Claus von Oertzen
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Claus von Oertzen (born October 25, 1638 , † January 3, 1694 ) was a royal Danish major general and chief of the Baudissin cavalry regiment. He was for a time the lord of the manor on Bramstedt and heir of Scharstoff and Rederank near Satow (from 1688). His parents were Claus von Oertzen (* March 29, 1606; † August 21, 1638) - heir of Gorow - and his wife Dorothea von Reventlow (* February 2, 1607; † February 2, 1670).
Life
He was a page at Duke Christian Ludwig of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . He then entered the Swedish military service and was there on July 14, 1670 Rittmeister. In the same year he switched to Danish services. There he came as a Rittmeister in the Holstein National Equestrian Regiment under Henrik Sehestedt. On May 22, 1675 he was proposed to lieutenant colonel and as such moved in 1667 to the Schleswigsche National Reiter-Regiment. In the Battle of Lund he was shot wounded. The squadron was on the left wing and attacked three times. As a result, she had lost all officers, only the quartermaster came back. On February 8, 1677, he was questioned as a witness in the Sandberg affair. He was then a lieutenant colonel in the Schleswig National Rider Regiment under Conrad von Reventlow. But in September 1677 he became commander of the Gottfried Rauch regiment. In 1678 he became a colonel and chief of the cavalry regiment. In April 1678 he came to Landskrona . On April 20, 1678 he was sent out with 150 men to scout Kristianstad . In July 1679 he became chief of the Holsteiner Reiter Regiment. He waived advertising money of 600 thalers because he thought the regiment was too bad. In autumn 1678 he asked for his remaining wages and for his departure. Instead of him, Colonel Bernstorff took over the completion. Oertzen probably retired to his estate, where he died in 1694.
family
In 1669 he married Christine Sophie Amalie von Ahlefeldt (* 1650; † May 22, 1729), daughter of Field Marshal Claus von Ahlefeldt and Elisabeth Sophie Gyldenlöwe . The marriage ended in divorce, she kept her daughter, he kept her son. Elisabeth then married Gottfried von Kielmannseck on July 13, 1684 in Hamburg-Eppendorf (St. John's Church) , from whom she separated in 1696 at the latest and pushed for the marriage to be annulled. Then she lived with Johann Carl von Dieden, Herr zu Hurwenen, who was appointed Russian major general in 1716 . Christian Ulrich , a Danish lieutenant († probably 1698 in Hungary), and Charlotte Friedrike , married to Theodor Leopold vom Schmiedegk, came from the first marriage . Oertzen also remarried. His second wife became Hedwig von Ahlefeldt (* April 20, 1659, † after 1701), daughter of Cay von Ahlefeldt zu Aschow. With her he had a son and two daughters:
- Claus († October 13, 1738), captain
- Dorothea ⚭ NN von Kahlden from Livonia, captain
- Eleonore Elisabeth (* November 21, 1694; † 1754) ⚭ 1720 Ferdinand Joachim von Zülow († February 7, 1767), Colonel
literature
- Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773 in Oldenburger Jahrbücher, 1940/41, p. 70, digitized
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch, documented history of the von Oertzen family , volume 3, p. 146ff, digitized
- Report on the trial of the estate of Christian Ulrich Güldenlöve; u. a. on p. 80 J. Carel Baron von Dieden, Herr zu Hurwenen, mentions digitized material
Web links
- Claus von Oertzen at skeel.info
- Claus von Oertzen (father) at worldhistory.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ GND = 1018202161
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oertzen, Claus von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Royal Danish Major General and Chief of the Baudissin Equestrian Regiment |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1638 |
DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1694 |