Lave Hohendorff, (1762–1729), was a Danish general officer who had served in the Danish auxiliary corpses in Ireland and in Flanders, as well as in the Danish army in the Great Northern War. As a very young man, Hohendorff in 1679 became a junior member of the Danish legation at the court of Versailles, yet soon leaving the diplomatic service for an officer's commission in the French Régiment Royal. Returning to Denmark in 1683, Hohendorff became a captain in the Danish Guards; in 1687 also a groom of the privy chamber. In 1689, he went with the Guards battalion in the Danish Auxiliary Corps to Ireland, and later to Flanders. Hohendorff was promoted to major in 1690, the same year he was wounded by a cannonball at the siege of Kinsale. Wounded in action and prisoner of war at the battle of