Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann von Löwenfeld

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Tomb, Landau in der Pfalz, Katharinenkapelle
Epitaph
Coat of arms from the grave

Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann , from 1707 Hoffmann von Löwenfeld (born May 17, 1653 in Grünberg (Hesse) , † September 30, 1709 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was an ennobled General Field Sergeant (Major General) of the Imperial Army .

Life

He was the son of the Grünberg bailiff Johannes Hoffmann and his wife Barbara geb. Krebs and embarked on a military career.

Initially in the Swedish service, Hoffmann joined the German Imperial Army in 1677 and became a lieutenant in the Hesse-Darmstadt district company "Fasold", 1683 captain of the 2nd district company, 1689 company commander. With this unit he also fought in the Turkish War , with several incident reports that the officer sent from there in 1687 to his regent Elisabeth Dorothea von Hessen-Darmstadt . In 1690 he became sergeant-major in the 1st Upper Rhine Regiment, in 1693 Lieutenant Colonel in the "Schrautenbach" regiment, the main formation of the later Hessian Life Guard Infantry Regiment No. 115. In 1697 the new Hessen-Darmstadt district regiment was set up, to which Hoffmann and his company now transferred and soon became regimental commander.

As head of this unit he took part with the Imperial Army from 1702 to 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession in the battles against the French for Landau in the Palatinate . He was a key player in both the siege and conquest of 1702 and that of 1704.

In 1705, Major General Johann Christoph von Buttlar , sergeant general of the imperial troops of the Upper Rhine District, died and the Kaiser appointed Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann as his successor, at the same time as interim commander of the Landau Fortress . After the death of General Julius Heinrich von Friesen († 1706) he moved up as a proper commandant. Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt awarded him as sovereign the rank of major general of his armed forces.

On January 22nd, 1707, Emperor Joseph I Hartmann elevated Samuel Hoffmann to hereditary nobility and awarded him the title “von Löwenfeld” . Since then he has called himself Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann von Löwenfeld , his coat of arms showed a lion walking on four paws. In the letter of nobility, his “praiseworthy conduct” , his “strange virtues” , his “reason” and his “excellent qualities and war experience” are emphasized.

The general died in Landau in 1709, at the age of only 56. It was rumored that he had been poisoned by the French. He was buried in the Landau Katharinenkapelle , where his tomb is in the north aisle.

family

Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann von Löwenfeld married Maria Juliana Seidel (1664–1696) in 1684, with whom he had six children. In 1698 he married Agnes Christina Vultejus (1678–1758) from Marburg . This marriage had another five children, including the Hessian colonel Georg Wilhelm Christian Hoffmann von Löwenfeld (1707–1761). His son Hartmann Georg Wilhelm Hoffmann von Löwenfeld fought in the American War of Independence and fell on November 17, 1776 near Fort Washington as a major in the Landgraf regiment of Hessen-Kassel .

literature

  • August Justus Alexander Keim: History of the Infantry Body Regiment Grossherzogin (3rd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 117 and its tribes 1677-1902 , 1903, p. 47
  • Cheerful hours , fiction supplement to the Landauer Tageblatt Der Eilbote , No. 39 u. 40, p. 155 of the year 1872; (Digital scan)
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , 1984, p. 275; (Detail scan)
  • Carl Glaser: Contributions to the history of the city of Grünberg in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Darmstadt, 1846, p. 54, footnote 114; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Hesse-Darmstadt district companies of the Reich Army
  2. ↑ Heinrich Kuenzel: The Life and Correspondence of Count George of Hesse-Darmstadt , Friedberg, 1859, page 64 et seq. (Digital Scan)
  3. ↑ Data page on the "Schrautenbach" regiment
  4. ↑ Website on the Hesse-Darmstadt district regiment of the Reich Army
  5. ^ New military newspaper , Darmstadt, year 1858, p. 243 u. 251–254, (digital scan)
  6. ↑ August Justus Alexander Keim: History of the Infantry Leibregiment Grossherzogin (3rd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 117 and its tribes 1677-1902 , 1903, p. 47; (Detail scan)
  7. ^ Waldemar Küther : Grünberg: History and Face of a City in 8 Centuries , 1972, p. 558; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann von Löwenfeld, Hartmann Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Hartmann Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1709
Place of death Landau in the Palatinate