Hartwig Karl von Wartenberg

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Hartwig Karl von Wartenberg (1711–1757)

Hartwig Karl von Wartenberg (born April 3, 1711 in Uentze, Prignitz ; † May 2, 1757 near Alt-Bunzlau ) was the royal Prussian major general and chief of the hussar regiment No. 3.

Life

He was the son of Rittmeister Alexander Wichart von Wartenberg and Katharina Dorothea von Platen. He was first homeschooled and joined the Cadet Corps in 1725. In 1730 he was in the entourage of Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia) at the large troop display in Mühlberg . In 1731 he was promoted to second lieutenant , in the same year he enjoyed the distinction of being allowed to go to Russia with royal permission to help introduce the Prussian army there under Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich . He immediately became Russian Premier Lieutenant and was part of the Russian campaigns against the Poles, Tatars and Turks from 1732 to 1739.

Frederick II called him back when he ascended the throne and transferred him as a major to the Natzmer'schen Uhlans, which had been established in 1740 and became Hussar Regiment No. 4 in 1742 . On March 2, 1741, he was transferred to the Hussar Regiment No. 3 as a lieutenant colonel . In 1744 he acquired the order Pour le Mérite through the battle near Plesse, and after he was in the corps of General Ernst Christoph von Nassau on many occasions in the following year had particularly distinguished, on April 20, 1745 he was appointed Colonel and Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 3 . On September 3, 1751 he was promoted to major general.

He had gained such a reputation that the king had several officers from the Brandenburg and Magdeburg cavalry regiments assigned to the Wartenberg Hussar Regiment every year in order to improve his equestrian service. In 1750 he received Gut Golmenglin in Zerbstschen (today a district of Grimme ), which he sold to Count von Melsch with permission. He got the preamble of the Essen monastery and a saber richly set with stones at the troop display. In 1755 he bought the Schönfeld estate from a Count von Pückler.

When the Seven Years' War broke out in 1756, Wartenberg and his regiment were in the vanguard of the Army Department of General Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin . This service was also assigned to him and his regiment in 1757 when the army under Schwerin moved into Bohemia. On May 2nd, he came across 1,500 Pandours near Alt-Bunzlau on the Elbe. He attacked it, but a musket ball ended his life here, to the regret of the king. He was buried in Alt-Bunzlau.

He was depicted as a figure on the plinth of the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great under the lime trees .

family

He was engaged to Baroness Rudolphine Wilhelmine Charlotte von Dyhrn (later Countess Henckel ) when he died. He bequeathed all of his fortune to her.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wartenberg, Hartwig Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wartenberg, Hartwig Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Uentze, Prignitz
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1757
Place of death near Alt-Bunzlau