Erich Magnus von Wolffradt

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Erich Magnus von Wolffradt (* 1735 ; † August 17, 1799 ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .

Life

Erich Magnus was a member of the noble family of Wolffradt . As the son of the Swedish cavalry general Carl Gustav von Wolffradt and Adelheid Tugendreich von Arnim , he entered the Prussian military service . Under Hans Joachim von Zieten he took part in the Seven Years' War with his hussar regiment No. 3 . From 1783 to 1791 he was commander of the regiment. Subsequently, on December 29, 1791, he was promoted to Colonel Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 6 . In 1798 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

He was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite (1761) in the Seven Years' War and the Order of the Red Eagle in the Rhine Campaign .

Erich Magnus von Wolffradt was not married. With Johanna Schütz he had the illegitimate son Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wolffradt (1782- ??), who, later legitimized, was raised to the imperial nobility only at the age of 18 on November 25, 1800 in Vienna .

literature

  • Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, pp. 219f. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Gieraths : The fighting of the Brandenburg-Prussian army 1626-1807. A source manual. Walter de Gruyter, 1964, ISBN 978-3110004557 , p. 283 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Stephen Millar: Prussian Colonels-in-Chief 1792-1806: Hussar Regiments. Retrieved December 18, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Guttentag as a garrison town from 1742 to 1797. ( PDF ) Retrieved on December 27, 2009 (copy from A. Weltzel's chronicle 1882. (Pages 378 to 385)).
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Page 351, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X
personal data
SURNAME Wolffradt, Erich Magnus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian hussar general
DATE OF BIRTH 1735
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1799