Johann Bernhard von Loen

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Johann Bernhard von Loen (* 1700 ; † December 1766 ) was a Prussian major general , chief of the infantry regiment S 56 and knight of the Pour le Mérite and heir of Gotterwick near Wesel .

Life

origin

Johann Bernhard comes from the noble family Loen of the county of Mark .

Military career

In 1718 Loen was employed as a free corporal in the infantry regiment "Golz" No. 15 in Wesel. In 1732 he was the first lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Kronprinz" No. 15. In 1740 he became staff captain and on October 2, 1740 major in the Füselierregiment "Sachsen-Eisenach" No. 40 . In July 1745 after the Battle of Hohenfriedberg Loen became a lieutenant colonel and on June 12, 1747 a colonel . In addition, he became a commander in the queen's regiment.

During the Seven Years' War he got in February 1757 as major general of the infantry regiment S 56 , which was established from Saxony, which had come into Prussian captivity near Pirna . But already when the Austrian General Hadik advanced to Berlin in October 1757, the regiment broke up. Loen asked for his release in 1758, which was granted with a pension .

He died in December 1766 as the last representative of the von Loen Elder Line. Franz Joachim von Loen from the younger line therefore became heir.

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Johann Bernhard von Loen . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military people . tape II . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 429–430 ( Johann Bernhard von Loen in the Google book search).
  • Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most noble events that happened at the European courts. Volume 66, 1767, p. 230, digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are also other statements, cf. Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. 1853, p. 407, digitized
  2. ↑ Georg Ludwig Böhmer: Selected legal cases, from all parts of legal scholarship. Volume 2, 1800, p. 578, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Loen, Johann Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loën, Johann Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment S 56
DATE OF BIRTH 1700
DATE OF DEATH December 1766