Rudolph August von Lüttichau

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Rudolph August von Lüttichau (* 1678 in Potschappel ; † January 27, 1746 in Dresden ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamber and mountain ridge as well as bailiff of Großenhain and owner of the manors Potschappel and Kleinkmehlen .

Life

Rudolph August von Lüttichau came from a noble family from Meissen and was the son of Wolf and Maria Magdalena von Lüttichau. He started his administrative career at the Dresden court, where he was appointed chamber ridge in 1717 and Bergrat in 1719 . For a while he was also employed as an official in the Hayn office . During this time he was given several commissions, for example in the county of Henneberg .

After the death of his father Wolf von Lüttichau in 1722, he and his brother Magnus Heinrich von Lüttichau each received one half of the paternal estate Potschappel.

Rudolph August von Lüttichau bought the Kleinkmehlen manor at auction in 1724. Due to massive debts, however, he could not hold the estate permanently and had to sell it on to August Franz Essenius in 1738 . In that year 1738 he was appointed bailiff of Grossenhain. He held this position until his death in 1746.

His brother was Magnus Heinrich von Lüttichau, who died in Zschopau in the Ore Mountains in 1731 , and his older sister was Maria Catharina, wife of Chamberlain George Haubold Freiherr von Seyfertitz. She died one day after her brother as a 76-year-old widow out of sheer desperation over his death.

Rudolph August von Lüttichau remained unmarried. After his death he was transferred from Dresden to Potschappel and buried there.

An oil painting on canvas in the format 60 cm × 76 cm from the year 1731 has survived, showing his half-length portrait.

literature

  • Genealogical-historical news , Volume 26, Leipzig 1746
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon
  • Harald Graf von Lüttichau: History of the Family , 2nd edition, Leipzig, Berlin 2011 ( digitized version , PDF, 13.9 MB, accessed on July 28, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harald Graf von Lüttichau: History of the Family , 2nd edition, Leipzig, Berlin 2011, pp. 1–71.
personal data
SURNAME Lüttichau, Rudolph August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamber and mountain ridge as well as bailiff and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH Potschappel
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1746
Place of death Dresden