Adam of Pfuel

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Adam of Pfuel

Adam von Pfuel (born September 1, 1604 in Vichel , † February 5, 1659 in Helfta ) was a general first in Swedish and later in the secret war council and general war commissioner in Danish service.

Life

Adam Pfuel came from the old to Jahnsfelde in the Brandenburg Switzerland -based noble family of Pfuel . He was the son of Adam I von Pfuel (1562–1626) and Barbara von Burgsdorff (1569–1622) on Vichel. Through his mother he was related to the young elector Friedrich Wilhelm .

During the Thirty Years War , Pfuel led an independent platoon to Thuringia in 1634 as the commander of a Swedish regiment and covered the flank of the attacking army. It was on this train that the then still young Georg von Derfflinger earned his first spurs in the Pfuel Regiment. Pfuel later rose to become the avant-garde leader of the Swedish army and as such gained the dubious fame of having burned 800 Bohemian villages. Promoted to general after Johan Banér's death, it was Pfuel who fought the battle of Wolfenbüttel in association with several other generals. In 1654 Pfuel bought the town of Polleben for fourteen thousand thalers and six thousand guilders.

He was buried on April 27, 1659 in a crypt in St. Stephen's Church in Polleben.

The tombstone reads:

"SPIRIT. HEROIS. POOL II. GREAT. ASTRA. MEAVIT.
OSSA. TENET. BUSTUM. NOUN. IN. ORBE. VOLAT.

Adam von Pfuel is buried here in this tomb.
An armed man with strange gifts.
The wisdom, science and German bravery, and what follows the same.
Thereby he made himself known far and wide.
How this… .hiederman can with reason of the truth say to him to glory.
But did not like all this to withstand the cruelty of death.
So he has to go to the grave.
According to his soul he is in heaven above. Enjoy all there joy.
The envious rage laughs. "

Adam von Pfuel was the brother of Catharina Elisabeth von Pfuel , wife of Johan Banér (1596–1641), Swedish field marshal and commander in chief of the Swedish troops in the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War . His sister Maria Hedwig was married to Christoph Ludwig von Thümen zu Gallun.

progeny

Adam married 1640/1641 Helene Johanna von Kerssenbrock (Kersenbruch) ad H. Barntrup (born April 26, 1614 in Helfta; † October 26, 1661 in Helfta; ▭ (4./5) February 1662 in the church of St. Stephani, Polleben), daughter of Georg von Kerssenbrock (–1624) and Margarethe von Canstein (1582–1639). Several children result from the marriage:

  • Adam Friedrich (* May 11, 1643; † around 1707), Colonel ∞ Catharina Maria von Heimann
  • Georg Ehrenreich (born December 30, 1646), Lippischer Landdrost ∞ NN (parents of Ludwig Dietrich von Pfuhl )
  • Barbara Margaretha (born August 3, 1649, † June 19, 1695 in Walbeck); ∞ (October 14, 1664) Friedrich Casimir Herr zu Eltz (* April 20, 1634 in Rethmar; † May 31, 1682 Clausthal)
  • Gustav Mordian (* July 27, 1650; † 1709), Colonel
  • Margarete Gottliebe (1652–1672) ∞ Hans Georg (III.) Von Ribbeck (1639–1703), landscape director
  • Johann Gottlieb (March 17, 1652/53; † December 30, 1681) Lieutenant Colonel
  • Adam Otto Christoph (* November 7, 1655; † May 18, 1685 in Halle) ∞ (February 16, 1681/1682) Hedwig Elisabeth von Hagen-Wimmelburg (* May 24, 1658 in Eisleben; † September 12, 1700)
  • Anna Helene (October 4, 1656 - July 8, 1670)
  • Heinrich, Swedish major ∞ Katharina Elisabeth von Königsmarck
  • Magdalena Eleonora ∞ Joachim Friedrich von Flanß , commissioner of the Ruppin circle, heir to Baumgarten

literature

Individual evidence / notes

  1. ^ Polleben (Lutherstadt Eisleben): Adam von Pfuel . April 18, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Polleber celebrate 850th anniversary ː Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of September 3, 2012
  3. ^ Polleben (Lutherstadt Eisleben): Adam von Pfuel . April 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ethica aegrotantium & morientium Christiana, That is: sick and dying Christians / Christian Zuchtlehre In virtue and vice consisting: From the XIII. Psalm of the royal prophet David: Bey of… Mr. H. Christoff Ludewigs / von Thümen / Rittmeisters / zu Gallun Erbherrn… Christ- and Hoch-Adelich funeral / which is the 27th day of the month of March between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning 1660. Took a gentle and blissful farewell from this laborious tears. Runge 1660 Digitized collection of the Berlin State Library
personal data
SURNAME Pfuel, Adam of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish general and generalissimo, and later a privy councilor and general war commissioner in Danish service
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH Vichel (Temnitztal)
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1659
Place of death Helfta