Hellmuth Otto von Bassewitz

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Hellmuth Otto von Bassewitz (* 1673 in Mecklenburg ; † December 20, 1736 in Nuremberg ) was General Feldzeugmeister and Commanding General of the Franconian Empire .

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Hellmuth Otto von Bassewitz was born in 1673 as the third son of Abraham von Bassewitz (1625–1675) and his wife Dorothea vd Kettenburg . Von Bassewitz entered the military service of the Principality of Bayreuth . There he received the order "de la sincerité" in 1707 when he was captain in the Boyneburg regiment , and thus belongs to the first knights of this Brandenburg-Bayreuth order.

In 1727 von Bassewitz became major general and in 1734 real general field master and commanding general of all troops in the Franconian Empire . During the War of the Polish Succession , he commanded the Frankish armed forces under Prince Eugene of Savoy , which was marched into the fortress of Philippsburg as an occupation from 1733–1734 . There were three infantry regiments of over 1,000 men each. One regiment each of cuirassiers and dragoons and a number of artillery pieces were in the army of Prince Eugene. The three infantry regiments were able to withdraw with their weapons after the fortress surrendered.

Von Bassewitz remained unmarried and left no descendants. He sold his inheritance claim to Gut Hohen Luckow to his brother Christoph von Bassewitz and used the proceeds to donate a scholarship. Von Bassewitz was buried in the Protestant parish church of St. Bartholomäus in the Nuremberg district of Wöhrd . An epitaph was erected over his grave in the church , adorned with a relief chest image. In addition, his pedigree was attached up to the 32 series ( great, great, great-grandparents ) with 62 family crests. This monument was renovated by the von Bassewitz family in 1902 , but this valuable and artistically unique memorial was destroyed in the heavy bombing raids on Nuremberg during World War II .

There is a large oil painting that hangs in the church in Hohen Luckow . It depicts General Hellmuth Otto von Bassewitz kneeling on a battlefield against the background of a burning city. Documents about him from old district files in Nuremberg and Ansbach were collected and noted in Nuremberg in 1941 by State Archives Director Solleder, City Archives Director Pfeiffer and archivist Spiess. The research of the Bayreuth high school professor Karl Müssel also brought a lot of material about von Bassewitz to light.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L. Schneider: The book of the Red Eagle Order, 1st edition, 1857.
  2. ↑ http://www.kirchentour.de/index.php?site=detail&ID=268 .
  3. ↑ Jacob C. Beck, August J. Burtorff: Historisch und Geographisches Allgemeine Lexicon, 3rd edition, 1742, p. 811.
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SURNAME Bassewitz, Hellmuth Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General Feldzeugmeister and Commanding General of the Franconian Reichskreis
DATE OF BIRTH 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1736
Place of death Nuremberg