Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (officer, 1707)

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Karl Wilhelm von Kleist

Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (born September 20, 1707 in Groß Tychow ; † May 1, 1766 in Zützen ) was a Prussian colonel and knight of the order Pour le Mérite .

Origin and family environment

Karl Wilhelm came from the Tychow-Dubberow line of the Kleist family , an old line from Pomeranian nobility . He was born in 1707 in Groß Tychow as the youngest of four sons of the Elector of Brandenburg Oberstwachtmeister Hans Caspar von Kleist auf Groß-Tychow (1647-1711) and the Agnese Catharina von Blankenburg (1665-1736).

Military career

As a younger son from a noble family, Kleist chose the soldier profession and entered the Prussian cadet corps in Berlin on February 1, 1720 as an officer candidate. After five and a half years as a cadet , he became an ensign in the "Goltz" infantry regiment on May 25, 1725 . In 1732 he became second lieutenant , in 1736 prime lieutenant and on June 23, 1740 finally captain and company commander in the 1st Battalion of the Guard. As early as April 10, 1740, he had proven himself in the Battle of Mollwitz under the orders of his relative, then Major General Henning Alexander von Kleist , and made a significant contribution to the Prussian victory, as King Friedrich II did in a letter to Prince Leopold von Anhalt -Dessau mentioned. For his services, the king awarded him the order Pour le Mérite on February 10, 1742 . Shortly afterwards, on 15 February 1742 Kleist was skipping the Major rank of lieutenant colonel promoted. After the first two Silesian wars served Kleist continued, was on May 7, 1750. Colonel promoted while the Amtshauptmann of Lötzen appointed. On November 16, 1751 he took his leave .

He was married through the king's mediation to the rich daughter-in-law of the Prussian lieutenant general Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel (1690–1745), Eva Luise von Schlomach (1726–1813), with whom he had ten sons and a daughter. In 1749 she bought the Zützen estate near Golßen . Karl Wilhelm died in 1766. His son Leopold von Kleist , to whom his mother had transferred Zützen in 1811, founded the family branch of the same name. His only daughter Caroline Luise (1747–1780) married the later general of the infantry Franz Kasimir von Kleist .

literature

  • H. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part, second division, Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, pp. 159–160, no. 129 ( digitized version )
  • H. Kypke (basis of the text, 1882); Diether Dennies v. Kleist and Berndt v. Kleist (Supplements, 1971); Sigurd v. Kleist (revision): History of the sex v. Kleist. Third part: biographies up to 1880. Second section: Tychow-Dubberower line. 2nd edition, Bergisch Gladbach 2013, pp. 199–202, no. 129 (with image, digital copy ; PDF; 5.6 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of noble houses. Series A, Volume XIII (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 60). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1975, p. 269.
  2. ↑ H. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part, Second Department, Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, pp. 155–156, No. 90 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Gustav Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le merite. Volume I: Awards under King Friedrich II. Pp. 10–11, No. 40, see also note v. Hacke about the costs in the casket book for 1742 on February 10th of the year: "On SM orders I spent 23 thalers on the Cross of Mercy of Captain von Kleist."
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Karl Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Tychow
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1766
Place of death Use