Levin Friedrich von Hacke

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Levin Friedrich von Hacke (born January 10, 1714 at Gut Genshagen , † March 25, 1785 in Stettin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , chief of infantry regiment No. 8 , and governor of Stettin.

origin

His parents were the Electoral Saxon captain Levin Friedrich von Hacke (* 1673; † June 11, 1743) and Dorothea Sophia von Hacke from the Pettus house in Saxony. His father was the owner of the Genshagen estate in the Mittelmark .

Life

After he had served in the infantry regiment "Glasenapp" No. 1 and in the infantry regiment "Kalkstein" No. 25 from 1728 to 1729 as a flag squire, King Friedrich Wilhelm transferred him to the Potsdam body regiment , the giant guard , because of his considerable height as a junker 1738 became ensign . There he remained under King Friedrich II. , Who assigned him to the body grenadier battalion "Einsiedel" No. 6 during the reorganization of the guards in 1740 , where he became second lieutenant in 1741 and first lieutenant in 1743 . In 1750 Hacke, still in the same regiment, became a staff and real captain, in 1757 a major and in 1762 a lieutenant colonel . In 1763 he was transferred as commander of the "Leipziger" regiment No. 3 , in 1765 as colonel , in 1769 as head of the "Queis" regiment No. 8 , in 1770 as major general , and in 1781 as lieutenant general and governor of Stettin.

In 1744 he went into the field for the first time and was present at the siege of Prague. In the following years he fought at Hohenfriedberg , where he was wounded in the face, and with thrush . In the battle of Lobositz he was bruised when a piece of ball tore off his skirt. For his achievements during this battle he received the order Pour le Mérite . In the battle on the Moysberg near Görlitz, Hacke was wounded in the foot and a horse was shot in the body in the battle of Liegnitz . He also took part in the battle of Torgau , the retreat from Prague and the siege of Dresden.

Still unmarried, he died of a stroke in Stettin in 1785.

Since 1784 he was knight of the High Order of the Black Eagle , the highest Prussian order, and Drost zu Sparrenberg .

literature

  • History and news of the royal. prussia. Infantry regiments Prince Franz Adolph von Anhalt-Bernburg , p.234
  • Historical portfolio. 1786, p. 365, digitized
  • Anton Balthasar König : Levin Friedrich von Hacke . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 97 ( Levin Friedrich von Hacke at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year book of the German nobility , volume. 1, 1896, p.766 , his mother is probably Dorothea Maria Schäfer (1675–1735)
personal data
SURNAME Hoe, Levin Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Stettin
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Genshagen
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1785
Place of death Szczecin