Henning Ernst von Behr

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Henning Ernst von Behr (born April 8, 1706 in Schlagtow ; † August 28, 1783 ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Henning Ernst was a member of the von Behr family of the Pomerania-Gützkow tribe . His parents were the heir to Schlagtow and Klein Niekör Joachim Ernst von Behr and Margarethe Eleonore von Koppelow . He remained unmarried.

Behr is said to have joined the army as early as 1722 , but did not begin his career as an officer until 1732 as an ensign in the von Kalckstein infantry regiment , advanced to second lieutenant in 1735 and became a staff captain in the von Münchow fusilier regiment in 1740 . In 1741 the king was one of the first to send him to the Giant Mountains to advertise . In 1744 he became captain and company commander . He took part in the Second Silesian War . He then became head of a grenadier company in 1753. He took part in the Seven Years' War , in particular the battles near Leuthen and Prague as well as the battle near Pretschen . In the war years he rose to major and commander of a grenadier battalion in 1757 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1761 . On September 27, 1762, he also distinguished himself in the battles near Freiberg . In 1763 he was promoted to commander of the grenadier battalion “von Unruh” and in the same year to commander of the fusilier regiment “von Hülsen” . Most recently, Behr was promoted to colonel in 1764 and dimitted in 1765 with the character of major general.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp von Schröter, Johann Friedrich Seyfart : War history of the Prussians from 1655 to 1763. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1764, p. 531.
personal data
SURNAME Behr, Henning Ernst from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlagtow
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1783