Hergenhahn, Carl Friedrich

General

born: 08.07.1793 in Wiesbaden

died: 21.08.1868 in Wiesbaden

In 1810, Hergenhahn, brother of Prime Minister August Hergenhahn, joined the Nassau military as a cadet and was promoted to general in 1855. From 1854, he was head of the War Department (the government's ministerial department for military affairs, the central military authority). Hergenhahn retired in 1862.

As a lieutenant, he had taken part in the campaign in Spain in 1812-13, for which Nassau had to provide troops for Napoleon as a result of its membership of the Confederation of the Rhine. When Nassau left the Confederation of the Rhine, Hergenhahn was taken prisoner by the French and was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He was a member of the Nassau State Council from 1854-66.

He came to prominence as co-initiator of the Waterloo memorial erected on Luisenplatz in 1865 and as author of the work "Der Antheil der Herzoglich Nassauischen Truppen am spanischen Kriege von 1808 bis 1814" (1840).

Hergenhahn found his final resting place in the Old Cemetery.