Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von Bandemer

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Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von Bandemer (* May 16, 1768 ; † May 31, 1848 ) was a Prussian officer , district administrator and knight of the order Pour le Mérite .

Life

origin

Ernst Friedrich von Bandemer came from a typical Prussian noble family from Pomeranian nobility , probably of Slavic origin was and among many landowners of the Prussian army presented numerous officers. His parents were the Prussian Colonel Ernst Bogislaw von Bandemer († 1790) and his wife Amalie Frederique Köppen († 1790). He himself was born the eldest son in an unknown year in the second half of the 18th century and died in 1848.

Military and administrative career

Like many of his family, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von Bandemer joined the Prussian army to become an officer. He became second lieutenant in one of the most distinguished and glorious Prussian cavalry regiments, the "Anspach-Bayreuth" dragoon regiment , which had already distinguished itself in the battle of Hohenfriedberg under King Friedrich II . With his regiment he took part in the First Coalition War against revolutionary France, where he proved himself so well in the battle of Frankenthal that the Prussian Major General Ernst von Rüchel received him with the order of January 3, 1794 to King Friedrich Wilhelm II pour le merite suggested. Thereupon the king informed General von Rüchel by the highest cabinet order of January 9th, 1794: "My dear, etc. ... I have your report ... with attached relation from the action at Frankenthal, which limited the advance of the enemy receive. .... I am sending you 6 plm to distribute them to those who you are convinced that they fully deserve this token of my benevolence ... ”.

After his retirement from active military service, probably because of the army reduction imposed by Napoleon Prussia in the Peace of Tilsit , Bandemer began a civilian career in which he made it to the Prussian district administrator of the Teltow district .

family

He was with Marie Friederike von Milow († 1806). The couple had at least one daughter: Marie Friederike Caroline Henriette († 1854). All three were buried in the village church of Diedersdorf .

literature

  • Gustav Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le merite. Volume I, Mittler, Berlin, 1913.
  • Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz , p. 540, digitized Gut Diedersdorf

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume I, page 203, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1972
  2. ↑ Rüchel to the King ...., the lieutenant von Bandemer, used by me in the Frankenthal affair and taken extremely creditable and honorable as my assistant .... 'Gustav Lehmann: The Knights of the Order pour le merite , Volume I, Awards under King Friedrich Wilhelm II., Page 303, No. 611, Berlin 1913
  3. ^ Gustav Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le merite. Volume I, Mittler, Berlin, 1913, p. 304
  4. ^ Diedersdorf village church
personal data
SURNAME Bandemer, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and district administrator, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1768
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1848