Heinrich Karl von der Marwitz

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Heinrich Karl von der Marwitz (born April 6, 1680 in Sellin , † December 22, 1744 in Breslau ) was a Prussian infantry general and military governor of Breslau.

Life

origin

Heinrich Karl came from the von der Marwitz noble family from New Marks, with the parent company of the same name in Marwice near Landsberg an der Warthe . He was the son of Lieutenant General Kurt Hildebrand von der Marwitz and his wife Beate Luise, born von Derfflinger (1647–1715). This makes him a grandson of Field Marshal Georg von Derfflinger .

Military career

Marwitz was employed as an ensign in the Kurbrandenburg army in April 1697 . During the War of the Spanish Succession he advanced and fought, among others, in the Battle of Höchstädt . On December 27, 1713, he was awarded the Prussian indigenous status in Berlin as a lieutenant colonel in the “von Gersdorf” regiment . He fought in Pomerania in the siege of Stralsund. From 1720 Marwitz was a member of the Prussian Tobacco College of Friedrich Wilhelm I. On July 24, 1724 he was appointed head of the infantry regiment "von Dönhoff" and in this position promoted to major general on June 23, 1725 and on December 27, 1737 to lieutenant general. The king made Marwitz Knight of the Black Eagle Order on February 26, 1739 .

With Frederick the Great he went to the First Silesian War . He was seriously injured in the Battle of Mollwitz and left dead on the battlefield. However, he was found and can recover. In 1741 he came to Wroclaw as governor and commanded a corps with which he advanced as far as Moravia . On May 6th, 1742 he received the homage of the Upper Silesian Estates to the king in Neisse and on May 19th, 1742 the king appointed him general of the infantry. On March 18, 1743, he received the homage from the principalities of Opole, Ratibor Neisse, Troppau and Jägerndorf (Prussian share).

During the Second Silesian War, Marwitz commanded its own corps. On December 11, 1744, he was withdrawn from his command because of a flurry of blows. He died on December 22nd in Racibórz.

His successor as governor was Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau .

In 1717 he had bought the manor in Kemnitz from Levin Werner von Görne . King Friedrich Wilhelm I visited Kemnitz several times. In 1735 he sold Kemnitz to the district administrator Curdt Friedrich von Britzke and retired to his estate Gusow in the Lebus region, which he had acquired in 1724.

family

He married Albertine Eleonore von Wittenhorst (1693-1721), a daughter of Lieutenant General Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld . The couple had three daughters:

  • Wilhelmine Dorothee (April 1718 - January 16, 1787) ⚭ April 8, 1744 Count Otto Ludwig Conrad von Burghauß , Lieutenant Field Marshal (April 12, 1713 - May 31, 1795)
  • Sophie Amalie Albertine (February 16, 1718 - May 9, 1784) ⚭ August 14, 1744 Count Otto Christoph von Podewils (April 16, 1719 - March 12, 1781), Prussian diplomat
  • Friederike Caroline Henriette (* August 4, 1720; † April 22, 1763) ⚭ October 28, 1743 Albrecht Karl Friedrich von Schönburg -Waldenburg (1710–1765)

With her marriage, Wilhelmine Dorothee, who was also her sister's rival, had definitely evoked the king's wrath, because she had married a foreigner without permission and her share of the assets was expected to migrate. It was therefore excluded from inheritance (succession) on December 27, 1744.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, p. 297, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 .
  2. ^ General genealogical and state handbook. P. 489, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Marwitz, Heinrich Karl von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Sellin
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1744
Place of death Wroclaw