Hermann Philipp von Oer

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Hermann Philipp von Oer (also: Herman Philip von Ohr ; * August 27, 1644 in Bruche ; † February 4, 1703 in Hanover ) was a Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and later Elector of Hanover, Lieutenant General of the Cavalry , Military Governor and Drost , City Commander as well as one Line of one of the ancestors of today's royal family of the Netherlands .

Life

family

1644 Birthplace of Oers: Gut Bruche , today in Eicken-Bruche
Gravestone of "Hermann Philipp von Ohr" at the Neustädter Court and City Church in Hanover ; with the six coats of arms of the noble families von Oer , von der Oye , von Ketter , von Loë , the family (raven) von Kanstein and the house of Merode

Hermann Philipp von Oer was a descendant of the noble von Oer family . He was the son of Eberhard Georg von Oer († 1662) and Anna Sophia von der Oye (* 1615; † 1690). His wife was Anna Margaretha von Lunnick , the daughter of Nicolaus Heinrich von Lunnick († 1668) and Christina von Kettler (? - 1690?). His daughter was Clara Maria von Oer (1695–1758), who fathered Dorothea von Hammerstein (1730–1758) with her husband Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Gesmold (1683–1730) . The other descendants lead through the families von Munster and von Platen-Hallermund through von Malortie and von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen and further through van Amsberg and Willem-Alexander (the King of the Netherlands ) and his wife Queen Máxima of the Netherlands up to the on 7 December 2003 born Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria , Princess of Oranje-Nassau.

Career

Hermann Philipp von Oer was born in the final years of the Thirty Years' War in 1644 on the Bruche manor . In 1677 he received the guard on foot, since their previous commander, Jobst Moritz von Uffeln, became the commandant of Hamburg.

Around the time of the so-called Second Turkish Siege of Vienna by the troops of the Ottoman Empire , he had distinguished himself in 1683 as the Hanoverian Lieutenant General in the service of the Republic of Venice .

From time to time, von Oer was in the position of military governor of Hameln ( Hameln Fortress ) and of Drost of Iburg in the bishopric of Osnabrück . He was also city commandant of Osnabrück and worked from the Langelage estate .

Like numerous other high-ranking officials of the court of the royal city of Hanover, Hermann Philipp von Oer also had the privilege of being buried within the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . Von Oer's grave slab can be found today - as an epitaph , as it were  - on the southern outer wall of the church in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt .

literature

  • Stephanie von Bar: Explanations on the biography of General Hermann Philipp v. Oer . In: Der Grönegau: Meller Jahrbuch , ed. in cooperation with the city of Melle. Knoth, Melle, ISSN  0724-6161 .
  • Patriotic archive of the historical association for Lower Saxony, p. 7 ff. Documentary messages from the Hanoverian Guard on foot

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Annette von Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphe and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure DIN A5 (20 pages, some with illustrations), publisher. from the church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hanover: 2002, p. 6, v. a. P. 17
  2. ↑ Compare the inscription on the tombstone v. Ear
  3. ↑ a b c Rudolfine Freiin von Oer:  Oer, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 446 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b Oer, Hermann Philipp von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the process of January 15, 2006; accessed on July 1, 2016
  5. ↑ a b The Pedigree of Hermann Philipp von Oer… HRH Catharina-Amalia's 9-Great Grandfather on the fabpedigree.com page ; accessed on July 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Oer, