Valentin Ludwig von Bandemer

Valentin Ludwig von Bandemer (* 1726 in Pomerania ; † after 1787) was a Prussian colonel and commander of a grenadier battalion .

Life

origin

Valentin Ludwig was a member of the Pomeranian noble family von Bandemer . His father Friedrich Ernst von Bandemer († before 1749) was the heir of Sorchow in the Stolp district from 1722 .

Career

Bandemer was admitted to the Kadettenanstalt Berlin in 1742 , was promoted to ensign in 1746 and was a junior in the infantry regiment in 1749 (No. 10) . He was promoted to second lieutenant in 1751 and prime lieutenant in 1756 . Bandemer rose to the position of staff captain in 1758 and real captain in 1762 . When he to 1775 Major was promoted at the same time the command via a grenadier battalion, which consist of two grenadier companies of the regiments no. 9 was and no. 10 assembled. He also acted as chief of these grenadiers in the War of the Bavarian Succession . Bandemer was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1784 and to colonel in 1787.

family

Bandemer married Anna Sophia von Vitzthum , daughter of a Hanoverian major. The marriage produced a daughter.

literature

• Anton Balthasar König : Valentin Ludwig von Bandemer . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 100 ( Valentin Ludwig von Bandemer at Wikisource [PDF]).
• Johann Friedrich Seyfart : Impartheyische history of the Bavarian war of succession. Leipzig 1780, p. 488, FN 698

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Part II, Volume 2 Description of the to the judicial district of the Königl. State colleges in Köslin belonging circles. Stettin 1784, pp. 1006-1007, no. 137.
2. ↑ Günther Gieraths : The Combat Operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807 , Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 33 u. 37 .