Adolph von Goetze

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Adolph von Goetze (* 1610 ; † December 4, 1684 ) was a Kurbrandenburg lieutenant general of the infantry, governor of the Spandau fortress and, most recently, governor of Berlin .

Life

His parents were the Brandenburg Rittmeister and heir of Zehlendorf Friedrich von Goetzen and his wife Anna von Wulfen from the Madelitz family . His brother Henning von Goetze († 1634) was a Prussian colonel.

Nothing is known about its beginnings. He became colonel on foot in 1655 and was appointed major general on June 1, 1660. In 1671 he became governor of Spandau and also took part in the landing on Rügen in 1678 .

He had taken part in all of the campaigns of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . For his loyal service he received the Fief Nehrungen in Pomerania in 1676. It had gone to the Elector from Lieutenant Colonel Georg Adam von Pfuhl . In 1678 he gave up his post in Spandau and became lieutenant general on July 12, 1678. From 1677 to 1684 he was then governor of Berlin .

He was married to Johanna Katharina von der Recke , with whom he had several children. The widow later inherited the estates of Cunersdorf, Schulzendorf and Bruno.

The later governor of Küstrin Johann Christoph von Goetze was the son of his brother Jobst Friedrich († 1669).

literature

  • Friedrich Bülau : Secret stories and enigmatic people. Volume 7, 1856, p. 62, digitized
  • Anton Balthasar König : Adolph von Goetze . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 30 ( Adolph von Goetze at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : About the origin and fatherland of the von Götzen in Prussia. In: Prussische Provinzial-Blätter . Volume 8, Koenigsberg 1855, pp. 1-34; especially p. 28
  2. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Joseph Fischbach : Historical political, geographic, statistical and military contributions, concerning the royal Prussian and neighboring states. Volume 1, 1781, p. 306, digitized
  3. ↑ Attachment. 1715, p. 18, digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Goetze, Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg lieutenant general of the infantry and finally governor of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH 1610
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1684