Wolf Balthasar von Selchow

Wolf Balthasar von Selchow (* 1684 , † 1744 ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and regiment chief of Infantry Regiment No. 12 .

parents

Wolf Balthasar von Selchow was the son of the Brandenburg quartermaster and captain Melchior von Selchow and Anne Modeste von Köckritz from the Zohlow family. His father was the heir to the love affair. His brother Johann Bernhard von Selchow was a knight of the Order of St. John.

Life

In 1709 he was still a lieutenant in the army of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . But on October 31, 1713 he was captain (captain) of the Prussian army and on January 4, 1716 he became major in the "Schlabrendorf on foot regiment" . In 1730 he became a lieutenant colonel in the "Prince Heinrich on foot regiment" (later No. 12), shortly afterwards he was already a colonel and was promoted to major general on May 31, 1741 and successor as head of his regiment, as Margrave Heinrich got a new one. Selchow retired as lieutenant general in 1743.

He fought with the troops in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany at the beginning of the century. In 1715 he was involved in the siege of Stralsund and later in the First Silesian War , a. a. 1741 during the occupation of Wroclaw .

literature

• Anton Balthasar König : Wolf Balthasar von Selchow . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 1 ( Wolf Balthasar von Selchow at Wikisource [PDF]).
• News from the Order of St. John. 1767, p. 419 ( digitized version)