Wilhelm of Anhalt
Wilhelm von Anhalt (born March 15, 1727 in Kleckewitz ; † November 3, 1760 in Torgau ) was a Count of Anhalt from the house of the Ascanians and a Prussian lieutenant colonel .
Life
Wilhelm was the eldest son of the Hereditary Prince Wilhelm Gustav von Anhalt-Dessau (1699–1737) from his morganatic marriage to Johanne Sophie Herre (1706–1795). The marriage of his parents was only confessed to his grandfather, Prince Leopold I , on his father's deathbed . The children recommended in this marriage lived at Gut Kleckewitz near Raguhn and the princely grandfather only brought Wilhelm to the Dessau court. In 1749, the younger brother of his father, Prince Leopold II , had the widow and her children elevated to the rank of imperial counts as Countesses of Anhalt.
Raised by his grandfather, Wilhelm took part in the Second Silesian War . He fought in the battles of Lobositz and Prague and fell in the battle of Torgau .
Prince Leopold III. von Anhalt-Dessau and Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst erected a monument to Wilhelm on the Sieglitzer Berg .
literature
- Johann Samuel Publication (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , Third Part, FA Brockhaus , 1819, p. 134 digitized
- Karl Friedrich Pauli : Lives of great heroes of the present war , Volume 7, Halle 1761, pp. 137–154
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| SURNAME | Wilhelm of Anhalt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Anhalt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleckewitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1760 |
| Place of death | Torgau |