Barthold Hartwig von Bülow
Barthold Hartwig von Bülow (born April 7, 1611 , † November 19, 1667 in Wolgast ) was a Swedish general and lieutenant governor of Swedish Pomerania .
Life
Barthold Hartwig came from the Wedendorfer line of the Mecklenburg noble family von Bülow . He was the son of Detleff von Bülow († 1662), cathedral dean in Ratzeburg , and Margareta von Schack († 1658). He became a page at the Mecklenburg court very young. After traveling through the Netherlands, France, England and Poland, he entered the service of Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar .
With the rank of captain he took part in the battle of Nördlingen in 1634 , was captured and brought to Vienna . At the instigation of his relative Ulrich von Bülow, who was in the imperial service, and the Imperial Vice Chancellor Peter Heinrich von Stralendorf , he was released from captivity. After that he entered Danish and finally Swedish services. In 1642 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. The following year he commanded a squadron that moved from the Altmark to Lauenburg and Boizenburg . 1644 was sent to the fortress Dömitz , which was besieged by the Swedish governor of Wismar , Erik Hansson. With his help the fortress could be taken. In the same year he took the heavily fortified Hornburg Castle and was then promoted to colonel. Appointed commander of Nördlingen , he defended the city in 1647 for 17 weeks against the imperial troops under General Adrian von Enkevort . After the end of the Thirty Years War he took part in the negotiations on the Nuremberg Execution Day from 1649 to 1650. He then traveled to Sweden, where he received a pension and settled on his own property in Hundorff.
At the beginning of the Second Northern War, King Karl X. Gustav mobilized his army and appointed Barthold Hartwig von Bülow Major General. He took part in the Battle of Warsaw (1656) and was appointed commandant of Thorn shortly thereafter . With a crew of around 2,000 at the beginning, it resisted the siege from July to December 1658 by a significantly larger Polish army and its allies. On July 30, 1658, the Swedes capitulated and were allowed to withdraw with the remaining crew.
After the war he was promoted to lieutenant general of the infantry and commander in chief of the militias in Skåne and commander of Malmö . On April 6, 1664 he was appointed lieutenant governor of Swedish Pomerania and a little later promoted to general of the infantry.
He died in Wolgast in 1667 and was buried with great pomp.
family
Barthold Hartwig von Bülow had been married to Abel Sophia von Plessen , who came from the Mecklenburg line of this family , since 1654 ; Abel Sophia was the first-born child of District Administrator Daniel von Plessen and his wife Dorothea Eleonore, nee. from Blumenthal . The two had four daughters and one son, including:
- Margareta († 1735) ∞ General Carl Leonhard Müller von der Lühne
- Barbara ∞ General Karl Friedrich von Schlippenbach
- Anna ∞ Johann von Grote
- Carl Gustav († 1686 before Morea)
literature
- Svenskt Biografiskt Lexicon. Ny Fjold. Vol. 3, Örebro 1859-1860, pp. 334-337 ( digitized version ).
- Bülow, Barthold Hartwig from . In: Newly increased historical and geographical general lexicon. Vol. 2, J. Brandmüller, 1742, p. 287
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon , Volume IS 327. ( digitized version )
Web links
- Bülow at 30jaehrigerkrieg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Naumann: The Plessen - family line from XIII. to XX. Century. Edited by Dr. Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, p. 124.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bülow, Barthold Hartwig from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1611 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1667 |
| Place of death | Wolgast |