Heinrich August Marschalk von Ostheim

Heinrich August Marschalk von Ostheim (* 1726 , † 1809 ) was a German civil servant and officer.

Life

Heinrich August Marschalk von Ostheim was the son of Johann Heinrich Marschalk von Ostheim zu Marisfeld (1685–1731) and his wife Elisabetha Dorothea Sophia, born von Bibra (1699–1756). After the early death of the father, the mother moved with the children to Bamberg and converted to Catholicism there in 1734.

Heinrich August Marschalk von Ostheim initially embarked on a military career. He became a soldier in Prussian, then Electoral Mainz and in 1745 in Bamberg services. He rose to the top of the Bamberg monastery and was supreme commander of Kronach fortress from 1770 to 1775 . He then served in the same function in Forchheim Fortress until 1796 . On February 2, 1786 he was promoted to major general. On July 23, 1787 he received the supreme command of all Bamberg troops.

In addition to his military career, he entered the Teutonic Order in 1763 . 1778–1784 he was Komtur der Kommende Ramersdorf and 1792–1794 the Teutonic Order Commander St. Aegidius (Aachen) . Contrary to his religious vows, he had a relationship with his niece, the canoness Karolina Wilhelmine Luise Güß von Güßenberg (approx. 1740-1812). Their son Franz Friedrich (1768–1812) sprang from this relationship. It was initially called "von Ostheim". Since not only the Marisfeld branch of the Marschalk von Ostheim family was threatened with extinction, Heinrich August Marschalk von Ostheim asked for a dispensation from his religious vows at the end of the 18th century . After the dispensation had taken place, he married his mother in 1799 and recognized paternity. Thereafter, however, the dispensation was revoked. After one line of the Marschalk von Ostheim had already died out in 1782, the next one died out in 1803. In 1804 the dispensation was renewed by the clergy so that the fief and property should remain in Catholic hands. Franz Friedrich's inheritance claims, however, remain controversial and the subject of decades of legal dispute with the cognatic heirs.

literature

• Claus Fackler: Stiftsadel and Spiritual Territories 1670–1803, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8306-7268-5 , p. 171.