Carl Friedrich von Kraut

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Carl Friedrich von Kraut (born July 23, 1703 in Berlin ; † December 23, 1767 there ) was the Oberhofmarschall of Prince Heinrich of Prussia .

Life

He was the son of the Secret War Councilor Christian Friedrich von Kraut (1650-1714) and Johanna Concordia von Drost (1679-1714). His uncle was the minister Johann Andreas von Kraut . He received his training at the Royal Pedagogy of the Halle Orphanage .

After the death of his father and his uncle, Kraut and his sister Constantia Amalia Sophia von Kraut (1699–1745), who was married to the cathedral provost of Havelberg Johann Heinrich von Bredow (1676–1739), inherited a considerable fortune in 1723. Kraut went to the French army, where he rose to the rank of colonel .

He left the army at the latest with the death of his sister in 1745. He became guardian of their feeble-minded sons Johann Heinrich (1716–1782) and Karl Samuel Ludwig (1721–1788) and inherited the land of Löwenberg . Around 1750, Kraut became court marshal to Prince Heinrich, brother of Frederick the Great , at Rheinsberg Castle . In Berlin he met his future wife Ilse Sophie von Platen. During the Seven Years' War , Kraut accompanied Princess Heinrich again and again to the refuge of the Prussian court, in Magdeburg ( Magdeburg Fortress ).

family

With his wife Ilse Sophie von Platen (1731–1795), whom he married on September 8, 1756 in the presence of Queen Mother Sophie Dorothea and Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia, he had three children, of whom only their daughter Charlotte reached adulthood:

  1. Christian Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Aemilius (1758–1759)
  2. Carl Heinrich Friedrich (1759–1760)
  3. Luise Charlotte Henriette (1762-1819)
⚭ 1778, (divorce 1783) Hugh Elliott (1752–1830), British envoy in Berlin
⚭ April 25, 1784 Georg Anton Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1744–1789)
⚭ December 16, 1790 (divorced 1809) Friedrich Rudolph Karl von Arnstedt (1766–1847)

literature

  • Theodor Fontane: Five castles. Hoppenrade ( Chapter 27 )
  • Sabina Freifrau von Thuemmler: The herb mother. The life of Sophie von Platen. BoD, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7481-3128-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kraut, Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krautt, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION High Court Marshal of Prince Heinrich of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1767
Place of death Berlin