Johann Wilhelm von Monjou

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Johann Wilhelm von Monjou alias Friedrich Otto von Monjou (often with the French nobility title de) was a Prussian major in the Seven Years War .

Life

Monjou came from an old noble French family.

After changing from French to Prussian service , he took over the free battalion (No. 5) of Chossignon, who had stayed outside Dresden on June 12, 1758 . During the war he took part in combat operations with his battalion in front of Freiberg and Chemnitz in October 1758 , in November in the Weißen Hirsch , and in April 1759 between Peterswald and Nollendorf , and finally in front of Aussig . On June 24th, 1759 Monjou received his farewell , his free battalion (No. 5) was on this date in the Free Battalion (No. 7) of General Wunsch .

Monjou had corresponded with Frederick the Great several times .

Trivia

A total of three Volga-German advertising colonies in the then Russian Empire bore the following names in his honor: Obermonjou (today Kriwowskoje), Niedermonjou (Bobrowka) and Neu-Obermonjou (Novo-Kriwowskoje). Friedrich Otto von Monjou was the second colony director after a Baron de Caneau de Beauregard. As the first of the three named, the colony of Obermonjou was founded in 1767. During the Second World War, the Volga German ASSR was dissolved and the formerly German towns were given their current Russian names.

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Johann Wilhelm von Monjou . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 61 ( Johann Wilhelm von Monjou at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günther Gieraths : The fighting of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807. A source manual . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 355.
  2. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 3, Leipzig 1837, p. 425.
  3. ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : Life of Great Heroes , Volume 4, Halle 1759, p. 356.
  4. ↑ Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand - Works of Frederick the Great , digital edition of the Trier University Library .
  5. ^ Bobrowka (Niedermonjou) - history of the settlement. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ = HISTORY OF THE VOLGADE GERMANS = АССР Немцев Поволжья. Луговая сторона. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Monjou, Johann Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monjou, Friedrich Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major in the Seven Years' War
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century