Woldemar von Hanneken

Woldemar Karl Alexander von Hanneken (born April 15, 1789 in Herzogenbusch , † September 10, 1849 in Pfohren ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the 6th Cavalry Brigade .

Life

origin

Woldemar was the son of Balthasar Georg von Hanneken (1744-1826) and his wife Margarete Ernestine Dorothea, born von Zülow (1754-1835). His father was a Mecklenburg-Schwerin major a. D. as well as Herr auf Dicheln and Nütschow. His stepbrother Hans Ludwig (1780-1854) also became a Prussian major general.

Military career

Hanneken visited the Berlin cadet house and was employed on April 7, 1806 as a cornet with a patent from August 13, 1805 in the cuirassier regiment "von Beeren" of the Prussian army . During the Fourth Coalition War he fought in the Battle of Auerstedt and in May 1807 joined the von der Marwitz Freikorps as a second lieutenant . After the war, on April 10, 1812, Hanneken received his retirement as prime lieutenant .

As such, he was employed in the 2nd Hussar Regiment of the Russian-German Legion in 1813 . During the Wars of Liberation , Hanneken took part in the fighting at Sehestedt and the siege of Antwerp and rose to Rittmeister in April 1814 . On March 29, 1815, he returned to Prussian service and was employed as a staff officer in the 1st Uhlan Regiment . In mid-May 1815 he was transferred to the 1st Rhenish Landwehr Cavalry Regiment and at the beginning of June 1815 he was promoted to Rittmeister. In the same year, Hanneken was at the headquarters of Field Marshal Blücher during the summer campaign and took part in the Battle of Waterloo .

After the war he was accepted into the salaried tribe of the 6th Rheinische Landwehr Regiment on May 31, 1816. He was then from March 26, 1820 to the end of March 1828 in the III. Battalion of the 30th Landwehr Regiment and was then promoted to Major in the II Battalion in Saarlouis . Hanneken received the Order of St. John on October 17, 1836 . On March 30, 1837, he was commissioned to lead the 9th Hussar Regiment . Fourteen days later, initially commissioned with the command of the 3rd Dragoons Regiment , Hanneken was appointed commander of this regiment on January 14, 1838. In this position he rose to colonel until September 1840 and was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III in the same month . Excellent with a bow. On March 30, 1844, Hanneken was transferred to Stettin as commander of the 6th Cavalry Brigade . There he was aggregated to the 3rd Dragoon Regiment on April 18, 1844 and promoted to major general on March 27, 1847.

On the occasion of the suppression of the Dresden May Uprising , Hanneken was given command of the cavalry brigade on May 2, 1849, which joined the Holleben mobile division near Görlitz . On May 9, 1849, he became the leader of a detachment made up of troops from the VII Army Corps , which Hanneken led in the battle near Durlach in Baden . He died of a stroke on September 10, 1849 in Pfohren near Donaueschingen .

family

Hanneken married on September 3, 1817 in Trier Kunigunde von Fritsch zu Horchheim (1797-1839). The couple had several children:

• Anna Waldburga Kunigunde Katharina Julie (1818–1882), ⚭ 1845 Hermann von Hanneken (1810–1886), Prussian lieutenant general
• Bertha Alice Henriette (* 1819)
• Antonie (* 1822) ∞ Friedrich Freiherr von Gregory (1821–1867), major
• Woldemar Georg Wilhelm (1824–1873), Prussian lieutenant colonel ret. D.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 171, no. 1795.
• Kottmeier: Words of memory at the grave of the immortalized Woldemar v. Hanneken, royally. prussia. Major general and commanders of the 1st Division of the 1st Army Corps of the Operations Army in Baden, knight's high order. Digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. P. 225.