Wilhelm Carl Friedrich von Burgsdorff
Wilhelm Carl Friedrich von Burgsdorff (born May 3, 1775 at Gut Schaumburg an der Oder , Cüstrin district , † February 16, 1849 in Potsdam ) was the state stable master at the Trakehnen main stud .
origin
His parents were the forest master Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorff (1747–1802) and his first wife Frederike Sophie von Burgsdorff (1752–1784).
Life
He came from the Burgsdorff family . In 1789 he was initially active in forestry and was then appointed royal hunting bellboy. At the instigation of Oberstallmeister Graf Lindenau he received a scholarship in 1790 for the Berlin Veterinary School, which opened on June 1, 1790 . In 1793 he accompanied King Friedrich Wilhelm II (Prussia) as a travel stableman in the war against France in Champagne .
After the war he was the royal stable master in Berlin under Count Lindenau until 1801. From 1802 to 1805 he was head of the West Prussian state stud marshal in Münsterwalde . Then he was civil commissioner for mobilization horses, which the province of West Prussia had to provide. In 1808 he became the main stable master at the Trakehnen main stud under Friedrich Karl Ludwig von Below , whose successor he was in 1815. In 1821 he helped set up the first remonted depot in Kuckerneese . He retired from civil service in 1842 and lived on his Serpenten estate (near Gumbinnen ) until 1847 . Then he sold it and moved to Potsdam.
family
He married Amalie von Normann on December 15, 1801 in Fürstenau (* June 1, 1780; † October 5, 1848). The marriage remained without children.
Fonts
- 1827: Attempt to prove that horse races in England as they exist now cannot become an essential means of promoting better, noble horse breeding in Germany
- 1840: Some notes about the development and progress of noble horse breeding in Prussia, especially with regard to Trakehnen
literature
- Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 1, 1896, p.381
- Old Prussian Biography Volume III, 1975, p. 879
- Karl Siegmar von Galéra: The Lords of Burgsdorff, 1965
- Hansheinrich Trunz : Landstallmeister Wilhelm von Burgsdorf: Trakehnen (1814-1842) and his cup, famous in East Prussia, 1988
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgsdorff, Wilhelm Carl Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Country stable master at the main stud in Trakehnen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Schaumburg on the Oder , Cüstrin district |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1849 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |