Jobst Moritz von Offen

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Jobst Moritz von Offen (* December 7, 1635 , † 1692 ) was a lieutenant general in Braunschweig .

Life

origin

Jobst Moritz was a member of the Lippe noble family von Offen . His parents were Jobst Bernhard von Offen († 1654), heir to Entrup and 1629-1635 to Schieder and Hedwig Werpup adH Ullenhausen († 1656). The chief chamberlain to Princess Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz Anna Katharina von Offen (1624–1702) and the chief chamberlain of the Duchess of Mecklenburg , Anna Maria von Offen were his sisters.

Career

From his father's inheritance he took over the Entrup family estate in 1654 when he was serving as a page at the Saxon court in Dresden . In 1670 Offen was used as a lieutenant colonel in Spanish military services in Brabant . A little later he transferred to Hanoverian services, where in 1673 he became regiment chief of the Reuter regiment R 3-A with the rank of colonel . As major general in 1675 he reported to the Lippe government that he had compared himself with his siblings because of Entrup. In 1677 he took over the body regiment and in 1679 moved his permanent residence to Hanover . There he temporarily owned the Hemmingen estate . He subsequently sold Entrup to Christoph von Donop in 1685 . Until 1688 he took part with his regiment in the Turkish War and in 1690 advanced to lieutenant general.

family

Offen was first married to Anna Sabina von Schilder adH Himmighausen (1650–1680), followed by a second marriage to Hedwig Sopie von Kracht (1633–1694), daughter of the captain of the Küstrin Fortress , Hildebrand von Kracht (1573–1638) a. He left two daughters and maybe a son.

  1. Sophia Caroline (Eva Antoinette) von Offen (1669–1726), ⚭ Count Ernst August von Platen-Hallermund (1674–1726), heir-general postmaster of curb-Brunswick, upper chamberlain, real secret council, head captain and Drost zu Grohnde u. Ohsen, heir to Linden
  2. Eva Antoinette von Offen († after 1725), ⚭ around 1700 Baron Alexandre de Lorraine de Beauvernois († before 1725), natural son of Abbot Philippe de Lorraine from the de Guise family
  3. (?) Georg Ludwig von Off (l) en († 1733), imperial field marshal lieutenant, owner of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 2 , ⚭ Countess Maria Franziska von Rothal († 1746)

literature

  • Julius von Oeynhausen: The sex of the open in Lippischen. In: Der Deutsche Herold 3, 1872, pp. 83-84 , 89-91 , especially pp. 90-91
  • Bernhard von Poten : The generals of the Royal Hanoverian Army and their regular troops (= supplement to the military weekly paper , 1903, sixth and seventh issue). Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1903, pp. 243–334, especially p. 253

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Hufschmidt: Noble women in the Weser area between 1570 and 1700 , publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 22 15, 2001, p. 75 , ISBN 978-3-402-06798-7
  2. ↑ Jens Kaestner: Stammreihen-Database of the German Aristocracy ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stammreihen.de
  3. ↑ Friedrich Albrecht von der Schulenburg: The Duchess of Ahlden ancestral mother of the royal houses of Hanover and Prussia , Leipzig 1852, p. 29. (short biography)
  4. ↑ Carl Günther Ludovici : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , Volume 28, Leipzig and Halle 1741, p. 337.
  5. ↑ Eduard Maria Oettinger: Moniteur des Dates: biographical-genealogical-historical world register Volume 2, Dresden 1867, p. 137.
  6. ^ History of Hanover in the age of the ninth cure and the English succession 1674–1714, p. 407.
  7. ↑ The German Herald: magazine for coat of arms, seal u. Family Studies , Volume 3, Berlin 1872, p. 62.
  8. ^ Genealogical-historical news , Volume 29, Leipzig 1746, pp. 1045-1046.
personal data
SURNAME Open, Jobst Moritz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION lieutenant general in curb-Brunswick
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1635
DATE OF DEATH 1692