Henrik Magnus Buddenbrock
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Baron Henrik Magnus Buddenbrock [ ˈbʊdnˌbʁoːk ] (also Friherre Hindrich Magnus von Buddenbrock ; born July 22, 1685 in Livonia , † July 16, 1743 in Stockholm ) was a royal Swedish lieutenant general .
In 1743 he was unjustly sentenced to death and beheaded because of the lost battle at Villmanstrand .
Life
Military career
Henrik Magnus Budde Brock was a member of the noble family of Budde Brock . His father was the royal Swedish lieutenant colonel, Livonian district administrator and Wendenscher head churchman, Heinrich Gotthard von Buddenbrock (* 1648, † 1727), heir to Essenhof , Fehren, Kaipen, Öselshof and Lindenhof in Livonia, his mother was Charlotte von Cronmann , his brother Caspar Friedrich von Buddenbrock .
He was an officer in the Swedish service, became captain of the life guards in 1711 , major grenadier in 1715, major general in 1721, in 1731 raised to the status of Swedish baron (registration number 209) and in 1739 lieutenant general of the infantry. As such, he was in 1741 under Count Löwenhaupt (Lewenhaupt) troop commander in Finland in the war against Russia .
On August 23rd, July / September 3, 1741 greg. Russian troops attacked the long-fought border fortress Villmanstrand in southern Karelia . The Swedish general Karl Henrik Wrangel was defeated before Lewenhaupt joined the army and Buddenbrock, who was only six miles away with his troops, could come to his aid.
Trial and Execution
Since the Russo-Swedish War was unfavorable for Sweden, the imperial estates blamed the two generals, Lewenhaupt and Buddenbrock, for the unfortunate course of the battle. They were recalled from Finland in August 1742 and arrested immediately after their return by Vice Admiral Ritterstolpe. Buddenbrock was brought to Stockholm on the night of September 28, where he was detained and closely guarded. A court martial was convened to investigate the two cases, chaired by Field Marshal Hamilton General , which began work on October 8th. The prosecutor was the Chancellor of Justice Silverschildt, who filed an extensive indictment against both generals, about which they were first heard on October 19. A few lawyers from the royal court were added to the defendants as defense counsel. Buddenbrock was u. a. accused of failing to gather his troops in time, even though he was under orders, and to have crossed the Russian border with them to attack the enemy there. He is also said to have failed to come to Major General Wrangel's help at Villmanstrand in time.
Buddenbrock defended himself so well that, had it been up to the nobility alone, he would have got away with his life. The other classes, especially the peasant class, were so bitter that they demanded a sacrifice. On May 26, 1743, he was taken to the prison in the town hall of Södermalm and on May 29, the 13-sheet judgment was publicly announced by the Imperial Estates Commission in the presence of a large crowd. It was for loss of honor, confiscation of goods and beheading with the ax . Buddenbrock himself was not present at the pronouncement of the judgment because of a medically certified ailment. Although Buddenbrock had detailed his services to the Reich in an extensive memorandum and asked his family for his life, the verdict was confirmed by the imperial estates the following day. The request for mercy to be arkebus or to be executed with the sword was also rejected.
On July 16, 1743, General Freiherr von Buddenbrock was executed in Stockholm . His wife, Magdalena Elisabeth Rahm, and their four children left Sweden and went to Holland .
family
With his wife Magdalena Elisabeth Rahm, a daughter of the Dutch Colonel Rahm von Hagedorn , he had the following children:
- Magdalena Elisabeth (1717–1768) ⚭ Carl Magnus von Buddenbrock († 1778)
- Friedrich Magnus (1719 – around 1785)
- Ulrike Dorothea (1721–1788) ⚭ 1743 Isaac Tham (1717–1773)
- Carl Heinrich von Buddenbrock (1725–1745), killed as a lieutenant in the battle of Fontenoy near Tournai
literature
- That from the Hochlöbl. Reichs -Stände-Commission made judgment, regarding the judgment of the Mr. Justitz-Cantzler, the Wohlgeb. Mr. Peter Silverschiold, the Hochwohlgeb. Lieutenant General, Baron Hinr. Magnus von Buddenbrock, officially accused points. Hamburg 1743.
- Course of the trial between the Justitz-Cantzler-Office and the honorable Baron and Lieutenant-General Hinrich Magnus von Buddenbrock, and concerning the causes of the unfortunate Finnish war. Hamburg 1743.
- History and deeds of the recently beheaded Count Carl Emils von Löwenhaupt. Along with brief news of the execution of Heinrich Magni, Baron von Buddenbrock. Altona 1744.
- Buddenbrock, Henrik Magnus von . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 4 : Brant-Cesti . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 503-504 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, Livonia, Görlitz 1929. ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Gabriel Anrep: Svenska adelns ättar-taflor utgifna , p.348
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Buddenbrock, Henrik Magnus von . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 4 : Brant-Cesti . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 503–504 (Swedish, runeberg.org - The previously incorrect date of death July 27 was created by the erroneous assumption that July 16 was given in the Julian style and must be converted into the Gregorian style .).
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Henrik Magnus Buddenbrock. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buddenbrock, Henrik Magnus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buddenbrock, Hindrich Magnus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Royal Swedish Lieutenant General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1685 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1743 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |