Hans Henrik Rode

Hans Henrik Rode (9 September 1767 – 29 December 1830) was a Norwegian military officer.

Biography He was born in Frederikshald as a son of major Georg Frederik Rode and his first wife Vilhelmine, née Stockfleth. He took a military education in Denmark, and became second lieutenant in 1784. He was promoted to premier lieutenant in 1790 and captain in 1800, and in the same year he became aide-de-camp for the governor in Rendsborg, Prince Frederick of Hesse. Rode was also a teacher at the military institute in Rendsborg from 1800 to 1808. He was promoted further to lieutenant in 1803, major in 1809 and lieutenant colonel in 1809. In 1809 Frederick of Hesse was appointed as commanding general in the southern part of Norway, and Rode followed him there. They had sons Frederik Rode (1800–1883) and Hans Henrik Albert Rode (1818–1883); daughter Henriette Nicoline Rode (1810–1898) married priest Gustav Adolph Lammers.