Georg Ehrentreich von Burgsdorff

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Georg Ehrentreich von Burgsdorff (born November 27, 1603 in Hohenziethen, † March 2, 1656 in Küstrin ) was a Brandenburg chief stable master and chamberlain . He was colonel and governor of the fortress Küstrin and Government of the Neumark. He was also a knight of the Order of St. John and Commander of Süpplingenburg , captain of Zehden and heir to Hohenzieten, Goldbeck and Detzow. He was a member of the Fruitful Society under the name of The Versatile.

Life

Hohenzieten Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

His father was Alexander Magnus von Burgsdorff (1567-1620). This was Kurbrandenburg captain in Zehden , as well as heir to Hohenzieten. His mother was Katharina von Röbel (1576-1615), she was a daughter of Field Marshal Joachim von Roebel . His brother Konrad von Burgsdorff was also a Kurbrandenburg colonel.

His father had originally planned to bring him to the court as a hunter, but when he tried to get into his carriage, he fell. He took the event as a bad omen, and so he dropped his resolution. Then he brought his son to the court of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg as a page . He remained so until 1618, when he became the chamber page of Elector Georg Wilhelm . In 1622 he sent him on trips to the European courts. When he returned in 1625, he became Kurbrandenburg Chamberlain . In 1626 he was able to save the life of the elector while hunting when a wild boar attacked him. However, he injured his thigh severely, so it took some time to recover.

As early as 1625 he was Kornet in the regiment of Hans Wolf von der Heyden . In the following year 1626 he was Rittmeister and Knight of St. John, in addition he got the right to the Landvogtei and Kommende Schivelbein . In 1627 he accompanied the elector to Prussia and was sent by him with his company to support the King of Poland against the Swedes. But before the company reached the Polish army, it was intercepted, beaten and the survivors were scattered.

Von Burgsdorff therefore had to set up a new company of 125 arquebuses in 1629. This time the troops reached the Polish troops. These were involved in the siege of Marienburg in June 1629 . There he was assigned to Prince Vladislav as a bodyguard. After the peace treaty he was richly rewarded and the company in Landsberg was disbanded.

In 1631 the elector appointed him head stable master. In February he accompanied him to the Prince's Day in Leipzig . There he got permission to accompany the Swedish king Gustav Adolph . He accompanied him in some skirmishes, and after the battle of Breitenfeld the king offered him the regiment of Halle , which he refused. He returned to the Elector, who in December 1631 appointed him lieutenant colonel. He was assigned to his brother Konrad von Burgsdorff's regiment. In 1632 he served in the Swedish-Saxon-Brandenburg army under Hans Georg von Arnim in Silesia. After a few skirmishes, his regiment abdicated in Strigau in March 1633 . However, within months he recruited a new regiment that joined Field Marshal Johan Banér's army . He fought off Prague , where he and his unit had to endure three days and nights under fire on the White Mountain. Then he conquered Brieg with twelve companies . In 1634 he was with the Saxon troops who took Halle . After the Peace of Prague in 1636 he joined the army under Rudolph von Marzin .

He was seriously injured in the fighting for Greifenhagen on April 17, 1636. A bullet hit him in the head, and as he fell off his horse, he hit hard. He was thought dead and left there. When the battlefield was searched, a French knight fighting on the side of the imperial recognized his St. John's Cross. So he brought him to Schweidnitz , and the emperor sent him to Wartenberg to convalesce . It was a long time before he could recover from the serious injuries.

But in 1637 he recruited a squadron of dragoons, which he added to the Kurbrandenburg army. There he now served under General Hans Caspar von Klitzing . He now fought between the Elbe and Havel against the imperial army. In 1638 he came under the command of Field Marshal Matthias Gallas in Mecklenburg. In 1639 he was surprised by the Swedes near Bernau and was taken prisoner. The Swedes took him to Szczecin, where he stayed for three months until he was released. In 1640 the new elector Friedrich Wilhelm confirmed him in his office and appointed him captain of Zehden. In 1641 he also appointed him chamberlain. His regiment has meanwhile been rented to the imperial army, in return he was given the command of the electoral bodyguard and the guard on horseback (as his brother's successor). In 1644 he got a new regiment and went with five companies to the Duchy of Kleve , in 1645 he was back in the march, but in September 1646 the elector sent him again to Kleve. In 1649 the regiment was disbanded and the body company on horseback was reassigned to him. When the elector traveled to Kleve in 1651, he accompanied him.

After the death of his brother Konrad, he was appointed colonel. In addition, he became governor of Küstrin and commander of Driesen, Oderberg, Crossen and Landsberg.

Earlier, Duke August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg had secured him the right to the upcoming Süpplingenburg . When Komtur Hans Wolf von der Heyden died in 1643, he was given the post.

After four years of infirmity, he died on March 2nd, 1656 in Küstrin.

family

He was married to Hedwig von der Osten (* March 21, 1613, † May 9, 1676) from the Schildberg family since December 20, 1633. It was a splendid wedding in Old Stettin in the presence of the then Elector Friedrich Wilhelm. The couple had seven sons and four daughters, including:

  • Kurt Ehrenreich (* December 16, 1639; † July 2, 1662), Commander in Litzen
  • Alexander Magnus († 1676 in Hohenzieten)
  • Bernd Hildebrandt (September 28, 1642; † August 10, 1677) ⚭ January 24, 1670 Magdalena Sibylle von Friesen (* February 4, 1652; † September 1, 1693)
  • Louisa Hedwig (September 30, 1641; † 1669) ⚭ 1691 Adolf Maximilian von Loeben (* September 28, 1631; † 1682) (parents of Major General Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. 2001, p. 443
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Gauhe: Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon. 1740, col. 205, digitized version
  3. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jrdus&id=I29790
personal data
SURNAME Burgsdorff, Georg Ehrentreich from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgsdorf, Georg Ehrentreich von; Burgsdorf, Johann Ehrentreich from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg military, governor of Küstrin
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenzieten
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1656
Place of death Küstrin