Adam Heinrich Bose

Adam Heinrich Bose

Mölbis Castle, which he built

Adam Heinrich Bose (born March 3, 1667 in Unterfrankleben ; † May 21, 1749 in Mölbis ) was heir, feudal lord and court lord of Mölbis, Trages , Lohme, Nickern and Unterfrankleben , royal Polish and Electoral Saxon general of the infantry , governor of the City and fortress Wittenberg and knight of the Order of St. Heinrich .

Life

Bose came from the Saxon Uradelsgeschlecht those Bose renounced the use of the noble predicate that consciously at the spelling of his name. He was the son of the Privy Councilor Christoph Dietrich Bose the Elder (1628–1708). His brothers were the Provost Johann Balthasar Bose , the Secret Councilor Christoph Dietrich Bose the Younger , the Merseburg Secret and Appellate Councilor Wolf Dietrich Bose and the Lieutenant Colonel Gottlob Sigismund Bose.

The desire for the soldier's status developed at an early age, he joined the electoral Saxon army as a volunteer in 1689 and took part in the siege of Mainz in the same year . He was in command of the aristocratic cadet corps that his father had founded and quickly made a career in the army. Having lieutenant was, he was in 1694 Major , 1696 Colonel-Lieutenant, 1699 Colonel , 1710 Major General and finally in 1714 lieutenant general . He fought in Poland , Brabant and Pomerania . In 1723 he was also the governor of the city and fortress of Wittenberg .

In times of peace he withdrew to his estate in Mölbis, which had come into the Bose family through his father's marriage to Ursula von Gustedt (1636–1694). Here he built the manor house from scratch as a castle. He also renewed the church in the village. In 1703 he married Magdalene Sophie von Heßler (1683–1752) from the house of Klosterhäseler and Schlieben . Since the marriage remained childless, her nephew Carl Heinrich Zdislav von Bose inherited the important estates from the Vogtland branch of the family after the death of his aunt in 1752.

Adam Heinrich Bose was very competitive and of a high intellectual level. Despite or because of these characteristics, all sorts of strange legends and horror stories circulated about him among the people, especially after his death, ranging from “sorcerers” to “in league with the devil”.

In 1731 Adam Heinrich Bose was appointed Supreme Commanding General of the Infantry (general en chef) of the Electoral Saxon and Royal Polish Army. As such, he had to complete the surrender of Dresden in the Peace of Dresden to the Prussian King Friedrich II in 1745 due to the lost Second Silesian War on the side of Austria . His efforts to get three days' notice for the surrender and to secure the crew free withdrawal were unsuccessful. Frederick the Great replied: "General Bose remains free, all others are prisoners of war."

His requests to leave the army were rejected several times in the following years. At the age of 80, on the orders of his king, in 1747 he had to introduce himself to the Prussian King Frederick the Great, who was staying in Dresden and who praised his mental and physical strength.

Then he finally withdrew to Mölbis, where he "fell asleep gently" on May 21, 1749. He and later his wife were buried in Mölbis.

literature

• Gustav Adolf Poenicke (ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony. I. Section: Leipziger Kreis. Leipzig around 1860, pp. 116–118.
• Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal dictionary of all sciences and arts. Volume 4, Halle and Leipzig 1733, Col. 802-803.
• The Mölbis parish. In: New Saxon Church Gallery. Volume: Die Ephorie Borna. Leipzig 1903, Col. 707-712.
• JG Versch, JG Gruber: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Leipzig 1823, publisher Johann Friedrich Gieditsch.
• Genealogical-historical news. Volume 36, pp. 316ff, digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl von Bose, Georg von Bose, Gerhard von Bose (eds.): Family tables and contributions to the history of the von Bose family (Bose book) , re-edited in 1980, self-published