Carl von Dieskau (War Commissioner)

Carl von Dieskau , currently mostly von Dießkau or Dießkaw , (* 1601 or 1596 in Knauthain ; † October 2 or October 10, 1667 in Zschepplin ) was a war commissioner from the Electoral Saxony and manor owner . He owned the manors Zschepplin, Knauthain, Kleinzschocher , Lochau and Trebsen .

Life

Carl came from the Knauthain line of the Saxon noble family von Dieskau . From 1609 he studied at the University of Leipzig with Christian Lange and later at the University of Jena with Theodor Moestel . After a few years at the University of Bourges and working in the royal guard in Paris , Carl von Dieskau returned home to take over the Knauthain family estate from 1626.

In 1633 Carl von Dieskau was appointed war commissioner for Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony in the Leipzig district . As such, he was forced to flee from the flat country to the city of Leipzig from the Swedes who plundered Saxony in the Thirty Years' War . Nevertheless, he was captured in 1642 and was only able to return to Knauthain towards the end of the war.

As Der Wendende he was a member of the Fruitful Society .

On July 20, 1664 he constituted a feudal quantum for his family and his six sons. He died three years later and his sons divided into their father's estates by inheritance settlement on November 10, 1675 as follows: Otto took over Kleinzschocher, Hans Trebsen, Heinrich Knauthain, Carl Lochau, Geißler Zschepplin and Gebhard Gruna.

literature

• Johann Falckenhagen: Schwanen-Gesang, Das ist Buß und Todtes-Gedancken [...] Bey Des HochEdel-born Gestrengen and Vesten Mr. H. Carls von Dießkaw on Knauthain, Tzscheplin, Trebsen, Lochaw u. Klein-Tzschocher, Hoch-Adelicher and Volckreicher in the Knauthainischen churches held a corpse-Begängnüsz [...] on November 13th. 1667 . Samuel Spörel, Leipzig 1667.
• Heinrich Engelbert Schwarz: Historical gleanings of the stories of the city of Leipzig, especially the surrounding area and landscape [...], as a usable country chronicle of the Leipzig and Merseburg Creyßes [...] . August Stopffel, Leipzig 1744. Reprinted by Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2006 under the title Leipziger Land-Chronik , ISBN 978-3-936508-23-9 , p. 225. ( Digital copy of the original on Google Books)
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 2: Bozepolski – Ebergassing. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1860, p. 485 ff. ( Digitized from Google Books)
• Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order . First Section: A – G, Volume 25: Die – Dipyr. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1834, p. 79 ( digitized from SUB Göttingen)
• Manuel Bärwald: In the service of those from Dieskau. Baroque music care in Knauthain . In: Markus Cottin, Detlef Döring , Cathrin Friedrich (eds.): Leipzig city history. 2010 yearbook . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-082-1 , p. 53.