Daniel Friedrich von Lossow

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Daniel Friedrich von Lossow (born November 1721 in Malsow in the Oststernberg district in the Neumark ; † October 12, 1783 in Goldap ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , head of the regiment and governor of Prussian marks .

Life

origin

Daniel Friedrich was the son of the heir to Niedewitz Friedrich Wilhelm von Lossow and his wife Katharina Louise, born von Luck from the Malsow house in Neumark.

Career

In 1736 Lossow was a private corporal in the infantry regiment "Margrave Heinrich" , advanced to Kornet in 1745 and on February 28, 1748 to lieutenant in the hussar regiment "von Natzmer" . With the beginning of the Seven Years' War he became a prime lieutenant . In 1757 he received his own squadron . In March 1759 he became major in the hussar regiment "von Ruesch" , was able to distinguish himself in the battle of Pretzsch at the end of October 1759, for which he received the order Pour le Mérite , but was wounded. Lossow recovered and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1760 he became commander of the regiment and in May 1761 colonel. In 1762 he was appointed chief of the regiment. He also distinguished himself again in the battle of Peuke on July 18, 1761. Lossow was able to surprise and crush the Russian hussar regiment "Serbsky" (Serbkow). The king gave him 1000 thalers for this.

After the war, in 1765 he was commissioned to enlarge the Bosniak Corps to ten squadrons. In the following year he was promoted to major general and on June 13, 1766 he got the office of Prussian Mark. He also received the prebend to Magdeburg. In 1772 Lossow was sent to Poland, where he successfully contained the excesses of "von Bellings" and "von Thaddens" troops.

In 1774 and 1776 Lossow became the first royal commissioner on the border with Poland. In 1774 he received gifts from the king, a porcelain service and with again diamonds studded snuffbox . In 1781 he was appointed lieutenant general.

He died on May 6, 1783 in Goldap in East Prussia and was buried in the Reformed Church there. The officers of his regiments erected a monument to Lossow there.

family

Since 1759 he was married to Sophia Eleonore von Zedmar († 1795), a daughter of Jakob Theodor von Zedmar on Szedlisken. Since the couple had no children, on May 6, 1777 they adopted the first lieutenant of the Bosniak Corps, Johann Christoph Köhler (1729–1792). The king raised the adoptive son to hereditary nobility on May 6, 1777 under the name of Koehler called von Lossow. His son Alexander Köhler called von Lossow († 1824) in turn adopted Leopold Christoph Ehrenreich Kopka († 1828). On October 2, 1823, he was given the Prussian nobility as Kopka von Lossow.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of the villages Lossow and Cocceji (Landsberg / Warthe district).
  2. ^ Teutsche Kriegs-Canzley: on the year 1763. 1763, p. 43, digitized
  3. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon . Volume 3, 1837, p. 304, ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, p. 356.
  5. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1908, p. 349 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Lossow, Daniel Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general, head of regiment
DATE OF BIRTH November 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Malsow
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1783
Place of death Goldap