Georg-Dietrich von Puttkamer

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Georg-Dietrich Freiherr von Puttkamer

Georg Dietrich Freiherr von Puttkamer (* 2. February 1681 in Wollin at Stolp ; † 15. September 1754 ) was a royal Polish lieutenant general , district and squire to Wollin from the Pomeranian noble family Puttkamer .

family

Georg-Dietrich Freiherr von Puttkamer was the second-born son of the landlord to Wollin Fabian Gottlieb von Puttkamer († May 3, 1684 as a result of a duel ) and Helen Gottliebe von Puttkamer, nee. von Polenz († 1690 in Wollin). Von Puttkamer was married twice and had ten children (five daughters and five sons). His first marriage to the Irishwoman Anna Catharine von Strasbourg, the adopted daughter of the Imperial Russian General Patrick Gordon (under the name of Strasbourg ), had a daughter and two sons, including Alexander Dietrich von Puttkamer , who became the district administrator of the Stolp district. From his second marriage to Esther Anna von Somnitz , the daughter of the landlord Peter-Christoph von Somnitz zu Bewersdorf and his wife Sophie, geb. von Versen (from the house of Tietzow ) had four daughters and three sons.

Life

Esther Anna von Somnitz , the second wife and mother of seven children

As the second-born son, Puttkamer decided at the age of sixteen for military service as a soldier; initially he was in Brandenburg , from 1699 in Danish and from 1702 in Russian pay. As a Russian officer, he also took part in the Great Northern War . In 1706 von Puttkamer switched to Polish military service and was a Polish lieutenant general in the Polish armed forces until he retired from active service in 1741. In 1714, he received the express permission of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm to move to Poland . Puttkamer is considered to be the star of Sokolow.

Due to the fortune acquired in various foreign military services, von Puttkamer was financially able to acquire all shares of the father's Pomeranian family estate Wollin for himself by 1715 and to build a representative manor house and corresponding farm buildings there.

The personality of Puttkamers was described by contemporary witnesses as follows:

Wollin manor, ancestral home of all barons v. Puttkamer

“Georg was a peculiar character. He combined a deeply religious sense with genuinely Russian despotic arbitrariness. Generously against the church and carefully striving to improve the school lessons on his estates, he countered every encroachment of the clergy into their landlord and household rights with energy, especially since he rejected a Zealot who was very inclined to devotional devotions to his second wife through excessive zeal brought almost death close, the paths in an extremely drastic manner. That the frictions between the two parties did not cease is demonstrated and a. the general's motion of 1732, in which he asked for Wolin to be sent to Zezenow because he wanted nothing more to do with the Stojentin pastor - a motion that was rejected - and the clergy's complaint of November 14, 1742 against him because of disruption of the service. "

The general was also considered to be a man of “ Herculean ” physical strength, who is said to have killed many wolves on his extensive lands - armed only with a stick ax .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , p. 598
personal data
SURNAME Puttkamer, Georg-Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puttkamer, Georg-Dietrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and Royal Polish General of the Infantry
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Wollin at Stolp
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1754
Place of death Wollin at Stolp