Otto Magnus von Dönhoff

Friedrichstein Palace around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Otto Magnus Graf von Dönhoff (born October 18, 1665 in Berlin , † December 14, 1717 in Berlin) was Brandenburg - Prussian lieutenant general and envoy .

Life

Otto Magnus was the son of Count Friedrich von Dönhoff and Freiin Eleonore Katharina von Schwerin . He attended high school in Thorn in 1679 and in Posen in 1681 . After traveling through France and England, he studied in Leiden in 1684 . He then entered service in Brandenburg like his father. He fought as captain of the Grands Mousquetaires in the Palatinate War of Succession , then against the French at Neuss , Kaiserswerth and Bonn . In 1695 he was wounded several times during the siege of Namur . As an honor he was major and on October 10, 1689 Lieutenant Colonel of the Grands Mousquetaires. A good two years later, on February 9, 1692, he became a colonel in his father's regiment (the later Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 2 ), after his death the regiment chief, governor of Memel , real chamberlain and brigadier general . In 1699 he traveled to Vienna as a real secret councilor and envoy, where the emperor raised him to the rank of imperial count. On December 28 of the same year he became General War Commissioner . In 1701 he was one of the first to receive the newly founded Black Eagle Order . As an opponent of Count Kolbe von Wartenberg , he largely withdrew from the court in 1702. During this time he lived in Memel and had Friedrichstein Castle built, after which the line he donated is called Dönhoff-Friedrichstein. Only after the fall of Wartenberg could he return to major general on September 8, 1703 and lieutenant general on January 6, 1706 . In 1711 the king appointed him the first Prussian envoy to the peace congress in Utrecht , which lasted until 1713. In 1715 he took part in the campaign in Pomerania against the Swedes. The Brandenburgers landed on Rügen , besieged and conquered the Hanseatic city of Stralsund .

family

Otto Magnus von Dönhoff married Wilhelmine Amalie von Dohna (born May 22, 1686 in Stockholm, † September 23, 1757 in Elbing ) on September 8, 1701 , daughter of Count Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten , with whom he had five sons and five daughters . Marion Countess Dönhoff is a direct descendant of him.

Friedrich (September 30, 1702 - July 24, 1706)
Charlotte Eleonore Amalia Dorothea (September 24, 1703 - March 16, 1762) ⚭ March 28, 1723 Otto von Schwerin (* June 5, 1684 - January 2, 1755), (son of Otto von Schwerin (diplomat, 1645) (1645–1705))
Wilhelm Ludwig (* / † August 19, 1705)
Alexander Otto (born August 3, 1707 - † August 29, 1707)
Friedrich (December 8, 1708; † March 29, 1769) ⚭ June 8, 1740 Wilhelmine Sophie von Kameke (* September 24, 1712; † December 1, 1758) (daughter of Paul Anton von Kameke )
Philipp Otto (March 4, 1710; † April 25, 1787 in Quittainen ) ⚭ September 16, 1742 Countess Amalia zu Dohna-Schlodien (* October 12, 1723; † May 8, 1798)
Luise Eleonore (* December 31, 1712; † May 10, 1763) ⚭ April 21, 1727 Ernst Friedrich Finck von Finckenstein (* September 16, 1698; † July 25, 1753)
Sophie Dorothea (May 5, 1715 - October 25, 1778)
Wilhemine (born August 15, 1717 - † August 13, 1719)

Individual evidence

^ Ernst zur Lippe-Weißenfeld : The correspondence between King Friedrich the Gr. and Count Dönhoff, 1753. (A genealogical and biographical commentary.) In: Wochenblatt der Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg . Volume 9, No. 5, January 29, 1868, pp. 27-28.
^ HF Elsner: Some historical news from the Evangel. Reformed and Simultaneous Churches at Samrodt and Quittainen in the East Prussian Oberland, along with a word about Union . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, pp. 225-289.
^ Dönhof . In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . First section: A - G , part 27, Leipzig 1836, pp. 51–55.

literature

Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2013, Vol. 3, pp. 180f

Kilian Heck and Christian Thielemann (eds.): Friedrichstein. The castle of the Counts of Dönhoff in East Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06593-8

Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography. Volume 1, Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Königsberg (Prussia) 1941

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 74, no. 118.

Anton Balthasar König : Otto Magnus von Dönhoff . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 366 ( Otto Magnus von Dönhoff at Wikisource [PDF]).

Web links

Ancestors of Count Marion von Doenhoff; Family tree of Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, Otto Magnus is No. 64 ( Memento from February 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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personal data
SURNAME	Dönhoff, Otto Magnus from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dönhoff, Otto Magnus Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brandenburg-Prussian lieutenant general and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 1717
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ernst zur Lippe-Weißenfeld : The correspondence between King Friedrich the Gr. and Count Dönhoff, 1753. (A genealogical and biographical commentary.) In: Wochenblatt der Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg . Volume 9, No. 5, January 29, 1868, pp. 27-28.

[HFE-2] HF Elsner: Some historical news from the Evangel. Reformed and Simultaneous Churches at Samrodt and Quittainen in the East Prussian Oberland, along with a word about Union . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, pp. 225-289.

[3] Dönhof . In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . First section: A - G , part 27, Leipzig 1836, pp. 51–55.