Friedrich Wilhelm Marshal

Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall , contemporary also Marschalch or Marschalk , (born January 31, 1622 in Herrengosserstedt ; † July 21, 1693 ibid) was Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia and manor owner in Herrengosserstedt and Zöbigker .

origin

He came from the Thuringian noble family Marschall , which had its headquarters in Herrengosserstedt. His father was Heinrich Marschall the Younger, who was born in 1619 with Dorothea. Bünau, daughter of the late Rudolph von Bünau the Younger from Schkölen , was married. His paternal grandfather was called Heinrich Marschall the Elder and was with a relative, Elisabeth born. Marshal from Herrengosserstedt, married. Friedrich Wilhelm's younger brother Caspar Heinrich Marschall lost his life while doing foreign military service in Baden . Hans Wilhelm Marschall was his uncle.

Live and act

Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall was instructed by private informators and would have gone to university, but due to the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War it never came to that. His father did not have the means to finance his son's studies. So he sent Friedrich Wilhelm, when he was 13 years old, to Weimar , where he became the page of Duke Albrecht of Saxony . He then entered the service of the Swedish Major General Arvid Wittenberg , whom he accompanied for several years. After Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony forbade his regional children from entering into foreign military service, Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall turned to the Electoral Saxon army and found a place there as a reformed cornet in the Gersdorff regiment. There he did not stay long, because after the Saxon elector had relaxed his instructions again, Marshal went back to the Swedish armed forces and fought successfully under the general Carl Gustav Wrangel . At the time of the Peace of Westphalia, Marshal had achieved the military rank of lieutenant. Since his regiment wound up, he retired from military service and went back to Herrengosserstedt. There his parents asked him for support in rebuilding their manor that had become desolate and desolate through the war . Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall therefore did not go back to the military, but stayed in Herrengosserstedt from then on. As a thank you for this, his father signed the Herrengosserstedt manor on him prematurely on September 17, 1653. The following year he graduated with Maria Catharina geb. von Werthern, youngest daughter of Georg von Werthern , owner of the county of Beichlingen and the rulership of Frohndorf , imperial inheritance keeper, chief court judge, etc., the union of marriage. He had twelve children with her, five sons and seven daughters. In 1667 his wife died giving birth to a son. He lived in mourning as a widower for three years, but the large number of children forced him to remarry. In August 1670 he concluded with Anna Dorothea geb. von Heynitz from the Löthain house , widow of Adolph von Dießkau zu Zöbigker, daughter of Dam Christoph von Heynitz auf Löthain, the marriage. He had three sons and two daughters with her and lived with her until his death. In 1687 he bought the Zöbigker manor from his second wife , which she had brought into the marriage. On this property he had the manor house rebuilt. Due to his stable financial situation, it was possible for him to look after several needy widows and orphans free of charge on his two estates.

At the time of his death, seven of his children were still alive. His body was buried on the evening of July 25, 1693 in the Trinity Church in Herrengosserstedt. Pastor Johann Caspar Beßer gave a sermon in his honor on August 22, 1693, which was published in Weissenfels .

His eldest son was Georg Friedrich Marschall, who was regimental quartermaster for the Elector of Brandenburg. In the fraternal division in 1694 he received the neglected manor Zöbigker, the second eldest son Adolph Wilhelm Marschall, who was a chamberlain in Weißenfels , took over the upper estates by drawing lots, Heinrich Christoph Marschall took over the estate of the Holy Cross and the youngest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall, got the lower estates in Herrengosserstedt.

The following poem was written by Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall:

The thrift is a big toll / whoever saves right collects:

But who does not want to stretch to the size of his blankets /

The expenditures are always increasing / And eats away for pleasure in freedom /

He soon loses his money and falls into ridicule and poverty.

literature

• Johann Caspar Beßer and Christian Günther: David Bifrons, or David who looks back and before himself in holy devotion, printed in the God- loving Adel picture of [...] Friedrich Wilhelm Marschalchn ... And in a Christian commemorative sermon, When the same was held on August 22nd, 1693 [...] to its final fame , Weißenfels o. J. [1693].

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter from father Heinrich Marschall from 1654.
2. ↑ Zöbigker Castle
3. ↑ reference