Stephan von Lichnowski

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Baron Karl Stephan Ludwig Anton von Lichnowsky and Woschütz (* 1723 in Poland ; † 1796 ) was a royal Prussian lieutenant general , chief of infantry regiment No. 23 and bearer of the Pour le Mérite .

His parents were the Prussian chamberlain Karl Ludwig Anton von Lichnowsky-Werdenberg , ruler of the Woschütz rule and his third wife, Countess NN von Schlabrendorf . He was previously married to a Countess von Stolberg-Wernigerode and then to Countess Wilhelmine von Schweinitz , both marriages were childless.

He went into Prussian service in 1741, came to Infantry Regiment No. 31 (Tauenzien) and rose there up to captain . In September 1767 him king replied Frederick II. As a Major in the Regiment. 42 (Margrave Henry). On June 6, 1775 he became lieutenant colonel , on January 30, 1779 colonel and commander of the regiment . On March 10, 1786, he was appointed major general and, at the end of the year, head of Infantry Regiment No. 23 .

Between 1741 and 1779 he took part in all of Friedrich's campaigns. He received the Pour le Mérite in 1767 at the Revue in Silesia .

family

He married Wilhelmine von Windheim († June 17, 1817). The couple had several children:

  • Caroline (born September 19, 1780 - † February 18, 1820), dominatrix at Lindo Abbey
  • Luise (born November 29, 1781; † April 29, 1850), abbess in the Jena women's monastery in Halle
  • Amalie (born March 14, 1783), abbess in Jena'ische Damenstift in Halle
  • Ludwig (1784–1785)
  • Henriette (born October 29, 1790), canoness in Lindo
  • Wilhelmine (December 1, 1791 - September 1853), canoness in Münster
  • Emilie (born September 13, 1793), canoness in Lindo
  • Antonie Elisabeth Frederike (born September 3, 1794), lady of honor of the Order of Luisen ⚭ May 17, 1820 Count Hans Friedrich Bernhard Balthasar von Schweinitz and Krain, Baron von Kauder (born September 25, 1771 † January 30, 1848)

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Stephan von Lichnowsky . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 412 ( Stephan von Lichnowsky at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses to the year 1864 p.467
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, 1856, p.433f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after König he died unmarried in 1796
personal data
SURNAME Lichnowski, Stephan von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lichnowsky, Stephan von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 23
DATE OF BIRTH 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1796