Johann Asmus von Esebeck

Johann Asmus Freiherr von Esebeck (born August 25, 1711 in Groß Salza ; † July 12, 1770 at the Ingweilerhof ) was Minister of State and Cabinet of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken . He is the tribe of the baronial lines of the Esebeck family .

Life

Esebeck was a son of the Anhalt head stable master Philipp Jordan von Esebeck, who died in 1746 . He came to the court of the Prince of Palatinate-Zweibrücken when he was young, where he became a real secret councilor and budget minister and in 1740 he was promoted to the rank of baron. In 1737 he was a councilor and chamberlain, in 1756 a privy councilor, and when he died in 1770 he was also first state and cabinet minister. In 1760, Count Palatine Christian IV gave him Ingweilerhof and Ausbacherhof near Reipoltskirchen as inheritance. Ten years later the baron died on the Ingweilerhof and is buried there in the court chapel. The baronial family coat of arms can still be seen today above the entrance portal.

family

He was married to Johanna Friederike Freiin von Göllnitz († 1771) from 1737. The marriage resulted in nine children, including the Palatinate-Zweibrücken Minister of State Johann Friedrich Ludwig Jordan von Esebeck .

Children (born in Zweibrücken, Ludwig born in Groß-Salza):

• Christian (* 1738; † 1760 in the battle near Korbach ), royal French captain of the grenadiers
• Eberhard (* 1740; † 1817 in Zweibrücken), royal French maréchal de camp ∞ Catharina Girtanner von Luxburg
• Ludwig (* 1741; † 1798 in Zweibrücken), Palatinate-Zweibrücken Minister of State, ∞ Eleonora Augusta Freiin Gayling von Altheim
• Friedrich (* 1742, killed in Germany), royal French captain in the Régiment de Royal Deux-Ponts
• Karoline Christine (* 1743)
• Karl (* 1745; † 1810), Prussian major general ∞ Wilhelmine Charlotte Schönberg von Brenkenhoff
• Luise (* 1746), 1st ∞ Baron von Closen , Maréchal de camp , 2nd ∞ Carl Gustav Graf von Stralenheim-Wasaburg
• Heinrich (* 1748; † 1809 in Paris), royal French captain in the Régiment de Royal Deux-Ponts ∞ Countess Firnhaber von Eberstein
• Georg (* 1753; † 1823 in Munich), Royal Bavarian Colonel of the Guard on foot ∞ Charlotte Freiin von Closen auf Haydenburg

literature

• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 2, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1855, pp. 139-140. ( Digitized version )
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1861, pp. 158–161. ( Digitized version )
• Johann Christian von Mannlich : Histoire de ma vie . Ed .: Karl-Heinz Bender and Hermann Kleber, 2 volumes, Trier 1989–1993. Vol. 1, pp. 20f. and passim, ISBN 3-87760-700-4
• Kurt Stuck: Administrative staff in the Duchy of Zweibrücken , Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1993, p. 19