Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla junior

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Count Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla (born August 23, 1722 in Roßla ; † October 10, 1749 in Breslau ) was a German military man who initially served the Empress of Russia and then the King of Prussia . From June to August 1739 he was briefly co-regent of the county of Stolberg-Roßla in the Harz region under guardianship .

Life

Jost Christian was the second youngest son of Count Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla senior , who was the ruling count of the county of Stolberg-Roßla, which was under the sovereignty of Saxony . When his father died in 1739, Jost Christian was only 17 years old and was under the tutelage of his uncle Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode until he came of age .

On August 31, 1739 he reached an agreement with his siblings that his eldest brother Friedrich Botho zu Stolberg-Roßla would take over the affairs of government in the county of Stolberg-Roßla as part of the primogeniture expressly introduced in his father's will . This gave Jost Christian the opportunity to work in foreign military services before he came of age. He traveled to Russia in the Tsarist army and entered the service of Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia with the rank of captain in the infantry . He served from January 1, 1741 under General Field Marshal Prince Dolgorukov , Lieutenant General Peter Izmailoff, Major General Iwan Kozloff and Brigadier Iwan Masloff in Moscow . On December 4, 1742 he received the leave of absence he had requested. Since he had not been issued an officer license when he entered service, this was made up for on January 19, 1743 in Saint Petersburg .

Because of his qualities and war experience, King Friedrich II of Prussia appointed him captain of his army in Berlin on August 3, 1743, and gave him a grenadier company with the garrison regiment in Glatz . In 1746 he served in the Retberg Regiment and received three months' leave from the king to settle fiefdom and inheritance matters. On September 18, 1749, the king refused his request for a transfer from Blanckenheinschen to a field regiment. A few weeks later, Stolberg died at the age of 27.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New series: Volume XVII: Hesse and the tribal duchy of Saxony: BD 17, Klostermann, Vittorio, 1998, ISBN 978-3465029830 , p. 116 online
  2. ↑ Family table of the mediatized House of Stolberg. sn, Donaueschingen 1887, panel XII.
  3. ↑ Several original documents from his life are in the Stolberg-Roßla mansion archive (H 7).
personal data
SURNAME Stolberg-Roßla, Jost Christian to junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolberg-Roßla, Jost Christian to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nobleman who was first in the military service of the Empress of Russia and then of the King of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossla
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1749
Place of death Wroclaw