Daniel Albrecht von Burghagen

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Daniel Albrecht von Burghagen also David Albrecht von Burghagen (* around 1688 in Prignitz ; † after 1742 in Taplacken, Fischhausen district ) was a Prussian major and commander of a grenadier battalion .

Life

Daniel Albrecht v. Burghagen came from the Brandenburg family Burghagen , who named themselves after their ancestral estate Burghagen in Prignitz. He joined the Prussian Army around 1705 and was promoted to Second Lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 14 under Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein after ten years of service in 1715 with a patent dated November 12, 1714 . He advanced to major in this regiment. During the First Silesian War he led 1740-1741 and 1741-1742 a grenadier battalion, made up of two infantry companies of the regiments no. 3 was and no. 14 assembled. His battalion was u. a. Participated in a battle near the city of Brandenburg an der Havel at the end of April 1741 He said goodbye in 1742 and retired to his East Prussian estate in Taplacken.

Burghagen was married to Anna Elisabeth von Negelein, daughter of the Prussian court court president Julius Aegidius von Negelein (1706–1772). The marriage resulted in four daughters.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günther Gieraths : The fighting of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807. A source manual. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, pp. 11 , 51 and 566.
  2. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 333.
  3. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 1, Berlin 1855, p. 124.
  4. ^ A b Anton Balthasar König : Daniel Albrecht von Burghagen . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 292 ( Daniel Albrecht von Burghagen at Wikisource [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. Leipzig 1853, p. 282.
  6. ↑ a b Gottlob Naumann : Collection of unprinted news that explains the history of the Prussian campaigns from 1740 to 1779 . Part 1, Waltherische Hofbuchhandlung, Dresden 1782, pp. 90–93.
personal data
SURNAME Burghagen, Daniel Albrecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burghagen, David Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and battalion commander
DATE OF BIRTH around 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Prignitz
DATE OF DEATH after 1742
Place of death Taplacken, Fischhausen district