Hans Siegmund von Sydow

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Hans Siegmund von Sydow (born January 15, 1695 in Neuengrape near Pyritz ; † May 15, 1773 in Pillau ) was a royal Prussian colonel and chief of garrison regiment No. 2 .

Life

Hans von Sydow was a member of the noble von Sydow family . At the age of 17 he joined the Cadet Corps in Magdeburg .

He rose in the Prussian army and in 1741 became a major in Infantry Regiment No. 9 . In the camp near Göttin (1741) he commanded a grenadier battalion, which was composed of the grenadier companies of infantry regiments No. 3 and No. 14 . In May 1743 he became a lieutenant colonel.

In 1744 he received another grenadier battalion, which was initially composed of parts of infantry regiments No. 22 and No. 4 , with the assigned companies changing later. With this battalion he fought in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg and the Battle of Kesselsdorf . In November 1745 he became a colonel.

He was later transferred to Garrison Regiment No. 2 as commander. In 1754 he became chief of this regiment.

During the Seven Years' War he was with the troops who took part in the assault on Schweidnitz . His mission was to attract the besiegers' attention. He carried out a mock attack on Fort No. 2; he opened fire from a hill in front of the fort. Immediately after the surrender of Fort No. 1, this occupation also surrendered. Sydow was also involved in the fighting in Pomerania under General Field Marshal Johann von Lehwaldt .

Hans Siegmund von Sydow died in Prussia in 1773.

In 1742 he married Dorothea Marie von Wolde , a daughter of Lorenz Georg von Wolde and Hedwig Elisabeth von Kameke . The son Joachim Otto Alexander Siegmund († after 1765) was the last of the Neuengrape family.

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Hans Siegmund von Sydow . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 68 ( Hans Siegmund von Sydow at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great . Avenarius & Mendelssohn, Leipzig 1853, p. 299 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans von Sydow: Genealogy of the family von Sydow. Dobberphul 1877, p. 62 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributions to the modern history of the state and war . Volume 4, p. 89 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Hans Siegmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sydow, Hans Sigismund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Colonel and Chief of Garrison Regiment No. 2
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuengrape near Pyritz
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1773
Place of death Pillau