Theodor Marshal

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Memorial stone under the marshal's oak in Dresden in winter 2017
General view of the Marshall Oak in Dresden (2017)

August Ferdinand Theodor Count Marschall auf Burgholzhausen (born May 25, 1791 in Weimar ; † August 21, 1867 in Dresden ) was a royal Saxon chamberlain and chief forest master.

Life

He came from the Thuringian noble family Marschall von Burgholzhausen and was the son of the Hereditary Marshal of Thuringia, August Dietrich Graf von Marschall , who owned, among other things, the Tromsdorf manor . Hydrangea Freiin Waldner von Freundstein (* July 9, 1767 - March 20, 1800) was his mother and Countess Antoinette, born from Alten auf Wützenburg and Theile (* January 28, 1767 - April 2, 1824) was his stepmother.

After the death of his father, he and his brother August Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Thaddäus Damasius Graf von Marschall inherited the paternal estate. His brother moved to Vienna, where he became an imperial-royal-Austrian chamberlain. He was also the royal Prussian hereditary marshal in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the province of Saxony .

Theodor Graf Marschall lived mainly in Moritzburg.

family

Theodor Graf Marschall married Amalie von Mellish (* October 17, 1799 - April 18, 1872), daughter of the Royal Prussian Chamberlain and former Royal British Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General at the Lower Saxony Imperial Circle, Joseph Charles Mellish Esq, who survived him.

He left the son Max Graf Marschall (born October 11, 1829), who became Imperial and Royal Rittmeister vd A. and Chamber Councilor for the Grand Duke of Saxony and Weimar.

Honors

His admirers planted for him in the Hechtstraße 78 on the St. Pauli cemetery in Leipzig suburb in Dresden existing today Marshal oak, the oldest memorial trees in Dresden belongs. In front of the tree is a memorial stone with the following inscription: “The Marshal's Oak. Planted by his admirers. 1868. In memory of the deceased in 1867. Forester Count von Marschall. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierer's year books of the sciences, arts and crafts: supplementary work to all editions of the universal lexicon . Pierer's year books of the sciences, arts and crafts: supplementary work to all editions of the universal lexicon. tape 3 . Pierer, 1873 ( page 351 ).
personal data
SURNAME Marshal, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshal of Burgholzhausen, August Ferdinand Theodor Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Saxon Chamberlain and Chief Forester
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1867
Place of death Dresden