Lebrecht Gottfried Jahnus von Eberstädt

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Lebrecht Gottfried Freiherr Jahnus von Eberstädt (also Freiherr von Jahnus von Eberstädt or Jahnus von Eberstedt ; * 1660 ; † May 27, 1718 in Hamburg ) was a Russian lieutenant general and after his return to Electorate Saxony General of the Cavalry, Real Privy Councilor, Governor of Dresden and commander in chief of the fortresses in Electoral Saxony.

Life

Jahnus came from a noble family from Thuringia and was the eldest son of the royal Saxon court master Ludwig Jahnus, who died on March 20, 1691. At this time Lebrecht Gottfried Jahnus was still under the age of majority and, like his two brothers, was placed under guardianship. The following year Lebrecht Gottfried Jahnus joined the Campagne as adjutant general; in 1695 he had already risen to lieutenant colonel. From Gotha he entered the Brandenburg-Ansbach service, where he took part in a Brandenburg-Ansbach contingent in the Turkish War of 1698/99. During the War of the Spanish Succession he was in the service of the Republic of the Netherlands for the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach with the margravial regiments. Under Field Marshal Count Limburg-Styrum took part in battles against Max Emanuel's troops in the Upper Palatinate , for example in the Battle of Schmidmühlen on March 28, 1703 where the Imperial General-Field Marshal Lieutenant Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach was fatally wounded. Jahnus was also involved in the battle of Krottensee on May 24, 1703.

In 1709 he entered the service of the tsar. Since he was mainly in Russia, he sold his father's estate in Großengottern , which several years later, in 1727, his brother Adolph Wilhelm Jahnus as Imperial Major General regretted and tried to buy back the old family estate, which was not crowned with success.

Lebrecht Gottfried Jahnus rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the imperial Russian service. In 1711 he traveled with Peter the Great to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In the Saxon royal seat he was lured away and entered the service of Augustus the Strong . He was appointed Real Privy Council, Vice-President of the Privy Council of War and Chief of the Noble Cadets. After three years of probation in the Electoral Saxon service, August the Strong appointed him General of the Cavalry, Governor of Dresden and Supreme Commander of the Electoral Saxon fortresses in 1717. As such, he resigned from the Vice-President of the War College. He died the following year at the age of 50.

Lebrecht Gottfried Jahnus achieved the elevation to the imperial baron status.

marriage

He was married to Sibilla Magdalena von Bibra. The only son Johann Wilhelm Freiherr Jahnus von Eberstädt emerged from the marriage, who entered the service of administrative district governor in Brunswick and died in Soltau in 1750 .

literature

  • Franz Willax: The Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the Franconian District in the War of the Spanish Succession: the career of General Lebrecht Gottfried Jahnus von Eberstädt from Ansbach officer to General Tsar Peters the Great , self-published by the Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2003, in the series Mittelfränkische Studien , Vol. 16. PDF online

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willax, page 15
  2. ↑ Willax, page 33
  3. ↑ Willax, page 40
  4. ↑ Willax, page 79
  5. ↑ Willax, page 80
  6. ↑ Willax, page 96
  7. ^ Willax, page 204
  8. ↑ So far, however, no evidence has been found.
personal data
SURNAME Jahnus von Eberstädt, Lebrecht Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahnus Freiherr von Eberstädt, Lebrecht Gottfried von; Eberstädt, Lebrecht Gottfried Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lieutenant general and general of the cavalry from Electoral Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH 1660
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1718
Place of death Hamburg