Hans from the gate

Hans von der Pforte (before 1615; † January 1651 in Puschwitz near Torgau ) was an electoral Saxon war chief and diplomat .

Life

Hans (Johann) von der Pforte (he himself signed in 1631, 1633 and 1643 as Hans von der Pfordt ; occasionally also von der Pforten or von der Pfordta ) was the son of Job von der Pforte and his wife Anna von Fitzner. Apart from his Protestant upbringing, very little is known about his childhood and youth.

On August 20, 1615 von der Pforte married the widow of Georg von Seydewitz , Catharina Euphemia von Berbisdorf. When his wife died at the end of 1641, he married Gertrud von Hanfstengl after the obligatory year of mourning.

Von der Pforte served as an Electorate of Saxony officer in 1621 in Silesia under Colonel Goldstein. In 1631 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed commander of Leipzig . As such, he had to capitulate the city on September 6 of the same year and hand it over to Tilly .

On May 3, 1634, he took part in the battle of Liegnitz as a colonel under von Arnim .

On February 28, 1635, Von der Pforte took part in an embassy that tried to negotiate an armistice with Emperor Ferdinand II . In the same year von der Pforte was accepted into the Fruitful Society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . The prince gave him the company name of the master and the motto poison as epidemic . As emblem him was the master root ( Peucedanum ostruthium (L.) Koch WDJ ) allotted. In Köthener Society book, his entry is under the number 258. There is also the rhyme Act is recorded, which he had written during his recording.:

The Meisterwurtzel is called so that it catches and epidemics

Mastered and also prevents coughing and wheezing

So is in Holer Breast. Mastering I addressed

Therefore I am in the crowd, and my fatherland

For consolation, the vice wants to master the war

It often turns out to be that one triumphs with God

And bring oak fruit to use everyone

Because virtue can never be rewarded.

Von der Pforte experienced the high point of his career as a signatory to the Kötzschenbroda armistice between Saxony and Sweden in 1645.

He left his son Hans Siegmundt von der Pforte, who was enfeoffed with the Puschwitz manor in 1651 .

literature

• Henning Steinführer: The Leipzig Council Books 1466 - 1500 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3936522413 , page 220.
• Carl Grosse: History of the city of Leipzig from the oldest to the most recent , Volume 2. Poet, Leipzig 1839, page 217