Adolf Friedrich von Rochow

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Family grave slab at the church in Stülpe

Adolf Friedrich von Rochow (born December 2, 1758 in Neustrelitz , † February 9, 1813 in Berlin ) was a royal Prussian chamberlain and landowner on Stülpe .

Life

He was a member of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Brandenburg and the fourth son of Adam Ernst II von Rochow (1705-1759), landlord on Stülpe and district administrator of the Luckenwalde district , and his third wife Juliane Eleonore von Voss-Gievitz (born March 15, 1734 ; † November 6, 1806). Adolf Friedrich's first marriage was Henriette Karoline von Hake-Selbelang . His second marriage was on January 31, 1790 at Gut Stülpe Luise Charlotte von Wakenitz (* December 21, 1755, † June 10, 1831 in Berkholz near Schwedt / Oder ). The latter marriage resulted in a daughter and a son. The son and heir Rochus (* February 9, 1797, † December 6, 1819) made it to the rank of lieutenant in the 2nd Leibhusar Regiment and died unmarried.

Adolf Friedrich, in turn, had become a co-owner of Stülpe himself. Co-heirs were his older half-brothers Ernst Wilhelm von Rochow (1743–1773) and Friedrich Ludwig von Rochow- Plessow (1745–1808). By drawing lots in 1760, Adolf Friedrich became the sole owner of Stülpe and its accessories. From 1770 he was a pupil at the Brandenburg Knight Academy and then studied in Halle (Saale) . As a landlord, he lived in the new Stülper manor house built by his father before 1754 and was also active as a client on site. So Adolf Friedrich was a wealthy landowner on a Vorwerk a shepherd house, right in Stülpe a new forest home and a new school building, on the Golmberg a two-storey summer house with tower and room for servants and Settled at the beginning of Erbantritts a new Patronatskirche built.

literature

  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility, noble houses A Volume VIII . Page 404, Volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Adolf Friedrich August von Rochow (ed.). News on the history of the von Rochow family and their possessions, Berlin 1861, p.163 f .
  • Adolf Friedrich August von Rochow The Stülpe Castle. Berlin 1868, pp. 84-95
  • Walter von Leers (ed.) . The pupils of the Brandenburg Knight Academy aH 1705–1913, self-published by the Association of Former pupils of the Brandenburg Knight Academy, Ludwigslust 1913, p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Rochow, Adolf Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian chamberlain and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1813
Place of death Berlin