Louis Dentzel

Baron Jean-Chrétien Louis Dentzel (born May 6, 1786 in Landau , † September 3, 1829 near Vonitsa , Greece ) was a French officer who led the Greek Western Army as major general during the Greek Revolution .

Louis Dentzel, son of the Landau pastor and later French officer Georg Friedrich Dentzel , attended the École spéciale militaire in Fontainebleau from 1804 to 1805 . As a French officer he was used in the Third and Fourth Coalition Wars from 1805 to 1807 and in the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula from 1809 to 1812 . In 1814, at the end of Napoleon's reign , he had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the cavalry .

With the reinstatement of the Bourbons , Dentzel - unlike his father - was effectively dismissed from military service on half pay and without assignment to a regiment. As a supporter of the republic, he became a member of the secret society of the Charbonnerie ; a suspected involvement by the public prosecutor in the "conspiracy des Bazar français" of August 19, 1820 could not be proven. In 1822 he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for another conspiracy.

In 1826 or 1827 the Philhellene Dentzel joined his family as an officer in the Greek Revolutionary Army without his knowledge. On September 3, 1829 he died at Vonitsa as a major general in the Greek Western Army; by that time the unmarried and childless missing person in France had already been declared dead.

literature

• Joseph Valynseele: Haussmann, sa famille et sa descendance. Editions Christian, Paris 1982. ISBN 2-86496-011-7 . P. 32.
• Achille de Vaulabelle: Histoire des deux restaurations jusqu'à la chute de Charles X. Volume 5. Perrotin, Paris 1850. pp. 99 and 319–321.