Hans Christoph von Schönfeldt

Hans Christoph von Schönfeld (t) (* August 24, 1651 ; †  August 13, 1727 in Kiel ) was a Danish officer from the Saxon family of the von Schönfeldt . His parents were Siegfried von Schönfeld auf Tennicht and Regina von Jagemann.

Military career

In the winter of 1675-76 he joined the Danish army under the command of his uncle Gregory Allard von Schönfeld with the rank of captain and took part in the Battle of Lund a year later , in which his regiment suffered heavy losses. In the last years of the Skan War his regiment was stationed in Lund and he became its commander. During the War of the Palatinate Succession , he fought with the Danish troops under the command of Duke von Ferdinand von Württemberg-Neuenstadt in Ireland and Flanders from 1689–98 .

In 1699 he became Brigadier General and after the beginning of the Great Northern War he took part in the conquest of the Husum entrenchments and Frederiksstad , as well as in the siege of Tönning . After his promotion to major general in 1704, he served in the Danish auxiliaries in the Netherlands with the 2nd Seeland Battalion. Two years later he became the commander of the Holstein infantry . In 1706 he received the Dannebrogden for his services . After the lost battle at Helsingborg in 1710 he was entrusted with the reorganization of the Danish army. Afterwards he was part of the Danish troops which besieged Wismar and Stralsund and was then commander of Copenhagen. In 1714 he became the commander of Frederikshavn fortress . After the war ended with the Peace of Frederiksborg , Schönfeldt was retired.

Life

Before 1694 he married Adelheid von Buchwald († 1730), the daughter of Claus Buchwald zu Skovbølgård and Dorothea Rumohr († 1663). He was buried in the Nikolaikirche in Kiel.

literature

• HW Harbou, Hans Christoph von Schönfeldt , in Dansk Biografisk Lexikon, Copenhagen: Gyldendal 1887–1905.

Web links

• http://denstoredanske.dk/