Georg Detlev von Flemming, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Georg Detlev von Flemming

Polish noble

Date of Birth: 16-May-1699

Place of Birth: Iven, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Dec-1771

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Georg Detlev von Flemming

  • Georg Detlev von Flemming (Polish: Jerzy Detloff Fleming) (3 March 1699 – 10 December 1771) was a General in Polish-Saxon service, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania in 1746–1764 and Voivode of Pomerelia in 1766. Von Flemming was born on 3 March 1699 in Iven, a town in Swedish Pomerania, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • His family was a renowned magnate family from Pomerania, with long traditions of military service.
  • His father was a Prussian privy councillor, Count Felix Friedrich von Flemming (1661–1739).
  • Flemming started his military career in the service of Augustus II the Strong and the Crown of Poland, just as his brother Carl Georg Friedrich von Flemming, a later general himself, who married a Countess Lubomirska.
  • Since 1724 he commanded the Warsaw-based Queen's Own Regiment.
  • A political ally of the Czartoryski family at the royal court, he married twice, to the two daughters of Royal Chancellor Michal Fryderyk Czartoryski (the second wife being Antonina Czartoryska).
  • His daughter, Izabela Fleming, married another renowned politician and statesman Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski. His alliance with the Czartoryskis sped up his career.
  • In 1738 he was promoted to the rank of General in the artillery and on 3 August 1744 he received the Order of the White Eagle.
  • In 1762 he backed the Czartoryskis in their struggle against the Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl.
  • He also actively opposed the influence of another magnate family, the Radziwills.
  • He died on 10 December 1771 in Warsaw, Poland, and was buried in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw.

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