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Gustav von Münchow was married twice. With his first wife, Antoinette
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Frederick's father and grandfather had had a close friendship with
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Gustav von Münchow was the son of
Bernhard Christian von Münchow and Clara Erdmuthe Wobeser. The father was a master of Kosemühl, a royal Brandenburg cornet at a young age, and when Crown Prince
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In 1703, Münchow changed to the
Prussian infantry regiment of the Prince of Hesse. With his promotion to the second lieutenant in 1707, he entered the regiment Markgraf Albrecht. During the
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was imprisoned between 1732–1733, he was chamber president in Küstrin. A long-term friendship existed between
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