Gustav Adolf von Varendorff

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustav Adolf v. Varendorf

Gustav Adolf von Varendorf (f) (born June 26, 1739 at Gut Rieste ; † May 25, 1812 at Gut Tolkschuby ) was a cartographer and officer , most recently Major General , in the service of the Royal Danish . A comprehensive set of maps of the Duchy of Holstein , the Hochstift Lübeck and the Hanseatic City of Hamburg can be traced back to him.

Life

Gustav Adolf von Varendorff was born in 1739 on Gut Rieste near Bramsche in the Osnabrück region. He came from a branch of the Westphalian noble family of the Lords of Varendorff , who had been on Gut Varendorf near Rieste in today's Lower Saxony since the 17th century and had also been naturalized in Denmark since 1774 . His father was Johan Dietrich Georg von Varendorff, Herr auf Rieste, his mother was Maria Odilia Klara von Freytag . He was married to Sophie von Warnstedt . Gustav Adolf von Varendorff embarked on a military career after his youth as a squire at the Braunschweiger Hof in 1757. In 1758 he took part in the Battle of Krefeld on the part of the Electorate of Braunschweig and became second lieutenant in the ducal body regiment. A few years later, Gustav Adolf von Varendorff went into the service of the Kingdom of Denmark and turned to Norway in 1773 , where he became captain of the Nordenfjeldske Infantry Regiment and later also participated in the mapping of Norway. In 1777 he was an officer in the Oldenburg and later in the Schleswig infantry regiment . Gustav Adolf von Varendorff took part in the Russo-Swedish War on the side of Denmark in 1788 as adjutant general of the Schleswig - Holstein governor Karl von Hessen-Kassel . In the years 1789 to 1797, the Schleswig Infantry Regiment, under his leadership as major , compiled a comprehensive set of maps of the Duchy of Holstein , the Hochstift Lübeck and the Hanseatic City of Hamburg . In 1806 Gustav Adolf von Varendorff was appointed as a colonel commander of the Schleswig Infantry Regiment, led commands on the Eider and the Danish Baltic Sea islands of Møn , Lolland and Falster in 1805 and 1807 and was promoted to major general in 1808 . In 1810 Gustav Adolf von Varendorff was awarded the Danish Dannebrogorden (1810 knight, 1812 commander). He died on May 25, 1812 on Gut Tolkschuby near Flensburg . His descendants were also in royal Danish service.

Works

In the years 1789 to 1796, the Schleswig Infantry Regiment compiled the " Topographical Military Chart of the Duchy of Holstein " ("Varendorf Maps") on behalf of the Schleswig-Holstein governor Karl von Hessen-Kassel under the direction of Major Gustav Adolf von Varendorff . It was a military map series of 68 individual maps in the original scale 1: 26.293. One geographic mile corresponded to a Hamburg or Holstein foot on the map. The topographical survey of Holstein was followed by a cartography by the Hochstift Lübeck and the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The recordings were made before coupling .

literature

  • Political journal with advertisement of learned and other things , year 1788, 2nd volume, 12th item: I. Authentic journal of the Danish campaign in Sweden, Hamburg 1788
  • Rudolf vom Bruch: The knight seats of the Principality of Osnabrück. (Reprint: H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-87898-384-0 )
  • Roland Asch, Heike Düselder, Helmut Ottenjan and others: Nobility in the countryside - culture and rule of the nobility between the Weser and Ems, 16th to 18th centuries. Cloppenburg 2004
  • Wolfgang Torge : History of Geodesy in Germany, Berlin and New York 2007
  • Capitain von Schröder: History of the Schleswig Infantry Regiment, since its creation in: C. Heiberg: Schleswig-Holsteinische Blätter für 1836, Third Volume, 2nd Issue (1937), Altona 1836
  • Jörn Meiners: Claus Hinrich Christensen (1768–1841): Fortifications, dikes, locks in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, Heide (Holstein) 1995
  • Carl Johann Anker: Biografiske data om 330 norske: norskfødte eller for nogen tid i den norske armé ansatte generalspersoner, 1628–1885, Kristiania 1885
  • Ulrich Lange: History of Schleswig-Holstein: from the beginnings to the present, Neumünster 1996

Web links

Commons : Maps by Gustav Adolf von Varendorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Carl Johann Anker: Biografiske data om 330 norske etc. generalspersoner 1628 - 1885, p. 323.
  2. ↑ a b Capitain von Schröder: History of the Schleswig Infantry Regiment, since its creation in: Schleswig-Holsteinische Blätter für 1836, Third Volume, 2nd Issue (1927), p. 366: who gives 1811 as the year of death.
  3. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Torge: History of geodesy in Germany. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019056-7 , ISBN 978-3-11-019056-4 , page 92.
  4. ↑ a b Ulrich Lange: History of Schleswig-Holstein: from the beginnings to the present, p. 312.
  5. ^ Gut Varendorf
  6. ↑ M. Gritzner, Ad. Hildebrandt: The flourishing nobility of the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg, p. 21: "... naturalized in Denmark in 1778."
  7. ↑ Rudolf v. Bruch: Knight Seats of the Principality of Osnabrück, p. 291.
  8. Jump up ↑ Political Journal and Advertisements of Learned and Other Things , year 1788, Volume 2, Item 12: I. Authentisches Journal des Dänischen Feldzuges in Schweden, p. 1262.
  9. ↑ Capitain von Schröder: History of the Schleswig Infantry Regiment, since its creation in: Schleswig-Holsteinische Blätter für 1836, third volume, 2nd issue (1927), p. 365.
  10. ↑ Jörn Meiners: Claus Hinrich Christensen (1768-1841), p. 111.
  11. ^ Royal Danish Court and State Calendar: State Handbook of the Danish Monarchy for the year 1841, Sp. 64.
  12. ↑ Royal Danish Court and State Calendar: State Handbook of the Danish Monarchy for the year 1862, Col. 30.
  13. ↑ Law and Ministerial Gazette for the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg 1854, p. 218.
personal data
SURNAME Varendorff, Gustav Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish major
DATE OF BIRTH before 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH to Gut Rieste
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1812
Place of death on Gut Tolkschuby