Hartwig Erdmann from Eichendorff

This article deals with Governor Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff. On Lieutenant General Hartwig Erdmann Julius Rudolph von Eichendorff (1860–1944) see Hartwig von Eichendorff .

Coat of arms of those von Eichendorff

Baron Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff (* between 1620 and 1630 in Zerbow , Neumark ; † March 1, 1683 at Schloss Deutsch Krawarn ) was governor and imperial and royal councilor in the Duchy of Jägerndorf .

Life

The Thirty Years' War , which began in 1618 and the plague in 1631, only two of the Eichendorff noble family survived on Zerbow : Rittmeister Jakob and his nephew Hartwig Erdmann, one of the four sons of Burchard von Eichendorff. The Rittmeister Jakob von Eichendorff was in imperial service in the Cürassier regiment Jung-Nassau and was posted to Silesia . There he married Veronika Maria Freiin Sędziwój von Skorkau, heir to the diplomat and alchemist Michał Sędziwój , in 1626 , and after her death inherited the goods Deutsch Krawarn and Kauthen near Troppau .

Hartwig Erdmann moved to his uncle in Upper Silesia , first serving as an ensign in the regiment of Moritz August von Rochow and then for three and a half years in the regiment of Colonel Johann Christoph Ranfft von Wiesenthal. After the end of the Thirty Years War he left the Ranff Regiment on June 12, 1649 in Klosterneuburg . In 1650 he traveled to Zerbow, settled the father's estate and sold the goods there.

When Jakob von Eichendorff died childless in Krawarn on January 23, 1667, his nephew Hartwig Erdmann became the sole heir to the Moravian possessions. In January 1655 he bought the Sedlnitz estate . In 1657 he was taken over by Emperor Ferdinand III. accepted into the Moravian knighthood and on January 31, 1679, Emperor Leopold I appointed him imperial council. After converting to the Catholic denomination, Hartwig Erdmann received the title of baron in Vienna in 1679 and later became the prince-bishop's council in Moravia.

At that time, the Princes of Liechtenstein had possessions in Silesia, Moravia and Bohemia . Prince Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein had been the supreme sovereign of Jägerndorf and Troppau since 1632 , where Jakob and his nephew Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff had their property. In 1682, Hartwig Erdmann Freiherr von Eichendorff was appointed governor of the principality of Jägerndorf .

Hartwig Erdmann's first marriage (1654–1680) was married to Sidonie Angelika Elisabeth Freiin von Larisch auf Ellguth (1630–1680) and the second to Anna Helene Freiin von Praschma . His eighth generation descendants were the poet lawyers Wilhelm and Joseph von Eichendorff and their sister Luise von Eichendorff . Further descendants were Hermann , Hartwig and Karl von Eichendorff .

literature

• Maria Dalisch: The man in the yellow Koller . In: Aurora. A romantic almanac 11/1912, pp. 38–41.
• Augustin Bogislaus Weltzel : History of the noble and baronial family of Eichendorff . Self-published, Ratibor 1876, pp. 3–8.