Joachim Christian von Tresckow

Joachim Friedrich Christian von Tresckow (born September 28, 1698 in Niegripp near Magdeburg , † April 20, 1762 in Neisse ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and chief of infantry regiment No. 32 .

Life

origin

He comes from the old Brandenburg noble family von Tresckow from the house of Niegripp. His parents were Berthold Christian von Teschkow (1659-1725) and his wife Rosine Tugendreich, née von der Groeben (1645-1715).

Military career

From 1728 he served as a lieutenant in the Potsdam Grenadiers ( Infantry Regiment No. 6 ). Several years in Russian service in the Preobrazhensky regiment followed . There he was able to distinguish himself in the fight against the Turks and Tatars. So in March 1739 he became a colonel and then court hunter master. From April 1743 back in Prussian service, he took part as a colonel and wing adjutant in the Second Silesian War and the Battle of Kesselsdorf .

On September 6, 1746, King Frederick II awarded him the order Pour le Mérite and the Drostei Berum in East Frisia, and on May 17, 1747 he appointed him commander of Neisse , the most important fortress in Silesia at the time, and chief of infantry regiment No. 32 , with which he took part in the Seven Years War .

Tresckow was promoted to major general in 1747 and lieutenant general in 1757 after the battle of Prague and was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle in the same year .

Deutsch-Jägel Castle after Duncker

After participating in the Battle of Kolin, he was in Austrian captivity from June 18, 1757 to March 1758. On April 16, 1758 he succeeded in retaking the Schweidnitz fortress , but a little later, as the commander of the city of Neisse, he himself came under Austrian siege. An attempt by the Austrians to bribe his wife, Sophie Catharine Helene von Falkenberg (1716–1761), who was outside of Neisse on her Gut Deutsch-Jägel district of Strehlen , failed. Tresckow defended the city of Neisse with the greatest care until the Prussian relief armies approached on November 5th and the Austrians abandoned the siege.

family

He was married to Sophie Catharine Helene von Falkenberg (1716–1761). The couple had the following children:

• Carl Peter (1742–1811), Prussian major general ⚭ 1806 Christine Sophie von Diericke (daughter of Christian Friedrich von Diericke )
• Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1743)
• Sophie Helene (1746–1764) ⚭ 1763 Arnd Heinrich von Tresckow († 1771)
• Joachim Christian (1748–1802) ⚭ Elisabeth Caroline Becker (1758–1849)
• Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand (1752–1804) 1794–1804 Lord Mayor of Breslau ⚭ 1785 Elisabeth von Wostrowsky († 1831), parents of Wilhelm von Tresckow
• Leopold Otto (1754–1815) ⚭ Dorothea Müller
• Philippine Luise († Jung)

literature

• Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz : History of the Seven Years' War. Berlin 1791, 1, 200
• Anton Balthasar König : Biographical encyclopedia of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service. Volume 4, Wever, Berlin 1791. Digitized
• Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical-literary manual of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century. Volume 14, Leipzig 1810
• Bernhard von Poten :  Tresckow, Joachim Christian von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 576 f.
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , pp. 345–346, no. 366 (with picture).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1904. p. 833.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1023 ( limited preview in Google Book search).