Johann Leonhard von Wutgenau

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Johann Leonhard von Wutgenau (born May 9, 1690 in Kaltvorwerk ; † October 13, 1764 in Breslau ) was the last imperial city ​​commander of Breslau and later Prussian colonel and head of the regiment .

Life

origin

Wutgenau came from a Silesian , in 1678 Bohemian nobility gathered family. His parents were the heir to Kaltvorwerk Hans Heinrich von Wutgenau (1655-1730) and Helene Margarete Riedel von Löwenstern .

Career

Wutgenau was the hereditary lord of Pühlau, Schleibitz and Dörndorf . He was an imperial lieutenant colonel and until the First Silesian War city major of Breslau. When the Prussian King Friedrich II marched into Wroclaw in 1741, Wutgenau, assuming that Wroclaw's neutrality would continue to be respected, rode ahead of the Prussians as a representative of the Wroclaw city government. With the occupation of Wroclaw by the Prussians, the city's 500-year self-government ended. Wutgenau was promoted to Prussian colonel, but had to leave the city.

First in June 1746 he became the commander of the Kalsow Regiment (No. 43) , but then took over as head of the infantry regiment (No. 48) from 1746 . Wobeser and took garrison in Minden . In 1755 Wutgenau received his farewell.

family

Wutgenau married the councilor's daughter Christiane Sophie von Tarnau (1698–1771) in Breslau in 1720 . From the marriage, the daughter Charlotte Wilhelmine (1727-1802) emerged, the last of her sex. She married Christian Leopold von Koschembahr and Skorkau (1720–1780), heir to Ober- and Nieder-Ossen, in-laws of Heinrich Leopold von Forcade .

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service. 4th part, Berlin 1791, p. 291
  • Oskar Pusch : The Breslauer Rats- und Stadtgeschölker in the period from 1241 to 1741. Volume 4 (= publications of the Research Center East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund. Series B, Volume 39), Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1990, ISBN 3-923293-26- 7 , ISSN  0931-5306 , p. 5 (in the article Sachs, Sachs von Löwenheim [p. 5-14]), p. 285 (in the article by Tarnau and Kuehschmaltz [p. 279-288]); Volume 5 (= publications by the Research Center for East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund. Series B, Volume 41), Research Center for East Central Europe, Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-923293-31-3 , ISSN  0931-5306 , pp. 114–115 (in the article Wuttke ( Wutke), Wuttky von Wutginau, von Wuthgenau [p. 107–118])

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X , ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 429.
  2. ^ Gustav Adolph Harald Stenzel : Acts, reports and other contributions to the history of Silesia since 1740. Volume 5, Breslau 1851, p. 13 u. 37
  3. ↑ Christian Friedrich Hempel , Johann Friedrich Seyfart : Helden- Staats- und Lebens-Geschichte (...) , Volume 5, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1760, pp. 63–64
  4. ↑ Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. 1853, p. 251
personal data
SURNAME Wutgenau, Johann Leonhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wuthgenau, Johann Leonhard von; Wutge von Wuthgenau, Johann Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial city commandant of Breslau and later Prussian colonel and head of the regiment
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaltvorwerk
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1764
Place of death Wroclaw