Rudolph Adam von Hessler

Rudolph Adam von Heßler († October 27, 1756 in Merseburg ; † around 1800) was an official governor of the Erzgebirge district in the Electorate of Saxony and a noble district tax collector.

Life

He came from the Thuringian noble family von Heßler and Johanna Henrietta, born Freiin von Kottwitz. Rudolph Adam grew up in the former episcopal city of Merseburg, where his father was stationed for several years with the Prince Maximilian Regiment he commanded during the Seven Years' War, before he retired in Chemnitz . The father died when Rudolph Adam was 18 years old. As the second youngest son, he did not pursue a military career like his father and older brother Curt von Hessler (* 1740), but instead devoted himself to administration. He took over the manor Thum with Herold and Drebach in the Saxon Erzgebirge and became the governor of the Erzgebirge district of the Electorate of Saxony and at the same time a noble district tax collector. His mother died in Chemnitz in 1792.

After only a few years shortly after 1794, Rudolph Adam von Hessler gave up his official career in the service of the Saxon Elector and left the country to settle permanently in Silesia . One of the reasons for this move was her marriage in 1784 to Marianna Konstancja Bojanowska , who came from an old Polish noble family and was therefore closer to her home than in the Ore Mountains . The traces of Rudolph Adam von Heßler in Silesia are already lost in 1800. His daughter Konstantine Johanna Friederike von Heßler became the foster daughter of the district administrator Hans Ernst von Stentzsch , Herr auf Prittag not far from Grünberg in Silesia. She married in 1804 (as an orphan ) with the royal Prussian lieutenant general of the infantry Gustav Xaver Reinhold von Ryssel (1771-1845) from Freyburg an der Unstrut . She brought the Prittag manor into the marriage and still lived there as a widow around 1870.

literature

• August Wilhelm Bernhard von Vechtritz: Gender narrative of those noble families flourishing in Saxony as those v. Bölzig, v. Bose, v. Bräuneck, Dehn v. Rothfelfer [...] , Leipzig 1793.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Electoral Saxon Court and State Calendar, 1794
2. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , pp. 115-117, no. 1257.