Karl Konstantin von Schnitter

Karl Konstantin von Schnitter , also Carl Constantin (* May 25, 1657 , † April 1721 ) was a Brandenburg-Prussian engineer colonel and fortress commander.

Life

Karl Konstantin comes from the Bohemian and Kur-Brandenburg noble family von Schnitter , who lived in Upper Lusatia. The fortress Groß Friedrichsburg on the Gold Coast in West Africa was built according to Schneider's designs. From 1684 to 1686 he was in command of the Groß Friedrichsburg colony . On November 4, 1698, Schnitter's nobility was confirmed. At least in the period from 1708 to 1712 Schnitter was fortress commander of Peitz under Anton von Pannewitz . He was also Quartermaster General and was buried in the Nikolaikirche in Berlin.

family

Schnitter married Emerentia von Pufendorf (* 1668), a daughter of Samuel von Pufendorf , in 1698 . The children Carl Albrecht, Christian Ludwig and Sophia Charlotte von Schnitter emerged from the marriage.

literature

Ulrich van der Heyden : Red eagles on Africa's coast. The Brandenburg-Prussian colony Großfriedrichsburg in West Africa. Selignow, Berlin 2001, pp. 29-72

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Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 270.
↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 10.
↑ Calendar of the town and fortress Peitz in the 18th century.
↑ ^a ^b Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on the higher office holdings of Brandenburg-Prussia (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, supplement 8). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2001, p. 558.
↑ Richard Borrmann : The architectural and art monuments of Berlin. With a historical introduction by P. Clausewitz , Berlin 1893, p. 240.

personal data
SURNAME	Schnitter, Karl Konstantin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schnitter, Carl Constantin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brandenburg-Prussian engineer colonel and fortress commander
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1657
DATE OF DEATH	April 1721

[kne-1] A ^b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 270.

[2] Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 10.

[3] Calendar of the town and fortress Peitz in the 18th century.

[PB-4] Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on the higher office holdings of Brandenburg-Prussia (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, supplement 8). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2001, p. 558.

[5] Richard Borrmann : The architectural and art monuments of Berlin. With a historical introduction by P. Clausewitz , Berlin 1893, p. 240.