Georg II. Count of Helfenstein
Georg II. Count von Helfenstein-Wiesensteig, Freiherr von und zu Gundelfingen (born November 7, 1518 in Bamberg , † November 8, 1573 in Neufra ) was a German officer and statesman .
Life
Helfenstein came from the Swabian Helfenstein . He appeared in 1542 as a captain in the First Austrian Turkish War and in the same rank against France in 1544. At the Schmalkaldic War , he took two years later as a lieutenant colonel in part. In the course of the reorganization after the Schmalkaldic War he became judge and president of the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer in 1547 .
Helfenstein was appointed Colonel Commissioner in Transylvania by King Ferdinand in 1551 , and in 1553 he was Supreme Governor in Alsace . In 1557 he appeared as a royal commissioner at the Reichstag in Regensburg and then as a troop leader in Raab . In 1558 he became governor of Upper Austria . In 1559 he came to the court of Emperor Ferdinand as court master , for whom he took on diplomatic tasks in England and with the Pope.
Helfenstein lived in Neufra. There he had the hanging gardens of Neufra built between 1569 and 1573 with 202 serfs in front of his castle on a specially built extension of the natural castle hill , which were restored in 1988.
The president of the Reich Chamber of Commerce and journalist Schweikhard von Helfenstein was his son.
literature
- Paul Friedrich von Stälin : Helfenstein, Count Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 686 f.
- Gf. George II of Helfenstein. Mr. from and to Gundelfingen in: Heinz Scheible : Melanchthon's correspondence. Critical and annotated complete edition . Volume 12 people F – K , Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005, p. 260.
Web links
- Georg Graf von Helfenstein on leo-bw.de
- Georg II. (Helfenstein-Wiesensteig) on die-helfensteiner.de
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| SURNAME | Helfenstein, Georg II. Count of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helfenstein-Wiesensteig, Freiherr von und zu Gundelfingen, Georg II. Count von; Helfenstein, Peter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1518 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1573 |
| Place of death | Neufra |