Alexander von der Marwitz

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Alexander von der Marwitz (born October 4, 1787 in Berlin ; † February 11, 1814 in Montmirail ) was a Brandenburg nobleman and landowner .

Life

Christian Gustav Alexander von der Marwitz was one of five children of the royal chamberlain and later court marshal Behrendt Friedrich August von der Marwitz (1740–1793). One of his brothers was the future Prussian general and politician Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz .

In the summer of 1794 he was handed over to the court preacher Arens in Küstrin to retire and to attend school and then went to the grammar school at the Gray Monastery in Berlin. He left school at Easter 1804 and first went to the university in Frankfurt an der Oder to study law , and later to Halle for a year and a half .

He made friends with Rahel Varnhagen in Berlin in May 1809 and was in correspondence with her until his death.

First in Russian and Austrian service, he took part in the wars of liberation . He died in the Prussian Yorck Corps in the battle of Montmirail . He was buried there in a mass grave.

His brother placed a memorial stone for him in the Friedersdorf cemetery .

Works

  • Rahel Varnhagen: Correspondence. Volume I: Rahel and Alexander von der Marwitz (4 volumes in total), Winkler , Munich 1979.

literature

Web link

  • Alexander Marwitz in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 20 (1884), p. 529 [online version]
personal data
SURNAME Marwitz, Alexander von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marwitz, Christian Gustav Alexander von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg nobleman and landlord
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1814
Place of death Montmirail