Dietrich Alexander von Miltitz
Dietrich Alexander von Miltitz (born April 28, 1726 in Oberau ; † June 3, 1792 in Baden near Vienna ) was an electoral Saxon colonel , an imperial major general and chamberlain, as well as a manor owner . Most recently he worked as a field marshal lieutenant and chief steward in the service of Duke Albrecht von Sachsen-Teschen .
Life
He came from the family of the von Miltitz . The Electorate Lieutenant Colonel, Governor and later Imperial Chamberlain in Vienna, Ernst Haubold von Miltitz and Chamberlain Friedrich Sigismund von Miltitz were his two brothers.
He took private lessons and went to Leipzig University in 1744 . But he soon embarked on a military career in the service of the Elector of Saxony, in which he lived in 1764 as a colonel in the Saxon residence city of Dresden. But a little later he entered the imperial service and was named major general and chamberlain in 1769. Most recently he switched to the service of Duke Albrecht von Sachsen-Teschen and became a field marshal lieutenant and his chief steward.
After the childless death of Carl Werner Ernst von Miltitz from Hubertusburg Castle in 1764, he and his two brothers inherited the entire fiefdom of the Electorate of Saxony in a will.
Dietrich Alexander von Miltitz, like his brother Ernst Haubold von Miltitz, was friends with Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and was in correspondence with him.
portrait
There was a half-length portrait of Dietrich Alesander von Miltitz, designated by Anton Graff .
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IX, page 76, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998.
- Heribert Smolinsky: Miltitz, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 532 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser A Volume XIII., Pp. 223-225, 1982, Volume 80 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn).
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 579 - digitized
Individual evidence
- ↑ CF Gellert's Correspondence, 1756–1759, Volume 2, p. 491.
- ↑ Catalog entry
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miltitz, Dietrich Alexander von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1726 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberau |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1792 |
| Place of death | Baden near Vienna |