Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Carl von Eickstedt

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Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Carl von Eickstedt (born January 30, 1786 in Stettin , † January 13, 1830 in Anklam ) was a Prussian officer and Pomeranian landowner and politician.

Life

Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Carl von Eickstedt was a son of the district president in Stettin, Georg Friedrich von Eickstedt (1743-1807) and Ernestine Helene Ulrike von Enckevort (1768-1798). He initially embarked on a military career and in 1801 became an ensign in the Dragoon Regiment No. 5 . As a lieutenant he took part in the Fourth Coalition War in 1806/1807. His regiment was used in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , Dirschau , Preussisch Eylau and Friedland , among others . At Dirschau he and his troops attacked a numerically superior unit under the Polish general Komirowski. For this he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite and in 1809 received the fiefdom of Priemen bei Anklam . In 1810 he took his leave of military service and was promoted to Rittmeister.

In 1812 he was commissioned as Prussian commissioner to lead the French corps of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout from Demmin through Western and Western Pomerania .

In 1813 he put together a volunteer unit of 180 men in Anklam, with whom he joined a newly founded cavalry regiment in Stargard . As squadron chief he took part in the Wars of Liberation , including the Battle of Großbeeren , the Battle of Dennewitz and the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . At Dennewitz he was awarded the Iron Cross, second class. For taking a French fort, he received the Russian Order of St. Anne, second class.

As a major, he took his leave in 1814 and devoted himself to the management of his estate. As district deputy, he represented the district administrator of the Anklam district . He became a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania . He died in Anklam in 1830 after a stroke and was buried in Liepen .

family

He was married to Wilhelmine von der Marwitz (* October 25, 1791, † November 21, 1818 in Priemen). The two had four sons:

  • Ernst Heinrich Konstantin (1812–1849) ⚭ April 7, 1841 Karoline von Quillfeldt
  • Ernst Wilhelm Karl (1813–1842)
  • Ernst Wilhelm Balduin (1815–1895) ⚭ May 11, 1849 Louise Henriette Auguste Christensen (* 1830)
  • Arthur Leonhard Edmund (1817-1853)

literature

  • Carl August Ludwig Freiherr von Eickstedt: Family book of the dynastic sex of the von Eickstedt in Thuringia, Pomerania, the brands and Silesia. Ratibor 1860, p. 280 ( Google books )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl August Ludwig Freiherr von Eickstedt: Family book of the dynastic sex of the von Eickstedt in Thuringia, Pomerania, the brands and Silesia. Ratibor 1860, p. 271 ( Google books )

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personal data
SURNAME Eickstedt, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian cavalry officer, member of the provincial parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1830
Place of death Anklam