Heinrich Friedrich August von Hadeln

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Heinrich Friedrich August von Hadeln (born May 13, 1756 in Braunschweig ; † September 1, 1809 near Sarriá de Ter , Spain) was a German officer, most recently a brigadier general in the army of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia .

Life

Heinrich von Hadeln was a soldier in the service of Prince Friedrich Karl August von Waldeck and Pyrmont , who, like his father , had rented two regiments permanently to the United Provinces of the Netherlands . In January 1779 he was declared captain , in July 1793 as major and in February 1794 as lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Waldeck Regiment serving there. As such, he was among the defenders of Grave in Noord-Brabant in 1794 when the French besieged the city.

In 1795 - in January 1795 the Batavian Republic , dependent on Napoleon , had been constituted - he was colonel and commander of the 1st battalion in the 2nd Waldeck Regiment. On July 26, 1805, he was promoted to major general. He commanded the 2nd Brigade of the Batavian Division (General Dumonceau ) in the II Army Corps (General Marmont ), which was to go on board the fleet of Admiral Jan Willem de Winter in August 1805 for the planned but then canceled invasion of England in Den Helder .

When the Batavian Republic was replaced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland on June 5, 1806 , the two Waldeck regiments were disbanded and, reduced to battalion strength in each case, incorporated into the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments of the Army of the Kingdom of Holland as the third battalion. Heinrich von Hadeln initially remained in Dutch pay, but when King Jérôme Bonaparte of the satellite kingdom of Westphalia, created in 1807 after the peace of Tilsit , showed himself unwilling to recognize and discontinue the native Brunswick as a citizen of his kingdom, he was adopted in March 1809. He then lived in Landau in the Principality of Waldeck.

Shortly before, in February, a Westphalian division under the command of General Joseph Antoine Morio had marched to Spain to reinforce Joseph Bonaparte's troops fighting the rebels in Catalonia . The division consisted of the 1st Westphalian Brigade under Brigadier General Johann David Börner with the 2nd and 4th Infantry Regiments of two battalions each and the 2nd Westphalian Brigade under Colonel (later Brigadier General) Adam Ludwig von Ochs with the 3rd Infantry -Regiment to two battalions, the 1st Light Battalion and two artillery companies on foot. The division arrived in Catalonia with about 6,000 men in April, was subordinated to the Army Corps of the Eastern Pyrenees (Corps d'Armée des Pyrénées Orientales) under General Duhesme and then took part in the fighting against the Miguelettes and in the one that began in June Siege of Girona . When General Morio fell ill soon afterwards, Heinrich von Hadeln was reactivated by King Jérôme and sent to Spain as Morio's successor. He arrived on site on August 12th.

In the bitter fighting for the mountain fortress Mont Joui (Mont Juic, Mont Jovi) northeast of the city, in which the Westphalian Division suffered heavy losses, Heinrich von Hadeln fell on September 1, 1809 near Sarriá de Ter , immediately north of Girona and the Mont Joui, during a major attack by 6-8,000 Catalan militiamen, the aim of which was to recapture the fortress, which had been abandoned on August 12th and had been reduced to rubble, and to relieve those trapped in Girona. Brigadier General von Ochs took command of the division.

Marriage and offspring

Heinrich von Hadeln married on July 14, 1782 in Tricht ( Gelderland ) Johanna Cornelia Chassé (born September 12, 1760), daughter of the Dutch major Carel Johan Chassé (1724-1793). The son Heinrich Hellmuth von Hadeln , born in 1796, became General and Minister of War in the Duchy of Nassau . A daughter married the French-Westphalian general Jacques Alexandre François Allix de Vaux in his second marriage.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Thierry: Naamregister der Heeren Militaire Officieren, the Capitein Generaal, de Generaals, Lieutenant-Generaals, Generaals-Major .. der Cavallery, Dragonders, Infantery, Artillery, Ingenieurs en Mineurs, in the service of the United Provinces. Thierry, 1794, p. 39. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Thierry: Naamregister der Heeren Militaire Officieren, the Capitein Generaal, de Generaals, Lieutenant-Generaals, Generaals-Major .. der Cavallery, Dragonders, Infantery, Artillery, Ingenieurs en Mineurs, in the service of the United Provinces. Thierry, 1794, p. 255. Restricted preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Nederlandsch familie-archief: Genealogical and heraldic blades: Maandblad voor geslacht-, wapen- en zegelkunde . tape 13 . Centraal bureau voor genealogie en heraldiek, 1900, p. 42 ( Google Books ).
  4. ^ Bataafse Troepen in 1805
  5. ^ Arthur Kleinschmidt : History of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Perthes, 1893, p. 282. limited preview in Google book search
  6. ^ German biography - Ochs, Adam Ludwig Baron von. In: deutsche-biographie.de. 2015, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Hemmann: Gerona - A rediscovered Westphalian officers diary .
  8. ↑ The light battalion was sent back.
  9. ^ Alfred von Roessler: History of the Royal Prussian 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87 and its tribe of the Duke of Nassau 1st Infantry Regiment, 1809–1874. ES Mittler und Sohn, 1882, p. 395. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  10. ↑ “Miquelets”, Catalan militias fighting against the French occupation.
  11. ^ Heinrich Meier (ed.): War memories of Colonel Franz Morgenstern from the Westphalian era. (Sources and research on Braunschweigischen history, Volume III.) History association for the Duchy of Braunschweig. Wolfenbüttel, 1912, p. 28 ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Jacques Charavay: Les généraux morts pour la patrie: sʹer. 1805–1815, par Noel Charavay, 1908. Au Siége de la Société, 1908, p. 59. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
  13. ↑ Thomas Hemmann: Gerona - A rediscovered Westphalian officers diary
  14. ^ Heinrich Meier (ed.): War memories of Colonel Franz Morgenstern from the Westphalian era. (Sources and research on Braunschweigischen history, Volume III.) History association for the Duchy of Braunschweig. Wolfenbüttel, 1912, p. 36 ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Her younger brother David Hendrik Chassé was as a general in Napoleon's services in 1810 by Lodewijk Napoleon , from 1806 to 1810 King of Holland , the Baron raised.
personal data
SURNAME Hadeln, Heinrich Friedrich August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Brigadier General
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1809
Place of death Sarriá de Ter , Spain