Caspar von Potthausen

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Caspar Potthausen , from 1651 von Potthausen , (* around 1600 ; † 1663 ) was Kurbrandenburg general sergeant on foot, secret war council and heir of Götzdorf near Stade .

Life

origin

He is to a Szczecin originate Council gender, according to other sources it comes from Westphalia .

Military career

In 1632 he was lieutenant colonel in Kurbrandenburg on horseback. On March 20, 1638 he received his resignation after impeccable service. But at the end of 1638 he set up a regiment on horseback, consisting of 8 companies with 700 horses and a company of dragoons of 100 men. The regiment carried blue flags. Since Elector Friedrich Wilhelm could not pay the advertising expenses , Potthausen was enfeoffed with the Scharpenlohe estate on December 24, 1644. In 1646 he recruited 4 companies of bodyguards on foot who came to Kleve accompanied by the Elector. He must have had a high opinion of Potthausen, because shortly before he had commissioned him to buy jewelry for 3,000 thalers in Hamburg, which the elector wanted to wear at his wedding to Princess Luise Henriette of Orange . The elector had to borrow the money from his mother.

In 1648 the elector appointed Potthausen Colonel and Commander of Hamm in Westphalia, and in 1650 he became Commander of Minden. On November 12, 1651 he received the nobility elevation. In 1652 he was promoted to governor of the Minden Fortress , and in 1656 he had to hand over the post to Christoph von Kannenberg . In 1658 he was promoted to general sergeant on foot and to the secret war council of the army in Prussia.

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  1. ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexicon , Volume 2, Ilmenau 1826, p. 254.