Adam from Grape

Anton Adam Gotthold von Grape , also von Grap , (born July 1, 1734 in Tetzlaffhagen , † January 4, 1795 in Dorphagen ) was a Prussian manor owner and district administrator of the Greifenberg district .

Life

Adam came from the noble family of Grape . His father Gustav Heinrich von Grape († 1737) was the heir to Tetzlaffhagen and Dorphagen and Rittmeister of the Electorate of Hanover . His mother Anna Elisabeth was born by Weiher from the Mulkenthin family.

Grape joined the Prussian Army in 1750 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Kolin during the Seven Years' War in 1757 . In 1763 he took his leave as captain . He dedicated himself to the management of his inherited estates Tetzlaffhagen and Dorphagen, to which he also acquired Lütkenhagen and Dünow .

In 1792 he was elected as the successor to the late George Ulrich von Lettow to the district administrator of the Greifenberg district and appointed by the king. He died in 1795.

Grape was married three times. His first wife was Juliane Christiane Ulrike von Vogelsang (1734–1776). In 1777 he married Friederike von Arnim (1752–1784). After her death, he married Ernestine Freiin Bachhof von Echt († 1789) on September 15, 1786 . A total of twelve children were born from the marriages.

literature

• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 342 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1917. Eighteenth year, Justus Perthe, Gotha 1916, p. 355.