Wolfgang Albrecht von Hohendorf

Wolfgang Albrecht von Hohendorf , also Wolfgang Albrecht von Hohendorff (* 1709 in Prussia , † January 1770 in Königsberg ) was a Prussian colonel .

Life

Wolfgang Albrecht was a member of the line of the noble von Hohendorff family, which had been based in Prussia since 1384 .

Hohendorf served as an officer in the Prussian army and advanced to the rank of colonel in the infantry regiment (No. 24) . He was taken care of on December 14, 1764 as chief of the Szczecin Land Regiment . Hohendorf had taken part in all the Silesian wars . While still a captain , he was seriously wounded in the Battle of Czaslau in 1742 . He also suffered wounds in the Battle of Striegau in 1745 and in the Battle of Kay in 1759 . He died before January 23, 1770 when Major Karl Heinrich von Poseck succeeded him as head of the regiment in Stettin .

Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807 , Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 325
Anton Balthasar König : Wolfgang Albrecht von Hohendorf . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 164 ( Wolfgang Albrecht von Hohendorf at Wikisource [PDF]). Reprint: LTR, Starnberg 1989, ISBN 3-88706-305-8
Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 408

personal data
SURNAME	Hohendorf, Wolfgang Albrecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hohendorff, Wolfgang Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian colonel
DATE OF BIRTH	1709
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	January 1770
Place of death	Koenigsberg