Georg Hoppe

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Georg Hoppe (born April 8, 1783 in Klein-Zehmigkau near Dessau ; † April 6, 1833 there ) was a soldier and fought as a colonel in Napoleon's Army of the Rhine and from January 1814 against Napoleon .

Life

Georg Hoppe came from a rural background and was accepted into the princely hunter corps in Anhalt-Dessau in 1802 .

He was appointed officer in 1807 and took part in the campaign in Silesia as a member of the 1st Battalion (Anhalt) of the 5th Rheinbund regiment . In 1809 he fought under the leadership of General Marie François Rouyer in Tyrol (→ Tyrolean popular uprising ). The following year he took over the post of paymaster on Marshal André Massénas's staff (→ Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula ). When his battalion at La Bisbal (September 14, 1810) was taken prisoner in Spain, he was released and returned home in the spring of 1811.

In the Russian campaign of 1812 Georg Hoppe served in the Anting Brigade of the 34th Division of General Joseph Morand of the XI. Army Corps of Marshal Charles Pierre François Augereau . At the end of January 1813, his battalion was trapped by Russian troops in the fortress of Danzig and could only withdraw again on January 2, 1814.

Hoppe was made a colonel and took part in the campaign against Napoleon with the newly established Anhalt regiment . On March 31, 1814, under Colonel August Karl von und zu Egloffstein , he defended Courtrai against the French troops under Marshal Nicolas-Joseph Maison . In 1815 he took part in the battles in Bouillon and Mezières .

At the end of the same year he was able to return to Dessau. Hoppe died two days before his fiftieth birthday on April 6, 1833 and found his final resting place there.

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SURNAME Hoppe, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Zehmigkau near Dessau
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1833
Place of death Klein-Zehmigkau near Dessau