Andreas von Kochtizky

Johann Andreas Freiherr von Kochtizky (* around 1568 ; † 1634 in Vienna ) was a Silesian nobleman and governor of the Bohemian principalities of Opole - Ratibor . After 1628 he served in the Thirty Years Warrior as a colonel in the Swedish service.

Life

Andreas von Kochtizky was the son of the imperial councilor Johann von Kochtizky (1543–1591) and Anna von Kalinowsky. He came from an aristocratic family who lived mainly in Upper Silesia . From 1586 he studied at the University of Wittenberg and in 1589 at the University of Altdorf . On January 24, 1589 he published his work Oratio de lavde et utilitate ordinis with Zacharias Lehmann in Wittenberg . Around 1596 he completed the large palace construction in Koschentin , which his father had begun, and set up what was then the most extensive private library in Silesia there. He inherited the rule of Lublinitz from his father and came to Turawa through his wife . After he acquired the rule of Cosel in 1617 , he was one of the largest landowners in Upper Silesia.

In 1610 he was raised to the rank of baron . From October 8, 1619 to November 8, 1620 he held the office of governor of the Bohemian hereditary principalities of Opole - Ratibor . As a staunch Protestant , Kochtizky was one of the supporters of Friedrich V of Bohemia, for whom he led a delegation of the Silesian estates to the Polish Diet in Warsaw at the end of 1620 . When he handed over the fortress Cosel to Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar from the Protestant Union in 1626 , he was accused of treason by the sovereign Emperor Ferdinand II . Together with his son Andreas lost all their belongings on May 12, 1628 by order of the emperor.

Both then entered service in Sweden. Andreas Sr. participated as a colonel in the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. On September 27, 1632 Gustav Adolf of Sweden assigned him the task of soliciting support from the Silesian estates. During this mission he fell into the hands of the imperial family and, despite his status as a royal Swedish council of war, was taken to Vienna, where he died in captivity in 1634. His coffin was transferred to Cosel, but was not allowed to be buried because he had died at eight . This only happened after the conquest of Silesia under Prussian rule after 1742.

Andreas Freiherr von Kochtizky was married to Barbara Katharina Freiin Sedlnitzky von Choltitz .

literature

• Emmy Haertel: Andreas Freiherr von Kochtizky, a patron of Upper Silesia around the time of the Thirty Years War . 2 parts. In: The Upper Silesian . 9 and 11, 1936, pp. 487-493 and 578-584 .
• Ludwig Igálffy-Igály: The barons Kochticky of Kochtiz and Lublinitz . In: Yearbook of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society Adler . No. 10 (1979/81) , pp. 123-143 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Igálffy-Igály, p. 138.
2. ↑ See Haertel, p. 489.