Johann von Buddenbrock

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Baron Johann Jobst Heinrich Wilhelm von Buddenbrock (born September 25, 1707 in Königsberg ; † November 27, 1781 in Berlin ) was a Prussian general and a confidante of King Friedrich II.

Life

Buddenbrock's father was Field Marshal Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock . Following the family tradition, Johann von Buddenbrock also embarked on a military career. From 1727 he was a riding page with King Friedrich Wilhelm I , the "Soldier King", who soon afterwards transferred him to the "Goltz Regiment on Foot" (No. 15). In 1731 Buddenbrock was invested as a knight of the Order of St. John . When Crown Prince Friedrich took over Buddenbrock's regiment from Christoph Heinrich von der Goltz in Ruppin in 1732 (now “Crown Prince Regiment on Foot”), Buddenbrock became his adjutant and from then on belonged to the familiar Rheinsberg circle. At the request of the Crown Prince in 1736 the King gave him the administration of Balga in the district of Heiligenbeil in East Prussia . In 1740 Johann von Buddenbrock became major and wing adjutant to King Frederick the Great and canon at St. Johannes Stift zu Minden in Westphalia . Since April 1742 he received an annual allowance of 400 thalers from the court treasury. Since June 1743 he received an annual salary of 2,400 thalers.

In 1744/45 he took part in a campaign as leader of a grenadier battalion and was seriously wounded in the head in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg in 1745 . The injury associated with a visual impairment later developed into a chronic condition. In 1750 he became chief of the horse-riding hunter corps and in 1753 major general . When the Seven Years' War began, he had to forego working in the field because of his old wounds. He was subordinate to General Field Marshal von Schwerin and was given the command of Brieg . In 1758 he was given overall supervision of the cadet corps . In 1764 he was entrusted with the restoration of the knight academy . In the same year he became commander of the Johanniterkommende in Werben (Elbe) . In 1765 he became head of military education and the Académie Militaire . Among other things, the Stolp and Kulm cadet schools were established under his leadership . In 1767 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

Crowned coat of arms of the Prussian general Johann von Buddenbrock, held by Minerva and two putti that adorn it with laurel. Around the Buddenbrock family coat of arms the collar with the cross of the Black Eagle Order

In 1770 he was made Knight of the High Order of the Black Eagle . After he had inherited the Fideicommiss -gut Pläswitz , Zuckelnick , Metschkau and Johnsdorf in the Striegau district in Lower Silesia from his stepmother, Beate Abigail von Buddenbrock, née von Siegroth (1700–1770) , he received it from Frederick the Great in October of the same year the Silesian Inkolat .

family

Buddenbrock was married four times. In Rheinsberg in 1740 he married Elisabeth Dorothea Juliane von Wallmoden (1714–1767), lady-in-waiting to the ruling Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia . After the death of his first wife, he married Luise Charlotte Marie von Kalckstein (1727–1768), daughter of Field Marshal Christoph Wilhelm von Kalckstein in 1767 . After her death in 1768 he married Johanna Charlotte von Wackenitz (1727–1769), lady-in-waiting of Princess Elisabeth Christine Ulrike of Prussia . This third woman died in childbed of a miscarriage, a stillborn son. In 1769 he married Countess Charlotte Auguste von Wartensleben (1736–1794), a lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia . Buddenbrock had three children:

  • Wilhelm Dietrich (* October 20, 1746 - October 1, 1800) ∞ Friederike Charlotte von Kottwitz (* March 1755 - June 1, 1817), the widow marries Major General Hans Christoph Ernst von Kalckreuth
  • one daughter (1747–1756)
  • Karl Heinrich (* 1749)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contributions to the history of the Brandenburg-Prussian state and army ( Julius Mebes , ed.), Volume 1, Berlin 1861, p. 429 .
  2. ↑ Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld: History of the Knightly Order of St. Johannis from the Hospital in Jerusalem: with special consideration of the Brandenburg Balli or the Sonnenburg Lordship. XVI, p. 896, Berlin, Berendt, 1859 Online at Google Books (p. 787)
  3. ^ New Prussian Adelslexicon ( Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , ed.), Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 325
  4. ^ New general German nobility lexicon ( Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , ed.), Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, p. 127 .
personal data
SURNAME Buddenbrock, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buddenbrock, Johann Jobst Heinrich Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1781
Place of death Berlin