Adam Georg von Schlieben

Adam Georg von Schlieben (born May 3, 1629 in Küstrin ; † October 2, 1708 in Lietzen ) was commander of the Johanniterkommende Lietzen and from 1693 at the latest, Senior of the Johanniterballei Brandenburg .

Life

Adam Georg von Schlieben was the son of Maximilian von Schlieben, heir to Eichow and commander of the Johanniterkommende Lietzen, and Lucia Maria von Trott. He was born in Küstrin on May 3, 1629; his parents fled there because of the unrest of the Thirty Years' War . While traveling through France with his brother Maximilian, Maximilian died in Paris in 1656. After further trips to Holland, among others, he returned to Brandenburg. In 1663 his father bought the Alt Tucheband estate . In 1678 he succeeded Maximilian as commander in Lietzen after the death of his father. In 1678 he sold his shares in Eichow and the manor Papitz with Ruben to Seyfried von Loeben on Krieschow , Kunersdorf and Limberg . In 1693 at the latest, he became Senior of the Johanniterballei Brandenburg in Sonnenburg and, in this function, on February 24, 1693, proposed the elected master master, Margrave Karl Philipp von Brandenburg-Schwedt, first to the Knight of the Knights of St. John and then introduced him as master master. The new master master died two years later and Adam Georg von Schlieben also introduced the following master master Albrecht Friedrich von Brandenburg-Schwedt into his office. Friedrich Wilhelm accepted him as a chamberlain and soon after made him court and legation councilor . King Friedrich I valued his services; even as elector he promoted him to the Privy Council . On July 12, 1704 - now as King in Prussia - he raised him to the rank of count.

Adam Georg von Schlieben was married twice. On November 6, 1663, he married Christine Sophie, daughter of Johannes von Vorhauer, Elector of Brandenburg, heir to Klein Drenzig , Schöneiche , Plesse , Groß Bösitz and Wallwitz in what was then Gubenische Kreis . His wife died on January 30th, 1673. The marriage had four children, two of whom died early:

• Son, died early
• Daughter, died early
• Margarethe, married to Friedrich Jakob von Götz (en) on Grüntal and Wollenberg
• Lucia Maria, married to Heinrich von Flemming, Rittmeister on Martenstein , 2nd marriage to Stephan Friedrich von Arnim on Zichow .

His second marriage was on April 16, 1677 in Alt Tucheband Charlotte, daughter of Ehwald Joachim von Flemming, director of the Wollin district and heir to Böcke , Ribbertow , Drammin , Basentien , Leussin, Sager, Bomgarten, Coldemantz, Klötzin and Schwirsen in Western Pomerania . The marriage resulted in eight children, but five of them died in infancy:

• Friedrich Wilhelm, died at the age of 13
• Dorothea Sabine, marriage: 1705 to Georg Dietloff von Arnim, Landvoigt in the Uckermärkischen and Stolpirischen districts
• June 23, 1685 Agnes Juliane, marriage: November 13, 1704 with Paul Anton von Kameke , Grand-Maître de la Robe, Knight of the Black Eagle Order , Knight of St. John, Chamberlain, Adjutant General, Captain of the Mühlenhof Office and the Mühlenbeck Office and Lieutenant Colonel of the Grenadier Guard .

He died on October 2, 1708 in Lietzen, his wife Charlotte had already died on April 7, 1708. Both spouses were buried in cloth tape in the hereditary funeral.

literature

• Great complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts, which have so far been invented by human understanding and wit. Volume 35 Schle-Schwa, Johann Heinrich Zedler, Leipzig and Halle, 1743 Online at Google Books, pp. 186–88.
• Götz Freiherr von Houwald : The Niederlausitzer manors and their owners Volume VI: District of Guben. 448 S., Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1999 ISBN 3-7686-4199-6
• Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld: History of the knightly order of St. Johannis from the hospital in Jerusalem: with special consideration of the Brandenburg ballot or the masterclass of Sonnenburg. XVI, 896 S., Berlin, Berendt, 1859 Online at Google Books (p. 796)