Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf (4 February 1719 at Schloss Gröben bei Ludwigsfelde, Landkreis Teltow,

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–14 December 1769 in Breslau, Silesia) was a

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

n state minister for Silesia and president of the Silesian chamber. He was the son of the estate owner Johann Christian von Schlabrendorf († 1720), of Gröben, Groß- und Klein-Beuthen and Waßmannsdorf in

Teltow Teltow [] is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. Geography Teltow is part of the agglomeration of Berlin. The distance to the Berlin city centre is , while the distance to Potsdam is . The Teltow Canal links the ...

, and his wife Anna Augusta Elisabeth von

Pfuel The German ancient noble family of Pfuel (also Pfuhl or Phull) arrived in Brandenburg in the year 926 and later widened their influence to Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Württemberg, Westphalia, Eastern Europe and Sweden. Its ...

(died 12. December 1744). The major general Gustav Albrecht von Schlaberndorf was his brother. On 5 December 1767 Frederick the Great awarded him with the

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. He is included among the relief figures on the

Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great The Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates King Frederick II. of Prussia. Created from 1839 to 1851 by Christian Daniel Rauch, it is a masterpiece of the Berlin school of scu ...

, erected in

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in 1851.

Colmar Grünhagen Colmar Grünhagen (2 April 1828 - 27 July 1911) was a German archivist and historian. Almost all of his considerable published output concerns the History of Silesia. Life and works Colmar Grünhagen was born in Trebnitz (as Trzebnica was then kn ...

Schlabrendorf, Ernst Wilhelm von
''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie,'' herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 31 (1890), S. 316–319, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource, (Version vom 15. Februar 2017, 22:21 Uhr UTC)

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