Dubislaw von Platen

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Dubislav Frederic de Platen

Dubislaw Friedrich von Platen (* 23 August 1714 ; † 7 June 1787 ) was a Prussian officer , most recently a general of the cavalry and governor of Königsberg and a knight of the Order of St. John and the Order of the Black Eagle .

Life

He was the son of General Hans Friedrich von Platen (* January 21, 1668, † May 17, 1743) and the Hypolita Juliane von Podewils . The later Prussian general Leopold Johann von Platen († December 11, 1780) was his younger brother.

As early as June 5, 1723, at the request of his father, he was appointed cornet by King Friedrich Wilhelm I and on August 18, 1729, he was appointed second lieutenant . On July 7, 1730 he became a prime lieutenant . On August 11, 1736 he received his own company in the cuirassier regiment "Geßler" No. 4 . In the same year, on August 17th, he was defeated in Sonnenburg by the master master of the Johanniter Ballei Brandenburg, Margrave Karl Friedrich Albrecht of Brandenburg-Schwedt, to the knight of the Knights of St. John . He was designated to the Upcoming Advertise .

At the beginning of the First Silesian War he was Rittmeister . His regiment came too late for the Battle of Mollwitz , but in 1742 it was involved in the Battle of Chotusitz . For his work in the retreat to Camenz he was awarded the Pour le Mérite , he was also promoted to major . In 1744 he fought in Bohemia and Moravia . On May 22, 1747 he became lieutenant colonel and in 1752 second in command in the Dragoon Regiment "Normann" No. 1 .

In the Seven Years' War the regiment went to Saxony in 1756. Platen received on March 4, 1757 the Dragoon Regiment "Langermann" No. 8 and was promoted to major general. On April 15, 1757 he fought near Groß-Jägersdorf . Then the regiment was transferred to Pomerania against the Swedes and fought there near Stralsund . At the beginning of 1758 it was relocated to Western Pomerania, where it was used against the Russians until June. He fought on August 25 at the Battle of Zorndorf , where two of his sons were killed. After the Russians withdrew, the regiment drove crews left behind from occupied Pomeranian cities such as Gollnow and Greifenberg . Then he moved again against the Swedes and occupied Prenzlau and Pasewalk with his regiment in December . On January 17, 1759 he took part in the capture of Demmin , after which he was used again against the Russians in the Stolp area.

Plaque of honor for Platen on the Rheinsberg Obelisk

On May 12, 1759, Platen was promoted to lieutenant general and was given command of the cavalry in Prince Heinrich's army in Saxony. He sent him to the Bamberg area , from there he came to the king's army and into the battle of Kunersdorf . In May 1760 he was sent with General Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade to Pomerania and the Neumark to curb General Tottleben's advances , which they succeeded. He was then ordered to Landsberg an der Warthe to keep the Russians and Austrians from threatening Silesia and Wroclaw. In October 1760 the Russians under Tottleben and Tschernyshev were able to temporarily occupy Berlin with the Austrians under Lacy .

After the retreat of the Russians, he joined the king's army and fought in the battle of Torgau on November 3rd . On September 10, 1761, he marched with an army to Poland to attack Russian supplies. He destroyed the magazine in Köblin . On September 15, at the Göstin monastery, he encountered a large Russian train of 5,000 wagons and 4,000 guards. Together with the battalions “von Rothenburg”, “von Arnim”, “Görne” and “von Wunsch” he was able to conquer the entourage. He then occupied the large magazine in Göstin and marched on to Posen, where he also captured a magazine on September 17th.

In the meantime the Russians were successful at Landsberg, so he had to return there. The Warthe bridge was destroyed, so his troops crossed the river with the help of pontoons and rafts. At Körlin he was able to recapture the bridge over the Persante from the Russians on September 30th, taking 200 prisoners in the process. From here he walked along the Persante to reach the besieged Kolberg fortress . The Russian general Romanzow tried to stop him at the village of Spie , which, despite a three-hour battle, did not succeed.

On October 17th he tried to break through to Gollnow with 5500 men to fetch supplies from there. The Russian general Wilhelm von Fermor , however, stopped him at the Ihna bridge, where an artillery duel took place. Ultimately, the Kolberg fortress had to capitulate on December 16, 1761.

In January 1762, Platen returned to Saxony to join Prince Heinrich's army. Here his regiment was stationed at Pegau and Zeitz and had no part in the fighting of the year.

Sophia Susanna Charlotte, wife of General Dubislav Friedrich von Platen (around 1750)

In the War of the Bavarian Succession he commanded a corps in Prince Heinrich's army with which he advanced via Peterswalde , Leitmeritz and Budin to the vicinity of Prague . In September 1786 Platen was made Knight of the Black Eagle Order by King Friedrich Wilhelm II . The king himself presented him with the highest Prussian distinction with the words: It happens too late, but I appreciate merit . At the same time the king appointed him governor of Konigsberg, an office which von Platen did not want, but to which he was persuaded by the king.

On May 20, 1787 he was still general of the cavalry and died shortly afterwards on June 7, 1787.

Prince Heinrich of Prussia dedicated a memorial plaque to him on his Rheinsberg obelisk around 1790 . His name was also immortalized on one of the plaques on the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great (1851).

family

He was married to Sophia Susanna Charlotte von Cocceji . She was the daughter of the Prussian minister Samuel von Cocceji . A son and a daughter (married Countess von Finkenstein ) survived him.

literature

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Johann Gottfried Dienemann: From the solennen knighthood held on October 1st in 1764. In: Johann Erdmann Hasse (Hrsg.): News from the Order of St. John, in particular of its Lordship in the Mark, Saxony, Pomerania and Wendland, as well as of the election and investiture of the current Lord Master, Prince August Ferdinand in Prussia Königl. Your Highness, along with a description of the accolades held in 1736, 1737, 1762 and 1764. George Ludewig Winter, Berlin 1767, p. 167 Online at Google Books .
personal data
SURNAME Platen, Dubislaw von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Platen, Dubislaw Friedrich von; Platen, Dubislav Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry, governor of Koenigsberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1714
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1787