Friedrich Sigmund von Sommerfeld

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Friedrich Sigmund von Sommerfeld also Friedrich Siegmund Sommer von Sommerfeld († 1800 ) was a Prussian officer , last chief of the Königsberg Land Regiment and later colonel .

Sommerfeld was a member of a family whose nobility was confirmed and renewed on September 19 and October 1, 1786 by King Friedrich Wilhelm II .

On July 27, 1777, he took over the Königsberger Land Regiment (No. 2) with the rank of lieutenant colonel .

Sommerfeld was the last owner of the Königsberger Land Regiment, as the four land regiments were dissolved around 1790. In the aftermath of the dissolution of the regiment, he is said to have advanced to colonel.

In 1777 he married Anna Albertine Alexandrine von Wartensleben (* June 28, 1742; † February 3, 1803), widowed von Werthern , divorced von Burgsdorff and daughter of Colonel Hermann von Wartensleben .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 221.
  2. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 47.
  3. ^ Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great , Leipzig 1853, p. 309.
  4. ↑ Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian army , Berlin 1964, p. 324.
  5. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army , Berlin 1787, p. 115.
personal data
SURNAME Sommerfeld, Friedrich Sigmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sommer von Sommerfeld, Friedrich Sigmund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel and head of the regiment
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 1800