Friedrich von Suckow

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Friedrich von Suckow , pseud .: Thorwald (born September 26, 1789 in Goldberg near Neubukow ; † January 10, 1854 in Wernigerode ; full name: Friedrich Joachim Philipp von Suckow ), was a German poet and narrator. He was the founder and editor of Sundine magazine .

Life

Suckow was born on Gut Goldberg. His father was a chief forester. Suckow first attended a boarding school in Barth with his siblings , then schools in Schwerin and Wismar . In 1803 he became a flag junior in the military in the Möllendorf garrison regiment. He took part as an ensign in the 1806 campaign and after the surrender near Prenzlau returned to his father, who lived in Wismar, where he also attended school again. When his brother Karl entered the military service in Württemberg in May 1808 , he went with them and took part as a lieutenant in the campaign against Tyrol in 1809 in Vorarlberg . Three years later he took part in the campaign against Russia for Baden . After his return he joined the Reiche'sche Jäger Battalion and became an officer . He took part in battles in Mecklenburg and Holland . In 1815 he became the commandant of Andernach . Here he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on July 28, 1815 , to whom he sent his work Nachklang der Waffen in December 1816 .

He soon gave up this position due to an eye problem and served as a gendarmerie lieutenant until 1826 , mainly in Western Pomerania , but was then dismissed from service due to illness. In the late summer of 1827 he moved to Stralsund . Together with Karl Lappe , he founded the weekly literary magazine Sundine , of which he became editor. Because of his journalistic activities he was threatened with a lawsuit in Stralsund, so that Suckow went to Greece via Berlin and Munich in May 1833 . In the Prussian homeland as a deserter wanted, he returned a year later and became one of military court to one year imprisonment condemned what he end of 1834 in Fort Prussia in Szczecin took. After half a year pardoned, he went back to Stralsund, where he worked as an editor for Sundine until 1844 . For health reasons, he moved to Nice that year and later to Wernigerode, where he succumbed to his ailments in 1854.

As a Freemason, Suckow was a member of the Great National Mother Lodge for the Three Worlds .

Works

  • Echoes of Arms (1816)
  • Harp songs (1826)
  • The flag songs of the old days (1838)

literature

Individual references / sources

  1. ^ Regest edition of letters to Goethe
  2. ^ Institute for German Nobility Research

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Suckow, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suckow, Friedrich Joachim Philipp von (full name); Sukkow; Thorwald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldberg near Neubukow
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1854
Place of death Wernigerode