Ernst von Seherr-Thoss

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Ernst Heinrich Leopold Graf von Seherr-Thoß (born August 4, 1786 in Dobrau Castle ; † January 9, 1856 or January 19, 1856 there) was a German officer and landowner.

Life

family

Ernst von Seherr-Thoß was the son of the large landowner and co-founder of the Silesian landscape Count Heinrich Leopold von Seherr-Thoß (born October 29, 1734 in Weigelsdorf Castle ; † June 24, 1804 ibid), Lord of Weigelsdorf, Dobrau , Kieferstädtel , Bitschin , Hertwigswalde , Schönheide in the district of Frankenstein , Quickendorf and Moschen , Ober- Landmundschenk in Silesia and director of the Principality of Münsterberg- Frankenstein and his second wife Henriette Wilhelmine (born August 10, 1745 in Lausigk ; † April 25, 1811 in Weigelsdorf Castle ), Daughter of Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm von Zollikofer von Altenklingen (1699–1745), captain of the guard on foot; she was the sister of his first wife. His brother-in-law was Major General Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm von Zollikofer .

His brother was:

  • Count Heinrich Leopold von Seherr-Thoß (born January 1, 1785 - August 18, 1837), inherited the lords of Bitschin and Kieferstädtel after his father's death and was the founder of the older branch of the older count's house.

From his father's first marriage to Charlotte Wilhelmine von Zollikofer von Altenklingen (1735–1776) there were still seven half-siblings, three of whom died early. The names of the four remaining sisters are known:

  • Countess Charlotte von Seherr-Thoß (born May 13, 1764 - August 15, 1815), married to August Detleff von Schlippenbach (1736–1810).

On October 16, 1808 he married the baron Agnes (* December 17, 1783 in Dessau ; † October 13, 1832 in Dobrau), the youngest daughter of the baron Johann Jost von Loën (1737-1803) Lord of Cappeln and Tecklenburg and his wife Henriette Katharina Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1744–1799). Together they had three sons and five daughters and he founded the younger branch of the older count's house:

  • Amalie Charlotte Agnes von Seherr-Thoss (* July 8, 1809; † August 1, 1878), married to Bernhard Joseph von Stolberg-Stolberg (* April 30, 1803 in Münster; † January 21, 1859);
  • Leopold Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Graf von Seherr-Thoß (born July 3, 1810 in Dobrau, † May 19, 1893 in Wiesbaden); married to Olga (born August 22, 1827 in Kamienitz ; † July 11, 1909 in Dobrau), a daughter of Ernst Karl von Strachwitz and Gross Zauche (1799–1869);
  • Louise Thusnelda von Seherr-Thoß (born August 2, 1812 in Dobrau; December 26, 1875 in Meffersdorf near Pobiedna in the Lauban district ), married to Gustav von Saldern-Plattenburg (January 20, 1810 in Plattenburg ; † March 14, 1876 in Meffersdorf );
  • Ernestine Ida von Seherr-Thoß (born March 15, 1814; † unknown), married to Karl Emil von Hohenthal (born October 8, 1808; † unknown) Herr auf Dölkau , Kötzschlitz , Günthersdorf and Altranstädt as well as owner of Hohmanns Hof in Leipzig ; Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John , royal Prussian chamberlain , member of the Prussian mansion for life and member of the provincial state parliament for the Upper Saxony regional district ;
  • Hildegard Adelheid von Seherr-Thoß (* July 24, 1816; † November 19, 1891), married to Baron Julius von Loën (* July 29, 1816; † June 8, 1862);
  • Pauline Agnes Blanca von Seherr-Thoß (* February 18, 1818; † unknown), married to Karl von Bärensprung ;
  • Octavius Manfred von Seherr-Thoß (born January 5, 1827 in Dobrau, † October 5, 1911 in Breslau), manorial estate owner and parliamentarian; married in 1st marriage to Eugenie (* June 20, 1828 in Raudnitz; † March 22, 1876 in Weigelsdorf), daughter of Conrad Michael Anton von Sternberg (1798-1860) and in 2nd marriage to Helene (* July 25, 1853 in Dresden; † December 1912 in Munich), b. from Monibé;
  • Olga von Seherr-Thoss

Career

Ernst von Seherr-Thoß was raised to be a soldier in his youth and continued this training in Berlin and Dessau.

In 1804 he joined the cuirassier regiment Karl Wilhelm von Bünting as a cornet and was promoted to lieutenant in the same year . In that year his father also died, who decreed in his will that he should inherit the Dobrau rule with the property belonging to it in Upper Silesia . He placed the property under the supervision of his mother and continued his military career.

On October 16, 1806 in Auerstedt, during an attack on a French square at the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , a bullet shattered his upper jaw and severely injured his palate. He was later rescued by two French soldiers and taken to a hospital. When he was ready for transport, he came to Vienna for further healing .

After he married two years later, he took over his inheritance and in 1810 he was eldest in the Upper Silesian Principality landscape , in which position he remained until 1851.

He was one of the advisory councils convened by the State Council when the provincial constitution was introduced in 1822, and later he was a member of the Silesian provincial parliament .

In 1838, after the death of his brother Count Heinrich Leopold von Seherr-Thoß, he inherited his property.

The goods were:

  • Dominium to Ober and Unter Schwerta (Queiskreis)

Trivia

His wife's grandparents were Johann Michael von Loën (1694–1776), writer, scholar and statesman and his wife Katharina Sibylla Lindheimer, the sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's grandmother Anna Margaretha Lindheimer (1711–1783).

honors and awards

In 1812 he received from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Royal Prussian Order of St. John and after the reorganization of the order and the restoration of the lordship , he was elected a member of the convent of the Silesian cooperative of the order and received the knighthood on June 25, 1854 from lord master Prince Carl of Prussia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Revue, Volume 4, 1st quarter, 1856, pp. 639–640 . R. Heinicke, 1856 ( google.de [accessed January 8, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Worldhistory - persons of world history: Ernst von Seherr-Thoß. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, p. 368 . Perthes, 1864 ( google.de [accessed May 1, 2018]).
  4. ^ Johann G. Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, Flecken ... Johann G. Knie, Breslau, 1845, accessed on December 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Seherr-Thoß, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seherr-Thoß, Ernst Heinrich Leopold Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobrau Castle
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1856 or January 19, 1856
Place of death Dobrau Castle