Friedrich von Goeckingk

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Friedrich Eberhard Siegmund Günther Goeckingk , from 1768 von Goeckingk (born November 28, 1738 in Ermsleben , † July 15, 1813 in Berlin ) was a Prussian cavalry general .

Life

origin

His parents were the heir to Günthersdorf and Daldorf as well as war and domain councilor Christian Friedrich Günther Göckingk (1703–1773) and Johanne, née Schwarz (1716–179). The economist and poet Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk (1748–1828) was his brother.

Career

He first went to school in Halle and then went to the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin. From 1755 to 1757 he first went to the University of Halle to study law there. He came back home at Easter 1757 and at the beginning of the Seven Years' War in 1757 he joined the Füselier Regiment "Hessen-Kassel" No. 45 as a Junker . In February 1758 he became a cornet with the Hussar Regiment "Seydlitz" No. 8 . In 1760 he became Second Lieutenant and in 1761 Premier Lieutenant . In the same year he became a staff assistant master and in 1762 a real cavalry master . In 1771 he was promoted to major . In 1784 he became a lieutenant colonel and on May 2 a colonel . In May 1788 he took over the hussar regiment "Black Hussars" No. 5 . On July 4, 1789 he became major general . On January 11, 1795 he became lieutenant general and took over as chief of the hussar regiment No. 2 . On May 21, 1799 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle by the king . On October 15, 1805, he retired as a general of the cavalry .

On December 2, 1768, he was raised to the nobility by King Friedrich II . In the War of the Bavarian Succession he was able to distinguish himself so much in the battle at Gabel that he was awarded the Pour le Mérite . In the Seven Years War he fought with the Hussar Regiment No. 8 in the battles near Kunersdorf and Freiberg as well as numerous skirmishes. King Frederick II was so pleased with the colonel that he gave him a gold box with diamonds .

During the Kościuszko uprising in 1794, he operated in Lithuania and Mazury, where he made over 400 prisoners.

family

He married on August 25, 1765 in Stolp in Pomerania, Anna Dorothea von Belling (* 1747, † November 18, 1818), a daughter of General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling . The couple had several children including:

  • Wilhelm Friedrich (born September 16, 1766)
  • Dorothe Frederike (born August 12, 1768 - † September 3, 1813)
⚭ (divorced) Count Wilhelm Adolf von Lichinowsky († 1836)
⚭ Andreas Georg Friedrich von Katzler (1764–1834), Lieutenant General
  • Wilhelmine Helene Johanna (born September 5, 1769) ⚭ Freiherr NN von Franz
  • Friedrich Leopold Günther (born March 19, 1775 - † September 27, 1853) Major a. D., Herr auf Dumpen and Althoff-Memel ⚭ Henriette Rüppel († July 26, 1843)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 35. ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Goeckingk, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goecking, Friedrich Eberhard Siegmund Günther von; Göckingk, Friedrich Eberhard Siegmund Günther von; Göcking, Friedrich Eberhard Siegmund Günther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Experience
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1813
Place of death Berlin