Christian Wilhelm von Campe

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Christian Wilhelm von Campe (also: Campen , born May 31, 1668 in Poggenhagen , † May 24, 1747 in Hanover ) was an electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg general en chef .

origin

He comes from the Brunswick family of Campe , also Campe von Isenbüttel . His father was Friedrich von Campe (* 1612, † January 27, 1683). His mother was Amalie Dorothea Drostin von Groten zu Egersdorf, born von Stolzenberg (* 1643, † May 4, 1728).

Life

In 1687 he entered service in Braunschweig. There he became a captain in the Gohr regiment in 1698 . In 1711 he received the Hodenberg regiment . There he was appointed brigadier in 1719 , major general in 1725 and lieutenant general in 1735. In 1742 he was promoted to General en Chief of the Army. He died on May 24, 1747 in Hanover.

In 1704 he renovated the Harms estate in Poggenhagen . In 1717 he and his wife donated the new St. Thomas Church in Bordenau . Both were buried there.

family

He was married to Anna Luise von Hammerstein (* 1688; † January 26, 1759). The couple had several children including:

  • Christoph Friedrich (1710–1739)
  • Clamor Wilhelm (June 17, 1712 - June 30, 1739), captain, died of his injuries from the Battle of Grocka
  • Friedrich August (born August 11, 1713 - May 15, 1765), major
  • Christian Werner († 1714)
  • Melusine Sophie (* 1714; † 1792) ∞ Georg Reinhard Langwerth von Simmern (* February 26, 1713; † May 3, 1778), parents of Ernst Eberhard Cuno Langwerth von Simmern
  • Georg Philipp (1721–1786)
  • Amalie Charlotte († 1722)
  • Ludwig Ernst († 1725)

literature

  • Bernhard von Poten , supplement to the military weekly paper 1903 - The generals of the Royal Hanoverian Army and their regular troops , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, p. 284, No. 245
  • JhSteffens, history of the von Campe family , Celle, 1783, p.149
  • Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony, 1871, genealogical information about the extinct von Campen zu Poggenhagen family , p.182ff
  • Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff, Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover: Fürstenthum Calenberg , Volume 1, p.15
  • German nobility samples from the Teutonic Order Central Archive, Volume 1, p.152
  • Anton Fahne, History of the Westphalian families, p.94 Coat of arms of the Campen family
  • Genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events that happened at the European courts in 1747, Volume 32, pp.291f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Fahne, History of the Westphalian families , p.198
personal data
SURNAME Campe, Christian Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christian Wilhelm von Campen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg general en chief
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Poggenhagen (Neustadt am Rübenberge)
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1747
Place of death Hanover