Dirk van Hogendorp
Count Dirk van Hogendorp (born October 13, 1761 in Heenvliet , † October 29, 1822 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Dutch general and statesman. He came from the Van Hogendorp family and was a brother of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp .
He served nine years in the Prussian army, since 1783 in the Dutch colonies as an official of the East India Company , was arrested here, but escaped to his homeland in 1799. In 1803 he went to Saint Petersburg as envoy , returned to Holland in 1805, was appointed Minister of War by King Ludwig Bonaparte in 1807 , envoy in Vienna in the same year , in Berlin in 1809 and in Madrid in 1810 . In 1811, after the annexation of Holland , he joined the French army as Général de division and adjutant of the emperor and was appointed governor of Vilnius in 1812, and of Hamburg in 1813 , where he was hated everywhere for his harshness. After Napoleon's fall, he retired to Holland, but returned to Napoleon's service in 1815. Decommissioned by the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo , he embarked for South America in 1816 and died on October 29, 1822 on an estate near Rio de Janeiro.
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| SURNAME | Hogendorp, Dirk van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hogendorp, Dirk Graf van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch general and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around October 13, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heenvliet |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1822 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |