Carl Friedrich Ernst von Cocceji

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Carl Friedrich Ernst von Cocceji (* 1728 in Berlin , † 1780 in Mogilew ) was a German officer . As a diplomat in the Polish service, he was, among other things, envoy to the Kingdom of Prussia .

biography

Origin and family

Cocceji's parents were the Prussian Supreme Court President and Grand Chancellor , Baron Samuel von Cocceji (1679–1755) and Johanna Charlotte von Beschefer († after May 3, 1765). The Prussian Higher Government President von Glogau , Karl Ludwig von Cocceji (1724–1808) and the Prussian Colonel and Royal Adjutant General Johann Heinrich Friedrich von Cocceji (1725–1785) were his brothers, the Prussian cavalry general Dubislav Friedrich von Platen (1714–1787) was his brother-in-law. He himself was unmarried and left no children behind.

Career

Cocceji should already on 15 September 1733 the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt have been enrolled with his brother Johann Heinrich Friedrich.

He must have joined the army later . In 1756 he was a lieutenant in the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 1 and in December 1757 received the Pour le Mérite as a staff captain for his service in the Duchy of Silesia . Cocceji must then have advanced to the rank of colonel before joining the Kingdom of Great Britain's military service .

In March 1767, Cocceji from the then politically most influential Polish magnate family, the Czartoryski, was offered a better paid position as a colonel in the Polish Crown Army, which he accepted. In April of the same year he rose to the rank of major general of the Royal Guard on foot under Lieutenant General Prince August Czartoryski (1697–1782). In 1768 Cocceji received the indigenous status as a Polish nobleman from the Polish Reichstag .

As early as 1765 he had inherited the Pomeranian estates Kleist and Repkow in the Fürstenthum district , but they were cashed for a few months by the king in 1770 because of the transfer to Poland , which took place without his required permission.

During the Confederation of Bar , Cocceji was sent to Berlin by King Stanislaus II August with the unsuccessful request for Prussian help. When the Confederates kidnapped the king on November 3, 1771, Cocceji rushed to his aid and brought him back to the royal palace in Warsaw . By now, at the latest, Cocceji was a close confidante of the king and, according to his testimony, one of the few soldiers of the time with an excellent technical understanding and at the same time high morals. For this reason he was sent several times in diplomatic missions, for example to Amsterdam in 1770 , to Italy in 1774 and to Turkey in 1776 .

Cocceji was also close friends with the king's nephew, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski , who would later become the Grand Chamberlain of Lithuania , and often lived in his palaces in Korsun or Warsaw on Frascati Street.

In 1780 he was delegated with Prince Poniatowski to accompany Tsarina Catherine II on a tour of the former eastern Polish territories, which were incorporated into Russia during the first partition of Poland in 1772, namely at Polatsk and Mogilew. There he was injured during the night from a shattered water bottle and died shortly afterwards of blood poisoning .

He left an extensive collection of books, which was sold after his death. His Pomeranian goods fell to his brothers and sister children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 172 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite. Volume 1, Mittler Berlin 1913, p. 68
  3. ^ A b Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania. Volume 2, Issue 2, Szczecin 1784, p 609
personal data
SURNAME Cocceji, Carl Friedrich Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cocceji, Carl Friedrich Ernst Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1780
Place of death Mogilev