Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel

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Coat of arms of the Mihlendorff barons v. Manteuffel

Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff (also Mullendorff ), since 1742 von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel , (born February 12, 1727 in Warsaw ; † March 28, 1803 in Waldheim ), was the adoptive son of the Electoral Saxon cabinet minister Ernst Christoph Graf von Manteuffel and founder of the baronial Saxon - Niederlausitz line of the von Manteuffel family .

Life

Christoph Friedrich grew up after the early death of his mother Friederike Caroline, b. von Biesenroth, initially as a half-orphan. His future stepmother Friedrike Charlotte Sophia Mogge (alias von Moggen , * February 24, 1702; † February 2, 1776 in Sorau), daughter of Johann Sebastian Mogge (~ February 8, 1655, pastor son of a middle-class family) took over the upbringing of the boy Schachten ) and one born by Egidy . Christoph Friedrich's father, Christoph von Mullendorff , was too busy and absent as a lieutenant colonel to be able to carry out fatherly duties without maternal care. So he married Friedrike Charlotte Mogge shortly after the death of his mother on the mediation of Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel. Friedrike Charlotte was Count Ernst Christoph's housekeeper. When Christoph Friedrich's father died in Poland in 1729 , Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel, as his father's friend and godfather, took care of the further development of the two-year-old orphan Mihlendorff. The count seemed to want to take an extraordinary interest in his development, as he himself had no male descendants when his only biological son died in 1719 at the age of eleven months. Ernst Christoph directed his education and training. Manteuffel wrote:

"(...) this young officer, I take care of training and studies, and I like him as if he were my own son (...)"

- Manteuffel to Duchess Luise Dorothee of Saxe-Altenburg-Gotha

Friedrike Charlotte von Mihlendorf referred to Christoph Friedrich as her son. Under the name of Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel , he was adopted on January 12, 1742, and at the request of Ernst Christoph, elector Friedrich August von Sachsen made him a baron. From then on it was sealed with an alliance coat of arms, based on the coat of arms of the Manteuffel and Mogge families.

education

From 1738 Christoph Friedrich received private lessons from a court master . He then studied for one and a half years at the University of Halle , initially mathematics and logic with Christian Wolff , then at the University of Leipzig , where he completed his studies with a master's degree. On August 2, 1743, the student, young gentleman and baron held a ceremonial speech at the academic jubilee ceremony in honor of the 50-year academic citizenship of his foster father Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel in Leipzig .

Military career

Seal of the Mihlendorff barons v. Manteuffel

Despite excellent educational opportunities in science and the arts, which he had enjoyed through his foster father, Christoph Friedrich decided to pursue a military career. Berets from 1733 to 1742 he was listed as an ensign . On August 8, 1742, at the age of 15, he became second lieutenant in the Electoral Saxon 2nd Regiment Guard on Foot (established in Poland in 1712). In 1743 he was promoted to Sousleutnant and was stationed in Hertzberg. He was promoted to prime lieutenant in 1746. In this rank he moved in 1748 to the Count Brühl Infantry Regiment . Around 1752 Manteuffel was stationed in Guben and in the meantime also in Sorau . As captain , he led a grenadier company in 1760. In 1798 he rose to the position of Major and Commander of a semi-invalid company in Waldheim. He remained in this position until his death. In the campaigns 1744-1745 , 1758-1763 and 1778-1779 he took an active part.

Manteuffel was always accompanied on his wards by his mother, Friedrike Charlotte.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is a combination of the Manteuffel bar coat of arms and the three Moggenschen roses. Shield quartered : 1 and 4 in silver, a red crossbar. The helmet has two black eagle wings , crowned by an aristocratic crown . 2 and 3 in silver, three, 2 and 1 red roses . The helmet bears two golden buffalo horns , in between a red rose, floating. Above the shield a baronial crown . Red and white helmet covers .

family

Christoph Friedrich was the offspring of an ancient noble family of Möllendorff (also Müllendorf or Mühlendorf ) from the Altmark , presumably the now extinct Möllendorff with the "top coat of arms". His parents were the imperial vice colonial Christoph von Möllendorf (~ May 30, 1691 in Böhne (Altmark) ; † October 5, 1729 murdered in Poland) and Friederike Caroline von Biesenroth († 1727).

