Rochus von Witzleben

Rochus Friedrich Otto von Witzleben (born April 10, 1758 ; † 1826 ) was Danish chamberlain , Oldenburg court chief in Plön and castle captain in Eutin .

He came from the Thuringian noble family von Witzleben and was the sixth child of the second marriage of the Danish lieutenant Adam Levin von Witzleben the Younger (1721–1766) and his wife Karoline von Sobbe .

Already at the age of 12 he went into Danish service and on November 2, 1769 became second lieutenant à la suite in the Oldenburg infantry regiment. He lasted until April 1, 1773 when he became a real second lieutenant. On February 27, 1782 he received his resignation as captain. He joined the ducal Holstein-Oldenburg and Episcopal Lübeck services, and he also became the castle captain in Eutin. In 1800 he became royal Danish chamberlain and in 1820 head of the court of the mentally ill Peter Friedrich Wilhelm von Oldenburg in Plön . He died unexpectedly in 1826.

In 1788 he married Marianne von Biedenstedt (1750-1831). She was the daughter of the Hessian Christoph Friedrich von Biedenstedt and his wife the Marquise Louise du Hamel . Wilhelmine was lady-in-waiting to Duchess Friederike von Oldendeburg .

The daughters Hermine Ernestine (1789–1876) and Johanne Eleonore Juliane (1793–1869), who emerged from this marriage, became canons in Wemmetoft . The son Rochus became Chamberlain of Oldenburg.

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , Gotha, 1903, p. 924
• GA and KHA v. Witzleben: History of the von Witzleben family, Berlin 1878, I, p. 353ff, digitized

Web links

• Rochus von Witzleben at Geneanet.org