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Gottfried Grawert was born in 1670 (probably in Dresden).
Under the king August “the Strong” of Saxony he was commander of the castle Koenigsstein and Head of the engineers corps.
August “the Strong” was also born in 1670 (died 1733).
Amongst others he was fascinated by porcelain.
Thus by 1710 he had the largest collection of porcelain in Europe and, after the (supposedly) new invention of porcelain by the alchemist Johann Friedrich Boettger in 1709, the famous porcelain manufacture of Meissen was founded nearby.
Boettger, who was originally supposed to make gold, was prisoner at the castle for some years.
Gottfried Grawert was bestowed the title “von” and one of his sons, probably Benjamin von Grawert, became an officer with the Prussian army and was registered as “a noble with the coat of arms of the town of Lübeck in his shield” (Hans Curt von Grawert).
In 1728 Friedrich Wilhelm I King of Prussia and his son later on Friedrich II (“the Great”) visited Koenigstein and probably met and wooed away the son of Gottfried.
Gottfried Grawert bought the Schriftsässige Freigut Kleinoelsa ( Rabenau/Oelsa) and the Spechtritzmühle near Rabenau from Ursula Margarethe von Grünrode.
(article in: Saechsische Zeitung 29.03.2003 / friendly reference M. Baumgart / AB 14.06.2014).
He died in 1724.
There is a painting of Generalmajor Gottfried Grawert” in the Military Historical Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden.