High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louis Aloy Prince de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (August 18, 1765 May 30, 1829) was a German prince and Marshal of France. Hohenlohe was born at Bartenstein in Hohenlohe-Bartenstein. In 1784 he entered the service of the Palatinate, which he quit in 1792 to take command as a colonel of a French army regiment raised by his father for the service of the emigré princes of France. He greatly distinguished himself under Condé in the campaigns of 1792 93, especially at the storming of the lines of Wissembourg. Subsequently he entered the service of the Netherlands, and, when almost surrounded by the army of General Pichegru, conducted a masterly retreat from the island of Bommelerwaard to the Waal. After the Dutch surrendered to the French armies, Hohenlohe joined the Austrian army with whom he fought in the campaigns of 1794 to 1798. The following year he was named major-general by the Archduke Charles of Austria. Hohenlohe was promotedto the rank of Feldmarshallleutnant in 1806 and the next year saw him being appointed governor of Galicia.