Johann Friedrich von Cochenhausen
Johann Friedrich von Cochenhausen (born July 11, 1728 in Stralsund , † September 10, 1793 in Dunkirk , France ) was a Hessian major general and a knight of the order pour la vertu militaire .
Life
Johann Friedrich von Cochenhausen was the son of Gottfried von Cochenhausen . He received a careful upbringing, attended the University of Greifswald for a short time and then entered the Hessian service under King Friedrich of Sweden , who was also Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel and who had taken him to Cassel as a page at the age of 18. On May 13, 1746 he was made ensign and went to Scotland with the corps, who had entered into English pay, to fight the pretender Carl Eduard Stuart . On May 24, 1752 he was promoted to lieutenant, on July 1, 1758 to captain and on January 14, 1762 to major.
He took part in all the campaigns of the Allied army under Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig . He was seriously wounded in the battle of Hastenbeck on July 26, 1757. On May 30, 1766 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
He was with the Hessian Corps, which came in English pay in 1776 and was sent to America. He became Quartermaster General on the staff under Knyphaussen. He thus took part on the side of England in the eight years' war against its breakaway colonies under George Washington .
On December 21, he was promoted to colonel and on January 18, 1781, he received the Order pour la vertu militaire . After his return with the Hessian troops in 1784, he garrisoned in Eschwege and was promoted to major general on May 28, 1791; he was also the commander of the "Hereditary Prince" regiment.
During the 1792 campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte in the Champagne region , he commanded the troops that remained in the country, led a brigade when Frankfurt was stormed on December 2, 1792, and managed to place the French troops between Frankfurt and the city of Bockenheim and her to teach a delicate setback.
In the Battle of Hondschoten on September 8, 1793, he was fatally wounded when both legs were shattered by a grape shot. With further retreat he was captured by the French and died two days later in Dunkirk , where he was buried with full honors by the French.
family
On February 22, 1762, he married Dorothea von Oberg (* April 20, 1736; † April 15, 1807) from the Duttenstedt family , a very noble Brunswick family, who were raised to the Prussian count status in 1803.
His son was Christian Friedrich von Cochenhausen (1769–1839), who also served as a commander and lieutenant general in the service of the Electorate of Hesse. His daughter Christine (1775-1807) was married to the Berlin General Police Director Karl Ludwig Friedrich von Hinckeldey .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max von Eelking, The German Auxiliary Troops in the North American Wars of Liberation, 1776 to 1783 , Part 1, p.256
- ↑ Compare short biography in: Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Regiments in the Allied Army 1762 . Norderstedt: Books On Demand, 2007, p. 252
- ↑ Adam Ludwig von Ochs: Biography of the general von Ochs: A political-military contribution to the history of the North American and the French Revolutionary War, as well as the campaigns in Spain, Russia and Germany , Verlag Luckhardt, 1827, p. 326, here online
- ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen…, Part 1 , Verlag BF Voigt, 1841, pp. 358–9, pp. 358ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cochenhausen, Johann Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cochenhausen, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1728 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1793 |
| Place of death | Dunkirk |