Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele

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Kurhannoversches Infantry Regiment "von Scheele", from the magnificent Gmunden work , approx. 1761

Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele (* 1705 in Osnabrück ; † November 27, 1774 ibid) was a lieutenant general of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and district administrator of the knighthood of Osnabrück.

family

Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele zu Schelenburg and Brunnenbrock came from a traditional Westphalian family, which was mentioned as belonging to the knightly nobility since the ancestor Rabado de Schele in 1358 (⚭ Palmenia von Schloen ) , and was the son of Rabo Wilhelm von Scheele zu Schelenburg (1670 –1730) and Amalie von Schwarzen zu Brunnenbrock. Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele was married to Louise Dorothea von Alten zu Wilkenburg. However, with him the oldest Schelenburg line went out. The ownership of this line went to Johann Daniel Victor's nephew, Ludwig Clamor.

Life

Scheele began his military career in the Electorate of Hanover from an early age . In 1734 he served on the Rhine and from 1743 to 1762 he took part in all major campaigns in the Electorate of Hanover. In 1746 he was named titular lieutenant colonel of the Kielmansegg infantry regiment as a major , then a real lieutenant colonel in the von Post regiment in 1749, and titular colonel of the same on July 12, 1757, and from December 19, 1757, he took over as colonel and chief of the von Fabrice ” . On June 29, 1759 he was promoted to major general. On August 1, 1759, at the Battle of Minden, he was in command of five battalions to rescue the Spörken Division , which was threatened with annihilation , and on January 20, 1761, he was finally promoted to Lieutenant General. Scheele remained chief of this regiment until his death in 1774 , which was then merged with Infantry Regiment No. 2-A of Major General von Meding , who was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1777.

See also

literature

  • Johann Samuel Heinsius in: Continued new genealogical-historical news ... Leipzig 1774, p. 338.
  • Anton Fahne : History of the Westphalian families. 1858, p. 349.
  • Michael Ranft : New genealogical-historical news to the noblest ... 1751, Volumes 7-12, Volume 39, p. 838. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fahne, Anton (Heberle 1848): History of the Kölnischen, Jülichschen and Bergischen families , vol. 1, p. 382
  2. ↑ Kneschke, Ernst Heinrich (Ed .; Leipzig 1868): New general German Adels Lexicon. Digitized d. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , p. 115
personal data
SURNAME Scheele, Johann Daniel Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelenburg, Johann Daniel Victor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector General of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1774
Place of death Osnabrück