Leopold von Kleist (Colonel)

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Leopold von Kleist

Leopold von Kleist (born August 26, 1752 in Zützen ; † September 12, 1830 there ) was a Saxon officer , knight of the Military Order of St. Henry and the Legion of Honor .

Life

origin

Leopold von Kleist was the founder of the Zützen line in Lower Lusatia of his ancient noble family , who came from Pomerania . Since Zützen belonged to the Electorate of Saxony (Lower Lusatia did not become Prussian until 1815), he became a Saxon subject when he was born. He was the fifth son of the royal Prussian colonel and knight of the order Pour le Mérite , Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (1707–1766), and Eva Luise Eleonore von Schlomach (1726–1813).

Military career

Kleist chose the profession of officer. He joined the noble Saxon cavalry regiment "Prince Albrecht Chevaux Legers" on November 25, 1757 as an ensign and rose to major until 1799 . Since the current Kingdom of Saxony was allied with Napoleon and actively participated in his wars, its advancement proceeded faster from now on. On December 20, 1806 he became a lieutenant colonel in the regiment "Prince Johann Chevaux Legers", in 1809 immediately after promotion to colonel commander of the regiment "Prince Clemens Chevaux legers". In this capacity, he was particularly distinguished by a bold attack under the eyes of his commander-in-chief Napoleon in the battle of Wagram . For this attack he was awarded the Military Order of St. Henry by his king and appointed a member of the French Legion of Honor by Napoleon. He was also a Knight of the Order of St. John .

As a result of the extinction of the von Kleist family's Raddatz branch in 1793, on the basis of a decision by the Köslin court in 1797, with two brothers and a cousin, they came into possession of the eleven Pomeranian Raddatz-Juchow fiefs.

On June 6, 1812, he received his farewell. He retired to Zützen and inherited this estate when his mother died in 1813. In 1819, Zützen and Gersdorf became a majorate . Kleist became 1st Majorate Lord, but also owned the goods Schenkendorf, Raddatz, Neuendorf, Bramstädt, Nieder-Pankow, Klingbeck and Ober-Pankow that did not belong to the Majorate. He was married to Friederike Auguste von Klitzing, with whom he had four sons, including the district administrator and politician Gustav von Kleist and the chamberlain Xaver von Kleist .

literature

  • H. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part, Second Department, Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, pp. 162–163, no. 168 ( 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. 206–207, no. 168 (with picture; digital version ; 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. 279.
  2. ↑ H. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part, second division, Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, pp. 159–160, no. 129 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Leopold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1752
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DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1830
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