Karl von der Recke (Colonel)

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Karl von der Recke was a Prussian colonel and chief of Garrison Regiment No. 8 .

Life

origin

His parents were the imperial baron Diederich XXXVII von der Recke (* 1639; † May 11, 1710) from the house of Uentrop and his wife Anna Magdalena, born Freiin von Baer . His sister Anna Maria Wilhelmine Sophie (born January 4, 1692) was married to the Prussian Major General Martin Arend von Dockum .

Military career

Recke went into Prussian service and came into the "von Schwerin" infantry regiment . There he took his leave in 1728 because of illness . It must have got better then , because he then went into service in the Electorate of Cologne , became a Knight of St. John in 1735, but later also said goodbye here. In the run-up to the First Silesian War, Recke recruited a battalion in the empire in 1741 , which he led to Prussia. He was promoted to colonel and a further battalion from the Prussian King Friedrich II , which formed garrison regiment No. 8. In 1745 he received the requested farewell.

family

He was married to Sophie Luise von Voss . She was the daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Johann Georg von Voss from the Rodenberg family and his wife Sophie von Alheim widowed von Borstel. The couple had a daughter.

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Karl von der Recke . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 272 ( Karl von der Recke at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Constantin Graf von der Recke-Volmerstein: History of the gentlemen from the Recke. Book III. Chronicle, p. 357.
  • Johann Diederich von Steinen : Westphalian history. Volume 3, p. 87.
  • Anton Fahne : The Lords and Barons v. Hövel. Volume 1, part 2, p. 179. Voss family

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Probably Kommturei Wietersheim, According to: An Weser and Wiehen: Contributions to the history and culture of a landscape. P. 236.
  2. ↑ a b The tombstone is found in the cemetery in Aplerbeck, after: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark. Volumes 60-61, p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Recke, Karl von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Recke, Karl Ludwig von der; Carl Ludwig von der Reck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Colonel, Chief of Garrison Regiment No. 8
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH House Uentrop near Hamm
DATE OF DEATH 18th century