Erich Dietrich von Rosen (General)

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Erich Dietrich Freiherr von Rosen (born February 1, 1650 ; † November 5, 1701 in Wittenberg ) was a Venetian - Electoral Saxon - imperial general .

Life

Origin and family

Erich Dietrich was a member of the Estonian gentlemen von Rosen from the Hochrosen- Schönangern- Sonorm family . His parents were the Swedish Colonel Johann von Rosen († 1657) and Anna Magdalena, née von Ungern (1630-1656). He married Anna Wendula Kyle, the marriage remained childless. General Otto von Rosen († 1715) from the Electorate of Saxony was his brother.

Career

Together with his brother Otto, Erich Dietrich sold the Schönangern estate to a cousin in 1674 . In a dispute he stabbed the Swedish cavalry captain Gustaf Mauritz Mannersköld in Narwa in 1675 , whereupon he fled to Germany, probably fearing reprisals. In 1676 he was in the Brunswick-Lüneburg area , soon afterwards as a guard - captain in the Hanoverian military service. In 1681 he converted to Catholicism and in 1682 changed to the imperial service. As regimental commander , he took part in the relief of Vienna in 1683 and the battle of Gran in 1685 . In the meantime, he had the 1684 title as generalfeldwachtmeister received. After stabbing his former regiment chief Joseph Paris Graf Rosenberg in ambush in Vienna in 1685 , he fled again. He entered the Venetian service as lieutenant general in 1693 and switched to the Electoral Saxon in 1694. In 1695 he advanced to head of the cuirassier regiment named after him, "Rosen", as well as chief stableman of the Dresden court. In 1695 and 1696 he was again in the field against the Turks and commanded the left wing of the German army in front of Timisoara . Whether he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant in 1696 is questionable, his promotion to general of the cavalry in 1697 is certain. In a duel with Siegmund Joachim Graf von Trauttmansdorff , he was seriously wounded in 1699 and then retired to his brother Otto in Wittenberg, where he served as Electoral Saxon general of the cavalry and master falconer also died. He was buried in 1702 in the Jesuit Church Mariaschein near Teplitz .

Roses should because of his "irrepressible Tempraments" and "military bravado" by contemporaries "the great roses" have been called and made use of unopposed the baron title . He is said to have served initially in Swedish and now also in French , English , Danish and Dutch military service.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (arrangement): Genealogical Handbook of the Livländischen Ritterschaft , Volume 2, Görlitz [1935], p. 1118.
  2. ↑ Otto von Rosen on adelsvapen.com (= Gustaf Elgenstierna : Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. Stockholm 1925–1936; Swedish).
  3. ↑ Gustaf Mauritz Mannersköld on adelsvapen.com (= Gustaf Elgenstierna: Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. Stockholm 1925–1936; Swedish).
  4. ↑ a b Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial Generals 1618–1815. Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2006, p. 83m (PDF; 453 kB).
  5. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Rosenberg, Joseph Paris Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 7 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (arrangement): Genealogical Handbook of Livländischen Ritterschaft , Volume 1, Görlitz [1929], p. 1094.
  7. ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (arrangement): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Volume 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 210.
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Erich Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial general
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1650
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1701
Place of death Wittenberg