Wolf Erich von Bennigsen

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Wolf Erich von Bennigsen (baptized July 1, 1657 in Mulmke ; died January 5, 1736 in Bennigsen ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon civil servant. He was councilor and court judge in Wittenberg and owner of the manor .

Life

He came from the old Lower Saxon noble family von Bennigsen and was the oldest and only son of Johann Levin von Bennigsen on Mulmke in the Principality of Halberstadt . His two younger sisters were Dorothea Agnes (* 1659) and Johanna Louisa (* 1661). The baptism took place on July 1, 1657 on the parents' estate Mulmke and was carried out by the pastor from Heudeber .

After his school education, Wolf Erich von Bennigsen embarked on a legal administrative career in the service of the Electors of Saxony, who were also Kings of Saxony at the time. He became councilor and judge at the court court of Electoral Saxony in the capital of the spa district , Wittenberg.

In 1695, Wolf Erich von Bennigsen was enfeoffed by the Electoral Saxon Chancellery in Dresden with the Leipnitz family estate and wives' estate near Dahlenberg . He died at the beginning of 1736 at his family's ancestral home in the Electorate of Hanover.

family

He was married to Charlotte Eleonore nee Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1682–1747).

His heirs included his sons August Ferdinand, Wolf Friedrich, Carl Gottlob, Rudolph Christian, Gustav Adolph (* 1717) von Bennigsen and his sister Charlotte Wilhelmine von Bennigsen (* 1718). They sold the jointly inherited Leipnitz estate on March 26, 1740 to the major general of the cavalry, Adam Friedrich Brand von Lindau .

Son Gustav Adolph became a Saxon lieutenant general.

literature

  • Manfred Wilde : The knights and free estates in northern Saxony. Their constitutional status, their settlement history and their owners (= from the German Aristocratic Archives. Vol. 12). CA Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0687-3 (also: Chemnitz, Technical University, dissertation, 1996), p. 525

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the church book of Heudeber
  2. ^ Genealogisches Taschenbuch des Uradels , Volume 2, Brünn 1893, pp. 26-27.
personal data
SURNAME Bennigsen, Wolf Erich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon civil servant, councilor and court judge in Wittenberg
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulmke
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1736
Place of death Bennigsen