copenhagen garrison church (* September 4, 1811, † December 13, 1859). He then fought in 1849 as a battalion commander in the first Schleswig-Holstein War (1848-1851). In this war, too, he was wounded several times - in some cases seriously. On January 19, 1850 he became a lieutenant colonel . Later he was town commander of Schleswig , Altona for several years , then brigade commander and town commander in Rendsburg .
In 1850 he was awarded the Cross of Honor for the Dannebrogorden (Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn) and the Swedish Order of the Sword .
He fell as major general and commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in the German-Danish War in the battle at the Düppeler Schanzen . At the very beginning of the battle, Plat had taken the first line of battle. Since he wore a simple soldier's coat and was not recognized by the Prussians as a general, he died in close combat. His body was transferred to Copenhagen in a coffin, which was decorated with two laurel wreaths and two silver plates, with the greetings of his opponents “Von Sr. Kgl. Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia ” and “ Von Feldmarschall v. Wrangel ”were engraved. He was buried on April 28, 1864 in the cemetery of Soderup Kirke ( Amt Holbæk ).
Awards and honors
- 1846: Russian Order of Saint Anne, 3rd class
- 1848: Russian gold sword
- 1848: Knight of the Dannebrog Order
- 1850: Medal of Merit of the Dannebrog Order
- 1850: Swedish Order of the Sword
- 1858: Commander 1st degree of the Dannebrog Order
- Portraits of Claude du Plat were painted during his lifetime, but also after his death, and were put into circulation as lithographs. A painting by August Jerndorff, painted in 1885 , now hangs in the Frederiksborg Castle Museum .
Literary
Theodor Fontane mentions du Plat in his work Irrecoverable , Chapter 16. A du Plat is also mentioned in Fontane's earlier novella Cloth and Locke .
literature
- General Claude du Plat (detailed biography, engl.), In: Nick B. Svendsen: Generals of the Danish Army in the First and Second Schleswig Holstein Wars 1848–50 and 1864 , Chapter 5, Verlag Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 9788771143706 , pages 161–198, with portrait drawings a. photos ( digitized )
- Peter Heinrich Claude du Plat (biography), in: LJ Flamand: Slagene ved Fredericia og Idsted the 6th July 1849 and 25th July 1850 , 1853, page 126 ( digitized version )
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , series B ( old nobility and letter nobility ), Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1932, page 476
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Family data ( memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Theodor Fontane : The Schleswig-Holstein War in 1864 , 1866, page 249 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Carl von Winterfeld: The Schleswig-Holstein War of 1864 , Volume 2, 1865, Page 90 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Fortid and Nutid , page 252 (PDF file; 1.98 MB)
- ^ Walter Keitel, Helmuth Nürnberger : Theodor Fontane. Works, writings and letters. 1986, page 778, footnote 70 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | you plat, Claude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | du Plat, Peter Henrik Claude (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish major general and city commander |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1864 |
| Place of death | Düppel , Denmark |