Karl Ulrich von Bassewitz

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Karl Ulrich von Bassewitz (born May 7, 1601 in Mecklenburg ; † August 24, 1666 ibid) was a German-Danish officer and Mecklenburg deputy land marshal .

Life

Karl Ulrich Adolf von Bassewitz was the second son of Joachim von Bassewitz and his wife Anna Ilse, née von Schmecker. He had two brothers and four sisters.

Bassewitz married in 1640 Margarete von Bülow (1619–1698), daughter of Detloff von Bülow auf Hundorf (near Schwerin), dean of Ratzeburg , and Margaretha von Schack . With her he had three sons and four daughters, including Joachim Lütke von Bassewitz .

There is evidence that he studied at the universities of Rostock (1615), Jena (1622) and Frankfurt / Oder (1623) and then went through an officer career in the imperial, Mecklenburg and Holstein war service. Most recently he was a Danish captain . He toured England and the Netherlands. He also litigated for various goods. Bassewitz was Mecklenburg's deputy land marshal.

Bassewitz inherited the Wendorf (later Schönhof) and Thorstorf estates from his father . In 1642 he exchanged with Duke Adolf Friedrich I. Thorstorf for the Gut Klein Walmstorf next to Wendorf , for which he received the feudal letter in 1646 . For a while, Klein Walmstorf served as the family's residence and burial place. Bassewitz himself was buried in Grevesmühlen .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. See the entry by Karl Ulrich von Bassewitz in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. See: Balck: Meklenburger on foreign universities up to the middle of the 17th century. First contribution, in: Yearbooks of the Association for Meklenburg History and Archeology, Schwerin 1883, p. 54ff., Here p. 73/74 (No. 323)
  3. See: Balck: Meklenburger on foreign universities up to the middle of the 17th century. Third contribution, in: Yearbooks of the Association for Meklenburgische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, Schwerin 1884, p. 343ff., Here p. 368 (No. 2501)
  4. ^ Funeral speech in the Stolberg Library in Stolberg / Harz