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Eduard Christoph Heinrich von Hinüber (English Henry de Hinuber ; * 1767 in London ; † December 2, 1833 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a British and Hanoverian lieutenant general and an authorized representative of the Bundestag military commission .

origin

He comes from the Wildeshausen line of the Hinüber family . His parents were the diplomat Carl Heinrich von Hinüber (1723–1792) and his wife Luise von Reiche (* May 19, 1736, † May 20, 1815). His brother Georg was a privy councilor from Hanover.

Life

Over in 1781 entered service in Brunswick-Lüneburg and became a lieutenant in the 14th Infantry Regiment. He fought with the regiment for the British Crown in the East Indies and was wounded in the Battle of Cuddalore on June 13, 1783. Over returned to Kurhannover , became a captain in 1788 and was a major in the 6th Braunschweig-Lüneburg Infantry Regiment in 1803 . After the defeat in the Second Coalition War , the army capitulated in 1803 with the Artlenburg Convention . Over there then changed as a major in the 1st line regiment of the King's German Legion to continue fighting against Napoleon .

In 1804 he became a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Line Regiment, and in 1805 he became a Brevet Colonel . During the Third Coalition War he fought with the Legion again in Hanover in 1805, but after the defeat of Austria the war in Central Europe was over for Great Britain for the time being. The Legion and Hinüber fought afterwards from 1807 in the Baltic States and from 1808 to 1812 in the Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula . In 1811 he was promoted to major general. From 1813 to 1814 he fought as commander of the 1st division in the south of France and from 1814 to 1815 in the Netherlands.

After Napoleon's defeat, he moved to the newly formed army of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1818 . In 1819 he became lieutenant general and commander of the 2nd Infantry Division and from 1819 represented Hanover’s interests as an authorized representative at the military commission of the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main. In 1831 he became military representative of the X. Federal Corps in Frankfurt am Main. He died there in 1833.

He has received numerous awards including:

family

Hinüber married Luice Eleonore Fahle on August 7, 1815 (* August 25, 1787 - † February 7, 1868). The couple had several children:

  • Harriet (born April 13, 1813 - May 31, 1852) ∞ 1839 Count Friedrich von Oeynhausen († October 9, 1875), Lord of Brahlsdorf, Oeynhausen and Emmerbrühch
  • Heinrich (Harry) Willian (* May 30, 1816; † April 5, 1849), died as a KuK major from the injuries he received on March 21, 1849 near Novara
  • Eduard (* December 24, 1817; † December 28, 1880) ∞ 1850 Sophie Elisabeth Stieger (* June 30, 1821; † April 21, 1907)

literature

  • Bernhard von Linsingen-Gersdorff: From Hanover's military past. A. Weichelt, Hannover 1880, p. 380.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909, p.350

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : 16492, 1027 , June 1, 1811.
  2. ^ The London Gazette: No. 17505, p. 1441 , August 12, 1819.
  3. ^ JM Lappenberg: Collection of the regulations of the Freyen Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Volume 13, Meißner, Hamburg 1835, p. 100
  4. ^ Johann von Horn: The Guelph Order of the Kingdom of Hanover. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1823, p. 394
  5. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 226
personal data
SURNAME Over, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Over, Eduard Christoph Heinrich von; en Hinuber, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian Lieutenant General, Plenipotentiary at the Military Commission of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1833
Place of death Frankfurt am Main