Joachim Christian von Tresckow

Joachim Friedrich Christian von Tresckow ( 28 September 1698 in Niegripp bei Magdeburg– 20 April 1762 in Neisse) was a Prussian Lieutenant General, Proprietor of the Prussian Infantry Regiment Nr. 32. He was a Knight of the Black Eagle Order and a recipient of the Order Pour le Mérite. He served Frederick the Great in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.[1]

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Bernhard von Poten, Tresckow, Joachim Christian von. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 38 (1894), S. 576–577, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource.(Version vom 13 February 2017, 20:16 Uhr UTC)

gollark: This is because people don't actually seem to work, on the whole, according to stated ethical values.

gollark: Thus, if you try and make me do things which are "good according to some ethical standard which I claim to roughly agree with" but inconvenience me personally a significant amount, such as veganism, I may just entirely ignore you because "some animals do not like being used to produce milk for me" is part of the "far group" of issues I am not really paying attention to.

gollark: Ignoring things when it's convenient.

gollark: See, us humans have *amazing* abilities when it comes to ignoring things which don't directly affect us.

gollark: Anyway, you could probably make reasonable ethical arguments that I should be vegan instead of vegetarian, but I don't actually care.

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[1] Bernhard von Poten, Tresckow, Joachim Christian von. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 38 (1894), S. 576–577, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource.(Version vom 13 February 2017, 20:16 Uhr UTC)