Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz (Major General)

Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz (born March 3, 1679 in Mecklenburg ; † December 16, 1715 near Stresow on Rügen ) was a German-Swedish general in the Great Northern War .

Life

Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz was baptized on March 3, 1679 as the first son of Detlof von Bassewitz (1650–1685) and his wife Dorothea Lucia von Plessen .

Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz entered the Swedish military service and temporarily served in the same regiment as his brother Adolf Friedrich von Bassewitz . He succeeded King Charles XII. on the train to Bendern and fought in the Northern War against the Danes in Mecklenburg. As a colonel , he was present at the sieges of Wismar and Stralsund . As major general under General Magnus Stenbock in the battle of Gadebusch on December 20, 1712, he contributed to the victory of the Swedes and Pomeranians over the Danes and Saxons, which was followed by the capture of Altona . A Russian expeditionary force did not come to the aid of the Danes in time. On landing Swedish and Confederate troops on complaints he fell in Stresow.

Around 1710 Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz acquired the Neuhof estate near Warin in the Mecklenburg knightly office, which he later bequeathed to his brother Adolf Friedrich von Bassewitz. He bequeathed his fortune of 60,000 thalers to his first cousin Detlof Hans von Bassewitz . Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz was awarded the Swedish baron title like his brother Adolf Friedrich von Bassewitz . He remained unmarried and had no offspring.

literature

• Baier, Stralsundische Histories, Stralsund 1902, pp. 94–95. Lundblatt, v. Jensen, History of Charles XII. of Sweden, 1840, pp. 234, 235, 238, 258, 274, 283, 448.
• Nordberg, life of Karl XII. King in Sweden, three volumes from around 1750.
• Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Vol. P. 101-102, 1937-1938.
• Bidrag til den Nordiske Krigs Historie, Danish, Volume 4: De Nordiske Allieredes Kamp med Magnus Stenbock (Tuxen and Witte-Slidelin). Copenhagen & Christiania, 1910.