Georg Werner von Dequede

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Georg Werner von Dequede († May 1757 outside Prague ) was a Prussian major and adjutant general to the Prince of Prussia, August Wilhelm of Prussia .

Life

Georg Werner was a member of the Altmark noble family Dequede .

He joined the Prussian army and served as an officer . In the Seven Years War he was able to distinguish himself several times. As a prime lieutenant he did so in the battle of Lobositz that the king promoted him to captain on the battlefield and awarded him the order Pour le Mérite . In front of Prague he was with the 2nd Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 35 when he was seriously wounded on May 6th. Prince August Wilhelm visited his former adjutant general on May 10th, after both lower legs had to be amputated the day before. Dequede succumbed to his injuries shortly afterwards in the camp outside Prague.

Prince Heinrich of Prussia dedicated a memorial plaque to him (No. 24) on his Rheinsberg obelisk :

“Adjutant to the Prince of Prussia, brother of the king, major in the Prince Heinrich regiment. His correct judgment, his steadfast character, his fearlessness made one wish that he would be useful to the state for a long time. But in 1757, at the Battle of Prague, both feet were shot off by a cannonball. He lived for a few more hours, and under the most intense pain his heroism did not deny himself to the last breath. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New genealogical-historical news , Volume 8, 1757, p. 447 .; New genealogical-historical news , Volume 9, 1758 p. 1048 ; Alfons Dopsch : The meeting at Lobositz , Graz 1892, p. 13.
  2. ↑ a b Gustav Berthold Volz : Friedrich the Great in the mirror of his time , p. 21.
  3. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1860, pp. 352–353.
  4. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1913, p. 51, no. 383.
  5. ^ Christian Friedrich Hempel : Helden- Staats- und Lebens-Geschichte (...) , Volume 4, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1759, p. 41.
  6. ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : Lives of great heroes of the present war , Zweyter Theil, Volume 2, Halle 1758, p. 43.
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich Seyfart : History of the war that was waged in 1756 and 1757th years in Germany and its neighboring countries. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1758, p. 79, FN r.
  8. ↑ List of losses in the Battle of Prague , in: Historisches Portefeuille , 1787, p. 176.
  9. ^ Adam Heinrich Dietrich von Bülow : Prince Heinrich of Prussia. Critical history of his campaigns , Himburg, Berlin 1805, p. 392.
personal data
SURNAME Dequede, Georg Werner von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and adjutant to Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH May 1757
Place of death near Prague