Gottlieb Christian von Ramdohr

Regiment Cheuses, from 1757 Dreves

Gottlieb Christian von Ramdohr (born October 13, 1700 in Celle ; † in 1773 ) was a colonel from the Electorate of Hanover and in 1758 he was in command of the city of Roermond for a short time .

family

Gottlieb Christian was the fifth of seven children of the secret chamber councilor Albrecht Andreas von Ramdohr (born October 3, 1649, Braunschweig, † March 6, 1730, Stade ) and his second wife Sarah Bacmeister (born March 15, 1670, Celle; † 16. March 1744, Stade, buried in the Ramdohrschen hereditary burial place in Dörverden ), a daughter of the Latvian court counselor Georg Michael Bacmeister (1625–1678) and Dorothea Engelbrecht , born. He was a grandson of from Aschersleben originating Andreas Ramdohr , a nephew of Johann Christian Bacmeister and a great-uncle of the art critic Basil of Ramdohr .

Krough regiment, Fabrice from 1752

Life

Apparently, Gottlieb Christian's military career began in his early youth, beginning around 1717 with a unit of the Hanoverian garrison regiments in Stade. Around 1722 he was an ensign in the infantry regiment under Detlev von Ranzow zu Stade, as can be seen from contemporary interrogations about the Jacob Ovens affair with the Oberdeichin sector .

In 1747, according to Sichart's history of the Royal Hanoverian Army , Ramdohr found himself as a captain in the Cheuses regiment . According to Sichart and other historical sources, Ramdohr was wounded on July 2, 1747 in the battle of Lauffeldt and in the same year found himself on a billing list in Sittard-Geleen as Brigademajor of the staff .

In July 1750 he became a Major for the regiment of Colonel Christian Ludwig von Krough, where he was promoted in the war under Colonel Georg Philipp von Fabrice on May 25, 1757 to the titular lieutenant colonel. On July 18, 1757, Ramdohr took up a vacant position as a real lieutenant colonel at Dreves , the regiment in which he had previously served. In it he consequently took part in the Battle of Krefeld in 1758 , which was successful for the Allies but costly for the Dreves Regiment itself. In the course of the advance of the troops after the battle, the Hereditary Prince had the French-occupied city of Roermond in Gelderland take. In the attack on the defenders under the command of Governor Boccard and an Austrian Colonel Müller (1 battalion infantry regiment de La Marche , 2 battalions militia, the Volontaires de Hainaut and some Austrian battalions) on June 27, 1758 were on the Allied side next to two squadrons Prussian Malachowski Hussars and some Hessian units each involved 1 battalion of the Electorate of Hanover infantry regiments Post and Dreves . The Dreves regiment took numerous prisoners during the battle for the outer works of the city fortifications. After two hours of bombardment, Boccard gave Shamade the drums and the garrison was granted military honors to retreat to Liège . To secure the city and the looted rich magazines, the Hereditary Prince left a weak crew under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Gottlieb Christian von Ramdohr, but they were withdrawn around 3 a.m. on the night of July 18 and the rest of the army headed for them Dülken was put on the march. The city of Roermond again fell into French hands, but was again occupied from July 24th to August 3rd by the Hanoverian Colonel Heinrich Wilhelm von Linstow .

Gottlieb Christian von Ramdohr retired on December 17, 1759 with the character of a colonel. In 1769 he is a Colonel a. D. in Celle. He probably died there in 1773, no information is available about any descendants.

literature

• Friedrich von Wissel: History of the establishment of all the Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg troops, together with their flags, standards and kettledrum currencies ... by Friedrich von Wissel. At present, however, continued, improved and ... increased by Georg von Wissel. Royal Court printer Johann Dietrich Schultze, Celle 1786, p. 676 f., 868
• Sichart : History of the Royal Hanoverian Army. Volume 1 , Volume 2 Volume 3 , Volume 4 .

Web links

• Project Kronoskaf private site about events in 1758 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thomas B. Morgenstern : Jacob Ovens - Deichbauer or Betrüger . medien-contor-elbe, Stade 2009, ISBN 978-3-938097-18-2 ( reading sample ). See note on the secret chamber councilor Ramdohr, whom I have very much appreciated and his sons, one here in Stade in the garrison and the other in the secret chamber in Hanover ...
2. ↑ Jobelmann, WH (1880): The Oberdeichinspector Jakob Owens, a contribution to the history of the storm surge in 1717 and the origin of the Königl. Wischhafen office in the state of Kehdingen , in: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden and of the State of Hadeln zu Stade; Stade, 1880, VII, p. 106 Digitized , accessed April 6, 2020
3. ^ Jacques Bernard, Henri Basnage: Mercure, Lettres historiques: contenant ce qui se passe de plus important ... Volume 123 . Walter Gruyter, The Hague 1747, p. 209 f . ( books.google.de ).
4. ↑ Inkwartieringslijsten ten behoeve van te Sittard gelegerde troepen, 1747–1753. archivesportaleurope.net, accessed April 6, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Ingo Kroll: Combat calendar of the Allied Army 1757-1762 . Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-8113-8 , pp. 28 f . ( books.google.de ).
6. ^ F. Wissel, on page 676
7. ^ E. von Schaumburg: The battle near Crefeld on June 23, 1758, in the annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old archdiocese of Cologne . tape 5 . Langen'sche Buchdruckerei, Cologne 1857, p. 158 f., 197 f . ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ private website on events in 1758
9. ^ Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Volume 43, 1909, p. 114 ( books.google.de ).
10. ↑ E. von Schaumburg: Hanoverian advertisements: of all kinds of things, the publication of which is necessary and useful to the common being . tape 9 . Hanover 1761, p. 6th f . ( books.google.de ).
11. ^ F. Wissel, on page 869.