Ludwig of Chasôt

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Ludwig August Friedrich Adolf Count von Chasôt (born October 10, 1763 in Lübeck , † January 13, 1813 in Pskow ) was a Prussian officer and temporarily city ​​commandant of Berlin . He is considered to be the main promoter of the anti- French movement in northern Germany .

Life

Chasôt was born in Lübeck as the son of the city commandant Egmont von Chasôt , who came from the French aristocracy, and his wife Camilla, the daughter of the Italian painter Stefano Torelli . In 1780 he and his older brother Friedrich Ulrich became officers in Prussian cuirassier regiments . After a break, he returned to Prussian service as a major in 1804 and became King Friedrich Wilhelm III's wing adjutant . After the Treaty of Tilsit , he became city commandant of Berlin in 1807, but lost this position as early as 1809 as a punishment for Major von Schill's unauthorized departure . In 1812 he joined with other Prussian officers in the service of the Russian army to fight against Napoleon I fight to. He was entrusted with building up the Russian-German legion , but in January 1813 he died in Pskow (Pleskau) on Lake Peipus “of nervous fever”.

Ernst Moritz Arndt , who witnessed Chasôt's death as secretary to Freiherr vom Stein , memorialized him in the same year in his Five German Soldier Songs with the song of the brave Chasot . It is not without a certain irony that the son of a French nobleman and an Italian woman is celebrated here as the archetype of the Germans fighting against the Welschen .

family

He was married to Eleonore von Gansauge († February 14, 1830) from Magdeburg since 1786 . The couple had four daughters:

  • Elisabeth Camilla (1789–1843) ⚭ NN von Roeder († April 12, 1866), Prime Minister
  • Caroline (Elisabeth) (* July 20, 1791 in Schönebeck; † May 16, 1882 in Potsdam) ⚭ November 25, 1821 Colonel Wilhelm Christian Karl Christoph von Bredow (1775–1857) from the House of Prillwitz (brother of Henning August von Bredow ) , Lord on Nordhausen and Markau
  • Julie Rosalie (1793–1854) ⚭ May 9, 1816 Ludwig Reinhard von Grabow († 1844)
  • Louise Albertine, called Bertha (born June 26, 1795; † July 1, 1858) ⚭ Karl von Reitzenstein (1793–1846), son of Heinrich August Friedrich von Reitzenstein

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SURNAME Chasôt, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count von Chasot, Ludwig August Friedrich Adolf; Chasot, Louis Auguste de; Chasot, Ludwig Egmont Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, city commandant of Berlin 1807/09
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1813
Place of death Pskov