Nikolaus von Heer

Nikolaus von Heer (* 1730 in Switzerland ; † after 1763) was a Prussian major .

Life

Nikolaus was a member of a widely ramified Reformed family of the Glarus upper class.

Army was initially under the command of Henri Bouquet in the Dutch service. He then entered Prussian service and on June 3, 1757 was a lieutenant in the "Chossignon" free battalion (F 5). On January 6, 1759 he was promoted to captain , but in June 1760 he moved to the free battalion " Wunsch " (F 7).

Even as he made Major in Halle with patent from January 6, 1761 named after him free battalion "army" the free battalion "Swiss Volontaires" (F 12) and "Swiss battalion" or. The teams of the Association consisted exclusively of the army headquarters predominantly from Swiss . It consisted of a grenadier - and two musketeer companies together had 12 officers, 21 sergeants, six musicians and 450 Common. A part of the battalion was captured by the French on October 10, 1761 near Osterwieck . However, the loss was made up for by recruiting . On June 1, 1762, however, the army with the majority of its free battalion was taken prisoner in Austria near Grumbach in Saxony . The rest of the troops, which were dissolved with the Peace of Hubertusburg , joined the fusilier regiment "Bülow" (No. 49). Heer himself had received the farewell at the same time as the reduction .

literature

• Helmut Eckert: Swiss officers in the Frederician Army. In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde XXXIV, 1970, pp. 72, 99 u. 101 - ISSN 0044-2852.
• Anton Balthasar König : Nikolaus von Heer . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 126 ( Nikolaus von Heer at Wikisource [PDF]). Reprint: LTR, Starnberg 1989, ISBN 3-88706-305-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Veronika Feller-Vest: Army (GL). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 23, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
2. ^ Helmut Schnitter: Rupert Scipio Freiherr von Lentulus - General in Frederick's service. In: Swiss in Berlin in the 18th Century: International Conference, May 25-28, 1994 in Berlin , Akademie Verlag , Berlin 1996, p. 151.