Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel

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Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel

Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel (born April 14, 1690 in Vatterode , † October 14, 1745 in Potsdam ) was a royal Prussian lieutenant general and holder of the Order of the Black Eagle .

His parents were Haubold von Einsiedel and Katharina Maria von Spitznasen . His father was the Saxon-Weissenfels office governor in Freiberg .

Life

In 1707 he joined the Lange Kerls in the life guards of Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1715 he was already a premier lieutenant and took part in the Pomeranian campaign . On April 30, 1723 he became captain and official of Derenburg in Halberstadt. He quickly rose to lieutenant colonel and was one of the officers allowed to keep the king company at his sickbed. Under Frederick II , he was appointed major general in 1740 and head of a battalion of the Grenadier Guard .

In 1741 he was in the Genthin camp with Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau . In 1744 he was promoted to lieutenant general and received the Order of the Black Eagle in August 1744 . After the conquest of Prague, he was used as a commander. The Prussians had to leave the city on November 26th because the Austrians had cut off supplies. The bad morale - many soldiers were pressed Bohemia -, the poor supply situation and constant attacks by Austrian stripes led to a catastrophic return march with many desertions . Many cannons could not be taken along, others were left on the way, even the supply wagons (baggage) were lost. But the general survived the subsequent court martial quite well. He remained chief of the regiment, but did not take part in the campaign that followed and died in his house in Berlin. He was buried in Wiepersdorf.

Possessions

In 1712 Bärwalde came into the possession of Count Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel, and in 1734 he bought the little country Bärwalde and united the villages Bärwalde, Weißen, Rinow, Herbersdorf, Kossin, Meinsdorf and Wiepersdorf in one estate, which later became the residence of Ludwig Achim and Bettina von Arnim and one of the centers of romanticism in Brandenburg.

He was particularly respected by King Friedrich Wilhelm, who gave him a place in the royal pheasant garden in 1721 and the Wartenberg house in 1726. He built an inn there and also got permission to brew beer and make brandy. His successor as innkeeper was the sculptor Johann Peter Benkert , who named the Gasthof Zum Einsiedler and created an inn sign that is now in the Potsdam Museum. The inn later developed into the prestigious Hotel Zum Einsiedler , which was particularly well-known for large wedding parties. It was completely destroyed in April 1945, only the Benkert inn sign could be recovered from the rubble.

family

He had been married to Margarethe Tugendreich von Rochow from the Reckahn family since December 8, 1721 . She was the widow of Hans Friedrich von Thümen. Two sons died young. The couple had one other son and two daughters.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm (September 8, 1722 - September 16, 1744) Prussian captain ⚭ February 6, 1742 Eva Luise Eleonore von Schlomach (September 26, 1726 - November 5, 1813) (The widow married in 1745 through the mediation of the king Colonel Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (1707–1766))
  • Sophia Dorothea (* January 8, 1729; †?)
⚭ 1744 Lieutenant Colonel Karl Wilhelm von Jeetze (* July 1, 1710; † May 7, 1753)
⚭ Rittmeister von Grotthus (divorced)
  • Charlotte Margarete (* August 18, 1730; † December 23, 1808) ⚭ December 18, 1746 GL Ernst Christoph Wilhelm von Bardeleben (* 1724; † April 9, 1784) son of Major General Hans Christoph von Bardeleben
  • NN (Charlotte Margarete?) ⚭ von Bardeleben, Guard Major

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 400 ( Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • KW von Schöning, The Great Guard and Lieutenant General von Einsiedel in Volkskalender 1857

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurd Wolfgang von Schöning : Historical-biographical news on the history of the Brandenburg-Prussian artillery. Volume 1, 1844, p. 441, digitized .
  2. ↑ Potsdam's latest news on the reconstruction of the Hotel Zum Einsiedler
  3. ^ Adolph Friedrich August von Rochow: News on the history of the family of those von Rochow. 1861, p. 115, digitized .
  4. ^ Association for the history of Potsdam: communications of the association for the history of Potsdam. Volume 3, 1867, p. 432 ff., Digitized .
  5. ↑ History of the von Kleist family. Tychow-Dubberower line. Berlin 1882, p. 159, digitized .
personal data
SURNAME Einsiedel, Gottfried Emanuel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Prussian lieutenant general and bearer of the Order of the Black Eagle
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Vatterode
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1745
Place of death Potsdam