Career
She served disguised as a man during the Napoleonic Wars in Germany from 1813 to 1815 in the first company of the Kolbergsches Infanterieregiment (renamed the 9th Grenadier regiment in 1914). Trained as a tailor, at 23 years old she cut off her hair, put on a male costume she had designed herself and obeyed a mobilisation proclamation. Owing 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 her high voice caused the others to realize that she was female.
However, she had got into favour with Bravour and so she was not ejected from the army. Indeed, she was even promoted to corporal after the Battle of Möckern.
They had four children. On her death, she was buried in the Saint-Georgen-Friedhof in Templin, where her grave can still be seen.