Burchard Müller from the Lühne

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Burchard Müller von der Lühne (* March 10, 1604 , † July 22, 1670 ) was an officer during the Thirty Years' War and most recently a general in the Swedish service. After the war he became city commander of Greifswald and was raised to the Swedish nobility.

Life and accomplishments

Burchard Müller was the son of the imperial officer Bernhard Müller and his wife Lucia, the daughter of the imperial colonel Jacob von Steinbach. His father had fought against the Turks in Hungary under the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II and lived in the Duchy of Verden after his departure . Under his influence, Burchard Müller entered Swedish services in 1623.

First he took part in the battles between Sweden and Poland in Livonia under Jakob de la Gardie . During the Thirty Years War he was part of the army of King Gustav II Adolf . He was promoted to Rittmeister for his services in the Battle of Lützen . In the battle of Nördlingen he was able to save himself from being surrounded by the imperial troops and later served under Johan Banér and Lennart Torstensson . In 1636 he was promoted to major and in 1641 to colonel. In 1647 he was appointed major general by Karl Gustav Wrangel .

After the Peace of Westphalia he became city commander of Greifswald. There he lived in the house at Langestrasse 55. In 1650 he was ennobled by the Swedish Queen Christine , but not accepted into the Swedish knight's house. He chose the name Müller von der Lühne because of his family's origins from Lüneburg . In the same year he acquired the West Pomeranian goods Ludwigsburg , Mellenthin with Gothen , and Neetzow .

During the Second Northern War he took part in the Battle of Wojnicz in 1655 and was promoted to lieutenant general in the same year. In November and December 1655 he unsuccessfully besieged the fortified monastery Jasna Góra near Czestochowa . In the Battle of Kłecko (also Battle of Gnesen ) in April 1656 he led the left wing of the cavalry under Carl Gustav Wrangel . Due to old age and illness, he had to withdraw from the theater of war in Poland and, in the absence of Governor General Wrangel, became interim general commander in Swedish Pomerania . When an army made up of imperial and Brandenburg troops invaded Pomerania in late summer 1659, he was in Altdamm . After a five-week siege of the city, he had to surrender and was given free retreat to Anklam .

A few weeks later a larger army and the Great Elector crossed the Pomeranian border, whereupon Müller withdrew from the Lühne to Greifswald. In the period between September 23 and 30, 1659, despite the numerical inferiority of his troops and the ruined outer Greifswald fortifications, with the support of the citizens, he succeeded in repelling two assaults by the siege army of the elector, so that he gave up the siege. The event was depicted as a brilliant act of war in a series of engravings in honor of the Swedish King Charles X Gustav . After the attackers had withdrawn, he defeated a detachment of enemy horsemen who were crossing the Peene at Jarmen .

In 1662 he was retired.

family

Burchard Müller von der Lühne married Ilsabe Maria von Schmeling (1619–1666) in 1640 , who came from an aristocratic family in Upper Pomerania . The couple had four sons and five daughters:

  • Carl Leonhard (1643–1707) Lieutenant General ∞ Margareta von Bülow,
  • Jacob Heinrich († 1714) governor

Both were buried in the Greifswald Cathedral of St. Nikolai .

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Endnotes

  1. ↑ Ilsabe Maria Müller von der Lühne (1619–1666)
personal data
SURNAME Müller von der Lühne, Burchard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Burchard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish general and city commander of Greifswald
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1604
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1670