Friedrich Karl Ludwig (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck)

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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein : Friedrich Karl Ludwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, around 1800

Friedrich Karl Ludwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (born August 20, 1757 in Königsberg ; † April 24, 1816 at Gut Wellingsbüttel near Hamburg) was the last Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and a Prussian , Russian and Danish lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Friedrich Karl Ludwig was the only son of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Karl Anton August (1727-1759) and his wife Friederike Charlotte Antonie Amalie, née Countess zu Dohna-Leistenau (* July 3, 1738; † April 21 1786 in Wolde).

Military career

After the early death of his father, he grew up with his grandmother Dohna, a born princess of Holstein-Beck, in Königsberg . 1762 wanted Tsar Peter III. - a Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp  - appoint the elderly Karl Ludwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck as Field Marshal (which he refused) and also wanted to bring five-year-old Friedrich Karl Ludwig to Russia. But the family prevented him from coming into Russian service, and the tsar was murdered as early as the summer of 1762.

In 1775 he wanted to visit his grandfather Peter August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck , who was governor of Estonia and had excellent contacts with the Russian court. He wanted to begin his military service there. But his grandfather died in February 1775. At the same time, Prussia demanded war contributions that his mother could not pay. The Prussian King Friedrich II agreed to a waiver of contributions if the young duke entered Prussian service.

So he went on the orders of the king from June 10, 1775 to the French military academy in Metz . At the beginning of 1776 he made a study trip through Italy, where he fell ill and returned to his aunt in Quedlinburg . In 1777 he received his patent as a major in the Prussian Army and was employed in the von Knobelsdorff infantry regiment in Stendal . With him he took part in the War of the Bavarian Succession . After the Treaty of Teschen , he became the youngest staff officer in the “von Schlieben” infantry regiment . Friedrich Karl Ludwig saw this as a deferment and applied for his release several times.

On September 14, 1781 dimittierte it as a lieutenant colonel in order to operate on his estates. The new Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II brought him back as a colonel on December 30, 1786 and gave him the grenadier battalion "von Klingspor" . In 1789 he was made major general and the following year he received the infantry regiment "von Voss" , with which he participated in the suppression of the Kościuszko uprising . Then he was stationed in Ostrołęka . In 1795 he became commander of Cracow and lieutenant general.

In 1797 he took over again and then entered the Russian service as lieutenant general and chief of the Pavlovsk Grenadier Regiment. In March 1798 he was adopted and then studied physics , mathematics and chemistry in Leipzig . From 1800 he went back to his Lindenau estate in East Prussia. In 1808 he became a deputy of the East Prussian estates.

In 1810 he visited his standing in Danish services son in Copenhagen, where the king appointed him lieutenant general and him with the Good Wellingsbüttel in Hamburg belehnte . There he spent the last years of his life.

Private

In addition to his military career, he also took care of agriculture, he is credited with introducing fine-wool sheep in several European countries. He was also a member of numerous “economic societies” (including Königsberg, Rostock) and the natural research society in Unna.

family

In 1780 he married Friederike von Schlieben (* February 28, 1757, † December 17, 1827). She was the daughter of the Prussian Minister Count Leopold von Schlieben (1723–1788). The couple had the following children:

Honors

Friedrich Karl Ludwig was a knight of numerous orders:

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828.
  2. ↑ Johann Heinrich Friedrich Berlien: The Elephant Order and its knights.
predecessor Office successor
Peter August Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
1775–1816 		Friedrich Wilhelm III.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich Karl Ludwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1816
Place of death Wellingsbüttel near Hamburg