Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Elder

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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Elder (born May 20, 1734 in Grünthal in the Mark Brandenburg , † March 15, 1794 in Glatz ) was adjutant general of Frederick the Great and governor of the county of Glatz .

origin

His parents were the royal Prussian district administrator Karl Ludwig von Götzen (* April 14, 1697; † May 22, 1746) - heir to Gründel, Kraatz and Tempelfelde - and his wife Juliane Charlotte von Sydow (* February 11, 1694; † 12. December 1758) from the Sydow family. General Karl Ludwig von Goetzen was his brother.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Elder Ä. came from the Protestant line of Götzen, which was still based in the Mark Brandenburg at that time . At the age of 16 he joined the Guard Battalion . After he had distinguished himself at the Battle of Leuthen , the king appointed him wing adjutant, which he remained for 25 years. In 1762 he received the Order pour le mérite .

After the Catholic Silesian line of the Counts of Götzen in the male line with Johann Joseph ( Leonhard ) von Götzen died out in 1771 and the County of Glatz fell to Prussia after the Peace of Hubertusburg in 1763, the feudal estates of Scharfeneck Rudelsdorf, Nieder-Walditz and a portion of Tuntschendorf fell returned to King Frederick the Great as a completed fief. He gave it to his adjutant general Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Elder. Ä. from the evangelical line , who is said to have saved his king from captivity in the battle of Kunersdorf . He also appointed him governor of County Glatz.

By marrying his daughters to Count Stillfried and Magnis , he came into close contact with the nobility residing in the county.

family

Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Elder Ä. was first married to Christine Dorothea Louise von Holwede , widow of Count Friedrich August Wilhelm von Mellin (* October 20, 1729, † December 27, 1783). From this marriage came the children:

  • Louise (1763–1848) - married Anton Alexander von Magnis, the Catholic imperial count and founder of the Eckersdorfer line of the imperial counts of Magnis, in 1785
  • Elisabeth (1765–1802) - married Count Johann Joseph II. Von Stillfried-Rattonitz (1762–1805) on Neurode in 1789
  • Friedrich Wilhelm the Elder J. (1767-1820), Lieutenant General and Governor of Silesia
  • Adolf Sigismund († November 29, 1847), unmarried, lieutenant in the Katte Dragoon Regiment, landscape director. After his father's death inherited the Scharfeneck rule ; In 1818, together with his brother Friedrich Wilhelm, he acquired the Tschorbeney estate
  • Auguste († 1813 in Breslau), unmarried

After Louise's death, he married Countess Friederike von Reichenbach-Goschütz (1759–1841) for the second time . From this marriage came the children:

  • Wilhelmine (born August 16, 1789) - married the Imperial Privy Councilor and Lieutenant Field Marshal August Pecaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg on September 28, 1825
  • Curt ( Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Heinrich ) von Götzen (* July 17, 1791, † February 5, 1863 in Görlitz), progenitor of the subsequent Prussian line. He was married several times:
⚭ October 2, 1816 (divorced) Countess Henriette Charlotte Luise Mathilde von Reichenbach-Goschütz (February 15, 1799 - April 10, 1858), daughter of Count Heinrich Leopold von Reichenbach-Goschütz
⚭ October 9, 1834 Molly Virginie Frederike Masseli (* February 7, 1809; † March 29, 1872) daughter of the Royal Prussian Judicial and Commission Councilor Cajetan Masseli and Wilhelmine Rittler

Shortly after the death of their father in 1794, Friedrich Wilhelm, Adolf Sigismund and Curt von Götzen were raised to the status of hereditary count by King Friedrich Wilhelm II .

literature

  • Richard Plümicke: The large estate of the last imperial count von Götzen from the Silesian line and his heirs in 1771 . In: Glatzer Heimatblätter 1942, No. 2, pp. 49–54
  • Hugo von Wiese and Kaiserswaldau: Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Götzen - Silesia's hero in the French period 1806 to 1807 . Berlin 1902, pp. 1-2
  • Freiherr Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p.252

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, Volume 31, p.283
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, Volume 28, p.281
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, volume 30, p.316
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, 1923, p. 231
personal data
SURNAME Götzen, Friedrich Wilhelm von der Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goetzen, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Adjutant General, Governor of County Glatz
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünthal , Mark Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1794
Place of death Bald