Christian Friedrich von Pfuel

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Christian Friedrich von Pfuel

Christian Friedrich von Pfuel (* 1653 , † 15. May 1702 in Kaiserswerth fallen ) was a Royal Prussian colonel , hereditary lord on Gielsdorf , Wilkendorf and Jahnsfelde .

Life

Pfuel came from the old to Jahnsfelde in the Brandenburg Switzerland -based noble family of Pfuel . He was the son of Friedrich Heino von Pfuel (1620–1661) and the Emerentia Tugendreich von Wedel .

Pfuel served, among other things, in the regiment of the Prussian Field Marshal Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau , as a colonel and commander of the Margrave Ludwig Regiment and a regiment under Friedrich I (Prussia) .

On May 15, 1702, Pfuel fell during the siege of Kaiserswerth . A French cannonball tore his head off during the storm on Kaiserswerth. The trunk and limbs were buried in Gielsdorf, under the altar of the Gielsdorf church . His portrait was in Jahnsfelde Castle . A saying from Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , in his memory, in the Jahnsfeld Church reads:

Italy and the Netherlands have
often watched the noble fighter.
In many wild battles
he has dewed the field with his blood.
The last wreath was gloriously bestowed upon him
to die, consciously , in the storm on Kaiserswerth.

Theodor Fontane wrote in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg that this " preconsciously " referred to the following incident:

The day before the storm on Kaiserswerth, Pfuel wants to go into his tent. The guard standing in front of the tent does not salute, but turns pale and only points to the inside of the tent. Pfuel now enters and sees himself sitting at the table, writing. He steps behind the figure, looks over the shoulder of the quietly writer and reads his will. Then the shape disappears. Pfuel now knew that the next day he would die. He sat down on the field chair on which his doppelganger was sitting, wrote to his wife and said goodbye to her. The next day he fell at the head of his storm column.

It is very likely that this story gave rise to Adelbert von Chamisso's poem The Apparition . Chamisso was friends with Fouqué, and Fouqué, for his part, knew the family tradition of the Pfuel family that was related to him.

Pfuel married Helene von Veltheim , (1657–1727) in 1684 . This marriage had six children:

  1. Hempo Ludwig von Pfuel (1690–1770), Prussian Privy Councilor and Major, War Council of the Breslau Chamber, Chamber Director, President of the War and Domain Chamber Halberstadt; Father of Ernst Ludwig von Pfuel (born April 20, 1718 in Gielsdorf ; † July 23, 1789 in Berlin ), royal Prussian major general and court marshal of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and lord of the Jahnsfelde
  2. Otto Friedrich von Pfuel
  3. Christian Friedrich von Pfuel
  4. Louise Emerentia von Pfuel, married von Bodenhausen
  5. Anna Lucretia from Pfuel

and Christian Ludwig von Pfuel (* 1696; † 1756), royal Prussian major general of the infantry

Christian Friedrich von Pfuel was the great-grandfather of Ernst von Pfuel , Prussian infantry general, Prime Minister and Minister of War, and the Prussian lieutenant general Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Pfuel .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Wucherpfennig: Witches, executioners and scoundrels: Düsseldorf horror places . Droste Verlag, April 3, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7700-4142-8 , pp. 107-111.
  2. ^ Spiegel Online: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg by Theodor Fontane . April 26, 2006. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pfuel, Christian Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Prussian colonel, hereditary lord of Gielsdorf, Wilckendorf and Jahnsfelde
DATE OF BIRTH 1653
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1702
Place of death at Kaiserswerth