Friedrich Hahn von Dorsche

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Friedrich August Hahn , since 1846 Hahn von Dorsche (born January 21, 1815 in Marienburg , † November 25, 1885 in Gera ) was a Prussian major general and commandant of Graudenz .

Life

origin

Friedrich was a son of the tax councilor and tax collector of the same name, Friedrich August Hahn († 1864) and his wife Wilhelmine, née Gottschewski († 1855). He was adopted by the Prime Lieutenant in the 33rd Infantry Regiment and the last of his tribe in Warmia Theodor von Dorsche († 1851) and on October 24, 1846, with a diploma from November 20, 1863, he was raised to the Prussian nobility with the title of Dorsche .

Military career

After attending the Thorner Gymnasium , Hahn joined the 1st Pioneer Department of the Prussian Army as a pioneer on May 6, 1832 and was promoted to NCO at the beginning of April 1833 . For further training he graduated from the United Artillery and Engineering School in October 1833 and was transferred to the 33rd Infantry Regiment (1st Reserve Regiment) on August 26, 1834. He rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant by mid-February 1837 and was in command of the Infantry Training Battalion from March to September 1847 and of the Guards Pioneer Department from November 1847 to May 1848 . From December 1850 to October 1851 he was commanded as the leader of the criminal department in Thorn . On March 11, 1854 he was promoted to captain and from March 16, 1854 to October 31, 1857 as a company commander in the Landwehr battalion of his regiment in Bartenstein . In mid-March 1858 he was appointed company commander . Hahn rose to major at the beginning of January 1864 and on April 18, 1865 was given command of the III. Battalion that he led the following year in the war against Austria in the battles of Münchengrätz and Königgrätz .

After the war he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 22, 1868 , and on April 12, 1870, under position à la suite of his regiment, he was appointed commander of Graudenz. In this capacity, after mobilization on the occasion of the war against France on July 26, 1870 , Hahn advanced to colonel and from August 23, 1870 was commander of the 3rd Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 16 for the duration of the mobile relationship . He took part in the siege of Metz and was badly wounded in the back and forearm at Bellevue . As a result of these wounds, he was no longer able to be used in the field and returned to his post in Graudenz on March 20, 1871 , awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, with the regiment à la suite. After the September 19, 1874 at the character had received as a major general, Hahn was on 29 December 1874 award of the Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves and board for disposition made.

family

Hahn married Countess Klara von Wartensleben from the Osnisczewo house (1821–1881) in Thorn on May 3, 1849 . The couple had several children:

  • Editha (1851–1933) ⚭ 1870 Albert Grumme (1838–1931), senior government councilor and grammar school director in Gera a. D.
  • Hedwig (* 1853) ⚭ 1873 Nathanael Ziemßen, retired Prussian Colonel D.
  • Bernhard (1857–1927), Dr. med. and senior staff doctor , later in the Sülzhayn miners' sanatorium , last doctor at the Invalidenhaus Berlin ⚭ 1886 Virginia (* 1861)
  • Klara (* 1861) ⚭ 1880 August Ludwig van der Hagen (1843–1900), Swedish Ministerial Councilor

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class increases. Mitscher & Roestell Verlag, Berlin 1874, p. 114.
  2. ^ Archives for the artillery and engineering officers of the German Reichsheer. Forty-first year, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1877, p. 228.
  3. ↑ Julius von Wartensleben : Messages from the family of the Counts of Wartensleben , part 1, 1858, p. 287.
  4. ↑ Mushacke's German school calendar. Part 2, 1877, p. 144.
  5. ↑ Wedding announcement. In: Allgemeine Militär-Zeitung , No. 23, Volume 48, Darmstadt 1873, p. 91.
  6. ↑ biography.
  7. ^ Svenskt portraittgalleri , Volume III, Stockholm 1899, p. 57 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Hahn von Dorsche, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Friedrich August (full name until 1846)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general and commandant of Graudenz
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienburg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1885
Place of death Gera