Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitzki

Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitsky

Hendrik George Graf de Perponcher Sedlnitsky ( German : Heinrich Georg Graf von Perponcher-Sedlnitzki , born May 19, 1771 in The Hague , † November 29, 1856 in Dresden ) was a Dutch general of the infantry and envoy .

Life

Perponcher took part in the campaigns against the French Republic in 1793/94 as adjutant to Prince Wilhelm Georg Friedrich of Orange-Nassau , whose life he saved near Wervik on September 13, 1793. In 1796 he joined Austrian and then English services as a captain . In 1804 he became the lieutenant colonel the leadership of the Regiment " Dillon " in Malta , in 1808 he became colonel of the Lusitanian Legion (Loyal Lusitanian legions) in Portugal and 1809 Chief of General Staff of the failed expedition against Antwerp .

When, in 1810, Napoleon threatened all Dutch people in foreign service with confiscating their property, Perponcher returned to his fatherland. In 1813 he worked for the return of the House of Orange , took over the supreme command of the Dutch armed forces as major general and, supported by the British and Prussians , included Gorkum , Bergen op Zoom and Antwerp in 1814 .

After the first peace in Paris he was sent to Berlin as the Dutch envoy , but when Napoleon returned from Elba he was placed as lieutenant general at the head of the 2nd Dutch division, with which he fought against Marshal Ney at the battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo . After the peace agreement he was again envoy in Berlin. King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands raised Perponcher to hereditary count in 1825, which was also recognized by Prussia in 1853.

Grave of Henrik Georg Graf Perponcher in the French cemetery in Berlin-Mitte

He died at the age of 85 on November 29, 1856 in Dresden. He is buried in the French cemetery in Berlin-Mitte .

family

Perponcher was married to Wilhelmine Friederike Adelheid, nee Countess van Reede to Ginkel (born December 27, 1792 in Berlin, † September 1, 1861 in Dresden). The couple had several children.

His eldest son Wilhelm (* July 17, 1819; † June 24, 1893) was married to Antoinette Louise Emilie Julie von Maltzahn (* November 25, 1824; † July 14, 1899). She was the chief stewardess of Empress Auguste and daughter of Mortimer von Maltzahn . He became Prussian chamberlain and in 1853 Prussian Minister- Resident at the Nassau court and for the Free City of Frankfurt , in 1860 envoy to Naples, 1862 to Munich, 1863 in The Hague, then in Brussels and withdrew into private life in 1875.

Friedrich (1821–1909), General of the Cavalry and until 1888 Oberhofmarschall of Kaiser Wilhelm I. He was with Wanda Friederike Countess von Moltke (born March 3, 1840 in Neustrelitz ; † December 2, 1911 in Godesberg ), daughter of the grand ducal Mecklenburg- Strelitz's chief stable master Karl Reichsgraf von Moltke, majorate on Behle and Lemnitz, and his second wife Marie, née von Roeder, married.
Ludwig Nikolaus Friedrich Ernst Gustav (born June 19, 1827 - † November 30, 1914), Prussian Vice Governor ∞ Adelheid Countess von Bülow (born April 4, 1833)
Willem Karel (1775–1857), entered Prussian service as a cadet in the Garde du Corps in 1796

literature

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses 1874. S. 642f.
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1864. P. 766ff. Sedlnitzki

Individual evidence

^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , p. 50, no. 2739.

personal data
SURNAME	Perponcher Sedlnitzki, Hendrik George de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Perponcher-Sedlnitzky, Heinrich Georg Graf von; Perponcher Sedlnitzky, Hendrik George de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch general of the infantry, envoy
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 1856
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , p. 50, no. 2739.