Christoph von Kannenberg
Christoph von Kannenberg (born January 10, 1615 in Buch , Altmark; † February 10, 1673 in Minden ) was Kurbrandenburg's Privy Councilor of War , Lieutenant General of the Cavalry, Chamberlain, Colonel zu Roß, Governor of Minden Fortress, Hereditary Marshal of the Principality of Minden and Hereditary Lord on Buschow , Kannenberg and Himmelreich.
origin
His parents were the Kurbrandenburgder Rittmeister Christoph von Kannenberg - heir to the Buschow and Kannenberg - and his wife Elisabeth von Barsewisch († 1615) from the Scharpenlohe family.
Life
After the early death of his mother, he came to live with a relative of Mahrenholtz's wife and was initially brought up by a private tutor. He went into royal Swedish service in 1631 . He came as a common rider in the regiment of Major General Kurviel, which was then in the Altmark. In 1634 he was taken prisoner near Breitenbach and was held in Regensburg in the Stockhaus for 16 weeks, injuring his left foot. After he was exchanged, he came as a corporal in Colonel Gollenstein's regiment, and after a year he became quartermaster. In the battle near Torgau he held up bravely, but was shot in the foot. Still, he struggled successfully on other occasions during the year. In 1635 he became a cornet and soon became a lieutenant. The regiment was then taken over by Colonel Wilhelm von Heyking and added to the army under Lennart Torstensson , while Kanneberg was promoted to Rittmeister. Within three years he then rose to major and lieutenant colonel in the Persch regiment. He then received a regiment as a colonel under General Field Marshal Königsmark . With it he fought at Breitenfeld and Jankau as well as numerous other skirmishes. During the siege of Prague he was able to climb the wall in person with a few other riders and capture five pairs of kettledrons. At the end of the Thirty Years' War he received from the Swedish Queen Christina on May 7, 1649 his dismissal and 1000 thalers waiting allowance. His riders were abdicated on September 14, 1650 before the Generalissimo Karl Gustav, Count Palatine on the Rhine, later King of Sweden. The regiment gave the colonel its standards .
In the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute, the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm needed troops and so on August 13, 1651, Kannenberg entered the service of Brandenburg as Major General. In the Second Northern War he fought in the Battle of Warsaw (1656) . There a bullet hit his wallet, which he carried on his body. Before that, on January 17, 1656, he had worked out the Königsberg Treaty with the Elector and King of Sweden . The king gave the negotiator a gold chain in return. On March 9, 1656, the elector appointed him governor of Minden, on June 11, 1657, he also promoted him to lieutenant general and on July 17, 1657 gave him the supervision of all garrisons in Westphalia, in case the general field witness master von Sparr should be absent . In 1659 the elector sent him to negotiate with the Lower Saxony district estates, which shows that the general enjoyed his greatest trust. On February 19, 1666, he became a Privy Council of War and on May 7, 1666, Hereditary Marshal of the Principality of Minden. When the Dutch War broke out in 1672 , the elector sent him to the Rhine. But the lieutenant general was no longer able to cope with the exertion, he fell seriously ill and died on February 10, 1673. He was considered one of the “most excellent equestrian generals of the Great Elector ”. When he was buried in Minden, the elector also accompanied the coffin.
In 1649 he acquired Gut Krumke near Osterburg (Altmark) as his ancestral home, and from 1650 to 1660 farms and other properties in Räbel, Giesenslage , Calberwisch , Berge and Schwarzholz . In 1662 he also bought the Kingdom of Heaven (now part of Mieste ).
family
On January 13, 1652, he married Maria von Bartensleben , daughter of Güntzel von Bartensleben, heir of Wulfsburg and Brome. The couple had two sons and two daughters, including:
- Friedrich Wilhelm († August 9, 1714), Polish Chamberlain ∞ Barbara Helene von Bibra and Reissicht († 1719)
literature
- Georg Hilmar Ising : Christ-Adeliche sad and honorary memories, which the wolsel. Gene. Lieutenants, Mr. Christoph von Kannenberg, and Wolsel too. Fr. Wittiben, women of Marien von Bartensleben, erected , Minden: Johann Piler, [1673]; Digitized by the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
- Anton Balthasar König : Christoph von Kannenberg . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 2 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 248 ( Christoph von Kannenberg at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Ernst Friedländer: Kannenberg, Christoph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 79.
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt, From General Christoph von Kannenberg
- Karl Adolf Freiherr von der Horst, The Knights' Seats of the County of Ravensberg and the Principality of Minden , p.162
- Handbook about the Royal Prussian Court and State for the year 1798 , p.7 , Hereditary Marshal in the Principality of Minden
- August Riese, The three-day battle near Warsaw, 28, 29, and 30 July 1656 , p.62
Web links
- Christoph von Kannenberg at 30jaehrigerkrieg.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 , p. 82.
- ↑ Johannes Sinapius, Der Schlesische Adel , Volume 2, S.310
- ^ Melchior Friedrich von Stosch, Genealogia of the Hoch-Graeflich Freyherrlich- and Hoch-Adelichen family of those v. Stosch , Volume 2, page 54
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kannenberg, Christoph von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1615 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Book , Altmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1673 |
| Place of death | Minden |