Johann Friedrich von Zepelin

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Johann Friedrich von Zepelin (born September 2, 1695 in Hostrup near Flensburg , † September 28, 1777 ) was a lieutenant general in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Life

Gravestone Magdalena Lucretia von Zepelin (1701–1760)

Zepelin was the second son of the royal Danish major (as a lieutenant colonel in the Second Battle of Höchstädt on August 13, 1704) Melchior Dietrich von Zepelin (* 1649 - August 13, 1704) and Maria Elisabeth von Oeynhausen (* 1659 - † after 1716) born. He was baptized on September 5, 1695 in Hostrup and on February 28, 1710, although he was born in Mecklenburg, he entered the electoral Hanoverian military service . He went to England with Elector Georg on his accession to the throne, where he initially distinguished himself many times in the king's battles against the Stuart party. In November 1728 Zepelin married Magdalena Lucretia von der Kettenburg from the house of Matgendorf (* May 15, 1701, † August 20, 1760 in Uetersen ). From this marriage there were five sons and three daughters. In 1729 he was promoted to Rittmeister and in 1737 to major in the body regiment "Garde du Corps". During the Seven Years' War he took part in the campaigns of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in West Germany as colonel and commander of the Reuter regiment "von Zepelin" and as major general and commander of the Garde du corps . 1759 he became a lieutenant general in pension and took his retirement home first in Uetersen where his sister Agnes Dorothea (* July 18, 1686 (5) in Breckendorf, † July 1760 in Uetersen.) As a pin lady in Kloster Uetersen lived. His wife died here in the same year, who was buried in a grand ceremony on August 28, 1760 behind the altar in the Uetersen monastery church . Zepelin left the place a few years later and died in 1777.

progeny

With his wife Magdalena Lucretia von der Kettenburg he had the following children:

  • Sophie Friederike (* 1731; † November 30, 1790) ∞ Carl August von Maydell († 1802); Hanover Lieutenant General
  • Friedrich Ulrich (1733-young)
  • Franz Heinrich (1736-young)
  • Melusina Dorothea (baptized October 21, 1737; † January 2, 1796) ∞ Cuno Hans von der Kettenburg auf Matgendorf (* August 25, 1735; † June 8, 1808)

Literature and Sources

  • Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Part V-VI: From the family history of the von Zepelin family (The relations of the sex to our hometown Uetersen) , Heydorn: Uetersen 1939.
  • Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. With Cistercian nuns and nobles through eight centuries , Wachholtz: Neumünster 2008.
  • Yearbook of the German Nobility , Volume 3, 1899, p.963
  • Eberhard Graf von Zeppelin:  Zepelin, Johann Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 71.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the von Zepelin family, with the participation of members of the family, written by L. Fromm, Schwerin 1876, page 362
  2. ↑ The Baronial House of Maydell, p.268
personal data
SURNAME Zepelin, Johann Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Hostrup near Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1777