Adam Joachim von Podewils

Adam Joachim von Podewils (born February 4, 1697 in Suckow in Pomerania , † June 23, 1764 in Varzin in Pomerania) was a Prussian officer .

Live and act

Adam Joachim von Podewils came from the well-known noble family of Podewils , who lived in Pomerania . His parents were the Brandenburg colonel Ernst Bogislaw von Podewils (1651-1718) and the daughter general Barbara Katharina von Dewitz (1667-1742).

In keeping with family tradition, Podewils chose a military career. From 1713 he attended the knight school in Kolberg , was a cornet with the Gens d'armes from 1719 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1722 and to staff assistant master in 1724 . Soon afterwards he received his own squadron in the Plathenian Dragoon Regiment. In 1741 he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite and promoted to lieutenant colonel because of his extraordinary bravery, which was demonstrated in the battle of Mollwitz .

On the occasion of the tribute to Frederick the Great by the Silesian estates in Breslau in 1741, Adam Joachim von Podewils, together with his brothers Heinrich von Podewils (* 1696, † 1760), heir on Krangen and royal Prussian Real Secret Minister of State, Otto Friedrich Christoph von Podewils ( * 1702; † 1760), heir to Wussow , as well as to his cousin Otto Christoph von Podewils (* 1719; † 1781), heir to Gusow and later royal Prussian envoy to the Viennese court, raised to the hereditary Prussian count status.

In 1742 he became the commander of the Margrave Friedrich's Cuirassier Regiment (No. 5) . In June 1743 he was made a colonel and in December of the same year major general of the cavalry with the income of a chief of the regiment . He was wounded in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg and was involved in the conquest of Prague in 1744 . Podewils was also the governor of Limberg from 1748 .

Due to his weakened health, he had to say goodbye in August 1753 . In the following years he devoted himself to farming on his property. He was the heir to Varzin, Chemnitz, Domitz, Wussow, Puddiger and Dubberzin .

During the Seven Years War , his property was destroyed by the enemy. He himself was captured in Schlawe in 1760 and taken to Marienwerder as a hostage. It was to be used as guarantor for the Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Schwedt and Prince Friedrich Eugen von Württemberg , who had been picked up by a Russian patrol corps. However, he fell ill and was released on the orders of Empress Elisabeth without paying a ransom. Podewils died four years later.

Adam Joachim Graf von Podewils was married to Maria Charlotte von Krockow adH Peest A († 1750). The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching and Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti (eds.): Historical-literary handbook of famous memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Volume 8, Leipzig 1806, pp. 110-112 .
• Julius Mebes : Contributions to the history of the Brandenburg-Prussian state and army. Volume 1, Berlin 1861, p. 343, No. 80 .
• Karl Friedrich Pauli : Memorials of famous generals and other deserving men of recent times , Halle 1768, p. 107-138
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 302, no. 336.
• Kurd Wolfgang von Schöning : The generals of the Kurbrandenburg and Royal Prussian Army from 1640-1840. A cheer. Berlin 1820, pp. 63-64 .
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1837, Volume 4, pp. 41-42 .
• Gustaf Lehmann: The Knights of the Order Pour le Mérite, arr. in the Royal Ministry of War by Gustaf Lehmann, first volume: 1740-1811. Mittler, Berlin 1913, p. 10. (52:10) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class increases and acts of grace from 1600-1873. Berlin 1874, p. 24.