Hans Bastian I of Zehmen

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Electoral Saxon Colonel

Hans Bastian I. von Zehmen (born June 15, 1598 on the Neumühl manor; † July 11, 1638 in Magdeburg ) was Colonel of the Electoral Saxon body regiment and commandant of Magdeburg.

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Hans Bastian I. 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.

On April 2, 1623, Hans Bastian von Zehmen entered the Braunschweigisch-Lüneburg service as captain under Colonel Andreas Meyh. After the unfortunate meeting at Stadtlohn on April 4-6 On August 3, 1623, when his brother was captured, he returned home and moved into his Neumühl manor. In 1630 he went to Bayreuth as the prince's steward, where in 1631 he was a company under Colonel v. Muffle received, whose regiment as Leibregiment in electoral Saxon service of the Elector on July 27, 1631 Johann Georg I came. After the Battle of Breitenfeld , he was appointed Oberwachtmeister on July 3, 1632. During the battle of Lützen on November 6, 1632, Hans B. captured a Pappenheim standard that was in the Dresden Historical Museum in the Royal Johanneum until 1945 . In 1633 he became lieutenant colonel in the Vitzthum regiment and on August 19, 1635 he was colonel of the body regiment in Halle . In the same year he was given command of three regiments and in 1636 of the Magdeburg fortress . Here he died on July 11, 1638 in a scuffle with Colonel Christian Vitzthum von Eckstedt (see his diary in Magdeburg and the funeral sermon of Hans Bastian I. vZ). Hans Bastian is immortalized on the prince's procession to Dresden.

family

His father was Moritz Bastian von Zehmen (1560–1628), court squire with Duke Johann the Pious and supervisor of the electoral rafts and trees. His mother was Anna Schott (1567–1606). He had several siblings, including Moritz Friedrich, Anna Sophie, Andreas Adolph, Carl Heinrich and Sibylla Agnes. On June 21, 1624 he married Maria Salome von Bottfeld (1600–1670) in Neumühl . He had a total of 9 children, including Katharine Sophie, Marie Salome, Hans Bastian II (court and judiciary, captain of the Neustädter Kreis ), Maria Barbara, Erdmann August and Helene Dorothea.

literature

  • HM von Zehmen: Genealogical news about the Meissen nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906. Dresden, print by Wilhelm Baensch, 1906.
  • Clemens Freiherr von Hausen: The procession of princes on the sgraffito frieze at the Royal Palace of Dresden. Publishing and printing by C. Heinrich, Dresden 1903. pp. 18 and 122.
  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Matthias Donath , Frank Schmidt, Suse Pfeifer: The procession of princes. A mural comes to life . edition Sächsische Zeitung Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland mbH, Meißen 2007, Hans-Bastian I. v. Zehmen on the Fürstenzug in Dresden, p. 94.
  • G. Krause: Documents, files and letters on the history of the Anhaltische Lande and its princes under the pressure of the Thirty Years War , Dyt'sche Buchhandlung, First Department 1637-1639, Fourth Volume, Leipzig 1864, based on the originals and copies of the Ducal Archives Koethen. Many mentions by Hans Bastian I. von Zehmen, u. a. Colonel von Zehmen to Prince Augustus p. 156, Article 39, etc.
  • Johannes-Franciscus Buddeus, General historical lexicon, in which the life and deeds of their patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and finally the descriptions of their kayseries, kingdoms, are presented , Volume 4, p.287
  • Roland Sennwald: The Electoral Saxon Army in the Thirty Years War. Volume 1, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-938447-72-7 , explanation of the Saxon regiments, etc. a. the Zehmische Regiment , and the events in Magdeburg as well as mentions of Zehmen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor O. Weigel, Gustav Eduard Köhler, album of autographs for the bicentenary commemoration on October 24, 1848 of the peace treaty in Westphalia on October 24, 1648 , p.136
personal data
SURNAME Zehmen, Hans Bastian I. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zehmen, Hans Bastian the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colonel and Commander of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumühl
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1638
Place of death Magdeburg