Werner von Dieskau
Werner von Dieskau , contemporary also von Dießkau , († September 27, 1723 in Altenburg ) was a princely Saxon colonel in the Landregiment on foot in Altenburg, commander of the Leuchtenburg and owner of the Oberzetscha manor .
Life
He came from the Meissen noble family von Dieskau and was the son of the Saxon-Merseburg court marshal Carl von Dieskau († 1680). The Saxon-Merseburg Secret Councilor Otto Erdmann von Dieskau († 1716) on Kölzen and Starsiedel , Carl Wilhelm von Dieskau and Augustus von Dieskau on Molbitz were his brothers.
Since his eldest brother Otto Erdmann had taken over his father's manor, Werner von Dieskau entered the military. At first he was a Brunswick-Lüneburg Drost, then he switched to the service of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, where he rose to the rank of colonel. For several years he lived on the Leuchtenburg in Thuringia, of which he was in command. One of his sons was born there.
family
From his marriage to Agnesa geb. von Steuben (* 1669), daughter of Christoph Otto von Steuben, had the following surviving sons:
- Carl Otto von Dieskau (1692–1756), Saxon-Gotha captain, manor owner in Upper Lusatia
- Ludwig August von Dieskau (1701–1767), an Anhalt-Zerbstian chamberlain and cornet in the bodyguard on horseback, most recently French lieutenant general
- Christian Wilhelm von Dieskau (1703–1764), captain of the palace, chamberlain and Bergrat in Saalfeld
- Johann Erdmann von Dieskau, Colonel in French service in the regiment of Marshal Count Moritz von Sachsen
- Friedrich Anton (* 1706), Bavarian captain in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
- Haubold August Gottlob, killed in imperial military service
literature
- Conrad Tyroff, gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffischen new aristocratic coat of arms , Volume 1 p.327f
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Nobility Lexicon , Volume 2, S.485ff
- Johann Samuel Publication: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in Alphabetical Order , 1834, p. 79.
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Friedrich Schilling von Canstatt: Sex description of those families von Schilling , 1807, p. 301
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dieskau, Werner von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princely Saxon colonel and commander of the Leuchtenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century or 18th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1723 |
| Place of death | Altenburg |