Hans von Rochow (Colonel)
Hans XIV. Von Rochow , called " Colonel Hans" (* August 18, 1596 in Zinna ; † September 16, 1660 in Stülpe ) was a commander of the 17th century , landlord and company commander of the first standing army of the Mark Brandenburg .
biography
Hans XIV came as the son of Hans XIII. von Rochow (1550–1622) and Hippolyta von Brösigke (1568–1606) to the world.
He spent his youth with relatives in Taubenheim , Dresden and Dölau before he became a page with the imperial head stable master Count Adam von Wallenstein , cousin of Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Waldstein (1583–1634). After his death he was in this position at the Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick until his death in 1613, then left the court and went to Padua to his brother Daniel (1586-1656,) in order at the local university three years to study. Around 1617 he left Padua and went to Paris , was three months in the service of the Governor of Poitiers , Count Rochefoucauld and another three months with the Count of Emden in Bristol before he returned via Hamburg .
After the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War he served under Count Wolfgang von Mansfeld and rose to be Rittmeister . With the death of his father, he inherited Plessow along with pertinence and restored the estate after the devastation. Appointed Rittmeister in Brandenburg, he moved to Caschau in Hungary with Katharina von Brandenburg , sister of Elector Georg Wilhelm . As a company commander, he took over a troop of 4,000 infantry and 600 horsemen . The Elector had advertised this company to protect Brandenburg from the war that had broken out between Poland and Sweden . In 1644 these soldiers became the first standing army, the Brandenburg - Prussian Army, which became the basis of the later Royal Prussian Army .
Three years later he married Elisabeth Sophie (Söffey) von Lange (* 1600; † 1688 in Stülpe) and had a new house built. Four sons and one daughter survived from this marriage. In 1631 he entered the service of the Bindauff cuirassier regiment as a cavalry master from the Electorate of Saxony . In the following month, already a major , he took part in the battle of Breitenfeld near Leipzig to fight for the evangelical faith . After Lieutenant Colonel Bindauff fell in battle, he took over the regiment . As a lieutenant colonel he led the regiment of General Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg from 1632 and fought as a colonel in the battle of Liegnitz (1634) against Hieronymus von Colloredo .
The elector Johann Georg I honored him extensively for his services. This jewelry, consisting of a ring with three large diamonds , a mercy chain with the portrait of the elector and another worth 600 crowns, found its way into his will . He decreed that the latter must be passed on to the respective heirs of the Plessow line. The elector's estate also contained bonds for his outstanding pay and other liabilities worth 50,000 thalers. His merits are also shown in gifts from the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Queen of Poland . On Plessow he had new farm buildings built, a vineyard was laid out and the garden and vineyard were walled and the estate was surrounded by a ditch to protect against the plundering Pandours . Now as a colonel from Kurbrandenburg at the head of a regiment, his allies still burned Ferch, Kammerode and parts of Wildenbruch. Appointed elector chamberlain and captain von Lehnin , he acquired the Neuendorf am See estate with the villages of Groß Eichholz , Schwerin and the Vorwerk Koplin from Moritz Ernst von Langen in 1644 . Four years later, a barter agreement was concluded, through which he received the village of Stülpe and its accessories for Neuendorf, along with tenants and 7,000 thalers. At that time, Stülpe only had six houses and six residents after the fire . In 1649 he owned the Zolchow estate , he had lien in Derwitz , and in 1656 he bought half of Rirsdorf from the indebted Otto Heinrich von Hacke in Wahlsdorf, along with the desert Feldmark Wendemark and Zippelsdorf, the Schulzengericht and courtyards.
After his death, Hans was buried in the hereditary funeral built by him in the church in Plessow. In the church is his sandstone epitaph from 1660, which shows him in armor . Elisabeth did not spend her widowhood on Zolchow, but with her youngest son Friedrich Wilhelm in Stülpe, and she was also buried in Plessow.
literature
- Anton Balthasar König : Hans von Rochow . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military people . tape III . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 478 ( Hans von Rochow in the Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ [Note: On the one hand, Pertinentien refers to the entire area that belonged to a village, such as “ wood , hatching , meadows , arable land ”, and on the other hand the common land of a village or the common land portion of a farm.]
- ^ Adolph Friedrich August von Rochow: News on the history of the lineage of those von Rochow and their possessions. Berlin 1861, pp. 74-84
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rochow, Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rochow, Hans XIV. Von; Rochouw, Hanns von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Elector of Saxon and Brandenburg colonel, military leader in the Thirty Years War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1596 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zinna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1660 |
| Place of death | Cuff |