Hans Heinrich Kuffer
Hans Heinrich Kuffer , contemporary also Hannß Heinrich Kuffer , († August 13, 1692 in Wittenberg ) was an Electoral Saxon engineer, colonel , commander of the fortress Wittenberg and manor owner in the office of Schweinitz .
Life
In 1668, Hans Heinrich Kuffer acquired the Rothe Mill in Prühlitz near Dobien from master papermaker Johann Heinrich Möring for 2000 guilders , which he had operated by him. He also owned the Neumühle near Rothemark and the Winsheim grinding mill.
As early as 1672 he was colonel over the body regiment on foot of Elector Johann Georg von Sachsen and commandant of the Wittenberg fortress. In the following year he was enfeoffed by the feudal chancellery in Dresden with the Hemsendorf manor, which he had previously acquired from the descendants of his predecessor as commander of the Wittenberg Fortress, Wolf Otto von Thümmel.
In 1679, Hans Heinich Kuffer was a colonel in the first body regiment and commandant of Wittenberg. At this point he had successfully completed his artillery training, for which he received a hand-signed apprenticeship certificate from Elector Johann Georg von Sachsen after having passed his test.
He led the eponymous Kufferische regiment in which his deputy as the Lieutenant Colonel Georg Sebastian of Schmertzing and later his son, Christian Dietrich von Robel as Colonel sergeant served. Even Hannibal August from Schmertzing served in this regiment in the rank of captain .
After his death, Hans Heinrich Kuffer was buried in Hemsendorf. He left two sons and three daughters who shared his property among themselves. The Hemsendorf manor was sold to Christian Dietrich von Röbel in 1702 .
Honors
- For his military services, he was granted the right of Upper and High Hunt to his possessions, the Hemsendorf manor with the associated villages of Hemsen-, Gors- and Ruhlsdorf, from the Elector of Saxony in 1677.
- To commemorate his services in the liberation of the city of Vienna from the Turkish occupiers, a room of honor and memorial was set up for him in the Magdalenenburg on the Königstein fortress .
literature
- Heinrich Kühne : The Wittenberg fortress commander as a paper mill owner , 1996
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Dobien.
- ↑ Military Conversations Lexicon. A and B , 1833, pp. 274-275.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuffer, Hans Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuffer, Hannß Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon colonel and commandant of the Wittenberg fortress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1668 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1692 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |