Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake

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Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake (8 August 1768 - 19 May 1835) was a Prussian military general and Minister of War.

Von Hake entered the army in 1785. In 1793, while serving under the command of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Pirmasens during the Revolutionary Wars against France. For his actions he was later to be decorated, on 3 April 1814, with the Pour le Mérite medal with Oakleaves.

Von Hake served as Minister of War from 17 June 1810 until August 1813 when he was replaced by Hermann von Boyen. Returning to the field, he was wounded at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813.

In 1819 von Hake was again appointed Minister of War. The king, Friedrich Wilhelm III, ordered him to conduct experiments into the use of the optical telegraph. Von Hake, however, was opposed to optical telegraphy and devised several means of preventing the experiments from being implemented. He successfully delayed the experiments until May 1830. Von Hake finally left the War Ministry in 1833 and died two years later, in 1835, at Naples, Italy.

Preceded by Gerhard von Scharnhorst	Chief of the Prussian General Staff 1810–1812	Succeeded by Gustav von Rauch
	Prussian Minister of War 1810–1813	Succeeded by Hermann von Boyen
Preceded by Hermann von Boyen	Prussian Minister of War 1819–1833	Succeeded by Job von Witzleben