Brostrup Jacobsen from Schört
Brostrup Jacobsen von Schört (* 1622 in Copenhagen ; † March 25, 1703 in Kassel ) was Kurbrandenburg general sergeant and commander of the artillery , Danish and Hesse-Kassel lieutenant general and commander of Kassel. He was accepted into the Fruitful Society as early as 1652 as No. 593 der Geflissene .
He is said to have been the son of the mayor of Christianshavn Jacob Hansen Dreier Schört .
Life
In 1635 he first went into Dutch service and changed to Danish in 1640. There he became lieutenant captain in the Buchwaldt regiment on foot in 1644. During the war against Sweden in 1643/1645 he took part in the battle on the Kolberge Heide . He switched to Hesse-Kassel services and on April 16, 1645 became captain of the Ahlefeld regiment. In the final phase of the Thirty Years War he played a decisive role in the capture of Friedewald Castle . After the war in 1649 he came to the court service of Landgrave Wilhelm VI. from Hessen-Kassel . In 1651 the landgrave appointed him commandant of Kassel. In 1652 he became captain and head of the 2nd Castle Company, and in 1657 he was promoted to Oberstwachtmeister . Then in 1662 he became lieutenant colonel and head of the armory in Kassel , where he made great contributions to building up the artillery. He took over the management of the construction of the winter box ( octagon on the Wilhelmhöh ). On October 29, 1662, he led the funeral procession of Landgrave Wilhelm VI as lieutenant colonel and commandant of Kassel. with four companies. After the prince's death in the spring of 1664, he said goodbye to Hesse-Kassel's service.
On August 1, 1664, he entered service in Brandenburg. There he became a colonel and commander of the entire Kurbrandenburg artillery, he received 600 Reichstaler tracts on three bison rye and fodder for four horses. On April 20, 1644 he set up a garrison company in Peitz . On June 20, 1672 he was then appointed Commandant of Peitz. On August 1, 1675, he became sergeant-general of the infantry with a salary of 500 thalers, plus 1st chief of the artillery, at that time approx. In 1677 he was released and moved to Danish services.
In Denmark he was chief miner, major general and artillery inspector in Norway at the same time in command of Akershus fortress near Christiania . On January 14, 1682 he also became a member of the government commission. The following year, on March 13, 1683, he became governor of Funen and the artillery of the fortresses on Jutland , and on September 23, 1683 he was awarded the Danebrog Order for his services . On April 26, 1684 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In Norway he made a name for himself as a designer of guns. Nevertheless, on May 8, 1686, he retired from the Danish service.
He went back to the Hesse-Kassel service. There he was appointed chief of the entire artillery on April 3, 1689, in addition he became lieutenant general and commander of Kassel. He died on March 25, 1703 in Kassel. His gravestone has been preserved.
Others
Schört is probably also the inventor of the centrifugal pump . As early as 1667 Monconys reported that Schört had shown and described such a pump to him.
family
He married Anna Christiane Fabrizius (1628–1698), the couple had several children, including:
- Johann Heinrich (1660–1720), Hesse-Kassel colonel of the artillery, later director of the copper works in Ardal
- Anna
- Emilie
literature
- Brostrup Jacobsen from Schört . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 15 : Scalabrini – Skanke . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1901, p. 454 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Louis von Malinowsky, Robert von Bonin : History of the Brandenburg-Prussian artillery . Volume 1, p. 193
- Bernhard von Poten : Schört, Brostrup von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 387.
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , pp. 27-28, no. 40.
Web links
- von Schört at wadschier.dk - Danish career
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Neumark : The newly sprouting teutsche palm tree , p. 389
- ↑ Christoph von Rommel : Modern History of Hessen , p. 729
- ^ Grave - Kassel University Library
- ↑ Voyages de Mr. de Monconys en V. Tolmes Part 3, p. 33; see also: Göttingische displays of learned things , Volume 24, p. 462
- ↑ Finn Erhard Johannessen: Johann Heinrich Von Schört . I Norsk biografisk leksikon . (Norwegian)
- ↑ a b Waisenhausstrasse in the Untereustadt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schört, Brostrup Jacobsen from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schört, Hans Brostrup von; Schørt, Brostrup; Schort (pseudonym); Schört, Bostrup Jacobsen from; Schört, Bostrup; Bronstrup (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurbrandenburg general sergeant and commander of the artillery, Danish and Hesse-Kassel lieutenant general and commander of Kassel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1622 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1703 |
| Place of death | kassel |