Friedrich von Winterfeld (Major General)

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Friedrich von Winterfeld (* 1666 ; † October 1, 1707 with Menin ) was a royal Danish major general and chief of the Oldenburg cuirassier regiment.

His parents were the governor Freiherr Helmuth Otto von Winterfeld , Freiherr auf Wintersborg (* 1617; † February 17, 1694) and his second wife, Freiin Helene Juliane von Ulsparre (1638-1683).

Life

On June 9, 1694, he became a captain in the Dragoons' Leibregiment. On March 31, 1696 he received his farewell from there. But already on May 25, 1696 he received a new position as a major in the 2nd Fühnische Reiter Regiment. When his brother Christian Ernst died in 1695, he inherited his Wustrow estate . He sold this on December 8, 1696 to Lieutenant General Samuel Christopher von Plessen . This sale repeatedly led to disputes over the next few years.

On September 20, 1701 he was transferred to the 2nd Jutland cavalry regiment. The regiment came in English pay in 1702 and was sent to Brabant. In Brabant he changed on February 7, 1702 as a lieutenant colonel in the 5th Jutland cavalry regiment. But already on December 2nd, 1702 he came into the Holsteiner Reiterregiment. He was wounded at Höchstädt on August 13, 1704. On March 1, 1707 he was promoted to colonel and chief of the Oldenburg Cuirassier Regiment. He died of a hot fever on October 1, 1707 during the siege of Menin .

family

He was married twice. In 1684 he married Sofie Steensen (* 1671; † April 1695), the daughter of the budget council Erik Steensen . She had the daughter:

  • Juliane Christine (* 1695; † March 5, 1734) ∞ Eiler Holck (* February 3, 1695; † May 23, 1740)

After the death of his first wife, he married on December 29, 1695 in the St. Hans Church in Odense Kristine Charlotte von Schult (* 1677; † February 7, 1753) daughter of the privy councilor and governor of Fühnen Dietrich Schult von der Lüh (* 1644 ; † November 30, 1704) and Sophie von Gabel (1655–1719). The couple had eight children including:

  • Sophie Frederikke (* 1697; † January 28, 1769) ∞ Carl Wilhelm Giedde, (1698–1757), 1742 Freiherr von Wintersborg
  • Ermegaard Sophie (January 1, 1702 - March 25, 1756) ∞ Count Christian Christopher Holck (* August 24, 1698 - September 23, 1774), Danish lieutenant general
  • Margrethe Benedicte (* 1706; † October 19, 1751) ∞ Georg Wilhelm von Pogrell (* 1696; † February 10, 1746)

The widow asked for a pension on August 24, 1712, on June 7, 1714, she received another 200 thalers and on May 22, 1719 she received the pension that her mother had previously received, another 200 thalers. With Friedrich von Winterfeld , the Danish line died out, but the name was continued as the liege count Holck-Winterfeld.

literature

  • Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773 in Oldenburger Jahrbücher, 1940/41, p. 81
  • Ludwig Gustav von Winterfeld-Damerow, History of the Family von Winterfeld , Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 217ff, digitized
  • Fritz von Sell, Meklenburg troops in Danish service , digitized version

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peder C. Rhode, Samlinger til de Danske øers Baalands og Falsters Historia , Volume 1, p. 455, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Winterfeld, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Danish major general and chief of the Oldenburg cuirassier regiment
DATE OF BIRTH 1666
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1707
Place of death at menin