Hermann von Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Hermann Friedrich Meinrad Joseph Johann Nepomuk Antonius von Padua Spiridion Kamillus Fidelis Xaverus Johannes von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born July 2, 1777 in Opava ; † November 7, 1827 in Braunsberg ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Hermann was a prince of the Catholic House of Hohenzollern-Hechingen . His parents were the Imperial and Royal Field Marshal Lieutenant Friedrich Anton von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1726–1812) and Ernestine-Josepha (1753–1825), daughter of the President of the Imperial Court of Justice in Austrian Silesia , Felix Erdmann Graf Sobeck von Kornitz. Hermann's older brother Joseph von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1776–1836) was Prince Bishop in Warmia .

Hohenzollern-Hechingen attended the Ecole Militaire in 1790 and began his career as a second lieutenant in the Fusilier battalion " Stutterheim " (no. 21) in the second East Prussian Füsilierbrigade. After he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant in 1805 , he took part in the Fourth Coalition War , in particular the Battle of Prussian Eylau , where he was wounded, and the battles at Schippenbeil and Königsberg . In 1806 he was promoted to staff captain . In 1807 he was first awarded the order Pour le Mérite and then rose to become captain . At the same time as this promotion he was delegated to General L'Estocq to serve on the General Staff . He advanced to major in 1808 and in 1809 became a general staff officer in the East Prussian Brigade. At his own request, he was assigned to the 2nd East Prussian Infantry Regiment in 1811 , where he was employed as a company commander in the same year . In 1813 he moved to the General Staff of the Bülow Corps .

He took in the wars of liberation in the battles at Großbeeren ( Iron Cross II. Class), Dennewitz , Leipzig , Laon , the fighting in Möckern and Hoogstraeten and the siege of Soissons part. In 1813, after being promoted to lieutenant colonel, he received the Knight's Cross of the Swedish Order of the Sword , in 1814 the Baden House Order of Loyalty , the Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and the Knight's Cross of the Austrian Leopold Order, including Prussian permission to wear these medals. Also in 1814 he became colonel and traveled to the Congress of Vienna . In 1815 he was commander of the 23rd Brigade in the VI. Army Corps and Inspector of the Landwehr in the Gdansk district . In 1820 he became the commander of the 2nd Landwehr Brigade. In 1821 he was granted permission to wear the French Ludwig Cross. Finally, in 1825, he received the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class and the service cross received.

Oliva Castle (1900)

Under flexion of the house law , he married on the right hand in 1805 in Oliva Karoline Freiin von Weiher from the house of Groß Boschpol (1779–1860), daughter of the Prussian district administrator of the Lauenburg-Bütow district in Pomerania , Baron Ernst Carl Ludwig von Weiher (1751–1814) .

The residence of the married couple and their unmarried daughter, Princess Maria (1808–1888), was Oliva Castle .

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , pp. 269-270, no. 1320.

↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1913, p. 451, no. 125.
^ J. Reiner: Genealogy of the High Princely House of Hohenzollern. Beck & Fränckel, Stuttgart 1843, p. 81.
^ Franz Schultz : History of the Lauenburg district in Pomerania. Lauenburg i. Pom. 1912, pp. 329-330.

personal data
SURNAME	Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hermann Friedrich Meinrad Joseph Johann Nepomuk Antonius von Padua Spiridion Kamillus Fidelis Xaverus Johannes von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH	Troppau
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1827
Place of death	Braunsberg