George Heinrich von Nitzschwitz

George Heinrich von Nitzschwitz , also modernized Georg Heinrich von Nischwitz , (* 1669 ; † October 23, 1736 in Dresden ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon governor of Hayn and Oschatz as well as chamberlain at the Dresden court and owner of the manor of Adelsdorf .

Life

He came from the noble family von Nitzschwitz , whose ancestral seat was Nischwitz near Wurzen and belonged to the Saxon nobility . Like many of his family members, George Heinrich embarked on an administrative career in the service of the Wettins . After initially working for some time in Dresden as the chamberlain of Christiane Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth , the wife of Elector-King Augustus the Strong , he was appointed governor of the Hayn and Oschatz offices in the Meißnisches Kreis of the Electorate of Saxony.

George Heinrich von Nitzschwitz married a Countess von Beichlingen in Adelsdorf (near Lampertswalde ) and thus became the owner of this property. He died in Günther Michaelis' house on Pirnaische Gasse in Dresden and was buried on the morning of October 26, 1736 in the new churchyard of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden in front of the Pirnaischer Tor .

After his death he left the sons Johann Gotthelf, Carl Friedrich, Christian Wilhelm, Gottfried Heinrich and Wolf Gottlob as heirs.

literature

• Royal Polish and Elector Sächsischer Hoff- und Staats-Calendar to the year 1728. In it the royal and printzliche Hoff-Staat, Collegia and Militar - beings are described in the most exact way. In addition, all Galla days, church festivals and everything that has been notable in Chur-Fürstl in recent years. Landen and to find the way forward , 1728.
• Heinrich August Verlohren, Max Barthold, Franz Verlohren: Stammregister and chronicle of the Electoral and Royal Saxon Army from 1670 to the beginning of the twentieth century , Degener, 1983, p. 379.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of death of Kirchner Johann Gottfried Michaelis on the Holy Cross in Dresden from August 27, 1737.