Georg Detlev von Flemming

Georg Detlev Count von Flemming

Georg Detlev Graf von Flemming ( Polish: Hrabia Jerzy Detloff Fleming ; born March 3, 1699 in Iven ; † December 10, 1771 in Warsaw ) was the Saxon-Polish general of the artillery from 1738 , from 1746 to 1764 Grand Treasurer of Lithuania and from 1766 Grand Voivode of Pomeranian .

Life

He was the son of the royal Prussian privy councilor Felix Friedrich Graf von Flemming (1661–1738) and Dorothea Sophia von Flemming (1673–1754), both from the Pomeranian noble family Flemming . His brother Karl Georg Friedrich von Flemming also became a general in the Polish-Saxon service and his brother Ernst Bogislaus von Flemming became a Prussian major general.

He entered the service of the Polish King Augustus the Strong and since 1724 commanded the “Queen” regiment in Warsaw. Successively he was married to two daughters of the Lithuanian Grand Chancellor Prince Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski . His daughter and sole heir, Countess Isabella Fortunata von Flemming , married her cousin Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski in 1761 and, as a writer, art collector and committed patriot, became one of the most popular figures in Polish history. Flemming supported the Czartoryskis in their rivalry against the Radziwiłł magnate family and also opposed the Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl .

Flemming was buried in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw in 1771 .

literature

• Memorable and useful Rheinischer antiquarius, volume 10, part 3. p.247ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flemming [1]  17). In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 6 . Altenburg 1858, p. 348-350 ( zeno.org ).
2. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables , new series. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt / Main 2005, Volume XXII, Plate 114