Johan Reinhold von Trautvetter

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Johan Reinhold von Trautvetter (* in Livonia ; † 1741 buried in the village church of Groß Mohrdorf ( Western Pomerania )) was a Swedish lieutenant general and baron .

family

The father Hermann Georg Trautvetter (also Trautwetter ; * in Helmstedt ; † after 1698) came from Germany to what was then the Swedish province of Livonia, where he was Secretary of the Reichsrat and President Lars Flemming for some time. Then he received the supervision of the property of the queen widow Hedwig Eleonora . In 1678 he was a member of the guardianship council in the Wendish district and in 1681 was an assessor in the court court of Dorpat . Together with his brother, Lieutenant Johann Heinrich Trautvetter, he was raised to the Swedish nobility on May 31, 1684.

Johan Reinhold was born in Livonia in the second half of the 17th century. He was unmarried and there is no information about children.

Military career

In the Northern War , the Livonia-born Trautvetter served in the Swedish cavalry .

The first historical mention is the appointment of Trautvetter to major in the Dragoons regiment of Colonel Henrik Otto Albedyll in 1701. In the same regiment in 1703 he was appointed lieutenant colonel .

In 1704 he was transferred to the Dragoon Regiment of Major General Johan August Meijerfeldt (the elder) . In this regiment he took part in the campaign of Karl XII. against Saxony and Russia in 1706. As commanding officer, he stormed the city of Nyasvish with 500 dragoons on March 13, 1706 and drove out the Cossack garrison. After a short but fierce battle, the remaining Cossacks surrendered . Trautvetter did not stay long in Nyasvish. After he had sent the wounded to the main army of the Swedish king, he rode with the majority of his riders towards Lyachavichy and began to siege them . The commandant of the fortress surrendered on May 2, when the victorious Swedes arrived under General Carl Gustaf Creutz to support the besiegers.

Hohendorf Castle

In November 1712 Trautvetter was made a colonel and transferred to General Carl Magnus Stuart's cavalry regiment . On April 14, 1715 he was appointed major general and commanding colonel of the body regiment of the queen widow Hedwig Eleonora.

In September 1719, Trautvetter was appointed commandant of Stralsund and promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. On May 2, 1720 he was raised to the rank of baron and appointed ambassador extraordinary to the Swedish Crown in the Kingdom of Prussia .

On December 20, 1732, Trautvetter retired from military service and retired in Hohendorf near Groß Mohrdorf . In 1733 he founded the Majorat von Hohendorf and his manor house later became the Hohendorf Castle .

The exact date of his death in 1741 is unknown. He was buried in the church of Groß Mohrdorf. A mausoleum of his descendants still exists today and is called the Klot-Trautvetter burial chapel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personhistorisk tidskrift
  2. ↑ Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Vol. 4, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1864, p. 413 ( digitized from runeberg.org ).
  3. ↑ von Adlersfeld p. 495
  4. ^ Adlersfeld p. 506
  5. ^ Church of Groß Mohrdorf

literature

personal data
SURNAME Trautvetter, Johan Reinhold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish lieutenant general and baron
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Livonia
DATE OF DEATH 1741