Volrath from Hellermann

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Volrath Hellermann , from 1743 von Hellermann (born September 14, 1686 in Petershagen , † December 9, 1756 in Kolberg ) was a Prussian military and commander of the Kolberg fortress.

Life

Hellermann, the son of the clerk Walrad Hellermann (1615–1697) zu Petershagen, had initially wanted to take up a clerical profession, but then entered the military and in 1703 became a soldier in the Golz Regiment. From 1703 until the Peace of Utrecht he took part in all Prussian war missions. In 1715 he attended the siege of Stralsund . In 1721 he became a lieutenant . In 1732 he was promoted to captain in the "Crown Prince" infantry regiment .

Three years after Friedrich II became king and took over the affairs of state, he appointed Hellermann colonel on July 27, 1743 , made him responsible for the Glaubitz garrison battalion in Kolberg and on the same day elevated him to the Prussian nobility .

Hellermann died in Kolberg at the age of 71.

He was married twice. His first wife was the Dutch Marie Elisabeth Seegers on September 30, 1718 in Wesel . After her death he married Sabine Elisabeth Brunsleben .

He left a son, Friedrich Georg Christoph von Hellermann , who later became district administrator of the Fürstenthum district in Western Pomerania. His second son Wilhelm (born November 2, 1733) died as Premier-Lieutenant in a military hospital in Dresden during the Seven Years' War .

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909, p.323

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Volrath von Hellermann . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 128 ( Volrath von Hellermann at Wikisource [PDF]).
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, page 99, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1863, p. 295 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellermann, Volrath from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellermann, Volrath (maiden name); Hellermann, Vollrath von; Hellermann, Vollrath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian military and commander of the Kolberg Fortress
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1756
Place of death Kolberg