Peter Christoph von Wopersnow

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Peter Christoph von Wopersnow , also Wobersnow (* 1712 ; † June 23, 1760 in front of Landshut ) was a Prussian major , battalion commander and knight of the Pour le Mérite order .

Life

family

Peter Christoph came from the Pomeranian noble family von Wopersnow . Nothing is known about a wife or children.

career

Wopersnow was born in Pomerania and began his career as a junker in the Grumbkow infantry regiment , where he was promoted to secondary lieutenant in 1740 . After participating in the first two Silesian Wars , he began the Seven Years' War with the rank of captain . Wopersnow had already received the Pour le Mérite in November 1756 .

In 1760 he was appointed as the successor to Colonel Wilhelm Heinrich von der Tann as battalion commander of the grenadier battalion . However, he only held the position for a short time: he died on June 27, 1760 in the battle of Landeshut , where he fought with his grenadiers "with indescribable bravery".

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Peter Christoph von Wopersnow . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 264 ( Peter Christoph von Wopersnow at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Gottlob Naumann : Collection of unprinted messages explaining the history of the Prussian campaigns from 1740 to 1782 , Volume 2, Dresden 1782, p. 243

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1. Mittler , Berlin 1913, p. 50, no. 376 .
  2. ^ Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807. A source manual. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 79
  3. ^ Carl Renatus Hausen : Historisches Portefeuille: for knowledge of the present and past times , Vienna, Breslau, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, 1787, p. 171
personal data
SURNAME Wopersnow, Peter Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wobersnow, Peter Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major
DATE OF BIRTH 1712
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1760
Place of death Landshut