Albrecht Heinrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

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Albrecht Heinrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

Albrecht Heinrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (born February 26, 1742 in Wolfenbüttel , † August 8, 1761 in Hamm ) was a Prussian officer.

Life

Albrecht Heinrich was the third son of Duke Karl I of Braunschweig and of Philippine Charlotte , Princess of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great , and the younger brother of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand . Together with his brothers he received upbringing and instruction "through capable teachers", then at the Collegium Carolinum under the direction of the Abbot Jerusalem . Even the age of eleven, he was in 1753, four years after his brother Friedrich August , canon in Lübeck cathedral chapter .

After the confirmation by Abbot Jerusalem, Prince Albrecht entered military service, like his brothers, in order to gain his first laurels under the leadership of his uncles Friedrich von Prussia and Ferdinand von Braunschweig . But the beginning of his career was also the end.

Four days after the victorious battle at Vellinghausen , on July 20, 1761, a skirmish broke out between the corps of Hereditary Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand and a French army near the village of Rühne. The nineteen-year-old prince rushed recklessly towards the enemy, but in vain did the Hereditary Prince remove him from the fire twice on special orders. Prince Albrecht thwarted his brother's care and always returned to the battle in which he was fatally wounded in the neck by a musket ball. He was first brought to Werl , then to Hamm, where he died on August 8, 1761.

His tutor, Abbot Jerusalem, dedicated an obituary to him: The life of Prince Albrecht Heinrich of Braunschweig and Lüneburg , Braunschweig 1762, in which he particularly praised the religion-based submission and patience in enduring the greatest pain.

Albrecht Heinrich was buried on August 21, 1761 in the ducal hereditary burial in Braunschweig.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the Canon. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 412 No. 373
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht Heinrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht Heinrich of Braunschweig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Braunschweig, Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1761
Place of death Hamm