Hans Adam von Schöning (1 October 1641 – 28 August 1696) was a ''

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'' in the service of Brandenburg-Prussia and the Electorate of Saxony. Schöning was born at

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near Küstrin in the

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. He was well-connected by marriage, his uncle being Field Marshal Georg von Derfflinger and his daughter being married to Colonel Ludwig

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, a nephew of Field Marshal von Dünewald and brother-in-law of General Carl Friedrich von Schlippenbach (1658–1753). His descendants include Field Marshal von Wrangel, granddaughter Luise Eleonore Wreech (1708–1784), a nephew - the military historian Kurd von Schöning and the

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. Upon completing his studies at the University of Wittenberg (1657-1659) and Strasbourg University (1659/60), he traveled in Europe for several years. But upon the death of his parents, he returned to the family estate in 1964. Von Schöning died on 28 August 1696 in

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and was buried in the chapel at

in Dąbroszyn. Hans Adam von Schöning was the owner of an estate in Brzoza.

Family

Hans Adams parents were Hans Adam (d 1664), squire of the

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, and Marianne (born in Schapelow). He married Johanna Margarethe Luise, of Pöllnitz, in 1668. He had two sons, Boguslaus, Electorate of Saxony Lieutenant Colonel, and Johann (Hans) Ludwig of

, Electorate of Saxony Chamberlain, and Lieutenant Colonel.

Military career

He distinguished himself in many military campaigns, including the Turkish Wars, the

Nine Years War The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a conflict between France and a European coalition which mainly included the Holy Roman Empire (led by the Habsburg monarch ...

against France, and the war against Sweden 1675-79 particularly during the conquest of Stettin,

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and Stralsund and in the expulsion of Sweden from Prussia. He famously quarreled with General von Barfus, and was eventually arrested for supposedly plotting to bring Saxony over to the French. Between 1677 and 1684, Schöning was regimental chef of the 1st Prussian Infantry Regiment. In 1689 he took part in the successful Siege of Bonn.

Schloss Tamsel

Field-Marshal von Schöning later built a castle in

, Brandenburg (now Dabroszyn/Dąbroszynie, Poland). A neo-gothic church on the estate contains a mausoleum for the von Schöning, von Wreech and von Dönhoff families.

Biography

Schöning, K. Wolfgang von. (1837), The life and wartime deeds of Field Marshal Hans Adam von Schöning on Tamsel: namely his campaign with 8,000 Brandenburgers against the Turks. A contribution to the recognition of the time conditions in the Electoral Brandenburg and Electoral Saxon lands during the second half of the 17th century. With portraits of the field marshal and 55 facsimiles of signatures of distinguished contemporaries. Lüderitz, Berlin 1837

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schoning, Hans 1641 births 1696 deaths Field marshals of Prussia Field marshals of Saxony People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg German military personnel of the Nine Years' War