Peter von Seers

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Peter von Seers (* 1666 ; † December 4, 1731 in Pillau ) was a Prussian major general , chief of Garrison Regiment No. 2 and commander of the Pillau fortress .

Life

origin

Seers was one of the refugees who had left France after the Edict of Nantes and were able to settle in Brandenburg .

Career

He joined the army around 1674 under Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . In 1786, during the siege of Ofen , he distinguished himself. In 1695 he was a Junker in the Life Guard . In 1692 he was promoted to lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 15 , on June 15, 1697 staff captain , on April 5, 1705 or 1709, lieutenant colonel and in 1718 colonel . As such, he was transferred to Regiment No. 19 . With this regiment he came to Pillau in January 1725. There he received the command post and the garrison battalion. In the following year, 1726, he was made major general.

He had participated in the Great Northern War from 1702 to 1713 in the campaign against France and in 1715 in the siege of Stralsund .

He was buried in Lochstedt Castle at his request .

family

His wife was Susanne de Hautcharmois (1679–1754) since 1700. Francoise St. Laurent, daughter of the Conseiller au Parlement de Orange Louis de St. Laurent, who is named by Tollin as a wife, is after Priesdorff the first wife of Major General Philipp Loth von Seers , who in turn von König und Poten belongs here Son is considered.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to König (lit.), he only died in 1731.
  2. ↑ According to other information, the family comes from Holland. See: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 437, (digitized version) .
  3. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The state forces of the Prussian monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm I. , Volume 1, Berlin 1828, p. 78, (digitized version) .
  4. ↑ Jean Pierre Erman , Pierre Christian Frédéric Reclam: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Réfugiés françois dans les Etats du roi , Volume 9, Berlin 1794, pp. 272-273, (digitized version)
  5. ^ Henri Wilhelm Nathanael Tollin : History of the French Colony of Magdeburg: Dept. 1, A. The fight of the Huguenot religious refugees , Halle 1886, p. 89.
  6. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , pp. 424-425, no. 442.
  7. ↑ König (lit.).
  8. ^ Bernhard von Poten :  Seers, Philipp Loth von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 589 f.
personal data
SURNAME Seers, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seers, Peter de; Pierre de Sers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Major General, Chief of Garrison Regiment No. 2, Commander of the Pillau Fortress
DATE OF BIRTH 1666
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1731
Place of death Pillau