Leonhard Freiherr von Hohenhausen und Hochhaus (28 June 1788 – 25 March 1872) was a

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n military and Acting

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from 1 March 1847 to 1 February 1848. His last military rank was

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Biography

Hohenhausen was born in Dachau, the son of Johann Nepomuk ''

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'' von Hohenhausen (also called "Peregrinus") by his marriage to Maria Anna, ''

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'' von Wittorf. He was a nephew of Major-General Sylvius Maximilian von Hohenhausen (born 1738). Leonhard von Hohenhausen served in the

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during the campaigns between 1805 and 1815. In 1839 he became

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and

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. After acting as war minister under

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from 1847 to 1848 he was advanced to

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and became a divisional commander. In 1861 he was appointed as "Generalkapitän", commanding officer of the

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s' a Bavarian life guards troop. In 1867 he was advanced to the rank of a ''General der Kavallerie''. Hohenhausen was also the tutor of Crown Prince Maximilian.''Hohenhausen, Leonhard Freiherr von''
House of the Bavarian history (HdBG). Hohenhausen was married three times. With his first wife Magdalena, née Kleinknecht (1790–1846), he had one daughter, and with his second wife Anna, née Pol (1826–1862), he had five daughters and one son. With his third wife Wilhelmine, née Fischer-Rhomberg (1827–1883), he had no children. On 27 April 1861 he was awarded with the

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by the city of

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.''Honorary Citizens of Augsburg''
He was buried in the Old Southern Cemetery in

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