Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske

Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske (born June 4, 1717 in Groß Pomeiske in the Bütow district in Western Pomerania ; † May 20, 1785 in Riesenburg in East Prussia ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and knight of the order Pour le Mérite .

Life

origin

Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske was the son of the landowner Klaus Asmus von Pomeiske auf Groß Pomeiske, who was married to Dorothea Emilie von Pirch , the fourth daughter of Martin von Pirch auf Rosincke, and was born on the ancestral estate of the Pomeiske family. He was hereditary lord there around 1756 .

Career

His parents sent him to the Danzig high school , which he left at the age of 16 to begin a military career in 1733 as a flag junior with the Plathen dragoon regiment . In 1738 he became an ensign . His first campaign in 1740 took him to Silesia . In 1741 he became second lieutenant of the Posadowsky Regiment (later the Lottum Regiment) . He took part in the siege and conquest of Glogau as well as in the siege of Neisse and in the battle of Mollwitz . In 1752 he became staff captain . In the Second Silesian War he took part in the siege of Prague and the Battle of Hohenfriedberg , where the horse was torn from under his body by fire. In 1757 he became a real captain, and in the same year a sergeant- major and lieutenant colonel . After receiving his own squadron in the Seven Years' War in February 1757 , he was promoted to major a month later . He then took part in the action at Reichenberg, the Battle of Prague and the Battle of Kolin . Because of his bravery, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel promoted, he also received in 1757 the medal Pour le Mérite awarded. In the following years he took part in the Battle of Breslau , the Battle of Leuthen , the Battle of Zorndorf and the Battle of Hochkirch , where his horse was killed again. He then took part in the Battle of Liegnitz and the Battle of Torgau . In 1758 he was appointed commander of the Holstein-Gottorp regiment . Frederick the Great paid him a lot of praise. In 1759 Pomeiske became a colonel . After taking part in battles in Western Pomerania with his regiment in 1761 , he was entrusted with the vacant post of head of the former Holstein-Gottorp dragoon regiment. In 1764 he was promoted to lieutenant general of the cavalry . He was also involved in the campaign of 1778/79 . He was holder of the Dragoon Regiment No. 9 for the entire period 1761–1785, for twenty-four years.

family

In 1762 he married Helene Sophie von Koschenbahr , the youngest daughter of Hans Wolf von Koschenbar. The marriage resulted in two sons, Nikolaus Georg in 1763 and Alexander Friedrich August in 1764. However, he survived his two sons. With the death of Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske in 1785, the Pomeiske family, originally called Hirsch-Pomoyski, also died out. By will of May 12, 1785, Pomeiske founded a family entrepre- neurship and placed the obligation on the respective owner of the Groß Pomeiske estate to use the name and coat of arms of the Pomeiske family in addition to his own name. He was first owned by the Lettow- Pomeiske family and - when they also died out in 1840 - then by the Schwerdtner- Pomeiske family , who were the last Fideikommiss owners and who resided on the estate until the end of World War II .

References

literature

• Anton Balthasar König : Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 192 ( Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske at Wikisource [PDF]).
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical-literary manual of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century . Volume 8, Leipzig 1806, pp. 227–228, ( full text )
• Historical portfolio. To know the present and past times . Vienna Breslau Leipzig Berlin Hamburg 1786, No. 1, pp. 368–369, No. 11 ( full text )
• Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great . Leipzig 1853, pp. 316–317 ( full text )
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 27, no. 554.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Friedrich Seyfart : Impartheyische Geschichte des Bayern Succession War . Leipzig 1780, pp. 639-640.
2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, pp. 209-210.
3. ^ Robert Klempin and Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and directories of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV to the XIX century . Berlin 1863, p. 391.
4. ^ Henry Lloyd and Georg Friedrich von Tempelhoff : History of the Seven Years' War in Germany between the King of Prussia and the Empress Queen and her allies . Part V: Campaign of 1761 , Berlin 1794, p. 354.
5. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 27, no. 554.
6. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1854, p. 216.
7. ↑ Reinhold Cramer: History of the Lande Lauenburg and Bütow . Volume 1, Königsberg 1858, p. 122.
8. ^ Archive for German aristocratic history, genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics . Quarterly journal, edited by Leopold von Ledebur , Berlin 1863, pp. 313–314 ( full text ).
9. ↑ Illustrirte German noble role of the Nineteenth century . Leipzig 1858-1860, p. 83, no. 5.