Anthon Günther Pott

Anthon Günther Pott , from 1695 Anthon Günther von Pottendorf , (* August 4, 1646 in Rastede ; † May 18, 1711 in Bad Zwischenahn ) was a royal Danish brigadier , chief of the Oldenburg infantry regiment and supreme commander of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst . He was ennobled in 1695 under the name of Pottendorf .

Life

His parents were the bailiff , bailiff and food managers in Rastede Matthias Pott (1612-1666) and his wife Margaret Mary Slack (1623-1677) from Oldenburg .

Pott became a lieutenant colonel in the Oldenburg infantry regiment in October 1676 . When the regiment was disbanded, Pott left first. But already in January 1677 he was called to Copenhagen by the Danish war secretary Hermann Meyer . There he received in February 1677 the call to general adjutant on foot and feed for twelve horses. He came to Oldenburg as a lieutenant colonel in April 1677, but was not part of his former Oldenburg regiment stationed there , which was commanded by Detlev Lütken at the time . On June 25, 1677 he became a colonel and on July 31, 1677 he became chief of the Prince Georg regiment with which he was in Landskrona . On August 15, 1677, he was part of a commission with Major General Joachim Schack and General Auditor Hermann Meyer to negotiate an exchange of prisoners in Ekebro near Åstorp . On August 30, 1677 he was given leave to see that everything was going well in Oldenburg. But on October 2, 1677 he was again with four companies of his regiment in Landskrona, four more were at the time in Helsingör and six in Friedrichsort . On August 3, 1678 he succeeded Lütken as chief of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment, for which Schack received his Prince Georg regiment . In 1678 Pott also became the commandant of Oldenburg. In February he was stationed with his regiment in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst , and a new battalion was to be set up. On February 1, 1690 he was promoted to brigadier. From May 17, 1690 to September 23, 1699 he was supreme commandant of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. In 1699 he left the army to retire to his country estate. After his death in 1711 he was buried in the St. Johannes Church in Bad Zwischenahn.

He was ennobled on March 13, 1695 under the name of Pottendorf . He was the heir of Seediek and in 1679 acquired the Eyhausen estate near Bad Zwischenahn and some of the surrounding smaller estates.

family

Pott was married several times. His first wife was Christina Margaretha Bocksen († 1686). From this marriage comes the only son Matthias Anton von Pottendorf (born April 23, 1672; ⚔ September 23, 1711 near Wismar ), Danish lieutenant colonel ∞ Anna Elisabeth von Ringelmann.

He then married Anna Maria Pott (* May 12, 1663; † 1721). She was the widow of the schaumburg-Lippischen council Philipp von dem Bussche (* February 15, 1666 - March 15, 1695) and daughter of the Brandenburg council Franz Adolf Pott (* March 21, 1631 - June 30, 1700) and his wife Anna Katharina Rhode (1656–1706).

After Pott's death the property fell to the widow and her siblings Hermann Adolf von Pottendorf († 1726), royal Prussian consistorial councilor in Bielefeld and Margarete Lucie Pott († 1724), married to Philipp Pestel. The daughter Maria Katharina Pestel married the government councilor Simon Justus Vogt and his daughter, Henriette Marie Charlotte Vogt (* February 22, 1723; † November 28, 1776) in turn, in 1741 the later conference councilor and office director Jacob Friedrich von Vahrendorf (1706–1780). So the estate later came into the possession of the Vahrendorf family.

literature

• Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773. In: Oldenburg yearbooks. 1940/41, pp. 72–73, (digitized version)
• Genealogical manual of the nobility . 1958, p. 514, Vahrendorf
• Gerold Heinje: The complete history of Gut Eyhausen. Volume 1: Anthon Günther von Pottendorf. The secret of the robber baron on Gut Eyhausen. A biography. Bad Zwischenahn 2001, ISBN 3-8311-2761-1

Web links

• Eyhausen History of the Eyhausen Estate
• Anthon Günther von Pottendorf at ancestry.com