Dettlof from Schwerin

This article deals with Lieutenant General Dettlof von Schwerin (1650–1707). For the major general (1869–1940) see Detlof von Schwerin .

Dettlof von Schwerin (born June 8, 1650 in Löwitz , † August 30, 1707 in Putzar ) was a general in the Dutch , Hesse-Kassel and Mecklenburg services.

Life

Dettlof von Schwerin came from the Löwitzer line of the Pomeranian noble family von Schwerin . He was the fourth son of Anton Dettlof von Schwerin (1600–1658) and Erdmuth Sophie von Wedell . From 1664 he attended the University of Greifswald together with his brother Ulrich (1648–1697) .

Already in his youth he embarked on a military career. In 1674 he was an officer in the Dutch regiment von Fersen , which was partly recruited in Pomerania. He later entered the service of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and probably belonged to the Lippe regiment at the foot of Field Marshal Lieutenant August zu Lippe-Brake . As a lieutenant colonel in 1687 he was in command of the (1st) Leib Grenadier Battalion in the Guard Regiment. On March 9, 1687 he was promoted to colonel and on June 22, 1687 appointed commandant of Kassel .

For Friedrich I von Hessen-Kassel he set up a body infantry regiment with which he went to the Netherlands from September 1688 and took part in the Palatinate War of Succession . After being wounded in the Battle of Fleurus (1690) , he stayed in London for some time . He was wounded again in the Battle of Leuze in 1691. In 1692 he took part in the battle of Steenkerke . In 1693 he was promoted to brigadier and took part in the siege of Huy under the Duke of Holstein-Plön until his surrender in September 1694. Then he was sent with twelve battalions to the relief of Liège (Luyck). On July 20, 1695 he was appointed major general and took part in the siege and capture of Namur under Menno van Coehoorn in the same year . In 1696 12,000 men were under his command near Speierbach.

After the Treaty of Rijswijk in 1697, Dettlof von Schwerin was appointed Oberamtmann of the County of Katzenelnbogen and Governor of Rheinfels Castle. As the owner of a regiment in the Dutch service, he went to The Hague in the same year , where he called his nephews, who later included the Prussian Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin . Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel appointed him lieutenant general on August 6, 1698 .

In 1701 he became general en chief of the Mecklenburg troops in the Dutch service, at the same time he became chief of an infantry regiment. Under the command of the Duke of Marlborough , he fought in the War of the Spanish Succession , but then took his leave in 1705 - apparently not only for health reasons. King Friedrich I in Prussia awarded him the Order of De la Générosité in the same year .

Dettlof von Schwerin returned to his estates in Swedish Pomerania . He took up residence on Putzar . In 1705 he had the Putzar church expanded and refurbished.

He died in 1707 unmarried and without offspring. Dettlof von Schwerin was buried in the Putzar church.

literature

• Ludwig Gollmert, Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin, Leonhard Graf von Schwerin: History of the family von Schwerin. Part 2: Biographical News. Wilhelm Gronau, Berlin 1878, pp. 197-198.

Web links

• Literature about Dettlof von Schwerin in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Gollmert, Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin, Leonhard Graf von Schwerin: History of the von Schwerin. Part 2: Biographical News. Wilhelm Gronau, Berlin 1878, pp. 193–194.