Franz von Hennin

Dedication picture of the Fruit Bringing Society for Franz von Hennin

Franz von Hennin (* 1601 in the diocese of Metz ; †? Near Olomouc ) was a mercenary and officer in the Thirty Years War .

Life

Hennin is the son of the ducal Lorraine governor of St. Avold , Homburg and Pfalzburg Ètienne (called Steff) de Navier and his wife Claudine Thiriet.

Hennin served in France's 2nd royal body regiment from 1617 to 1618; then he went to Bohemia as a mercenary for some time .

He also fought in the army of Archduke Leopold of Austria and also for Spain in the Netherlands.

In 1624 he entered the service of Duke Franz Albrecht von Sachsen-Lauenburg and fought for him in Hungary . In Pomerania , Hennin achieved the rank of Rittmeister. He served in Prussia under Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg . An illness prevented Hennin from participating in the War of the Mantuan Succession in 1629.

In the spring of 1632 Duke Franz Albrecht sent Hennin on a political mission to Donauwörth to see King Gustav Adolf of Sweden . Because the Duke was in contact with Wallenstein , Hennin was also arrested in 1634 and locked up in Vienna . When Duke Franz Albrecht was released from prison in December 1635, Hennin must also have been released.

On his great north German trip, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen accepted Hennin into the Fruitful Society in 1636 . He gave it the company name of the acid and the motto in permanence . The great sorrel ( Rumex acetosa L. ) was given to him as an emblem . The entry on Hennin can be found in the Koethen Society Register under No. 287. The rhyme law that Hennin wrote on the occasion of his admission is also noted there:

The great sorrel always remains,

In his sourness also drives a lot of evil from himself.

I am called the Sauer drumb permanently,

Because I stay steadfast in all sour times,

And should food be so sour in this life,

So the trew I want to strive after all,

And never leave where one bears fruit right,

Whether I am respected for a sour servant.

Franz von Hennin returned to the imperial service and fought as a colonel in Bohemia in 1643 . Hennin reached the high point of his career when he was promoted to lieutenant general. At the age of about 44, Franz von Hennin fell in a battle near Olomouc.

literature

• Franz von Hennin. The sour one. 1636 . In: Klaus Conermann: The members of the fruitful society 1617–1650. Weinheim, Deerfield Beach, Vol. 3, 1985, ISBN 3-527-17513-X , pp. 322-323.

Web links

• Entry Franz von Hennin (Der Saure) in the member database of the Fruit Bringing Society; accessed on February 2, 2018
• Entry on www.30jaehrigerkrieg.de (wrong there as comte / Graf)