Martin Friedrich von Stollhofen

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Martin Friedrich von Stollhofen (born November 1691 in the Uckermark ; † August 9, 1758 in Küstrin ) was a Prussian major general , commander of Infantry Regiment No. 2 and knight of the order Pour le Mérite . He was raised to the nobility by Frederick II in 1744 . His father was a preacher in the Uckermark.

Life

He went into Prussian service as early as April 1707 and joined the “Dönhof” No. 2 infantry regiment as a simple soldier. He initially fought in the War of the Spanish Succession . In the Pomeranian campaign of 1715/1716 he was already a sergeant at the siege of Stralsund (1715) . He was then sent on advertising and was so successful that King Frederick I appointed him ensign . He was used for advertising and rose to lieutenant.

When the Prussian Army marched on the Rhine in 1734 , he was Premier Lieutenant and commander of the personal company of Lieutenant General Erhard Ernst von Röder . Soon afterwards he became the captain of the staff . His blameless origin prevented further rapid progress. When Frederick II took over the throne, he was promoted to captain and received the Brarein company . At the end of 1740 he was commissioned to occupy the Kloster zur Heiligen Linde , as it had refused to pay homage . This was made up for after 200 men had moved in. At the end of February 1741 the regiment marched into the army camp near Brandenburg . Then it took its winter quarters in Spandau and Bernau and in April 1742 it marched to Bohemia , where Stollhofen fought on May 17, 1742 in the battle of Chotusitz . After the peace the regiment did not return, but was quartered in Silesia in the County of Glatz in Habelschwerdt and Mittelwalde . Stollhofen himself was sent back to the canton at the end of the year to supplement the regiment. On May 31, 1743 he was appointed major . During the military parade in 1744, Friedrich II raised Stollhofen to hereditary nobility.

During the Second Silesian War he was at the siege of Prague and fought under Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau in Upper Silesia . On January 14, 1745 he fought in the Habelschwerdt and then at Hohenfriedberg , where he was seriously injured. It was not until 1746 that he returned to the regiment and was transferred to Prussia . He got his quarters in Schippenbeil . When a city fire broke out there in 1749, he and a company were able to clear the powder tower before the fire reached him. In 1751 he became a lieutenant colonel and in 1753 received the Pour le Mérite. Still lieutenant colonel, he became regimental commander in 1754, but a colonel that same year .

The regiment then went to the Seven Years' War . On August 30, 1757 he fought in the battle of Groß-Jägersdorf and fought the Swedes who had advanced to Pomerania and had to withdraw from Stralsund and Rügen . 1758 he was appointed Major General and was corps of General Dohna allocated. He fell seriously ill in the army camp near Lebus and was brought to Küstrin . He died there on his arrival on August 9, 1758 - still sitting in the car - in front of the governor's house.

family

He married Anna Dorothea Gesell († 1747) in Rastenburg in 1724 . She was the daughter of a town musician. The marriage has two sons and three daughters.

⚭I 1763 Otto Friedrich von Amstel (1728–1768), captain, son of Georg Friedrich von Amstel
⚭II 1768 Friedrich Ludwig von Sixthin, Premier Lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 16

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Only Priesdorff (Lit.) mentions 1692 as the year of birth owA, all other authors write November 1691.
  2. ↑ Alexander Carl Oelsnitz: History of the Royal Prussian First Infantry Regiment from its foundation in 1619 to the present , p. 365 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 489.
personal data
SURNAME Stollhofen, Martin Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stollhoffen, Martin Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Major General, Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 2
DATE OF BIRTH November 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Uckermark
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1758
Place of death Küstrin