Johann von Klingsporn

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Johann von Klingsporn († 1685 ) was a Brandenburg colonel and regimental commander .

Life

origin

Johann von Klingsporn came from the Prussian branch of the noble Klingsporn family . He was the heir to the Groß - and Klein Blaustein near Rastenburg .

Military career

On May 18, 1655, Klingsporn was appointed colonel of the infantry and regimental commander of the 1st regiment on foot (Leib-Guard) by the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg . He was also the chief of Duke Radzivil's Wibranzenregiment . With these regiments and his own regiment (no. 200) he took part in the battle of Warsaw as marshal . He stayed in this position until 1657. In the same year, Gerhard Bernhard von Pölnitz (1617–1679) took over the command of his 1st regiment. When Marshal Klingsporn was spun off from the army in 1657, Feldzeugmeister Otto Christoph von Sparr was to become Field Marshal and Colonel of the Infantry according to Platen's plans. However, he could not secure the financing of the Klingsporn Regiment, which is why he was abdicated as colonel in 1661. He went to the imperial army and was made field marshal there in 1664. Johann von Klingsporn worked as a state representative up to the great tribunal against the family. In 1680 he was expropriated, but pardoned by the elector and then lived in Fischhausen with his youngest son (Junker Fritz). He died there in 1685 and was transferred to Sweden.

family

After Klingsporn had tried several times in vain to win the favor of the beautiful pastor's daughter Ännchen von Tharau and had been married in the meantime, he finally married Margarethe von Lehndorff a. d. H. Steinort , daughter of the Prussian lieutenant colonel and district administrator of Rastenburg, Meinhard von Lehndorff (1590–1639). From this second marriage, after his previous sons, Fritz (Julius Friedrich) and the two twin girls (Anna Katharina and Ursula) emerged.

  • Johann Theodor, Prussian privy councilor
  • Felix, Prussian Commerce Councilor
  • Tantalus (founder of the Klingsport line in Greater Poland)
  • Alexander, Prussian colonel, (after the tribunal demanded the return of 10,000 guilders loaned to the elector, which Ahasverus Graf von Lehndorf paid his relative for the elector and which quickly advanced.)
  • Heinrich, chief hunter to whom the elector once gave Heinrichswalde, which was named after him
  • Julius Friedrich (Junker Fritz)
  • Juliane Katharina Christiane (Anna), ⚭I Karl Karlick von Nezetyk; ⚭II Georg Adolf von Mikrander (* 1639; † 1723), Prussian lieutenant general, governor of Frankfurt an der Oder and heir to Tammendorf
  • Ursula, ⚭ Caspar von Hohendorf in Puschdorf

Trivia

Information from Cramer, which is also shown there conclusively and according to which Klingsporn held the rank of lieutenant general and was appointed field marshal in Warsaw and ruled for 23 years as provincial bishop in Prussia, is otherwise incomprehensible due to the destruction of the Königsberg files. However, this period corresponds to his recall from the army in 1657 until the end of the tribunal in 1680. The colonel of the infantry was also always the marshal of the military at this time and therefore led several regiments. Furthermore, the Prussians did not accept Brandenburg officers in the Prussian army until 1663. Only after military enforcement of the homage in 1663 could the elector slowly approach the unification of the army. All of his own writings up to then were mere planning.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Dach : Quid non vincit amor? cedit Gradivus amori. , 1655
  2. ^ "Klingsporn, Margarethe von" on CERL Thesaurus
  3. ^ Karl Gottlieb Cramer: The Klingsporn family: a painting of the century , Meiningen 1797 ( (digitized) ).
personal data
SURNAME Klingsporn, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg colonel and regimental commander
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1685