Karl Friedrich von Schlippenbach

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Karl Friedrich, Count von Schlippenbach (born September 7, 1658 in Stettin , † January 9, 1723 in Kolberg ) was a Prussian cavalry general and diplomat. He was Count zu Schöfde in Sweden, as well as Freiherr zu Liuxula near Kangasala in Finland and Salingen in Courland .

Life

Karl Friedrich von Schlippenbach's father was the Swedish Imperial Council and President of the Wismar Tribunal Christoph Karl von Schlippenbach (born January 1, 1624, † November 27, 1660). His mother was Freiin Helene Elisabeth von Braunfalck or Praunfalk (* May 8, 1629 - March 4, 1684), daughter of the Styrian Protestant religious migrant Hanns Adam Freiherr von Praunfalk zu Neuhaus . After his father's death, his mother took over the upbringing. She brought her ten-year-old son to Stockholm , where he lived with the future King Charles XI. was taught.

He entered the Swedish service in 1674 and became a pikeman in the royal bodyguard. When the war with Brandenburg broke out, he went to General Wachtmeister's army in Pomerania and fought as an ensign in the battle of Fehrbellin in 1675 . After the defeat of the Swedes he came to Stettin, which was enclosed in 1676 and capitulated after six months. He was promoted to lieutenant in the Plantini Regiment and soon after was Rittmeister . He fought with his company in Western Pomerania and in 1678 on Rügen, where he was wounded. He was moved to Stralsund, which was conquered soon afterwards. In 1679 he landed with King Charles XI. on Scania , meanwhile the elector confiscated his goods Wollin and Stepenitz, which he got back after the peace of Saint-Germain in 1679. Meanwhile he became the commandant of Anklam and was promoted to major . In 1681 - at the age of only 23 - he was promoted to lieutenant colonel; But he had to do without the office of Wollin, which was now withdrawn from the Swedes (due to lack of money). So he left the Swedish service in 1686 and was appointed colonel by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg on October 26, 1686 . Schlippenbach bought the Schönermark estate in Brandenburg from the Minister of State Freiherr von Knyphausen .

Elector Friedrich III. gave him the command of the Anhalt regiment on horseback on October 20, 1688 . He fought with the Brandenburg troops in Westphalia and the Netherlands, especially in 1691 in the Battle of Leuze , as well as in 1692 in the Battle of Steenkerke and in 1693 in the Battle of Neerwind . In that battle he had already lost two horses when he was encircled. He received two blows on the head, one in the hand and one pistol shot in the groin. He came to the dead when the future General Wuthenau noticed that he was still alive and took him to Brussels. There Pistorius, the personal physician of the Elector of Bavaria , took care of him . The bullet had shattered a vertebra and could not be removed. It recovered in the weeks that followed, but kept struggling and ultimately took the bullet with him to the grave. In the same year he received the regiment of Prince Johann Georg von Anhalt-Dessau ( Cuirassier Regiment No. 1 ).

He was again involved in the campaigns of 1694 and 1696 in the Netherlands, including the Namur 1695. On March 14, 1696, he became major general . In the war that arose as a result of the Polish election, he had to cover the Prussian borders with the cavalry and negotiate with Sweden. In 1704, after Stanislaus I Leszczyński was raised to the rank of King of Poland, Frederick I of Prussia sent him to Karl XII. from Sweden , whom he was then allowed to accompany to the Ukraine . On December 6, 1704 he became lieutenant general . Friedrich I was very satisfied with his achievements and Karl XII, whom he accompanied until 1706, was very gracious towards him, so he was able to negotiate the protective alliance between Prussia and Sweden. He himself got the office of Wollin back from the King of Sweden. 1707 he was again at the court of Charles XII. sent to Altranstädt . After his return he was given permission to stay on his property in the Uckermark for a while . When the Swedes and Russians were fighting in Swedish Pomerania after the Battle of Poltava , he was commissioned to observe these battles and to secure the Prussian borders.

Grave site of the von Schlippenbach family in Schönermark

On June 29, 1713 he was sent to Stettin with General von Arnim . There he negotiated with General Meyerfeld and Count Menshikov in order to acquire Stettin and Pomerania up to the Peene for Prussia. Friedrich Wilhelm I was very satisfied with his services and appointed him governor of Kolberg, an office which he assumed in February 1714. After the return of Charles XII. from the Bender , Count Schlippenbach had to travel to him again to negotiate with him about Pomerania. Although he did nothing, Karl showed his satisfaction with him. On May 23, 1715 he became general of the cavalry .

His loin wound from the Battle of Neer winds often broke open and his physical health deteriorated. He died on January 9, 1723 in Kolberg. His body was buried at Gut Schönermark in the Uckermark in the crypt he had built.

family

Schlippenbach was married three times.

In 1680 he married Barbara von Bülow († 1689), daughter of the Vice-Governor of Pomerania Barthold Hartwig von Bülow (* 1611; † 1667). The couple had two sons and six daughters. Including:

After her death in 1690 he married Henriette Amalie von Blumenthal († 1691), the youngest daughter of State Minister Baron von Blumenthal . She died in the stillbirth of a son.

His third wife was Anna Barbara Sabine von Arnim (* 1677, † 1739), daughter of Jakob Dietlof von Arnim from the Boitzenburg house and Euphemia von Blankenburg since 1694 . Field Marshal Georg Abraham von Arnim was her uncle. From this marriage there were six sons and nine daughters. Including:

  • Agneta Elisabeth (* 1700) ⚭ 1733 Heinrich (II.) Von Schlippenbach (* 1700; † 1760)
  • Euphemia Louise (April 9, 1698 - March 30, 1763) ⚭ May 29, 1732 Hans Werner von Hammerstein-Equord , (March 27, 1696 - September 18, 1787)
  • Karl Christoph (1676–1734), Prussian Privy Councilor, Johanniter-Komtur zu Lagow
  • Albrecht Friedrich (* July 4, 1700; † April 25, 1766) ⚭ 1735 Christine Marie Charlotte von Sparr (e), (* May 20, 1716; † October 22, 1787) from the Greiffenberg family
  • Sophie Elisabeth († May 21, 1761) ⚭ Georg Christian von Blanckensee
  • Dorothea Friederike (* 1715; † February 19, 1774) ⚭ Georg Lorenz (Lorenz Jürgen) von Wedel (* 1702; † August 17, 1780)
  • Barbara Jakobine (* 1716; † 1770) ⚭ Georg Friedrich Graf von Sparr (1709–1765), at Greiffenberg Castle

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SURNAME Schlippenbach, Karl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlippenbach, Carl Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General of the cavalry and diplomat in the Brandenburg and Swedish service
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1723
Place of death Kolberg