His family was originally from Kingdom of France, and his father served as subordinate to Friedrich von Schomberg, and was killed with him at the Battle of the Boyne.

He fought as an infantryman in Italy during the relief of Turin, Milan, the siege of Toulon, the conquest of Susa, in the Battle of Calcinato and the storming of Capri.

In August 1738, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and took over the command of Joachim Ernst von Zimmernow.

In the first of the Silesian Wars, he joined the Battle of Ottmachau in which he occupied and held a strategically important bridge over the Neisse.

In 1744, he fought under General Karl Heinrich von der Marwitz in Upper Silesia and was on 5 September 1744, victorious over the fortress of Cosel.

Frederick the Great rewarded his service after the Silesian wars, conferring a prebend (administrative position in a cathedral) in 1746, in Kalkar.

For his work, his name was inscribed in 1851 on one of the plaques on the base of the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great.