Otto von Burghauß

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Otto von Burghauß ( April 12, 1713 - May 31, 1795 in Vienna ) was an Imperial and Royal Lieutenant Field Marshal .

family

Otto von Burghauß was a member of the Silesian noble family of the Counts of Burghauß . His parents were Count Carl Heinrich Leopold von Burghauß (* 1679; † 1739), heir to Stolz, Giersdorf and Wiltsch and Freiin Wilhelmine Charlotte von Wittenhorst (* 1683; † 1738). On April 8, 1744, he married Wilhelmine Dorothee von der Marwitz (* 1718; † 1787), the mistress of Margrave Friedrich III. from Brandenburg-Bayreuth . Since the marriage remained childless, the male line of the older line of the Counts of Burghauß died out with him.

career

Count Burghauß, almost penniless because of his father's waste, was in the position of captain at the margrave's court. The marriage arranged by Wilhelmine of Prussia with his maternal cousin, to get rid of the rival, led to a serious crisis with her brother Friedrich II. Of Prussia , as the Prussian nobility was not allowed to marry beyond the Prussian borders by decree. This was to keep Prussian property in the country. As a result, Friederich excluded Countess Wilhelmine Dorothee Burghauß from the inheritance (succession) on December 27, 1744. Nevertheless, she finally received a high severance payment from Bayreuth and so the couple settled in Buda from 1761 and from 1773 in Trieste , and finally in Vienna in 1780, after assignments for official purposes . Earlier, Count Burghauß, like his father, led the life of a bon vivant and ore-wasting man.

On May 1, 1747, Count Burghauß served as general sergeant in the imperial army and on June 22, 1757, with the rank of January 18, 1756, was promoted to field marshal lieutenant. Furthermore, he was also the commander of Raab and the imperial-royal real secret council .

literature

  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial and Royal Generals 1618-1815. Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2006 p. 17m (PDF; 453 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General genealogical and state manual , p. 488 f. ( Digitized version )
  2. ↑ Giacomo Casanova : Story of my life. Propylaea Verlag, Berlin, Volume XII., P. 228.
personal data
SURNAME Burghauß, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burghausen; Otto Ludwig Konrad Count of; Burghauß, Otto Ludwig Conrad von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial-royal field marshal lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1713
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1795
Place of death Vienna