Georg Heinrich von Borcke

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Georg Heinrich von Borcke (born October 3, 1686 at Gut Altwigshagen ; † April 9, 1747 ibid) was a Prussian lieutenant general , chief of infantry regiment No. 29 and heir to Altwigshagen and Krinicke.

Life

origin

His parents were the royal Prussian district administrator Jürgen Heinrich von Borcke (1660–1725) and his wife Ottilia Dorothea, née von Quast (1648–1703) from the Garz family in the Prignitz.

Military career

Borcke first attended high school in Stettin and was accepted into the cuirassier regiment "du Rosey" in 1702, in which his father also served at the time. He was first sergeant and from 1702 cornet . But when his father said goodbye in 1704, he too left. In 1705 Borcke took part in the campaign on the Rhine as a volunteer. In 1706 the Duke of Württemberg took him over as captain of the grenadiers of his bodyguard. In the War of the Spanish Succession he fought at Malplaquet and at the siege of Dornick. There he was seriously injured. Borcke recovered and became a major in 1709 .

In 1713 he returned to Brandenburg and in the following year became lieutenant colonel in the infantry regiment "von Schlabrendorf" . With this he took part in the Pomeranian campaign in 1715/1716 . During the war he took the Swedish hill at Anklam by surprise with only thirty men. In 1717 he was transferred to the infantry regiment "von Wylich and Lottum" , where he became a colonel on June 21, 1723 and moved with the regiment to his new quarters in Ruppin. In 1733, Crown Prince Friedrich became his head of the regiment and in 1734 Borcke was in his wake at the troop display in Mühlberg . When General Field Marshal Finck von Finckenstein died in 1735 , as the oldest colonel, he would usually have become the regiment chief. Instead, the commander of the regiment Andreas Joachim von Kleist received this. As compensation, Borcke was promised the next vacant regiment, he also became provost of Kolberg and received a benefice in Magdeburg with the permission to sell it. In 1736 Borcke received the "von Bardeleben" fusilier regiment and was promoted to major general on July 19, 1738 .

After Frederick II was crowned king in 1740, he converted the fusilier regiment into a musket regiment . In September of the same year he sent Borcke with 1200 grenadiers and 400 dragoons to the diocese of Liège to secure the Prussian claims to the glory of Herstal . In 1741 he returned to Brandenburg with the troops and moved to Bohemia with the king in 1742 in the First Silesian War . On May 17, 1742 he fought successfully in the battle of Chotusitz . On May 25, 1743 the king appointed him lieutenant general (retroactively to May 26, 1742). In the Second Silesian War he came back to Bohemia and became commandant of Wroclaw , where he organized the newly established hussar units. After the war he got permission to retire to his property. There he died on April 9, 1747.

family

Georg Heinrich von Borcke was married to Maria Magdalena von Podewils (born September 13, 1697, † March 27, 1785) from the Rützenhagen family since 1713 . She was the daughter of Georg Joachim von Podewils and Anna Maria von Wedel from the Schön family. The couple had the following children:

  • Joachim Heinrich (1713–1733)
  • Martin Philipp († 1714)
  • Erdmann Kurt (* July 24, 1716; † December 1, 1788) ⚭ Marie Sophie von Wedel from the Latzko house (* June 24, 1718; † February 16, 1788)
  • Hermine Charlotta Sophie Henriette (* 1723)
⚭ 1744 Colonel Sergeant Philipp Georg von Borcke (1704–1745)
⚭ Colonel von Meseberg († 1781)

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SURNAME Borcke, Georg Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 29
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Altwigshagen
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1747
Place of death Gut Altwigshagen