Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn

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Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn as Rittmeister, oil painting from 1681.

Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn (born June 21, 1661 in Staßfurt , † April 27, 1719 in Bahrendorf ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the body regiment and heir to Bahrendorf.

Life

origin

His family comes from the Magdeburg region. His parents were the electoral cavalry captain and district administrator of the Duchy of Magdeburg Dietrich von Hackeborn and his wife Anna Rosina, née von Bünau from the Thürnhof family.

Military career

Hackeborn attended high school in Quedlinburg and was enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer of 1672 . He came into the Brandenburg service, initially served in the infantry and in 1692 became a lieutenant colonel. He commanded the first company of the Kurmark Life Guard in Berlin. The troops were all cadets. On July 26, 1707 he became a brigadier and on November 29, 1709 Major General of the Cavalry and Commander of the Leibregiment. He became Adolph von Wangenheim's successor . He also served as the Russian envoy and in 1712 accompanied Tsar Peter the Great . On October 10, 1717 he became lieutenant general and received the royal pleasure house in Ruhleben as his residence.

He was the governor of Bartenstein in Prussia and Prussian Eylau until 1714 , then sold the office to Heinrich Albrecht von Kalnein with royal permission and died on April 27, 1719.

family

In November 1698 he married Anna Dorothea von dem Bussche (1662–1724), the widow of the princely Anhalt-Zerbst Chamber Councilor Hans Rudolf von Kalitsch († 1694) and daughter of Clamor von dem Bussche (1624–1684), Herr von Lohe, and Anna Lucie von Münchhausen (1634–1688).

Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn was buried in Hackborn's hereditary burial near Bahrendorf. When the tomb was opened in 1830, it was found that the body was mummified. The corpses of his cousin Friedrich Wilhelm von Hackeborn and of a Rittmeister von Loe were also found mummified.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbooks for the culture and history of the Slavs. Volume 8, pp. 206f.
  2. ^ Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 10, 1856, p. 183, directory of the governors in Barten and Pr. Eylau
  3. ^ Anton Fahne: History of the Westphalian families. 1858, p. 423, Bussche pedigree
  4. ^ Regensburger Zeitung. No. 197, 1830, Mummy of Mr. Hackeborn among miscellaneous things
  5. Neue Augsburger Zeitung , Nro. 225, Thursday, August 19, 1830, p. 900. As digitized version