August Stanislaus von der Goltz

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August Stanislaus von der Goltz (Polish August Stanisław z Goltza ; * December 2, 1725 in Klausdorf , † March 1795 in Grabau) was a German royal Polish and electoral Saxon lieutenant general , Starost von Graudenz , marshal of the Thorn Confederation and director of the General synod of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Warsaw.

Life

August Stanislaus was a son of the Starosten von Deutsch Krone Heinrich von der Goltz (1685–1765) and grandson of the Russian field marshal lieutenant Heinrich von der Goltz . His brother was the Polish Lieutenant General Georg Wilhelm von der Goltz .

He embarked on a military career and was promoted to major general in 1758 . In 1760 he received the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky during the Seven Years' War . Since 1766 August Stanislaus von der Goltz campaigned for the restoration of the rights of Protestants in Poland-Lithuania and in the following year he became Marshal of the Protestant Confederation of Thorn as his brother's successor.

On September 19, 1786, he and his brother, the Elector of Saxony Colonel Karl Friedrich von der Goltz (1727-1805) were raised to the Prussian count.

In 1788 the last evidence of him was received.

family

Von der Goltz married Dorothea Amalie Countess von Keyserlingk (1716–1800) in 1761 , a daughter of Hermann Friedrich Graf von Keyserlingk auf Okten and Agnes Freiin Zoege von Manteuffel . The couple had no children.

literature

  • August Stanislaus Graf von der Goltz (1725–1795) . In: Friedrich Freiherr von der Goltz (edit.): News about the family of the counts and barons von der Goltz. Strasbourg 1885.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Volume 4 "Görres - Hittorp", KG Saur, Munich 2006, p. 46
  2. ↑ Real-Zeitung for the year 1765, that is an excerpt from the latest world history with explanations , Erlangen 1765, p. 309
  3. ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Volume 4 "Görres - Hittorp", KG Saur, Munich 2006, p. 46
  4. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : coat of arms album of the count families of Germany and Austria-Hungary etc. , Weigel, Leipzig 1885, p. 63
  5. ^ Karl Hopf : Historical-genealogical atlas since the birth of Christ up to our time. Volume 1, issue 2, Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. 125
personal data
SURNAME Goltz, August Stanislaus from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltza, August Stanisław z
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH after 1720
DATE OF DEATH after 1788