Georg Heimbert von Mackerodt

Georg Heimbert Mackerodt , von Mackerodt from 1738 , (* 1691 ; † 1743 ) was a Prussian lieutenant colonel and commander of the hussar regiment No. 5 .

Life

He entered the Saxon service in 1698 and switched to Prussian in 1717 . In 1718 he became Cornet in the Cuirassier Regiment (Sachsen-Weimar), in 1727 he was made captain of the Hussars , which later became Hussar Regiment No. 1 (Czettriz). On March 1, 1738, he was made major and was raised to the nobility by Friedrich Wilhelm I. In November 1741 Mackerodt became a lieutenant colonel in the first hussar regiment, which Friedrich II established. In 1742 he became commander of the Black Hussars and acquired the Pour le Mérite in June 1742 . He died in 1743 on the way to Silesia .

During his time he took part in the War of the Spanish Succession , in the Pomeranian Campaign in 1715/1716 and in the Rhine Campaign in 1734/1735.

family

He was married and had five children including:

• Charlotte Sophie (October 15, 1729 - July 30, 1794)

∞ Joachim Franz Heinrich von Kortzfleisch (April 1681 - May 17, 1742), died near Chotusitz

∞ Karl Siegmund von Eller († May 5, 1784), Prussian captain, heir to Pokraken

literature

• Anton Balthasar König : Georg Heimbert von Mackerodt . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 1 ( Georg Heimbert von Mackerodt at Wikisource [PDF]).
• Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great , p. 353 digitized
• Leopold von Ledebur , Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy, Volume 2, p. 69, digitized version of the Mackerodt family

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical-historical news , Volume 10, p. 454, digitized
2. ^ Georg Schmidt : The von Zabeltitz family, Zobeltitz , p. 115
3. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , Part 1, p. 283, digitized
4. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 1, 1892, p.283
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.