Alexander von Dönhoff

Alexander Graf von Dönhoff ( born February 9, 1683 Königsberg, † October 9, 1742 in Berlin) was a Prussian lieutenant general and confidant of King Frederick William I

Life

Count Alexander came from the family Dönhoff and was the son of Friedrich von Dönhoff and Eleanor Catherine Baroness von Schwerin. He was born on November 30, 1699 in Brandenburg ensign services. Then he went to Hesse -Kassel, where he was captain in 1701 and participated in the War of Spanish Succession against France. In 1704 he was Major, on February 9, 1705 Lieutenant Colonel and fought in the years 1706 and 1707 in Upper Italy. He was Adjutant General of the Prince Frederick of Hesse -Kassel. On December 27, 1709 was a separate regiment as a colonel in 1720 and was Kurhessischer major general. On July 13, 1722, he was a major general in the Prussian service, and on September 10 the head of a Regiment of Foot (1806: No 13. ). In the trial of the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich and Hans Hermann von Katte In 1730 he was a member of the court martial. In 1734 he began the development of the later named after him Dönhoff Platz in Berlin. In the years 1734 and 1735 he was with the campaign on the Rhine, and was promoted on June 7, 1737 to Lieutenant General. On June 24, 1740 he retired from active service.

On October 31, 1720, he married Charlotte Countess von Blumenthal († September 28, 1761 in Berlin, daughter of Count Adam Ludwig, Prussian princes, and Chamberlain ), with whom he had two sons and three daughters. His son, Friedrich Ludwig von Dönhoff (* February 10, 1724, † June 19, 1778 ) was also Major General, but in Austria. The founded by Count Alexander House Beynuhnen in Prussia and Austria in 1838, however, goes out with his grandson, and in 1888 with their daughters.