Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben
Baron Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben (born August 11, 1661 in Hohenziethen , † February 3, 1730 in Berlin ) was a royal Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Kolberg . He was also head of the " Loeben walking regiment " named after him , canon of the Magdeburg monastery and governor of Suckow and Sulzholz and heir to Schönefeld, Schible and Siebenbeuthen.
Life
His parents were Baron Adolph Maximilian von Loeben and Louise Hedwig von Burgsdorf . His father was a Knight of St. John and Commander in Lagow. His maternal grandfather was Georg Ehrentreich von Burgsdorff .
He was brought up first by private tutors and then went to the high school in Frankfurt an der Oder for three years . Then he went on his cavalier tour . During this time he came to The Hague where he met William of Orange , who took him into his bodyguard. He stayed there for a year and a half. The prince offered him a position as an ensign, but at the insistence of his relatives he returned to Berlin. There the electoral prince Friedrich made him his chamberlain . The prince sent him to Hanover to woo Princess Sophie Charlotte . Ultimately, however, Loeben had little interest in court life, and so the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm appointed him adjutant general to General von Schöning . The general was in command of the Prussian auxiliaries that were sent to Hungary to support the emperor against the Turks. The general made him quartermaster general. He was very successful in this and was rewarded with gifts by Emperor Leopold I. In 1686 he found himself at the siege of Ofen . The Brandenburg troops then returned at the end of the year. Loeben and Schöning first went to Vienna to meet the emperor there. After that she also returned to Brandenburg.
Loeben finally left his position as chamberlain. For this he got a company in the 4th Battalion of the Life Guard. When Friedrich became elector, he sent him and his troops to the Rhine. There he took part in the siege of Bonn and other battles in 1689 . In the same year he also became a major. On March 12, 1705 he became lieutenant colonel of the Grenadier Guard and the next day Colonel of the Fusilier Guard (1806 Infantry Regiment No. 1 ).
In the War of the Spanish Succession he fought in Hagenau in 1705 and in Brabant in 1707 . In 1708 he was found during the conquest of Lille . In 1709 he was recalled and promoted to brigadier on January 21, 1710 . He returned to Brabant, where he stayed in 1710 and 1711. After the Peace of Utrecht he returned to Magdeburg with five battalions . On May 16, 1713, King Friedrich Wilhelm I appointed him major general and gave him the position of canon of the Magdeburg Monastery. In 1714 he took over a newly established regiment "Loeben zu Fuß ", with which he took part in the siege of Stralsund in the Pomeranian campaign in 1715/1716 . On the night of November 4th to 5th he himself led 1000 men in a storm on the horn factory .
On May 6, 1721 he was appointed lieutenant general and in 1724 governor of Kolberg.
family
He was married twice. Since 1686 his first wife was Dorothea Juliane von Krosigk († April 20, 1711), a daughter of Ludolf Lorenz von Krosigk from the Hohenerxleben family. The couple had 24 children but 16 died before their father, leaving four sons and four daughters, including:
- Charlotte Juliane († November 19, 1747) ∞ Georg Abraham von Arnim
- Louise Christina (March 10, 1690 - April 19, 1722) ∞ Anselm Christoph von Bonin
- Friedrich Wilhelm
- Gottlieb Maximilian
- Johanna Dorothea
- Rudolf Kurt Leberecht (* 1690; † November 22, 1746) Prussian Major General ∞ Sophiea Friderike von Arnim, daughter of Field Marshal von Arnim .
- Alexander Samuel († October 12, 1780) President of the Chamber in Minden-Ravensberg , first director of the Chamber in Breslau ∞ Marie Antoinette von Kuenheim († February 8, 1793)
- Louise Dorothea
He married his second wife in 1714. With Theodora Hedwig von Burgsdorf († February 22, 1746) widowed von Below, he had a daughter who died immediately after birth.
literature
- Anton Balthasar König : Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 422 ( Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Ernst Friedländer : Loeben, Kurt Hildebrand Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 40.
- Karl Friedrich Pauli , Lives of Great Heroes of the Current War , Volume 5, p.181ff
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ garnisonfriedhof-berlin.de Arnim Charlotte Juliane von, geb. Loeben ( Memento from August 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Publications from the k. Prussian State Archives, Volume 10
- ↑ daughter
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loeben, Kurt Hildebrand from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loeben, Curt Hildebrand from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Kolberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1661 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenziethen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1730 |
| Place of death | Berlin |