Friedrich Wilhelm von Eickstedt-Peterswald

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Eickstedt-Peterswald (born December 4, 1703 in Koblentz near Stettin , † April 10, 1772 in Berlin ) (count from 1753) was royal Prussian secret councilor and minister of war. He was also a "grand maitre de la garderobe", knight of the Order of St. John, Freemason , Chamberlain in the Prussian part of Western Pomerania as well as palace and castle seated in Koblentz, Gellin, Lebbehn and Grambow.

parents

He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Eickstedt '(May 15, 1655; † October 15, 1710) and his second wife Helene Juliane von Peterswald (January 10, 1680; † March 30, 1751). The father's first wife was Anna Sibylle von Stalburg (born January 27, 1636, † January 12, 1699). This first woman had already been widowed twice, her first husband was the cloth merchant Johann Martin du Fay (* May 10, 1632; † May 22, 1674), the second Johann Wilhelm Curtius (* 1599; † 1678) was English Minister-Resident and Baronet . She brought a lot of money into the marriage and thus enabled her husband to buy large estates in Pomerania; But children didn't come.

Life

He was well educated, had attended university and traveled. He began his career in the Hessian military service, but soon became chamberlain to Emperor Karl VII. When his maternal uncle - Karl Friedrich von Peterswald, British and Hanoverian chief stableman - died on January 24, 1753, he became his universal heir. He inherited the Pritzler and Quassel estates in Mecklenburg, which he sold for 120,000 thalers and instead acquired the Klein-Wirsewitz, Klein-Potsch and Kettenborn estates in Silesia.

On January 28, 1753, the Prussian King Friedrich II appointed him, his and his brother Philipp Maximilian von Eickstedt-Peterswalde (1701–1743) descendants to be counts, and they were given permission to use the name Peterswalde. In 1755 he became a royal Prussian secret councilor and minister of war.

He was buried on April 13th in the Marienkirche in Berlin .

Freemasons

Friedrich Wilhelm von Eickstedt was accepted as a member of the Aux trois globes lodge in 1741 and was first overseer on September 15, 1741 in Molsdorf when Duke Karl Friedrich von Sachsen-Meiningen was accepted by the reigning master of the chair Gustav Adolf von Gotter Charles Sarry , the lodge secretary Karl David Kircheisen and the court valet Jérémie Millenet were involved.

family

He was married twice. His first wife was Hippolyta Dorothea von Negendank (* July 4, 1711, † July 28, 1740). The marriage had a daughter:

  • Sophie Helene Eleonore (born February 21, 1735 - † March 22, 1813) ⚭ Karl August von Behr-Negendank (1714–1786), Commander of Wietersheim

His second wife Ernestine Karoline Friederike von Grumbkow (1718–1799) was a daughter of the Minister Philipp Otto von Grumbkow . The couple had the following children:

  • Karoline Ottilie Friederike (* February 24, 1745; † February 24, 1808) ⚭ 1771 Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold von der Recke (1746–1810)
  • Philippine Juliane (born August 10, 1742; † 1824)
⚭ Ernst Friedrich von Bismarck (* November 5, 1728; † February 18, 1775), captain of the castle of Schönhausen and Fischbeck, captain
⚭ Georg August von Wangenheim (1735–1796), Oberhofmarschall (parents of Georg Christian von Wangenheim )
⚭ Claus von der Betten (1742–1826), curator of the University of Göttingen and Hanover State and Cabinet Minister

literature

  • Johann Samuelersch ea: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts: In alphabetical order. Section 1, AG; Part 40, supplements: Eccard - Exeter and F - Fabricius , p. 36, digitized
  • Family book of the dynastic family of the von Eickstedt in Thuringia , p. 247f, digitized
  • Franz August von Etzel : History of the great national mother lodge of the Prussian states called to the three worlds. Sixth edition, Denter & Nicolas, Berlin 1903 ( digitized version )
  • Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in old Prussia 1738–1806: The lodges in Berlin . Studienverlag Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5199-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daughter of Hieronymus von Stalburg, City School in Frankfurt am Main, and Juliana Veronica Kellner
  2. ↑ Fay, Johann Martin du. Hessian biography (as of May 10, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Great-uncle of Otto von Bismarck Epitaph
  4. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, Volume 6, p. 153
  5. ↑ Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 92 at Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Eickstedt-Peterswald, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eickstedt, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Prussian secret council of state and minister of war
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblentz near Stettin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1772
Place of death Berlin