Sigismund von Wallenrodt

Sigismund von Wallenrodt (* October 24, 1652 ; † November 26, 1723 ) was a Prussian statesman.

Life

Origin and family

Sigismund von Wallenrodt was a member of the Prussian line of those von Wallenrodt . His parents were the governor of Morungen Gottfried von Wallenrodt (1607-1657) and his second wife Maria, née von Nettelhorst († 1662). The Prussian statesman Christoph von Wallenrodt (1644–1711) was his brother. In 1686 he married Marie Luise von Nettelhorst († 1687) and in 1690 with Luise Katharina von Tettau (1672–1732) a daughter of the Prussian Chancellor Hans Dietrich von Tettau (1620–1687). The first marriage resulted in a son, the second two daughters and a son.

Johann Christoph zu Carmitten († 1727), Prussian Privy Councilor, Envoyé at the court of St. James and Obermarschall
Maria Helena (1790–1777), ⚭ 1716 Johann Dietrich von Kunheim (1684–1752), Prussian statesman

Career

Wallenrodt studied in Königberg and went on a grand tour with his brothers Ernst and Heinrich . After the brothers separated, he went alone to Cologne in 1680 to see a cousin. From there he moved on to Sachsen-Lauenburg , where the duke appointed him court and higher judge. He accompanied the Duke to Vienna and from there to Berlin as a result of the advancing Turks . In September 1683 he became court and legation counselor and got a position at the tribunal. In 1685 he was promoted to judge of higher appeal. On his return to Prussia in 1686 he became captain of Neuhausen and Labiau . From 1687 to 1711 he was then Vogt zu Fischhausen , where he also became district administrator. From this position he became Prussian district director and captain of Brandenburg in 1711 . In Berlin in 1716 he was finally appointed Real Secret Council , Minister of State and War Minister. In 1716 he was finally appointed chief marshal in the Kingdom of Prussia.

Wallenrodt was the heir to the East Prussian manors of Carmitten, Kloschenen and Kussitten.

literature

Jacob Friedrich Werner : News from the counts and nobles von Wallenrodischen family. Königsberg 1763, pp. 40-43.

Web links

Sigismund von Wallenrodt in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series , Volume XXI Brandenburg and Prussia 2 , Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2002, Tfl. 165.
↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 402, no. 145.

personal data
SURNAME	Wallenrodt, Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wallenrod, Sigismund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1652
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1723

[1] Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series , Volume XXI Brandenburg and Prussia 2 , Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2002, Tfl. 165.

[2] Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 402, no. 145.