Friedrich August von der Marwitz
Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz was a Prussian nobleman, officer, and opponent of the Prussian reforms of Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein.
He married twice, first to Caroline Francisca, with whom he had a daughter. His second wife, Charlotte née Gräfin von Moltke gave birth to nine children, one of whom died. They had three sons and five daughters. Their oldest daughter Karoline Franziska married in 1824 Albert von Arnstedt, a grandson from Adam Friedrich von Arnstedt.
Further Readings
- Beck, Hermann. “The Social Policies of Prussian Officials: The Bureaucracy in a New Light.” The Journal of Modern History 64, no. 2 : 263–98. .
- Berdahl, Robert M. The Politics of the Prussian Nobility: The Development of a Conservative Ideology, 1770-1848. Princeton University Press, 1988. .
- Berdahl, Robert M. “The Stα̈nde and the Origins of Conservatism in Prussia.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 6, no. 3 : 298–321. .
- 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 : 1–175. .
- Shanahan, William O. “The Social Outlook of Prussian Conservatism.” The Review of Politics 15, no. 2 : 209–52. .
- Shearer Davis Bowman. “Antebellum Planters and Vormärz Junkers in Comparative Perspective.” The American Historical Review 85, no. 4 : 779–808. .