Johann Antonius Kensinger Du Verger

Johann Antonius Kensinger Du Verger , also misspelled Senzinger Du Verger († after 1780) was a Dutch - Prussian - imperial officer .

Life

Kensinger came from a Reformed French family. In 1758 he transferred from the Dutch to the Prussian military service as a lieutenant colonel, and in Halberstadt he set up the free battalion F 8 from 750 French prisoners of war, of which he was chief . His Freikorps acted in the Seven Years War and was involved, among other things, in retreat battles during the march on Lauban . 1759 he fell into disfavor of the king , had his battalion to Quintus Icilius post and was on the fortress of Schweidnitz arrested. After 16 months in prison, he was able to take an opportunity to escape in 1762 and joined the corps of General Philipp Levin von Beck . In 1767 he was raised to the imperial nobility with the title du Verger . In the War of the Bavarian Succession he commanded 200 invalid cordonists as a lieutenant colonel on the side of the Habsburgs . In 1780 he was promoted to the baron rank .

literature

• Günther Gieraths : The fighting of the Brandenburg-Prussian army 1626-1807. A source manual. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 328 and p. 568
• Anton Balthasar König : Johann Antonius Kensinger Du Verger . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 122 ( Johann Antonius Kensinger Du Verger at Wikisource [PDF]).
• Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great , p. 424

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gieraths (Lit.), p. 416.
2. ^ Wilhelm Edler von Janko :  Beck, Philipp Levin Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 218 f.
3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon , Volume 5, Leipzig 1864, p. 66.
4. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner : Register of the blossoming and dead nobility in Germany , Georg Joseph Manz , Volume 4, Regensburg 1866, p. 122.