Johann Melchior von Morgenstern

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Johann Melchior von Morgenstern (born May 7, 1733 in Genthin , † March 31, 1789 in Berlin ) was a Prussian colonel and commander in the infantry regiment "von Bornstädt" and a knight of the Pour le Mérite order .

Life

Johann Melchior von Morgenstern was the son of the Rittmeister of the same name in the Leib Carabinier Regiment and grandson of the captain of the same name in the Alt-Anhalt-Dessauer Regiment , who was most recently in command in Landsberg an der Warthe .

Morgenstern was thus in the family military tradition when he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite by Frederick the Great on May 6, 1774 at the revue in Berlin, with the rank of major in the infantry regiment "Duke of Braunschweig" . In the same year he must have been transferred to the infantry regiment "von Saldern" in Magdeburg without a change of rank , where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 9, 1783 .

In 1785 he was again in service with the "Duke of Braunschweig" infantry regiment, where on March 5, 1786 he was promoted to colonel. In 1788 he was appointed commander of the “von Bornstädt” infantry regiment and was transferred to Berlin. A little later he died on this spot and was buried in the garrison cemetery.

family

Family coat of arms of Johann Melchior von Morgenstern

Morgenstern was married to Elisabeth Katharine Louise von Holtzkampf (* 1752 - † March 1, 1814 in Loburg ), the daughter of a lieutenant colonel. A daughter passed away from the marriage:

  • Bernhardine Friederike Luise Karoline von Morgenstern (born September 19, 1782 in Magdeburg, † July 5, 1835 in Magdeburg)
⚭ Friedrich Wilhelm von Wulffen (born June 5, 1735 in Grabow, † January 12, 1801 in Loburg)
⚭ June 26, 1803 (divorced 1809) Count Carl Werner Achaz von der Schulenburg zu Meineweh (* March 12, 1776; † November 17, 1842)
⚭ May 3, 1812 Hans Ulrich Friedrich von Wulffen zu Loburg III (* January 23, 1788 in Loburg; † May 12, 1843 in Berlin)

literature

  • Contributions to a list of the knights of the order pour le mérite appointed by Frederick the Great. In: Supplement to the military weekly paper , 1885, p. 44, serial no.73.
  • Der Morgenstern - magazine of the German Morgenstern clans. Hamburg 1939, No. 7, p. 52.
  • Hall of fame of the native Cassubian, Wendish and German nobility in the lands of Lauenburg and Bütow. Annexes IX. In: Reinhold Cramer: History of the Lande Lauenburg and Bütow. Königsberg 1858. First part: Supplements IX., P. 98, point 20.
  • Lars Severin: A Pomeranian aristocratic excursion on three officers from Morgenstern, (...) and the first names Melchior and Nathanael. In: Genealogy German journal for family history. Volume XXXII / 64. Volume 2, Degener & Co, Insingen 2015, pp. 442–444.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Danneil : The gender of the Schulenburg. 1847, pp. 443-444 , White Line, no. 332.
  2. Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New episode, Volume XIX. Between the Weser and the Oder. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , 2000, Tfl. 65A, ISBN 978-3-465-03074-4 .