Georg Wilhelm von der Goltz
Georg Wilhelm von der Goltz (born June 22, 1721 in Klausdorf , † April 24, 1767 in Thorn ) was a Polish lieutenant general and diplomat .
Life
family
Georg Wilhelm came from the Neumark noble family von der Goltz . He was a grandson of the Brandenburg Major General and Russian Lieutenant Field Marshal Heinrich von der Goltz and son of the Polish Starost Heinrich von der Goltz (1685–1765) and his wife Hedwig Margarethe Dorpusch-Dorpowska († 1768).
career
Goltz first entered the Electoral Saxon service, where he was last as a captain in the Garde du Corps . When he moved to the Polish Crown Army, he advanced to colonel in 1748 and major general in 1750 , and finally became head of the Crown Prince Regiment on foot. In 1760 he had received the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky . He took part in the Seven Years' War and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1763 .
With the peace of Hubertusburg he was of August III. sent to Berlin as envoy of the crown . However, his mission there ended with the king's death that same year. He then went to Paris in 1765 , where he bought some plantations on Saint Domingue and also sent a secretary there.
In March 1767 he headed the Thorn Confederation , which formulated demands for religious freedom for Protestants in Poland.
Shortly afterwards he died, his successor as leader of the Confederation was his brother August , who was Major General and Starost von Graudenz .
Goltz was the heir to Klausdorf, Selm and Schloppe , as well as Starost von Tolkenit and Tuchel .
Marriage and offspring
Goltz married Anna Elisabeth Rosine (Anna) Torche de La Serre (1724-1790) in 1744, daughter of the Electorate-Polish Lieutenant General Franz Torche de La Serre († before 1755) and Eleanor von Wast († 1738). The marriage resulted in two sons and three daughters:
- Johann George von der Goltz († 1767)
- Henriette Wilhelmine Elisabeth von der Goltz (* 1749) ⚭ 1769 Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von der Osten called Sacken (1741–1793), Prussian district administrator
- Anna Eleonore Magdalena von der Goltz (* 1753) ⚭ Christian Bernhard von Sydow (1736–1794)
- August Wilhelm Ludwig von der Goltz (1754–1822)
- ⚭ I. 1778 Elisabeth Juliane Eleonore von Zastrow
- ⚭ II. NN von Scholten (1762–1802)
- Marie Friederike Josepha von der Goltz (1761–1822) ⚭ 1779 Leopold Konrad von der Goltz († 1813)
literature
- Continued new genealogical-historical news. 73rd part, Leipzig 1768, pp. 680-681.
- Karl Friedrich Pauli : Lives of great heroes of the present war , Volume 7, Halle 1761, pp. 96–97
- Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New episode. Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 2005, Volume XXII., Tfl. 158.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Real-Zeitung for the year 1765, that is an extract from the latest world history with explanations. Erlangen 1765, p. 309.
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SURNAME | Goltz, Georg Wilhelm von der |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish general and diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1721 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Klausdorf |
DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1767 |
Place of death | Thorn |