Adam Ernst Rochus von Witzleben

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Gravestone "Rochus von Witzleben" on the Gertrudenkirchhof in Oldenburg

Adam Ernst Rochus von Witzleben (born February 14, 1791 in Eutin , † August 14, 1868 in Oldenburg ) was Oldenburg Chamberlain , Chief Stable Master and Privy Councilor .

He came from the Thuringian noble family von Witzleben and was the second child of the Danish chamberlain Rochus von Witzleben , whose nickname he received.

Life

He was initially an official in Oldenburg and became a chamber auditor. With the beginning of the war of liberation in 1813, he first joined the English army, but after a few months he switched to the Russian-German legion , which was set up by the Tsar in Russia at the suggestion of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg . With an ukase dated August 11, 1813, he became an ensign in the Legion's 6th Battalion. He was then adjutant in the battle of the Göhrde on September 16, 1813 and at Sehestedt on December 10, 1813. On February 2, 1814 he was promoted to second lieutenant. The Legion was taken over into Prussian service in 1815 and dissolved on April 18, 1815. Witzleben returned to Oldenburg and was transferred to the newly formed Oldenburg Infantry Regiment on April 14, 1815 . As regimental adjutant and since May 5, 1815 as Premier-Lieutenant, he took part in the summer campaign of 1815 against Napoleon, who had returned from exile . He fought in the sieges of Mezieres and Montmédy . After the war, in December 1815, he returned to civil administration and then to court service. He became chamberlain, head stable master and privy councilor. He died in Oldenburg in August 1868.

During his time as an officer in the Russian-German legion from 1811 to 1815, he was addressed as a baron , but he and his descendants did not have the title of baron in Prussia.

Adam Ernst Rochus von Witzleben lived in a representative new building in Oldenburg, Huntestraße 19, from 1862 onwards. The planner was architect Carl Friedrich Spieske. The building, which is now a listed building, is considered to be one of the most important examples of Romantic Classicism. It was painted in oil by Emil Brose around 1960 . The painting hangs in the Oldenburg City Museum .

family

He was married three times and had three children from his third marriage. His first wife was Franziska von Heimburg († August 14, 1836), the daughter of the Oldenburg Landjägermeister Heino Ernst Heimburg (1766-1830). Then he married his cousin Eleonore Frederike von Witzleben (born June 30, 1811, † October 1843). On February 21, 1845, he married his third wife, Josephine Theophile Emma von Witzleben (* February 14, 1819, † October 13, 1863) from the Wartenburg-Werben family. She was the daughter of the Saxon chamberlain Hans Dietrich August Leopold von Witzleben (* May 18, 1789 - May 16, 1862) and his wife Celeste Latitie de Becquey-Beaupre (* September 19, 1794 - May 18, 1880). The couple had two daughters and one son, including:

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Wachtendorf, Oldenburger Häuserbuch, Part 2, 2000
  2. ^ Klaus Brake, Rainer Krüger, Oldenburg in profile, Isensee Verlag Oldenburg, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Witzleben, Adam Ernst Rochus from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg master stable master and secret councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1868
Place of death Oldenburg