Friedrich Siegmund of Brünnow

Friedrich Siegmund von Brünnow , also Friedrich Sigismund von Brünnow or Friedrich von Brünau (* 1719/1727; † March 15, 1789 in Spandau ) was a Prussian colonel and commander of a grenadier battalion .

Life

origin

Friedrich was a member of the Courland line, the originally Pomeranian noble family von Brünnow . Presumably he is identical with the son of the same name of the Polish lieutenant and heir to Wilxaln in the Tuckum and Podanguwen district in Lithuania , Melchior Dietrich von Brünnow († 23 May 1741) and his second wife Maria Elisabeth von Heringen.

Career

At the age of 18, Brünnow joined the Prussian army as a junker in the fusilier regiment "Prince Heinrich" . He was promoted in 1745 to Ensign , 1751 to second lieutenant , in 1756 to first lieutenant , 1758 to staff captain , 1760 to the real captain , and finally in May 1772 for the Major . In 1773 Brünnow received command of a grenadier battalion which was composed of two companies each from the "Prince Heinrich" infantry regiment and from the "Ludwig von Pfuel" infantry regiment . On June 8, 1781 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on May 30, 1783 to colonel. On June 15, 1785, Brünnow received his farewell after 43 years of service with a salary of 300 thalers .

family

Brünnow had several children with Friderica Philippina Förster, a bourgeois but respectable woman. To legitimize his three sons, he submitted a request for immediate intermediation to the king in 1772 . Only after he clarified to Frederick the Great that he wanted to pull his allodial assets from Courland into the monarchy , the latter granted the application.

Alexander von Brünnow (1769–1836), Prussian Rittmeister
Caroline Friderica von Brünnow (1770–1772)
Gustav Heinrich Friedrich von Brünnow († 1803), Prussian staff officer in the Leib-Hussar Regiment , 1794 knight of the order Pour le Mérite , ⚭ 1799 in Drahnsdorf Amalie von der Drössel (1768–1805)
Friederike Dorothea Philippine von Brünnow (1777–1831), ⚭ 1811 in Berlin Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Sohr (1775–1845) Prussian lieutenant general
Hans Karl Friedrich von Brünnow († 1814), Prussian Major and Chief of Hussars - squadron in Schill'schen volunteer corps , ⚭ 1807 Johanna Louise Wilhelmine Clar († 1808)

literature

Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2011, Volume 1, p. 232 u. 244-245
Anton Balthasar König : Friedrich Siegmund von Brünnow . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 268 ( Friedrich Siegmund von Brünnow at Wikisource [PDF]).
Lars Severin: A family of Prussian officers from Brünnow of the Kurland tribe. In: Brandenburgische Genealogische Nachrichten, 1/2018, pp. 168–171

Individual evidence

^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Vol. 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg [1937], p. 379.
↑ GHdBR / NF (Lit.), 2011, p. 232.
↑ Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. Hermann Mendelssohn, Leipzig [1853], p. 281.
↑ In GHdBR / NF (Lit.), 2011, p. 232 in the year 1719; according to König (lit.) calculated in 1724; according to the death record of St. Johannis Church in Spandau calculated around the year 1727.
↑ ^a ^b Rolf Straubel : He just wants to know that the army is mine. Friedrich II. And his officers. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012, p. 108, FN 302.
↑ Rolf Straubel: He just wants to know that the army is mine. Friedrich II. And his officers. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012, pp. 412-413, FN 1187.
↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, Mittler , Berlin 1913, p. 317, no.661.
↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , 18th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1917, p. 277.

personal data
SURNAME	Brünnow, Friedrich Siegmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brünnow, Friedrich Sigismund von; Brünau, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian colonel
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1719 and 1727
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1789
Place of death	Spandau

[1] Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Vol. 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg [1937], p. 379.

[2] GHdBR / NF (Lit.), 2011, p. 232.

[3] Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. Hermann Mendelssohn, Leipzig [1853], p. 281.

[4] In GHdBR / NF (Lit.), 2011, p. 232 in the year 1719; according to König (lit.) calculated in 1724; according to the death record of St. Johannis Church in Spandau calculated around the year 1727.

[RSt-5] Rolf Straubel : He just wants to know that the army is mine. Friedrich II. And his officers. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012, p. 108, FN 302.

[6] Rolf Straubel: He just wants to know that the army is mine. Friedrich II. And his officers. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012, pp. 412-413, FN 1187.

[7] Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 1, Mittler , Berlin 1913, p. 317, no.661.

[8] Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , 18th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1917, p. 277.