Georg Adolf von Mikrander

Micrander coin from 1691

Georg Adolf von Mikrander (* 1639 ; † 1723 ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , governor of Frankfurt an der Oder and heir to Tammendorf .

Life

Georg Adolf's father was the imperial and Swedish colonel Wilhelm Mikrander.

Mikrander was initially in the Swedish service, where he commanded a company. In 1663 he changed to the imperial service. He successfully led a free company against the Turks in Hungary. Field Marshal Annibale Gonzaga then brought him into his service, and soon he was commanding a German force serving Spain and Milan . There he rose to lieutenant colonel until 1673. In 1674 he went into service as a colonel in Brandenburg . When the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm marched on the Rhine in 1674, the affairs of government were led by Johann Georg von Anhalt , Mikrander was assigned to him. When the Swedes invaded, Mikrander was sent to negotiate with Field Marshal Carl Gustav Wrangel . On July 18, 1677 he received a regiment on foot. He took part in the siege of Greifswald , which surrendered on November 8, 1678. On February 4, 1678, the elector appointed him commandant of Anklam , and on November 14, he officially became the city's first commandant. He had to vacate the position on November 2, 1679 after the Brandenburgers withdrew from Swedish Pomerania . In return, the elector appointed him commandant of Frankfurt. He was then repeatedly sent to negotiations with the emperor , the Swedish generals and other princely courts. He turned out to be a skilled negotiator. On April 20, 1682, the emperor raised him to the baron status, which Elector Friedrich Wilhelm recognized on August 29 of that year.

On June 14, 1684, Mikrander became governor of the Schanze Friedrichsburg am Pregel and in 1686 he was commissioned with Colonel Joachim Balthasar von Dewitz to lead troops to the Hanseatic city of Hamburg , which was besieged by the Danish king . On April 21, 1689 he was promoted to major general and on April 29, 1699 he became governor of Kolberg. There the knight academy was closed, at the request of the estates it could reopen. He then became head of the knight academy in Pomerania, which was transferred to the Berlin cadet institute in 1716.

On January 29, 1701 he was still lieutenant general and was thus on an equal footing with Prince Leopold of Dessau . He was still governor of Kolberg, but on October 16, 1713 he had to hand over his office to General Karl Friedrich von Schlippenbach for reasons of age . For this he became governor of Frankfurt an der Oder. He died in 1723.

Mikrander was a highly educated man and an excellent draftsman. It was said that his drawings were of the quality of copperplate engravings.

family

He was married to Juliane Katharina Christiane von Klingsporn from the house Blaustein, daughter of Johann von Klingsporn († 1685), she was the widow of Karl Karlick von Nezetyk. He had two daughters with her.

• Juliane Christina Catharina ⚭ Friedrich Heinrich von Bartholdi (1677–1730) (son of the Berlin mayor Christian Friedrich Bartholdi (1644–1707) and brother of the diplomat Christian Friedrich von Bartholdi (1668–1714))
• Sophie Louise Wilhelmine ⚭ Albrecht Gottlob Gans Edler zu Putlitz

His sister († 1710) was married to the Prussian Colonel Idel Ehrenreich von Pfuel . Since Mikrander left no sons, he adopted his son-in-law Bartholdi in July 1712 under the name of Bartholdi Freiherr von Mikrander .

literature

• Adolf Friedrich Johannes von Crousaz : History of the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps. 1857, appendix p. 5, digitized
• Ernst Friedländer :  Micrander, Georg Adolf Freiherr v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 701-703.
• Anton Balthasar König : Georg Adolf von Mikrander . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 46 ( Georg Adolf von Mikrander at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense : Biographical Monuments. Volume 2, 1825, p. 56, ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Kurd von Schöning : Historical-biographical news on the history of the Brandenburg-Prussian artillery. Volume 1, 1844, p. 87, ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, 1865, p. 286 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz. Volume 2, 1855, p. 608, ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ General legal orculum. Volume 7, 1749, p. 494, ( digitized version ).
6. ^ Diplomatic messages from noble families, as those ... concerning: V. Berlepsch. v. Belly. v. Bünau. v. Dürfeld. v. Einsiedel. v. Erdmannsdorf. v. Geusau. v. Globig. v. Heynitz. v. Lindenau. v. Loeben. Pope v. Ohäyn. v. Puddle. Noble vd Planitz. v. Poellnitz. v. Rothe. vd Sahle. Sahrer v. Sahr. v. Schoenberg. v. Thuna. v. Troyff. v. Wilcke. and from Wurmb . Intelligence comtoir; Hahmannsche Buchhandlung; Beygangische Buchhandlung, 1791, p. 89.