Paul Anton von Manteuffel

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Paul Anton von Manteuffel (born September 5, 1707 , † April 3, 1773 in Schadewalde near Lauban ) was a Prussian colonel and commander of a grenadier battalion.

Life

origin

Paul Anton was a member of the Poplow tribe of the Pomeranian noble family Manteuffel . His parents were the heir to Collatz , Ewald von Manteuffel (1645-1723), and his second wife Barbara Agnes von Kameke from the house of Kratzig († 1725). Lieutenant General Heinrich von Manteuffel was his brother.

Military career

Manteuffel attended high school in Neustettin before joining the Prussian army in 1731 . For 17 years he was in the "von Borcke" regiment . 1741, he served as first lieutenant and company commander in the newly established Füsilierregiment "du Moulin" and unsuspected even in 1744 in the rank of lieutenant. In 1750 Manteuffel was already promoted to captain and in 1756 rose to major and commander of a grenadier battalion , which was formed from the grenadiers of regiments No. 37 and No. 40 . He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Breslau in 1757 and was subsequently taken prisoner by the Austrians. He had received one shot in the right foot and one in the left chest. In Breslau the bullet was removed from the chest and a year later the one from the left foot. It took until 1761 until it was restored to the point where it was operational again.

In 1760 Manteuffel was promoted to lieutenant colonel, but could not resume active service until 1761 and commanded a brigade as a colonel until the end of the war . During the siege of Schweidnitz it was buried in the explosion of a mine, but could still be dug up in time. After the war he took part as a colonel in Infantry Regiment No. 37 under August Wilhelm von Braun in 1763 his farewell and acquired in 1764 the Good Schadewalde in Luban, where he spent his last years. Manteuffel was buried in Marklissa .

family

In 1748 Manteuffel married Freiin Friederike Dorothea von Dyhrrn († after 1770), daughter of Baron Melchior Abraham von Dyhrrn, heir to Herzogswalde and Anna Helene von Nimptsch adH Altendorf

  1. Friedrich Ewald (* 1756; † young)
  2. Anna Friederike (Antoinette) (* 1756, † after 1779), heiress to Schadewalde
⚭ 1774 Friedrich Ludwig Leopold von Honstedt, Prussian major in Küstrin
⚭ Hans Ernst Friedrich von Posadowsky and Postelwitz (born January 23, 1756)

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Paul Anton von Manteuffel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 19 ( Paul Anton von Manteuffel at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Rolf von Manteuffel (transcription): Collection von Zitzewitz; Department of Manteuffel. Bad Nauheim 1991, pp. 25, 35.
  • Georg Schmidt : The von Manteuffel family. Poplow tribe of the Pomeranian ancestry. Berlin 1913, pp. 48-49.
  • Lusatian magazine. Volume 6. S. 118. Obituary with biography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlob Naumann : Collection of unprinted messages that explain the history of the Prussian campaigns from 1740-1779. Part 2, Dresden 1782, p. 195. (digitized version)
  2. ^ Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. Volume 10, p. 210. Digital copy of Schadewalde
  3. ↑ Ludwig August Theodor Holscher: The parish Horka in the Rothenburger circle, consisting of d. Localities Ober-, Mittel-, Nieder-Horka u. Mückenhain, described topographically, statistically, historically. P. 53. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Manteuffel, Paul Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel and commander of a grenadier battalion
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1707
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1773
Place of death Schadewalde near Lauban