Heinrich Wilhelm zu Solms-Wildenfels-Laubach

Heinrich Wilhelm zu Solms-Wildenfels-Laubach (born May 27, 1675 in Wildenfels , † September 15, 1741 in Wartenberg ) was a Prussian major general.

He was the youngest son of Johann Friedrich zu Solms-Wildenfels-Laubach (March 1, 1625 - December 10, 1696) and Benigna von Promnitz (March 24, 1648 - November 9, 1702).

Life

In 1680 he and his brothers von Wildenfels were sent to Laubach to escape the plague. In 1687 she went to Strasbourg , from where they had to flee again because the county of Solms owed the empire 30,000 thalers in contributions and they were threatened with arrest. In 1692 he went to Halle, where his uncle Major General Ulrich Hipparchos von Promnitz met him in 1693 . He took him to the Champagne as a volunteer . But when his uncle suddenly died in 1695, he came into the regiment of Count Alexander von Dohna . He went to the Dutch War with the regiment and was present at the siege of Huy. He was promoted to Kornet and came to the corps of General von Heyden with which he besieged Namur. When the war ended in 1697, he returned to Berlin as a lieutenant. In 1698 he became captain of the infantry in the Nassau-Weilburg regiment of the Upper Rhine district , but he continued to serve in Brandenburg.

In 1700 he became a lieutenant colonel of the district regiment and in 1701 he became a colonel. In the same year he took part in the coronation of King Friedrich and was appointed by him as a Prussian lieutenant colonel. He fought in the War of Spanish Succession in front of Landau in the Palatinate , which was conquered on September 10, 1702. His regiment should then provide the crew there. But he returned to Laubach because his mother had died and the inheritance had to be settled. The King of Prussia established a company in which his son, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm , served as a commoner. Heinrich Wilhelm zu Solms was appointed sergeant in the company. The future king was still connected to him later and called him my dear sergeant .

On October 15, 1709, he bought the Wildenfels estate . In the same year he became major general. Already in 1701 Emperor Joseph I and later Charles VI had it again . appointed chamberlain. After the death of his first wife in 1712, Count Heinrich Wilhelm inherited the Scheliken, Medlanken and Glückshöfel estates. In 1722 he bought the Sachsenfeld estate near Schwarzenberg in the mountains from the Feuerling heirs and in 1724 the Steinbrücken estate not far from Gera from the Counts Reuss zu Köstritz.

When the last Count of Sunnegk Julius Gottlieb, of the Protestant line, died in Bielitz in Upper Silesia in 1727, he was without descendants. Other relatives did not want to take over the indebted rule either. Their evangelical residents wanted to avoid coming under Catholic rule. Through the persuasion of his brothers and the Duke of Braunschweig, the count was persuaded to accept the inheritance. He moved into the rule in 1728 and modernized the country. His son Friedrich Ludwig, who was in Russian service, was sent to Silesia in 1740 to administer the Wartenberg rule for the Russian court . It had belonged to the Duke of Courland Ernst Johann von Biron before he was sent into exile; before that, however, all of his goods were confiscated. The Empress Anna gave away the rule at their Field Marshal Munnich , who in turn was father of Friedrich Ludwig. Friedrich Ludwig was then ambassador to the royal Polish court and the field marshal asked the count to take care of the Wartenberg rule. He died there on September 15, 1741. As early as 1739 he had sold the Wildenfels reign for 80,000 thalers to his son Heinrich Karl.

family

He was married twice. He married his first wife in Koenigsberg in 1703. It was Helene Dorothee Truchseß zu Waldburg (* May 4, 1680, † July 11, 1712) daughter of Major General Wolfgang Christoph Truchsess von Waldburg . Her mother Luise Katharina von Rautter († June 4, 1703) had inherited the Friedrichsgraben - a canal between Labiau and Königsberg - and received the customs duties. After the death of Helene Dorothee , King Friedrich Wilhelm I bought the rights for 30,000 thalers.

The couple had the following children:

• Friederike Wilhelmine Louise (December 14, 1703 - November 22, 1728)
• Friedrich Magnus (born January 24, 1705 - † March 19, 1711)
• Heinrich Carl (born February 28, 1706 7; † October 1746) ⚭ Albertine Charlotte von Bylandt -Palsterkamp (born November 18, 1721; † January 8, 1799)
• Helene Agnes (born May 29, 1707; † October 13, 1735) ⚭ August 11, 1729 Heinrich Leopold, Count von Reichenbach-Goschütz (born March 19, 1705; † April 9, 1775)
• Friedrich Ludwig (September 2, 1708; † August 27, 1789) ⚭ Luise Dorothea von Münnich (* September 30, 1710; † December 23, 1775)
• Sophie Charlotte (November 30, 1709 - January 27, 1786) nun in Herford
• Eleonore Amalie (February 17, 1711; † March 4, 1761) ⚭ 1742 (divorce 1749) Johann Karl von Morawitzky (April 11, 1711; † 1782)
• Friedrich Christoph (* May 11, 1712 - † May 11, 1792)

⚭ January 17, 1750 Countess Johanna Eleonore Josepha Henckel von Donnersmarck (born April 15, 1710 - † May 6, 1774) (widow of Christian-Ernst von Solms-Baruth (1706–1748))

⚭ April 15, 1777 Countess Johanna Marie Friederike von Löser (* October 4, 1741; † January 2, 1807)

In 1713 he married again. His second wife was Sophie Albertine zu Dohna (* August 12, 1674, † September 23, 1746) daughter of Friedrich von Dohna .

• Friederike Amalie Albertine (* May 28, 1714; † April 9, 1755) ⚭ Christoph II. Von Dohna-Schlodien (1702–1762)

literature

• Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach: History of the Count and Princely House of Solms . C. Adelmann, Frankfurt am Main 1865, p. 416 ( digitized version [accessed February 2, 2014]).

Web links

• family tree
• Family tree Solms