Friedrich Wilhelm von Witzleben

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Witzleben (born November 25, 1714 in Wohlmirstedt ; † April 7, 1791 ibid) was the Saxon manor owner of the blue court in Wohlmirstedt and the Saxon-Weißenfels senior steward.

He came from the Thuringian noble family von Witzleben and was the eldest son of Hartmann Ludwig von Witzleben (1676–1735) and the Florentine Katharine von Geusau from the Heygendorf family (1689–1762).

Marriage and offspring

Friedrich Wilhelm married Charlotte Dorothea von Pfuhl in Stedten in 1739 . The following children were born from the marriage:

  1. Karl (1742-1820)
  2. Wilhelmine Dorothee (1748–1826), married in 1765 to Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen (1739–1778), lord of Steinburg and Taufhardt, and in second marriage to Hans Christian Friedrich von Hagen

After the death of his first wife, he married Christine Amalie Countess von der Schulenburg (1732–1781), a daughter of Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, in Wolfsburg in 1753 . The children from this marriage are:

  1. Friedrich Ludwig von Witzleben (1755–1830)
  2. Friederike Amalie (1762–1814), married in 1792 to Friedrich Georg von Graffen
  3. Georg Hartmann von Witzleben (1766–1841)
  4. August von Witzleben (1768–1821)
  5. Christiane (1770-1818)

literature

  • Noble paperback . Gotha 1903, p. 927.
  • History of the von Witzleben family , Volume 2, family tree
personal data
SURNAME Witzleben, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Wohlmirstedt
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1791
Place of death Wohlmirstedt