- Friederike Krüger
(Sophie Dorothea) Friederike Krüger, alias August Lübeck or Auguste Krüger (
8 October 1789 ,Friedland -31 May 1848 ,Templin ) was a soldier in thePrussian army .Life
She served disguised as a man during the
Napoleonic Wars in Germany from 1813 to 1815 in the first company of the Kolbergschen infantry regiment (renamed the 9th Grenadier regiment in 1914). Trained as tailor, at 23 years old she cut off her hair, put on a male costume she had designed herself and obeyed a mobilisation proclamation. Due to the speed of mobilisation there were no medical examinations and so she was not discovered at first. Her comrades admired her courage very much and were loyal to her, but during one attack she betrayed herself by her high voice. However, she had got into favour with Bravour and so she was not ejected from the army - she was even promoted to corporal after thebattle of Möckern .At the end of the war she married a Prussian corporal Karl Köhler after the war on 5th March 1816 and left the army - they had four children. She was awarded the
iron cross and the commemorative war medal by kingFrederick William II of Prussia for her bravery. On her death, she was buried in the St.-Georgen-Friedhof inTemplin , where her grave can still be seen.ources
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