Wolf Alexander Ernst Christoph von Blanckensee

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Wolf Alexander Ernst Christoph von Blankensee (born April 17, 1684 Reichenbach ; † September 30, 1745 in Soor ) was a Prussian major general , chief of infantry regiment No. 23 and governor of Neidenburg and Soldau .

Life

origin

He was the son of Colonel Christian Henning von Blanckensee (* 1645; † September 7, 1693 near Belgrade ) and Hedwig Juliana von Volkmar.

Military career

In 1719 Blanckensee joined the "Forcade" Infantry Regiment No. 23 . On January 17, 1721 he was already major and in 1732 lieutenant colonel . At that time he was commissioned by King Friedrich I with the expansion of Friedrichstadt in Berlin . Blanckensee then fell out of favor for some time, but then reconciled with the king. In 1736, for example, he received the administrative authorities of Neidenburg and Soldau and a gift of 500 ducats . In 1740 he became a colonel and on May 28, 1743 major general. In July of that year he became chief of Infantry Regiment No. 23. His son Friedrich Wilhelm was a lieutenant and became its adjutant general. In the Battle of Thrush , both were killed by the same cannonball.

He was involved in the Pomeranian campaign in 1715/16 , in the fighting on the Rhine in 1734/1735 and in the First Silesian War .

family

Blanckensee married Anna von Witten on September 9, 1714 (* October 23, 1698; † August 1731). She was the stepdaughter of General Hans Kaspar von Herzberg . Three of his sons died in the Seven Years' War . He and his wife had the following children:

  • Eckard Ernst (* 1715; † before 1763), Prussian lieutenant
  • Christian Friedrich (born September 6, 1716 - † May 27, 1757 near Prague )
⚭ Marie Juliane von Flemming from the Böck family (born November 3, 1724; † June 28, 1773)
⚭ Frederike Luise von Boden (* August 12, 1724 - January 14, 1805) (daughter of Minister of State Baron August Friedrich von Boden (1682–1762))
  • Georg Alexander (* 1718; † November 22, 1757 near Breslau )
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1721; † September 30, 1745 with thrush)
  • Friedrich (* 1722 - † November 3, 1760 near Torgau )
  • Carl August (* 1723; † 1743), Page of the Queen
  • Caspar Heinrich Ludwig (* 1725; † August 12, 1859), died near Kunersdorf
  • Friedrich Alexander Christoph (* December 25, 1725 - May 12, 1787), Prussian major
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (born January 15, 1731 - † April 15, 1803), Herr von Steineck and Rohrphul ⚭ Beate Sophie Kortbeck widowed von Küssel
  • Sophie Eleonore († 1775) ⚭ 1748 Friedrich Wilhelm von Bußke († November 22, 1760), Herr auf Butzke, Prussian Colonel

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Priesdorff (lit.); Schlagenthin is not mentioned as the place of birth in any of the sources given; the date of birth given in Lange (lit.) has been confused with the date of death of the father.
  2. ↑ Family tree
  3. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 1, 1836, p. 265, digitized version , additions to Volume 4, 1837, p. 384, digitized version
  4. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 96 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Blanckensee, Wolf Alexander Ernst Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general, chief of infantry regiment No. 23, governor of Neidenburg and Soldau
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1745
Place of death thrush