Kaspar Ernst Schultze

Kaspar Ernst von Schultze (also Casper Earnest von Schultze) (18 October 1691 in Berlin – 2 December 1757 in Breslau) was a Lieutenant General of infantry in the Prussian Army, commander of the Breslau fortress, and director of the royal riding academy in Liegnitz. He was also the heir of the family estates at Mahlen (today Wisznia Mała) in the Silesian county of Trebnitz. He fought in the wars of Spanish and Austrian succession, the Great Northern War, and the Seven Years' War. He served in the Prussian army under three monarchs: Frederick I, Frederick William I, and Frederick II. His name was included in 1851 on the Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great honoring the men considered to be the founders of the modern Prussian state.

Family and character At his birth, his father served in the Prussian military. Schultze was educated at the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin and then at the universities of Halle, Jena and Wittenberg. At each he acquired advanced knowledge useful in his military career. He was considered a Renaissance man, much like his king, and spoke Latin, French, Italian and some Spanish. He traveled widely in royal service, and had visited most of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire.

He married in 1728 with Anna Elisabeth Krielen (Kriehl) (1712–14 February 1788) from Brandenburg. They had two surviving children: