Detlev Lütken

Detlev Lütken , different spelling: Lütcken , († May 2, 1678 in Oldenburg ) was a royal Danish colonel and chief of the Oldenburg infantry regiment .

Life

origin

Lütken evidently came from the old Bremen noble family Lütken (also Lütcken ). However, his immediate origin and early career are unknown.

In the Second Northern War

During the Second Northern War , he was in 1657 captain and chief of Dragoons - Company in Danish services. After the Peace of Roskilde in 1658 his company was integrated into the infantry regiment Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein . When, after the resumption of war in the summer of 1658, the city of Sønderborg was recaptured from the Swedes by Polish troops allied with Denmark, Lütken acted as the city's commander from March 1659.

When the Swedes attacked the city on April 12, 1659, he was able to repel the attack. He then received from General Eberstein the order to collect transport vehicles to transfer his troops to the island of Funen . For the execution it took until November 5, 1659 and was then subordinate to Admiral Markor Rodsteen. He was also supposed to occupy the island of Aarö and capture a Swedish warship in the port of Assens . After these orders had been carried out, he joined the rest of Eberstein's troops who had crossed the Little Belt on November 11th. On November 14, 1659, the Danish and Swedish troops met under their General von Sulzbach at the Battle of Nyborg . Lütken was captured, the battle was lost for the Swedes.

After the reduction in 1660 as a result of the Peace of Copenhagen , he became a major in a free company on Alsen . At that time, the titular duke from the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg line, Ernst Günther , who owned land there, wanted to build a castle near the city of Augustenborg . Apparently for this reason Eberstein sent Lütken reinforcements on October 16, 1660, but these could not hold out against the duke and so Lütken and his company of 126 men were relocated to Sønderborg.

In March 1661 Lütken was by the Danish King Friedrich III. intended for promotion to lieutenant colonel in Eberstein's regiment. Eberstein, however, wanted to raise his son-in-law Balthasar von Wulfen to this post and tried to thwart his promotion. Eberstein then received the order to take Lütken as lieutenant colonel, which then took place on May 17, 1651 after Lütken's introduction in Glückstadt . After that he was in Rendsburg from 1661 .

On July 4, 1663 he became the commander of Fredriksort and received the company of Lieutenant Colonel Issensee there. He received several orders to fortify various parts of the place. In April 1665 he gave the commandant position to Johann Peter Vogt . For this he became commander in Krempe on May 2, 1665 and received the company there. On October 23, 1667, he was reassigned to Friedrichsort as commandant.

During the Northern War (1674–1679)

On December 3, 1670, Lütken was accepted into the Danish nobility for his merit. In the same year he was in command of Rendsburg and head of the local free companies. At the beginning of the Northern War in 1675, he tried to get command of his own infantry regiment. To this end, he gave command in Rendsburg to Colonel Wittemacke on July 9, 1675 and instead received the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment that had just been recruited in the Danish Oldenburg region . On September 23, 1675, the unit met the Swedes at Wührden together with the other Oldenburg regiment Baudissin . The ensuing battle was lost and the unit dispersed. 30 officers and several men were taken prisoner and taken to Stade , Sweden , the rest fled to Holland.

In the subsequent court martial under Colonel Steen Andersen Bille in Copenhagen , Lütken denied the allegations against him of cowardice. When he felt badly treated by the court over the allegations, he appealed and obtained a retrial. On April 17, 1676, another trial was instituted before the High Court of Justice under Friedrich Arnstoff in Copenhagen that a verdict was passed three days later. The verdict is not known, but it must have been favorable for Lütken, because on August 24, 1676 he received the order to join the army in Skåne with the remnants of his regiment and 4 companies from the Baudissin regiment . After the Battle of Lund , the remnants of his regiment were placed under the Queen's body regiment on December 11, 1676 , and the flags had to be delivered in Landskrona .

As commander of the Oldenburg Regiment

On December 11th, Lütken received the order to set up a new regiment. The 1st battalion of his old regiment was made available to him for this purpose, but it remained in Kristianstad . Instead he took over the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment on January 19, 1677. As a national regiment, it initially consisted of six companies, all of which were from Oldenburg, but this rule was gradually relaxed. Lütken's 1st Battalion was then disbanded on June 2, 1677 and assigned to the main army in Skåne. So in 1678 the regiment consisted only of the 6 Oldenburg companies. On April 7, 1678, for health reasons, he asked for leave to cure in Bad Pyrmont . However, he died on May 2, 1678 in Oldenburg.

family

Lütken was married to Ida von Manteuffel and had four children. His daughter Margaretha married the Saxon captain Günther Siegfried von Schlieffen .

literature

• Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773 in Oldenburger Jahrbücher, 1940/41, pp. 68–70, digitized
• Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kmeschke, New general German nobility lexicon p. 45, digitized version of the Lütken family
• Lexicon over noble Familier i Danmark, Norge og Hertugdomen udgivet af det kong p. 346, digitized by the Lytke family, (Danish)

Web links

• Detlev von Lüdicke

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Ernst von Schlieffen, message from some houses of the von Schlieffen family , p. 273, digitized