Friedrich Christoph von Dohna

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Friedrich Christoph von Dohna.

Friedrich Christoph von Dohna (born January 7, 1664 in Carwinds ; † July 20, 1727 in Wismar ) was both a Kurbrandenburg and a Swedish diplomat and lieutenant general . He was Lord of Wartenberg , Carwinden , Schlobitten and Borckersdorff and Hjulsta and Ekholmen in Sweden.

origin

He comes from the Swedish line of those von Dohna . His parents were the Swedish general Christoph Delphicus von Dohna (1628–1668) and his wife Anna Oxenstierna (1620–1691). His sister Amalie Luise (1661-1724) was married to the Brandenburg field marshal Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten , his sister Charlotte Eleonore (1660-1735) to Colonel Gustav Mauritz Lewenhaupt.

Life

He probably grew up in Neukloster where he stayed with his blind mother until 1682. However, in 1678 he visited his Swedish relatives during the negotiations for the Peace of Nijmegen in Nijmegen, where he brought a letter to the ambassadors Oxenstierna and Olivekrantz .

He was then a captain in the Electorate of Hanover. During the Great Turkish War he took part in the campaign in Morea in 1685 under Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck . In 1687 he switched to the Swedish service and was appointed Swedish representative at the imperial court in Vienna . There he mediated the dispute between Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp with the emperor . In 1690 he came to the Reichstag in Augsburg and was then sent to the Prussian court in Königsberg . But on March 5, 1692 he became a colonel of a Saxon regiment, before he switched to the services of Brandenburg as major general on November 11, 1694 , where he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1700. In the same year the elector then sent him to the Swedish court as the Brandenburg-Prussian envoy, where the coronation of Charles XII. attended. There he also negotiated the demarcation between Swedish Pomerania and Brandenburg. In 1701 he became the official captain of Ragnit appointed, which he remained until 1719th During the Great Northern War he was on diplomatic missions, so Charles XII brought him. a few times to Heilsberg and Elbing . After the Battle of Poltava he received from Polish King Stanislaus I to instruct the Swedish king from the anti-Swedish coalition that was forming. After the fall of the Polish king in 1709, Dohna was extradited to Russia , where he was interned for 11 months in Smolensk , from where he was liberated by the Prussian king. He then negotiated the release of the numerous Swedish prisoners and trade agreements. But the fact that Sweden and Prussia were hostile to each other burdened him very much. On September 30, 1719 he received permission to travel to Sweden, where he visited Neukloster. After the peace between Prussia and Sweden, he became Swedish Lieutenant General on December 19, 1720, and on January 31, 1722 he was also appointed President of the Tribunal in Wismar . He died in Wismar on July 9, 1727.

family

He married on March 15, 1685 in Geneva Louise Antoinette von Dohna (* October 1, 1660 - January 16, 1716), a daughter of Friedrich von Dohna . The couple had several children:

  • Karl August (* December 18, 1691, † November 23, 1744) Swedish Major General ⚭ 1720 Baroness Hedwig Soop of Limingo (* September 26, 1703; † 14 August 1776)
  • Friedrich Ludwig (* August 31, 1697; † January 6, 1749) ⚭ 1721 Countess Wilhelmine zu Dohna-Schlobitten (* July 8, 1697; † September 10, 1754)
  • Christoph (1690–1690)
  • Ulrike Eleonore Esperance Anna (* April 3, 1689 - † October 6, 1760) ⚭ 1712 Count Heinrich Georg zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (* May 24, 1683; † August 3, 1736)
  • Sophie Charlotte (born April 20, 1690)
  • Wilhelmine Amalie (1695–1699)

After the death of his first wife, he married Countess Eleonore Elisabeth Oxenstierna von Croneborg in 1717 (* January 19, 1674; † June 22, 1736). The couple remained without children.

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SURNAME Dohna, Friedrich Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohna, Friedrich Christoph Burggraf and Count von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg as well as Swedish diplomat and lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1664
PLACE OF BIRTH Carwinds
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1727
Place of death Wismar