Hartwig von Passow (General)
Hartwig von Passow , also Hartvig , Passau , Passaw , († January 7, 1706 in Eutin ) was a German officer in the Danish service during the Northern War .
Life
Passow came from the Mecklenburg noble family von Passow and was a son of the Mecklenburg Privy Councilor Günther von Passow ; the Mecklenburg Secret Council of the same name, Hartwig von Passow , who died in 1644, was his uncle. He first entered the service of the Prince-Bishop of Münster and became the commander of his guard. On March 17, 1683, he switched to the service of the Danish King Christian V , as evidenced by a letter of thanks from the king to the bishop on March 24, 1683. Passow received approval to advertise his own regiment as a colonel in the county of Oldenburg . The regiment already numbered 550 men on August 15, 1683, but was reduced again and integrated into the Zealand Infantry Regiment on December 31, 1684.
In 1685 the Danish King Christian V mobilized a strong army in a dispute against Gottorf in Holstein. After the end of this dispute with the Altona Treaty , Passow became the commandant of Glückstadt . In 1690 he was given command of the Queen's body regiment ( Dronningens Livregiment ). In 1691 he received permission to join the siege of Mainz . With this knowledge he took part in the siege of Ratzeburg in 1693 .
1698 he was appointed brigadier general and in 1705 to Major General and Chief of Danish infantry in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein appointed. In the course of the dispute about the successor to the Prince-Bishop of Lübeck August Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf between Denmark and Gottorf, he moved to Eutin in December 1705 as the commander of a Danish expeditionary corps to occupy the bishopric for the Danish coadjutor Prince Karl. During the siege of Eutin Castle on New Year's Eve 1705, he was so badly wounded in the leg by a bullet that he died a week later, on January 7, 1706 after an amputation of his leg. On January 12, 1706 he was buried in Rendsburg .
He was married to Catharine Elisabeth von der Lippe (* 1672) from the Vinsebeck house near Paderborn , who belonged to the Catholic community in Glückstadt, supported her and is buried there in the Catholic cemetery.
literature
- HW Harbou: v. Passow, Hartvig . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 12 : Münch – Peirup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1898, p. 561-567 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773 . In: Oldenburger Jahrbücher , 1940/41, pp. 71–72, digitized
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passow, Hartwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartvig; Passau; Passav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer in Danish service during the Northern War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1706 |
| Place of death | Eutin |