Jakob Friedrich von Briest
Jakob Friedrich Heinrich von Briest (born November 8, 1695 at Nennhausen Castle ; † June 18, 1768 ibid) was a Prussian major general and commander of the "Hessen-Darmstadt" infantry regiment .
Life
origin
He was the son of Georg Christoph von Briest (* November 27, 1660 - September 7, 1715) and his wife Anna, born von Stedern (* December 19, 1666 - September 16, 1762 in Spandau). His father was a gentleman on Nennhausen and Bamme and district administrator of the West Havel district.
Military career
Briest was employed in 1708 as a Junker in the infantry regiment "Margrave Heinrich" of the Prussian Army . By June 1724 he was promoted to captain and company commander . In the following years Briest asked several times for his dimission , which King Friedrich Wilhelm I refused each time. He took the regiment 1744/45 on Second Silesian War in part, was on May 27, 1751 regimental commander and finally received on 24 April 1756 the character as a major general in his resignation.
family
On July 17, 1729, he married Dorothea Regina von Düringshofen († August 3, 1737) from the Pinnow family. The couple had a daughter:
- Florine Juliane Friederike (* July 17, 1737 - January 18, 1808)
- ⚭ 1760 Georg Friedrich Ulrich von Bredow (1725–1777) (parents of Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Bredow )
- ⚭ 1780 Balthasar Otto Philipp von Bredow († 1780)
- ⚭ 1781 Gebhard Philipp Christoph von Bredow (1740–1795)
His second wife was Henriette Wilhelmine von Münchow (* 1721; † October 13, 1793) in 1743 . The couple had the following children:
- Friedrich Ludwig Christopher (around 1746; † July 8, 1763)
- Dorothea Elisabeth Wilhelmine († July 21, 1811) ⚭ July 7, 1770 with Friedrich Otto Gustav von Kleist (1744–1794), son of Franz Ulrich von Kleist
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 421, no. 437.
- Anton Balthasar König : Jakob Friedrich von Briest . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military people . tape I . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 261 ( Jakob Friedrich von Briest in the Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Briest, Jakob Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Briest, Jakob Friedrich Heinrich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian Major General, Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 12 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1695 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nennhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1768 |
| Place of death | Nennhausen |