Carl Wilhelm von Krassow

Baron Carl Wilhelm von Krassow (born March 4, 1699 in Stralsund ; † February 6, 1735 in Vienna ) was a diplomat in the Swedish service and an imperial sergeant general .

Life

Carl Wilhelm von Krassow was the son of Ernst Detlof von Krassow (1660-1714), an officer in the Swedish service and heir to Pansevitz , and Auguste Wilhelmine von Wolffrath († 1721). During the Great Northern War, the father was almost always in military service, so the mother took on his first education. After completing his training, he took his cousin Carl Detlof von Krassow, then a major in the Hessian service, on a trip from Kassel in 1719 , which took him via Brussels to Paris. Then he traveled alone through the Netherlands and via Osnabrück and Bremen to Hanover. From there he returned to Swedish Pomerania, which was occupied by the Danes. After a visit to Copenhagen, where relatives of his grandmother Margarethe von Holsten lived, he entered service in Sweden.

He probably soon came into the vicinity of the Swedish King Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel, because in October 1722 he was adjutant general to the king and accompanied him on trips. At the beginning of 1728 he was sent to Vienna as an extraordinary Swedish envoy, with the rank of colonel. He then went to the Saxon court in Dresden as an ordinary envoy and in 1733 again to the imperial court in Vienna.

In 1734 he changed from Swedish to imperial service, which Prince Eugene of Savoy had induced him to do. As field sergeant general, he took part in the campaign on the Rhine in the same year, which took place as part of the War of the Polish Succession . In February of the following year he died of consumption in Vienna , where he was buried.

Carl Wilhelm von Krassow was not married. Descendants are not known. His uncle Adam Philipp von Krassow inherited his goods .

literature

• Julius von Bohlen : History of the noble, baronial and counts of Krassow. 1st part: Genealogy, property etc. Schneider, 1853, pp. 100-104 ( digitized version ).