Ernst Friedrich von Carlsburg

Ernst Friedrich Wagner , since 1712 Ernst Friedrich von Carlsburg (* 1711 ; † March 22, 1786 in Guben ) was an Electoral Saxon Lieutenant General of the Infantry, head of a regiment on foot and a knight of the St. Henrici Military Order .

Life

According to tradition within the family, he belongs to the Wagner family from Sweden and was the son of Johann Friedrich Wagner, whose noble origin of his ancestors was legitimized by the prince of Schwarzburg in 1712 by adding Carlsburg to his name . While his father called himself Johann Friedrich Wagner von Carlsburg from now on , he and his younger brother Gustav Friedrich von Carlsburg renounced the old family name Wagner. Both brothers embarked on a military career and entered the service of the Saxon elector. In 1745 both were stationed together in the garrison town of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia.

The fiefdom called Carlsburg in Sundhausen was originally owned by Ludwig von Wurmb zu Großfurra . By way of a settlement, he left the Carlsburg to the Halberstadt canon Ludwig von Bieren, who sold it to Dietrich Wagner in 1655 . By inheritance in the male line, the Carlsburg fell to the two brothers Johann Friedrich and Bodo Wilhelm von Carlsburg. The latter left his half to his older brother for sale.

Half of the Carlsburg was fiefdom of the princes of Schwarzburg and the counts of Stolberg.

Ernst Friedrich von Carlsburg's younger brother Gustav Friedrich died on April 26, 1758 as a royal Polish and electoral Saxon captain. By this time Ernst Friedrich von Carlsburg had already been promoted to colonel. At the same time he was also chamberlain at the court in Dresden . Ernst Friedrich von Carlsburg became the sole owner of the Carlsburg when his brother Gustav Friedrich's only son, August Heinrich Friedrich von Carlsburg, died at a young age on May 14, 1762.

In 1768 he was major general of the infantry and a real colonel in the body grenadier guard of Elector Friedrich August III. of Saxony. Since his only son Wallrad Friedrich Gustav von Carlsburg had no children at the time, he tried while he was still alive with the Prince of Schwarzburg that Carlsburg did not fall into strange hands after his death, but belonged to the family of his daughter Louise Sophie Wilhelmine von Carlsburg stayed.

He died at the age of 75 and was buried appropriately in the town church of Guben on March 25, 1786. The Carlsburg then fell to his only son, who at that time was already head of the district of Saxony and no longer lived in Sundhausen, but in Schöneiche near Guben.

literature

• Friedwerd Messow: Stadtjunker in Lausitz. Regia Verlag, Cottbus without year.
• Arno Paege ao: Guben city and country before 1945. Hanover 1990.
• Wagner from Carlsburg. In: Justus Perthes : Genealogical pocket book of the letter nobility houses. Gotha 1909. (trunk series), p. 864.
• Justus Perthes: Genealogical pocket book of noble houses. Part B, 29th year, Gotha 1937.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Karlsburger