Friedrich von Derfflinger
Friedrich von Derfflinger (born April 1, 1663 in Gusow ; † January 29, 1724 ibid) was a Prussian lieutenant general . He belonged to the advisory group of Friedrich Wilhelm I , the "soldier king".
Life
origin
Friedrich was the son of General Field Marshal Georg von Derfflinger from Brandenburg and his second wife Barbara Rosina von Beeren from the Klein-Beeren family.
Military career
Derfflinger was first brought up by private tutors, then studied from 1676 with his older brother Karl, who died in 1686 as a volunteer of the Brandenburg troops at the siege of Ofen , in Frankfurt an der Oder and in Tübingen . Friedrich then traveled through France, Holland, England and Italy. In Malta he entered the Venetian service and made it to lieutenant colonel under Field Marshal Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck in the Great Turkish War . After his return he was taken over by the Brandenburg Infantry Regiment Margrave Philipp in the same rank on October 24, 1688 . After the conquest of Bonn , Derfflinger became a colonel on September 15, 1689 , but in 1691, at the insistence of his needy father, he left the army before the end of the Palatinate War of Succession .
After his father's death, Derfflinger returned to the army in 1695 and was enfeoffed on January 4, 1696 with the goods of his father, Gusow, Platkow , Hermersdorf and Klessin . On December 10, 1704, King Frederick I appointed him major general and chief of the newly established Derfflinger dragoon regiment and decorated him with the order de la Générosité .
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm drew the educated and economically successful officer close to him. Derfflinger was one of only three companions with whom he retired to Wusterhausen Castle immediately after his accession to the throne on February 27, 1713 with a programmatic intention . The king had promoted him to lieutenant general on the same day. Derfflinger, who "was constantly around him" in the following years, became one of his advisors, developing in detail the idea of the canton system to solve the problems of recruit replacement. It is not known why the plans were postponed. Derfflinger did not live to see it later on.
family
Derfflinger married Ursula Johanna von Osterhausen (1669–1740) on June 27, 1695 in Zerbst. She was the daughter of the Saxon chief tax collector in Altenburg, Hans Georg von Osterhausen. Since the marriage remained childless, the sex died out.
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 78, no. 125.
- Anton Balthasar König : Friedrich von Derfflinger . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 347 ( Friedrich von Derfflinger at Wikisource [PDF]).
Individual proof and note
- ↑ In the systematic D III
- ↑ The other two were Colonels Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben and Joachim Ernst Sigismund von Krummensee (1656–1724), see Carl Hinrichs : Friedrich Wilhelm I.'s entry into government. In: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU-Berlin (ed.): Year book for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 5, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1956, pp. 183–225, here p. 192, footnote 45
- ↑ On Derflinger's importance and the canton system, see Carl Hinrichs: Friedrich Wilhelm I's entry into government. In: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU-Berlin (Ed.): Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 5, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1956, pp. 183-225, here p. 221f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derfflinger, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1663 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gusow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1724 |
| Place of death | Gusow |