Ernst Hartmann from Diemar

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Baron Ernst Hartmann von Diemar (born June 24, 1682 in Hesse , † July 16, 1754 in Deberndorf ) was a German Imperial and Royal Field Marshal .

origin

His parents were the Swedish Rittmeister Freiherr Wilhelm Sebastian von Diemar († 23 October 1699) and his wife the Freiin Christina Elisabetha von und zu Erffa († 22 March 1696).

Life

After the early death of his parents, he was employed as a page in the service of the Margrave Anspacher and accompanied the Margrave Georg Friedrich on his travels.

During the War of the Spanish Succession he went to the Netherlands with the Schmettau regiment and fought in the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709 , where he was seriously wounded. In 1710 he was appointed colonel. In 1713 he was a colonel in Cuirassier Regiment No. 4 (von Hanstein), and in the same year he became its chief. He remained chief of the regiment until 1741 with the exception of the years 1735 to 1738.

Here the Hereditary Prince Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel (later King of Sweden) took him as his adjutant and he rose to major general in his service in 1717.

In the following year he came to Sweden as envoy, in 1721 he was accredited as Hessian minister at the Swedish court. In 1725 he was sent to London, where he signed the Subsidiary Treaty. After the Landgrave's death, he remained in the service of Kassel and Royal Swedish, but also entered Austrian service, where he was appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal in July 1732 and in 1835 became the owner of a cuirassier regiment. In the Turkish War of 1737 , Field Marshal Graf von Seckendorf often made use of his advice, but when the war ended badly, he took no responsibility. He became General of the Cavalry on March 22, 1741 and on May 21, 1744 Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order for the Hesse Ballei in Marburg.

On October 11, 1745, he was appointed Field Marshal General, but soon left all services and traveled around for pleasure. Afterwards he received the estate and castle Deberndorf von Anspach in the Principality of Anspach not far from Cadolzburg as a fief. He died there on July 16, 1754.

He was buried in the church in Zautendorf, where an epitaph was also erected for him.

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family

In 1713 he married the baroness Dorothea Elisabeth Riedesel zu Eisenbach († 1735). His daughter Sophia Carolina († 1739) married Baron Albrecht Adam Christoph Carl Friedrich von und zu Egloffstein (1706–1750) on September 1, 1733 . His eldest son fell as a captain in Hungary in 1759. His son Georg August Carl von Diemar became chamberlain to the Electorate of Cologne and sold the Deberndorf estate in 1756.

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching, historical-literary handbook of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century p. 10
  • Andreas Joseph von Thürheim, Field Marshal Ludwig Andreas Graf von Khevenhüller-Frankenburg of his great ruler "loyal vassal and protector" , p. 119
  • Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog / 357-358
  • Diemar, Ernst Hartmann Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  • Kurtz-grasped historical news for the sake of the new European events, Volume 36, p. 124f
  • The Highness of the Teutschen Reichs Nobility, p. 83 Family tree

Individual evidence

  1. Walter Steinlein: Church history St. Johannes Church Zautendorf. In: evangelisch-zautendorf.de. May 2003, accessed on March 19, 2019 (a plaque still commemorates him today).
  2. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1857. Seventh year, p.159

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