Hans Ernst Otto Christian von Rohr

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Hans Ernst Otto Christian von Rohr (* approx. 1726 in Mecklenburg ; † 1778 ) was a Prussian colonel and regiment chief of the I. Standing Grenadier Battalion .

Life

He was a member of the Mecklenburg line of the Brandenburg noble family von Rohr . In 1744 he joined the Prussian Army in the Infantry Regiment “von Prussia” . In 1750 he was still an ensign , but advanced to major before the king gave him the vacant grenadier battalion "von Carlowitz" in 1771 . On the spot he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in May 1772 and finally to colonel on May 23, 1775. In the Seven Years' War he was able to distinguish himself in various ways. He died single and without leaving children.

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Hans Ernst Otto Christian von Rohr . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 314 ( Hans Ernst Otto Christian von Rohr at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. Hermann Mendelssohn, Leipzig [1853], p. 296.
personal data
SURNAME Rohr, Hans Ernst Otto Christian from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Colonel and Head of Regiment of the I. Standing Grenadier Battalion
DATE OF BIRTH around 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1778