Andreas von Ihlenfeld

Andreas von Ihlenfeld (* around 1590, † around 1656) came from the Mecklenburg nobility and was an officer in the Thirty Years' War .

Life

Little is known about Ihlenfeld's childhood and youth.

Ihlenfeld recorded the university registers of Greifswald on October 7th, 1603 and his transfer to the University of Giessen on August 7th, 1610.

As early as 1633, Ihlenfeld was accepted into the fruit-bearing society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . The prince gave him the company name of the brown light and the motto softened . Ihlenfeld was given large raisins as an emblem. Ihlenfeld's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 225. The rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his appointment is also recorded there:

Raisins of large arth are brownish and soften

What is hard in the body, you do not let creep in

The Vnrath that comes from it, drumb brownish my name was

And colored with raisins, I am sure of that too

Who wants to soften the hard work of people,

He doesn't just have to rely on his sterling,

Dan with gentleness he is more and more fruitful

After all, he still resists so cruelly.

In his function as the Swedish governor of the Magdeburg and Halberstadt monasteries , Prince Ludwig I appointed Ihlenfeld to the colonel of a Anhalt regiment, which was under the command of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar .

In February 1634 Johan Banér intervened successfully with Axel Oxenstierna and Ihlenfeld was then transferred as a colonel in a Mecklenburg regiment.

Together with his regiment, Ihlenfeld was quartered in Anhalt , where he stayed until the spring of 1635.

According to the current state of research, the cause and year of Ihlenfeld's death are unclear. But he could have died around 1655/1656.

Web links

Ihlenfeld [Ilenfeld, Ilefeld], Andreas von. In: The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports. Bernd Warlich, September 16, 2010, accessed on March 25, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ihlenfeld, Andreas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Officer in the Thirty Years War
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1590
DATE OF DEATH	around 1656