Andreas von Fürstenberg

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Andreas von Fürstenberg , from 1731 Freiherr von Fürstenberg (* March 7, 1663 in Lithuania ; † October 11, 1738 in Hohensee ) was a German-Baltic officer in the Swedish service, most recently major general , district administrator of Swedish-Western Pomerania and curator of the University of Greifswald .

Life

Andreas von Fürstenberg came from the Kurland line, which in turn emerged in the 16th century from the Büderich - Hörde line of the Westphalian noble family von Fürstenberg , when Friedrich von Fürstenberg acquired the Meddum estate (Medumu, Daugavpils district ) in Kurland . His grandson Gotthard Heinrich (* around 1635; † after 1708) owned the Laschmen-Pomusch estate on the Mūša in Lithuania and, as Friedrich von Klocke suspects , was the father of Andreas von Fürstenberg.

In 1683 he joined the Swedish military as a musketeer . His brothers also entered the military service of various powers: Gotthard Wilhelm was a lieutenant in Electoral Saxony , Christian Ewald was Swedish captain Jakob Adolf, a Dutch cornet , and later a bailiff in Courland, and Ernst Johann was a French captain.

He served in various regiments, became a lieutenant in 1688, a captain in 1690, a major in 1702 and a lieutenant colonel in the queen widow body regiment in 1707. On May 28, 1711 he was appointed colonel in the governor's regiment in Wismar ; on June 30, 1721 he was promoted to major general . A little later, on July 10, 1721, he took his leave.

On February 4, 1699 King Charles XII enfeoffed him . with the West Pomeranian Gut Groß Bünzow acquired by him .

After 1711, in addition to his military activities, he was also district administrator and from 1721 curator of the University of Greifswald. With a diploma from June 14, 1731 he was raised to the Swedish baron class.

In 1702 he married Sophia Elisabeth, b. Sellius of Ehrenfels, heiress of Good Hohensee and daughter of 1682 ennobled diplomats Heinrich Ernst Sellius of Ehrenfels born († 1683) and his wife Margaretha Catharina, by Stijpman. The couple had five children, including Wilhelm Burkhard von Fürstenberg († 1766), last lieutenant general of the Electoral Palatinate , Johann Gustav († 1761), last electoral Palatinate colonel, and their daughter Magdalena Euphemia (born around 1710), who inherited Hohensee and who was here on 17. Died July 1778. In 1738 she married Hans Gotthelf Adolf von Kirchbach (1708–1769). Since the sons who were present at the regional homage in Stralsund in 1754 all remained unmarried, the goods Hohensee, Groß Bünzow, Klitschendorf and Pamitz (the latter three today districts of Klein Bünzow ) fell to the two sons of Magdalena Euphemias with Hans von Kirchbach, Hans Julius (1739–1819) and Hans Gotthilf (1741–1805) von Kirchbach. The von Kirchbach family owned the estate until 1846.

Door to the burial chapel

Andreas von Fürstenberg had a burial chapel built for himself and his family while he was still alive in 1735. It is an extension of the Groß Bünzow church and has been preserved to this day. The door leading from the choir of the church to the burial chapel also serves as its epitaph .

literature

  • Vitae Pomeranorum (Manuscript UB Greifswald), Volume 12, No. 38.
  • Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen: containing description of the conditions of this country in the second half of the 19th century. Volume 4/2: The Greifswald district: historical description of the individual localities, excluding the city of Greifswald and the university there. Anklam: Dietze; Stralsund: Government printing house 1868, p. 961 f.
  • Friedrich von Klocke : The origin of the Swedish and Pomeranian v. Furstenberg. In: Zeitschrift für Niedersächsische Familienkunde 29 (1954), pp. 89–95. ISSN  0172-1852
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3059 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ of Klocke suspected (Lit.) that the first name originally Henry was and polish Andrzey to Latin Andreas was
  2. ↑ After the reconstruction of the family situation in von Klocke (lit.)
  3. ^ Berghaus (lit.), p. 962

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personal data
SURNAME Fürstenberg, Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fürstenberg, Andreas Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic officer in the Swedish service, most recently major general, district administrator of Swedish Western Pomerania and curator of the University of Greifswald
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1738
Place of death on Hohensee