Dietrich Reichard von Meyerinck

Dietrich Reichard von Meyerinck (born February 17, 1701 in Lippstadt , † May 14, 1775 at Gut Leuenberg ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , chief of the infantry regiment "von Kleist" and commander of Berlin .

Life

origin

Dietrich was the son of the city major of Lippstadt from Adolf von Meyerinck (1656-1708) and his wife Eva Petronella, born von Heilsberg († 1702).

Military career

Meyerinck joined in 1716 as a private corporal in the infantry regiment of the king , advanced to April 1724 Ensign and came in March 1729, second lieutenant in the infantry regiment "von der Goltz" . His head of the regiment was in 1732 the future Prussian King Friedrich II. After his accession to the throne, Meyerinck became staff captain in the 1st Battalion of the Guard and leader of the body company in June 1740 . During the First Silesian War he took part in the Battle of Mollwitz and was awarded the Pour le Mérite order . After the war, Meyerinck rose to the rank of colonel by mid-May 1743 and received a prebende in Xanten in late September 1743 . After participating in the Second Silesian War , the king appointed him on April 22, 1747 commander of the II and III. Battalions of the Guard. A month later he was promoted to major general with a patent from December 3, 1743 .

On August 24, 1749 Meyerinck became chief of the von Kleist infantry regiment. At the same time he was also the commandant of Berlin for two years from August 1754. In February 1757 he was promoted to lieutenant general. Despite his poor health, at the beginning of the Seven Years' War he received the order from the king to march with his regiment to Silesia. Meyerinck fell seriously ill there and spent the winter in Dresden . Since no improvement occurred, dimittierte it with the consent of the king in January 1758 from military service and went to his estate Leuenberg in Oberbarnim , where he died 1775th

He was lord of lions Castle and West Pfuhl, Amtshauptmann of Zossen and Drost to Emmerich am Rhein , Huissen , Lymers and Sebenaer in the Duchy of Cleves .

family

Meyerinck had married Wilhelmine von Herold (1726-1809), daughter of the secret finance councilor Christian von Herold (1669-1744) on January 12, 1750 . The couple had several children:

• Wilhelmine (1751–1802) ⚭ 1778 Ludwig von Voss († 1810), gentleman on Bielbaum
• Ludwig Georg Christian (1752–1804), Prussian colonel and commander of the "Graf Kunheim" infantry regiment

⚭ Sophie Freiin von der Schulenburg (1760–1800), parents of Ludwig von Meyerinck (1789–1860), court master

⚭ 1801 Maria Elisabeth Hesse, widowed Honig

• Adolf Friedrich (* 1752; † as a child)
• Friedrich Richard (1754–1813) Major a. D. ⚭ Henriette von Pennaviere (1768–1804), parents of Major General Richard von Meyerinck (1802–1885)
• Wilhelm Heinrich Jakob (1755–1792) ⚭ Sophie von Biedersee (1764–1820), parents of Heinrich Eugen von Meyerinck , forester. The widow later marries Field Marshal Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein .

literature

• Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most noble events that happened at the European courts. Volume 89, p. 571f digitized
• Anton Balthasar König : Dietrich Reichard von Meyerinck . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 45 ( Dietrich Reichard von Meyerinck at Wikisource [PDF]).
• Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 1, p. 397.
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , pp. 352-353, no. 370.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels . Volume 3, WT Bruer, Berlin 1899, p. 269.
2. ↑ Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History, Volumes 17-18
3. ^ Rahel Varnhagen , Pauline Wiesel : Correspondence with Pauline Wiesel. P. 109