Count Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg (8 December 1685 – 10 April 1741) was a Prussian Lieutenant General and confidant of King Frederick William I who fell in the Battle of Mollwitz during the First Silesian War.

[2] In 1705, he began his military career in the Hanoverian Army, fighting in the Battle of Ramillies on 23 May 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession in the ranks of the Regiment of his uncle, General Alexander von der Schulenburg.

Frederick II, however, refused and sent him to fight in the First Silesian War in 1741 where Schulenburg was killed on 10 April 1741 at the Battle of Mollwitz in southern Poland.

Upon the death of her father in 1742, Anna was the sole heir to the von Bartensleben estate, including Wolfsburg Castle.

[6] Together, they were the parents of fifteen children, three of whom died young, including:[1] King Frederick William I gave him a piece of land near the Tiergarten in Berlin and financed the construction of the Schulenburg Palace there between 1736 and 1739.