Georg Philipp von Zehmen

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Georg Philipp von Zehmen (* around 1590 ; † November 1640 in Coburg ), lieutenant colonel in the cavalry regiment of Duke Ernst of Saxe-Weimar , commandant of the Coburg Fortress in the service of Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach .

Life and family

Georg Philipp von Zehmen was in 1614 in the entourage of Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg , 1626 stable master of Coburg, had to recruit a company and was married to Susanne Barbara von Würzburg. In 1630 he was Princely Saxon Coburg Supreme Lieutenant, in 1631 he became a colonel and war commissioner under Duke Bernhard . He had repeatedly drawn attention to the poor condition of the Veste Coburg when he was appointed to its commanding officer in 1634, while it was already blocked by the enemy. He managed to get inside, but there were serious dissonances among the commanders. He defied these evils until he received an order to surrender the fortress. He was the only one who mistrusted the authenticity of the war council, and the others ran out of the room: if he could, he should hold on to the fortress. On March 27, 1635, he and the commander signed an honorable surrender and handed the place over to the Imperial General Guillaume de Lamboy . He had falsified the order, broke his word of honor and surrender and demanded a ransom of 1,000 thalers each from the commanders. Georg Philipp von Zehmen justified himself in the following investigation. His above-mentioned wife died in 1633 and was buried in the Moritzkirche in Coburg. He then married Marie Jokobine von Lichtenstein from Stein and Heilgersdorf. Georg Philipp bought Rosenau in 1634 from Duke Johann Ernst for 1,000 Reichstaler , an estate in the city of Coburg, where he also owned the webergarten, the Güllhof zu Lauter and the Hof zu Unter-Lauter. He lived in Rosenau , where his wife died on July 6, 1640 and he himself died at the end of November. His daughter Helene Barbara married Ernst Philipp von Selmnitz on Alperstädt in 1652 at Killiansrode. Georg Philipp von Zehmen came from the Meissen-Saxon family of von Zehmen with the parent company of the same name in Zehmen near Leipzig , north of Böhlen in Saxony.

literature

  • HM von Zehmen: Genealogical news about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906. Dresden, print by Wilhelm Baensch, 1906.
  • Benno von Zehmen, captain in the ducal regiment, edited by AvWitzleben, Royal Prussia. Major: "The Veste Coburg. From the war history of the Dukes of Coburg and Gotha. ”Verlag von Hugo Scheube, Gotha 1856. Extensive explanations and research on the handover of the Coburg Fortress and Georg Philipp von Zehmen.

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personal data
SURNAME Zehmen, Georg Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colonel and Commander of Coburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1590
DATE OF DEATH November 1640
Place of death Coburg