Carl Heinrich August von Lindenau

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Carl Heinrich August Graf von Lindenau. Copper engraving by Meno Haas after Johann Heinrich Schröder , 1794

Carl Heinrich August von Lindenau , since 1765 Count von Lindenau , (born February 21, 1755 in Machern , † August 11, 1842 in Bahrensdorf near Beeskow ) was the Prussian lieutenant general and travel stableman of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia.

His father was the electoral Saxon secret council and head stable master Heinrich Gottlieb Graf von Lindenau (1723–1789), who owned the manors Machern , Zeititz , Gotha and Kossen . The mother was Charlotte Auguste geb. used by Seydewitz . von Kühlewein (1729–1764).

On February 2, 1780, he married Christiane Henriette von Arnim from the House of Gröba (1762-1833) in Annaburg . There were no children from this marriage.

Life

He spent his youth in Dresden and attended the veterinary school. He went into the civil service, became a chamberlain and officer in the body grenadier regiment. He was very interested in horse breeding and traveled through numerous countries. He already gained the reputation of a good hunting rider. Count Lindenau entered Prussian service in 1786 and was appointed head of the entire stud administration by Friedrich Wilhelm II on October 20 that year . In this office he was in charge of all royal stud farms, some of which were newly established during his time. One of them was the Friedrich Wilhelm Stud (today the main and state stud Neustadt (Dosse) ). That he wanted to drastically modernize Prussian breeding was shown in 1787. During a business trip to Trakehnen he discarded 70% of the stallions and 40% of the dams there. The division of the herds by color and the introduction of the Trakehner brand also go back to him.

During the First Coalition War , he fought in battle near Toutoi in 1792 and received the order " Pour le Mérite " there. In 1793 he became adjutant general and took part in the campaign in Poland in 1794. He resigned from active military service as a colonel in 1796, but continued to remain head stable master. After the defeat of 1806 he was released, but was involved in the reorganization of the stud farms in 1808 and had to destroy his own life's work. After 1813 the stud farms were rebuilt, but without his participation.

In 1810 he sold the Machern family estate and acquired the Büssow estate in Neumark. During the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815 he returned to military service and was major general in the Neumärkische Landwehr. In 1815 he became inspector of the Landwehr in the Frankfurt an der Oder district and in 1817 Lieutenant General. In 1820 he said goodbye and retired to his estate in Bahrendorf near Beeskow, where he died in 1842.

In 1788, King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia ordered the establishment of a veterinary school in Berlin. He commissioned Carl Graf von Lindenau with the preparation. He sent two young licentiates in medicine and a pharmacist to study veterinary science in England, Vienna, Alfort near Paris and Leipzig, in order to be prepared for later lessons in Berlin. Carl Graf von Lindenau bought the Bertram'schen Garten on behalf of the king and from his “disposition fund” and had all the necessary buildings erected on the site according to the plans of building officer Carl Gotthard Langhans . It was the area that is bounded today by Luisenstrasse, Reinhardtstrasse, Friedrichstrasse, Hannoversche Strasse and Invalidenstrasse, whereby the anatomical theater of the veterinary school , later known as the "Zootomy" or "Trichin Temple", is still preserved today. The "Royal Animal Medicine School" in Berlin was opened on June 1, 1790. It was under the direction and supervision of the Obermarstallamt. Carl Graf von Lindenau, as the head stable master at the time, was also the school's first general director.

Lindenau was considered the creator of the landscape gardening makers. Against his father's resistance, he was a friend of Goethe .

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SURNAME Lindenau, Carl Heinrich August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindenau, Carl Heinrich August Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and travel stable master of King Friedrich Wilhelm II.
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Makers
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1842
Place of death Bahrensdorf near Beeskow