Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (General, 1671)

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (1671–1748)

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin , also von Baudis , from 1741 Imperial Count von Baudissin (born September 1, 1671 at Gut Rixdorf ; † July 24, 1748 ibid) was an Electoral Saxon cabinet minister and general in the Great Northern War .

Life

He came from the noble family of officers from Baudissin , who come from Upper Lusatia and are named after the city of Bautzen , where the ancestors served as ministerials in the Middle Ages . His father was Heinrich Günther von Baudissin (1641–1673), his grandfather was the general of the same name in the Thirty Years War, Wolf (Wulff) Heinrich von Baudissin , who had transplanted the family to the Duchy of Schleswig . As a young officer he took part in the War of the Spanish Succession in the service of Holstein and proved himself in the campaigns in Brabant and Flanders.

In 1710 he entered the service of the Polish King and Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong as Lieutenant General and was deployed against Sweden in the Great Northern War in northern Germany and Poland.

As early as 1714 he was promoted to general of the cavalry and on November 29 of the same year became the owner of a cavalry regiment. In 1730 the king made him a knight of the Polish White Eagle Order .

Baudissin also seems to have been in high favor with Friedrich August II , the son of his employer, because he appointed him cabinet minister after August's death in 1733 and sent him to Warsaw together with cabinet minister Wackerbarth to pursue his election as Polish king .

On October 7, 1736, Baudissin was made a knight of the newly founded Henry Order and on December 12, 1736, he was entrusted with the high command of the Electoral Saxon army. He said goodbye on September 26, 1741 and retired to his Holstein estates, where he died a few years later.

With a diploma dated February 28, 1741, he was elevated to the rank of imperial count by the elector, who acted as imperial vicar .

family

Since 1699 he was married to Dorothee von Buchwald (1683–1709), daughter of Joachim Christoph von Buchwald on Knoop. Through them Gut Knoop came into the possession of the Baudissins. Her son Heinrich Christoph von Baudissin (1709–1786) became General of the Infantry and Governor of Dresden. He married Susanna Magdalena Elisabeth Countess of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1723–1785).

literature

• Winkler:  Baudissin, Wolf Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 137.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 34.