Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An haifi Hake a kan mallakar Flatow (yanzu wani ɓangare na Kremmen) a cikin Margraviate na Brandenburg. Ya shiga rundunar sojojin Prussian a shekara ta 1785. A shekara ta 1793, yayin da yake aiki a karkashin umurnin Charles William Ferdinand, Duke na Brunswick, ya bambanta kansa a cikin
Yaƙin Pirmasens a lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe na juyin juya halin Faransa da Faransa. Don ayyukansa daga baya za a yi masa ado, a ranar 3 ga Afrilu 1814, tare da lambar yabo ta "Pour le Mérite" tare da ganyen Oak.