Friedrich August von der Marwitz
{{short description|Prussian nobleman, officer, and reform opponent}}
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Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz (29 May 1777, in Berlin – 6 December 1837, in Friedersdorf) was a Prussian nobleman, officer, and opponent of the Prussian reforms of Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein.{{Cite book |last=Simms |first=Brendan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3dL_j1Mp7wC |title=The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806 |date=2002-06-27 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-89385-5 |pages=29, 90 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Paret |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRrWCgAAQBAJ |title=Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform |date=2015-12-08 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-7598-6 |pages=149 |language=en}}
He married twice, first to Caroline Francisca (* 23. March 1783; † 28. March 1804), with whom he had a daughter. His second wife, Charlotte née Gräfin von Moltke (1780–1848) gave birth to nine children, one of whom died. They had three sons and five daughters. Their oldest daughter Karoline Franziska (* 28. February 1804; † 1888) married in 1824 Albert von Arnstedt (1794–1875), a grandson from Adam Friedrich von Arnstedt.
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Further Readings
- Beck, Hermann. “The Social Policies of Prussian Officials: The Bureaucracy in a New Light.” The Journal of Modern History 64, no. 2 (1992): 263–98. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124632].
- Berdahl, Robert M. The Politics of the Prussian Nobility: The Development of a Conservative Ideology, 1770-1848. Princeton University Press, 1988. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvtjs].
- Berdahl, Robert M. “The Stα̈nde and the Origins of Conservatism in Prussia.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 6, no. 3 (1973): 298–321. [https://doi.org/10.2307/3031687].
- Gray, Marion W. “Prussia in Transition: Society and Politics under the Stein Reform Ministry of 1808.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 76, no. 1 (1986): 1–175. [https://doi.org/10.2307/1006408].
- Shanahan, William O. “The Social Outlook of Prussian Conservatism.” The Review of Politics 15, no. 2 (1953): 209–52. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1405222].
- Shearer Davis Bowman. “Antebellum Planters and Vormärz Junkers in Comparative Perspective.” The American Historical Review 85, no. 4 (1980): 779–808. [https://doi.org/10.2307/1868872].
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