On January 18, 1762 he married Christiane Margarethe Elisabeth von Hartig ad H. Althörnitz (born January 16, 1736 in Zittau; † April 23, 1812), daughter of Adam Jakob von Hartig (born May 18, 1707 in Zittau; † 7. March 1761 on Althörnitz) and Johanna Helene Erdmuthe von Spiller (* June 23, 1718; † December 1, 1800). The couple initially lived on the Althörnitz estate and had the following children:

  • Ernst Friedrich Adam Freiherr von Manteuffel (* October 12, 1762 - May 13, 1822), royal Saxon. Court and Justice Council
⚭ September 26, 1794 Johanna Freiin von Wagner (1761–1802)
⚭ October 12, 1804 Caroline von Gössnitz (* 1782; † 1841)
⚭ NN by Meyer
⚭ Jeannette Freiin von Wagner
⚭ Maria Teresia Ignatia Acier (* 1768; † 1830)
  • Ernst Hans Wilhelm Freiherr von Manteuffel (* July 23, 1767; † June 4, 1829 in Guben), royal Prussia. District Administrator in Guben
⚭ January 25, 1796 Caroline Wilhelmine von Ziegler and Klipphausen on Ostrichen (1766–1807)
⚭ Ernestine Therese von Ziegler and Klipphausen on Ostrichen (1785–1848)
  • Johanne Karoline Amalie Friederike Freiin von Manteuffel (* 1770; † 1771)
  • Johanna Caroline Amalie Freiin von Manteuffel (* 1772; † 1848)
⚭ May 28, 1794 Thomas Freiherr von Wagner (1759–1817)
  • Hans Karl Erdmann Freiherr von Manteuffel (born March 6, 1773 in Sorau, † March 31, 1844 in Magdeburg), royal Prussia. Privy councilor and chief president of the Royal Prussia. Higher Regional Court of Magdeburg
⚭ October 28, 1804 Isabelle Johanne Wilhelmine Countess of Lynar (* 1781; † 1849)
  • August Heinrich Bernhard Freiherr von Manteuffel (* 1774; † 1775)
  • Friedrich Otto Gottlob Freiherr von Manteuffel (born April 6, 1777; † January 20, 1812 in Lübben), royal Saxon. President of the Oberamtsregierung and the consistory in Lübben
⚭ August 17, 1803 Auguste Helene Christiane von Thermo (* 1782; † 1810)

The exact circumstances of the premature death of Christoph Friedrich's parents are not known. 1744 appeared a Taufabschrift of the boy, which was overwritten and Friedrike Charlotte Sophia Mogge led not only as a biological mother of the boy, but also selbige suddenly as de Moygen or of Moggen ennobled . In return, Friederike Caroline von Biesenroth's motherhood was wiped out there. The original entry in the relevant church book, however, remained unchanged.

In the past, family members assumed that the biological paternity of Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel was not unlikely. In the past, this assumption was nourished by ambiguous titles for Friedrike Charlotte von Mihlendorf in personal letters from Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel. Rechenberg even reported on Christoph Friedrich:

"Mr Mühlendorf batard de Manteufel (...)"

- Carl Otto Rechenberg in a letter to Count von Reckendorff

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives for German aristocratic history, genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics. Quarterly Journal, Volume 1, 1863, ( p. 319 )
  2. ^ Jürgen Laubner: Nobility and Junkers in the 19th and 20th centuries: biographical studies of their political, economic and social development. Halle-Wittenberg 1990.
  3. ↑ a b Genealogical handbook of civil families . 1979. ( p. 174 )
  4. ↑ Jochen Desel, Andreas Heiser: Pastor history of the church district Hofgeismar from the beginning to 1980. Volume 33, part 5, 2004.
  5. ^ Johann Christoph Gottsched , Manfred Rudersdorf: Johann Christoph Gottscheds correspondence: 1738 – June 1739. 2011. ( p. 185 )
  6. ↑ Heinrich August Verlohren, Max Barthold, Franz Verlohren: tribe Register and Chronicle of the spa and the Royal Saxon Army from 1670 to the beginning of the twentieth century . New edition in Degener-Verlag 1983, p. 352
  7. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . 1865, ( p. 125 )
  8. ↑ a b Theodor Berchem : Literary Studies Yearbook. 1997, ( pp. 58 and 59 )
  9. ↑ Germany, Deaths and Burials 1582-1958. index, FamilySearch. ( Online )
  10. ^ Daughter of District Administrator Heinrich Adolph Gustav von Thermo and Johanna Helene Christiane von Dallwitz, based on: Christiane Eifert, Paternalismus und Politik , p. 103.
  11. ↑ Johannes Bronisch: The patron of the Enlightenment. Berlin / New York 2010, ( p. 218 )
personal data
SURNAME Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel, Christoph Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manteuffel, Christoph Friedrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of the Saxon infantry major
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1803
Place of death Waldheim