Otto Gustav von Lepel

Otto Gustav von Lepel.

Otto Gustav von Lepel (born March 15, 1657 in Parpart near Greifenberg , Pomerania ; † December 29, 1735 in Küstrin ) was a Prussian major general , manor owner on Boeck , Blankensee and Nassenheide and governor of the Küstrin fortress .

family

Otto Gustav von Lepel was the eldest son of Joachim von Lepel (1620–1686), a lieutenant out of service , heir to Parpart and Dorothea von Manteuffel (1634–1692). In 1700 he married Louisa Scholastika von Blanckensee (1683-1745). Both had five children:

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Lepel (* December 1, 1716; † December 2, 1783) ⚭ Amalie Eleonore, Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck (* August 2, 1720; † July 9, 1783) sister of Viktor Amadeus Henckel von Donnersmarck
Johanna Juliane Sophia (* August 15, 1714; † 1770).

⚭ Georg Wilhelm von Schöning (1700–1745), Prussian district administrator

⚭ 1747 Hans Otto von Treskow (1692–1756)

Christine Elisabeth (* September 16, 1712; † July 26, 1771) ⚭ Karl Otto von der Osten (* June 7, 1697; † June 23, 1767)
Dorothea Margarethe (March 3, 1703 - May 26, 1774)

⚭ Nikolaus Christoph von Kleist (September 2, 1667 - November 11, 1725), Prussian lieutenant colonel

⚭ Franz Ulrich von Kleist (February 2, 1688 - January 13, 1757)

Friedrich (no data known, lived in Denmark, had a son who died without heirs)

Otto Gustav was the founder of the Nassenheide family.

Life

Otto Gustav von Lepel was initially in Swedish military service from 1675 in the guard of Count Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck . There he became a corporal in 1678 and a short time later Cornet . In 1679 he served as Kurbrandenburg Cornet in the Brandenburg Regiment Kurprinz on Horseback No. 2 . With a company of this regiment he marched to Hungary in the Turkish War in 1686 . The regiment in which von Lepel served then fought in the Palatinate War of Succession (1688–1697). In the course of this war, in 1691, he became a captain and company chief in the Kurprinz regiment on horseback. Also in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) he was in the field for many years outside his Pomeranian homeland and took part in numerous battles. In 1705 he was promoted to major , in 1709 to lieutenant colonel and in 1714 to colonel in the Crown Prince regiment on horseback, which occupied various garrisons on the Lower Rhine until 1720 .

Through business acumen, von Lepel succeeded in buying the Nassenheider estates in 1720. In 1721 von Lepel was appointed major general and commander of the cuirassier regiment Crown Prince of Prussia No. 2. On March 24, 1729, at the old age of 72, he was appointed governor of the fortress town of Küstrin.

As governor of Küstrin, he was responsible for guarding Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia , later King Friedrich II, who was arrested in Küstrin from August to November 1730 after the serious conflict with his father, King Friedrich Wilhelm I. The king gave written instructions from the governor von Lepel from the castle of Königs Wusterhausen on how the imprisoned crown prince was to be treated. He also had to ensure that Frederick the Great's childhood friend, Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte (* 1704), was beheaded in Küstrin on November 5, 1730 at the age of twenty-six, while the prince had to watch.

Otto Gustav von Lepel died in 1735 and was buried in the crypt of the church in Boeck.

literature

Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch des Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. German Family Archives, Volume 151, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Kurd von Schöning : Historical news from the sex of Schöning. 1830, p. 68 ( digitized version )
^ ^A ^b Anton Balthasar König : Otto Gustav von Lepel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 401 ( Otto Gustav von Lepel at Wikisource [PDF]).
↑ L. Schneider: The sixth Cürassier Regiment (Emperor of Russia): For the illustrated list of tribe, rank and quarters of the royal Prussian army, based on the history of the regiment from Major von Monteton and communications from the regimental adjutant Lieutenants from Rauch I. Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1854, p. 2 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lepel, Otto Gustav von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Major general, manor owner and governor of the Küstrin Fortress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH	Parpart
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1735
Place of death	Küstrin

[1] Kurd von Schöning : Historical news from the sex of Schöning. 1830, p. 68 ( digitized version )

[ABK-2] A ^b Anton Balthasar König : Otto Gustav von Lepel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 401 ( Otto Gustav von Lepel at Wikisource [PDF]).

[3] L. Schneider: The sixth Cürassier Regiment (Emperor of Russia): For the illustrated list of tribe, rank and quarters of the royal Prussian army, based on the history of the regiment from Major von Monteton and communications from the regimental adjutant Lieutenants from Rauch I. Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1854, p. 2 ( digitized version ).