Adam Philipp von Krassow

Adam Philipp von Krassow , from 1731 Freiherr von Krassow , (born May 5, 1664 in Pansevitz , † February 2, 1736 in Falkenhagen ), was a general in Mecklenburg services and landowner in Pomerania .

Life

Adam Philipp came from the old Rügen family von Krassow and was a son of Christian von Krassow (1620–1671) on Pansevitz and Margaretha von Holstein. After the early death of the father, the mother directed the upbringing and education of the children by private tutors. In 1679 he followed his older brother Ernst Detlof von Krassow to Skåne . He became a page of the Swedish King Charles XI. After his mother's death in 1681, he left the inherited Varnkevitz estate to his brother Ulrich Adolph for money. In 1683 he became an ensign in the Crown Prince's regiment. In 1688 he took a leave of absence and went to France via Flanders . In 1689 he became a captain in the Erskin Regiment, in which his brother Ernst Detlof von Krassow commanded a battalion . In the Battle of Fleurus (1690) he was captured by the French. After his release, he took part in other battles of the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1693 he said goodbye and married Anna Hedwig von Wolffradt the following year in Swedish Pomerania . In 1695 he went back to Brabant to do military service until the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697.

After another stay in his home country, he took over a company in the dragoon regiment of his brother Ernst Detlof in 1699. In the same year he entered the service of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In Mecklenburg he built a dragoon regiment, and was appointed colonel in 1702. In 1703 the Duke left this regiment to the Prussian King Friedrich I , who sent it to reinforce the imperial troops on the Upper Rhine during the War of the Spanish Succession . Krassow thus took part in the First Battle of Höchstädt , which ended with the defeat of the imperial troops.

In 1704 the duke of Mecklenburg gave him command of another cavalry regiment belonging to the imperial contingent. After the Battle of Schellenberg , he occupied the town of Dillingen on the Danube with this regiment . With his dragoon regiment he was used in 1704 in the Second Battle of Höchstädt . Krassow, who was awarded the Order de la Générosité by the Prussian king , returned to Dömitz in Mecklenburg with the regiment in 1705 . He was promoted from the duke to brigadier , gave the dragoons to the Colonel von Wedell and remained chief of the cavalry regiment assigned to the imperial contingent. Since then he has not personally participated in any campaigns.

After the death of his mother-in-law, he came into possession of the Falkenhagen and Henneckenhagen (Hankenhagen) estates in Swedish Pomerania. For official reasons he stayed mostly in Schwerin and Rostock . Duke Friedrich Wilhelm promoted him to major general on May 15, 1707 and gave him command of all troops in Mecklenburg.

While he was sent on diplomatic missions to various courts at the beginning of the second decade of the Great Northern War , after the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by enemy troops, he did not receive any income from his goods. At the same time, Mecklenburg could only pay him half of his due salary. At the end of 1714 his designation patent was renewed, he was appointed to the Privy Council and President of the War Commissariat and the Licent College. As a result, he received higher income and, in 1715, most of the arrears wages. The relationship with Duke Karl Leopold , who had ruled since 1713, deteriorated noticeably. Contributing to this was his son Carl Detlof, who had killed the Chamberlain von Berner, a favorite of the Duke, in the dispute and escaped from his prison in Schwerin before the end of the trial against him. In June 1717 von Krassow submitted his farewell, which was granted to him at the end of the year.

He moved to his estate in Falkenhagen and was often in Stralsund during the winter months . The Swedish King Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel offered him in 1720 to enter his service. Although Adam Philipp von Krassow refused, referring to his advanced age, the king promoted him to lieutenant general in 1725 , guaranteed him a pension and in 1731 raised him to the status of Swedish baron. After his nephew Carl Wilhelm died in 1735, Adam Philipp inherited the fiefdom of the Krassow family estates as the next agnate .

Adam Philipp von Krassow died in 1736 on his Falkenhagen estate and was buried in the hereditary funeral in Reinberg .

literature

• Julius von Bohlen : History of the noble, baronial and counts of Krassow. Volume 1, 1853, pp. 82-96 ( digitized version ).
• Adam Philipp von Krassow . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 612 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).