Kaspar Friedrich von Knobelsdorff
Kaspar Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (born January 2, 1694 in Gleissen , † November 18, 1748 in Nimptsch ) was a Prussian colonel in the infantry and chief of garrison regiment No. 8 .
Life
origin
His parents were Christoph Siegmund von Knobelsdorff , Lord of Klein-Heinersdorf near Schwiebus , and his wife Ursula Susanne, née von Waldow from the Gleissen family.
Military career
Knobelsdorff was seriously wounded in the War of the Spanish Succession and is said to have been the only officer in his company at Malplaquet in 1709 who was left with six soldiers. First in Regiment No. 25 , he was a member of the Eisenach Regiment from 1730 to 1740. From 1740 with this again in Prussian service. His portrait from around 1730 shows him with a scarred face.
He received the Order De la Générosité from King Friedrich Wilhelm I and on May 31, 1740 the Order Pour le Mérite from King Friedrich II.
He is said to have had something to do with the escape of Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck in Glatz in 1746 (Lieutenant von Schell , who fled with Trenck, in the regimental report of December 26, 1746).
family
Knobelsdorff was childless married to Margarete Klauer zu Wohra. She died in Frankfurt am Main in 1761.
literature
- Anton Balthasar König : Kaspar Friedrich von Knobelsdorff . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 304 ( Kaspar Friedrich von Knobelsdorff at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Pantheon of the Prussian Army. 1835, pp. (163-) 164. Digitized
- Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff: The von Knobelsdorff'sche family in family tables. 1876, IV. Prussian period
Individual evidence
- ↑ Different sources indicate that he should have died “in old age” or at the age of 86. Then, however, his year of birth would be 1662.
- ↑ Doubtful according to König, since he only became an ensign on May 10, 1714
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| SURNAME | Knobelsdorff, Kaspar Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knobelsdorff, Caspar Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian colonel of the infantry and chief of the 8th garrison regiment |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1694 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Track |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1748 |
| Place of death | Nimptsch |