Augustus von Dieskau

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Augustus von Dieskau , also August von Dieskau , contemporary von Dießkau , (* before 1680; † June 1739 ) was an Anhalt-Zerbstian vice-president and district judge of the Jever lordship as well as a manor in Molbitz .

Life

He came from the Meissen noble family von Dieskau and was the son of the Saxon-Merseburg court marshal Carl von Dieskau († 1680). The Saxon-Merseburg secret council Otto Erdmann von Dieskau († 1716) on Kölzen and Starsiedel , the princely Saxon colonel Werner von Dieskau and Carl Wilhelm von Dieskau were his brothers.

Since his eldest brother Otto Erdmann had taken over his father's manor, Augustus von Dieskau entered the administrative service in the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst . In Jever he worked as vice-president and district judge from 1727 until his death in 1739.

family

Augustus von Dieskau became engaged to Abel Maria von Bülau in 1692, whom he married on November 14, 1693. From this marriage the son Christian Erdmann von Dieskau (* 1694) emerged, who became a chamberlain in Neustadt an der Orla .

With his second wife Maria Elisabetha geb. von Bronsard, Augustus von Dieskau had the following five sons:

  1. Carl Wilhelm (* 1703), Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Captain,
  2. Adolph Otto (* 1707),
  3. Ernst August (1713–1747), Brandenburg-Kulmbach Chamberlain and Rittmeister of the Gardes du Corps,
  4. Friedrich Erdmann (1715–1737), flag squire, died on the campaign to Hungary,
  5. Carl Gottlob (1720–1801), royal Polish and electoral Saxon prime lieutenant under the Rochow Infantry Regiment, most recently lieutenant colonel and commander of an invalid company in Eisleben

literature

  • Conrad Tyroff, gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffischen new aristocratic coat of arms , Volume 1 p.327f
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Nobility Lexicon , Volume 2, S.485ff
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Schaer: Administrative and civil service history of the lordships of Jever, Varel and Kniphausen: with alphabetical list of civil servants, 16th century-1807 , 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reign of Jever. Finding aid for holdings 90 to 104 , 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Dieskau, Augustus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dieskau, August von; Dießkau, Augustus von; Dißkau, Augustus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anhalt-Zerbstian vice-president and district judge
DATE OF BIRTH before 1680
DATE OF DEATH June 1739