George Charles Dyhern The Rt . Hon . George Charles , Baron de Dyhern ( 10 April 1710 – 25 April 1759 ) , was a Saxon general , war minister under the regency of Augustus III . of Saxony , king of Poland and a close friend of Field Marshal Count Frederick Augustus Rutowsky . Family . Baron George Charles Dyhern ( originally " Georg Carl von Dyh ( e ) rn " ) was born in 1710 in Głogów as a member of the House of Dyhrn , an ancient prominent noble family from Silesia , who had distant relations to many European royals . His father was Baron " Melchior Frederick de Dyhern " , a wealthy Lord , who owned considerable land in Lubusz Voivodeship , and his mother was the Countess " Helen de Nimptsch " . His sister Marie Dyhern was the mother of the famous Marshal François Christophe de Kellermann , 1 . duke of Valmy . Dyhern ' s grandniece , Baroness " Caroline de Kottwitz " , was the wife of the famous Prussian field marshal Count August Neidhardt von Gneisenau , who was a prominent figure in the War of Liberation and played an important role in the Battle of Waterloo under Blücher in 1815 . Life . Dyhern was a brilliant student . He studied theology , philosophy and mathematics and he completed his studies with highest distinction . In 1740 he married an Italian aristocrat in Prague , with whom he had two sons . Through his marriage Dyhern became a landowner in Bohemia . As a lieutenant , Dyhern took part in the battle of Timok in Hungary ( today Serbia ) in 1737 under the commandment of Count Frederick Augustus Rutowsky , who later become one of Dyhern ' s closest friends . During the War of the Austrian Succession , Dyhern fought as a major in Prague in 1741 , as Marshal Maurice de Saxe made his unexpected night attack on the Bohemian capital . In 1745 he was a captain and in 1752 a generalmajor and also a general lieutenant of a Saxon regiment in service of the King Louis XV of France , with whom Dyhern was acquainted already since the middle of the 1730s , as he was studying and living in Versailles and Paris . As a general , Dyhern commanded the Saxonian army in Austria , France , Poland and Bohemia . He also became a war minister under the government of the Prime minister Count Heinrich von Brühl and he was regularly corresponding with the Saxon Elector Augustus III , Prussian king Frederick the Great , the French king Louis XV . de Bourbon and others . In 1746 Dyhern wrote a book about wars , named " Nachricht oder historische Erzählung des Krieges - Handlungen " , which was published in German in Hamburg and the same year translated in French and published as such in Cologne . In the Battle of Rossbach ( 1757 ) Dyhern fought as a commander of Saxon troops along with Prince Charles de Rohan , commander of the French army . France and Austria were defeated by Prussia . Two years later , on 13 April 1759 , the Battle of Bergen in Hesse followed . Dyhern , as Saxon general along with Victor François de Broglie , Duke of Broglie , commander of the French army , fought against the armies of Great Britain , Hesse - Kassel , Brunswick and Hanover . Only a few weeks before the battle , Dyhern was still trying to make an agreement with the Prince de Isenburg , hessian commander , at their meeting in Champs - Élysées in Paris , but unsuccessfully . In this battle , Dyhern , among many other men ( also Prince Isenburg , who died on the same day as the battle took place ) was seriously wounded , and brought to a hospital in Frankfurt . France and Saxony were then defeated . In Frankfurt he was tended by Dr . Fresenius , who later wrote a book about Dyhern and his great courageous personality . 12 days after he got the wound , Dyhern died at the age of 49 . The Battle of Bergen made his reputation worldwide . The legendary Saxon general was even mentioned by Goethe in his literature - always as “ a brave general of liberal spirit ” . General Dyhern ' s great personality and career was also mentioned in works of John Entick ( in " General History of the Late War " ) , David Hume ( in " The History of England " ) and described in other scientific literature and newspapers all over Europe and America through the 18th and 19th century . General Dyhern was buried in Frankfurt , Hesse . At his funeral great generals as Count Rutowsky and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony , with whom he was working with in the last years of his life , were in tears over the death of their great friend and colleague .