 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - akaberekerwa muStettin, panguva iyoyo guta rechiteshi rakaparadzwa nehondo muPrussian Province yePomerania uye kubvira 1945 guta rePoland rinozivikanwa munyika yose nezita raro remutauro wePoland seSzczecin. Aive mwanakomana wechitatu waErnst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf nemuchato wake naAnna Carolina von Otterstaedt, kubva kumhuri yemadzimambo. Mhuri mbiri idzi dzakanga dzava neukama hwepedyo kwezvizvarwa zvinoverengeka. Nokukurumidza pashure pokuberekwa kwaGustav, baba vake vakagadzwa kuva Gurukota Rokutanga reSilesia. Somugumisiro wokusimudzirwa mhuri yakatamira, muna 1755, kuguta guru reSilesian, Breslau sezvo Wrocław yaizivikanwa panguva iyoyo. Basa rokubatanidza nyika dzakabudirira uye dzichangobva kubatanidzwaNharaunda dzeSilesian muUmambo hwePrussia yakanga iri denho huru, asi yakanga iri imwe iyo Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf sezviri pachena akapiwa mubayiro munzira dzakasiyana-siyana. Pana 20 March 1763 mambo akamuita chipo chaicho che50,000 Thalers. Panguva yaakafa muna 1769 mhuri yake yakanga, maererano nemipimo yenguva nenzvimbo, yakapfuma zvikuru. Gustav von Schlabrendorf akapedza nguva yakawanda youduku hwake muSilesia. Akagamuchira dzidzo yakakwana uye yakazara kubva uye ipapo, muna 1767, akaenderera mberi kuenda kuHochschule yunivhesiti dzidzo muFrankfurt am Oder kwaakagara kusvika muna 1769. Pakati pa1769 na1772 akaenderera mberi nezvidzidzo zvake kuHalle. Akanga anyoresa kuti adzidze Mutemo, uyo ungadai wakapa gadziriro yechinyakare nokuda kwebasa muhurumende. Gustav von Schlabrendorf, zvisinei, akadudzira mikana yake yezvidzidzo zvikuru, achidzidza Mitauro Yekare neYazvino pamwe chete neUzivi uye Unyanzvi. Akakwezvwawo neFreemasonry iyo yakanga yasvika muPrussia ichibva kuEngland neScotland pakuvamba kwezana iroro ramakore. Muna 1777 akagamuchirwa muimba yokugara muLeipzig. 