Andreas von Schönberg (Commander in Chief)
Andreas von Schönberg (born February 22, 1600 in Wolkenstein ; † August 3, 1688 in Dresden ) was an electoral Saxon secretary and war councilor, sergeant general and supreme commander of the Dresden fortifications and the Königstein fortress . He was master of Ahlum.
Life
Von Schönberg came from the Saxon noble family von Schönberg and was the son of Christoph von Schönberg (1554–1608).
Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War , von Schönberg was city commander of the royal seat of Hanover from 1643 to 1649 .
His body was buried on August 17, 1688 in the Sophienkirche in Dresden . The funeral sermon he delivered appeared in print. The wooden epitaph of his grave was preserved in the Sophienkirche until 1945.
Schoenbergstrasse
According to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1952, Schönbergstrasse , which was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Ledeburg in 1929 , was named "[...] after a former Hanover city commander".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Schönbergstrasse , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 221
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönberg, Andreas von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Saxon secretary and war councilor, sergeant-general and high commander |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Selva |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1688 |
| Place of death | Dresden |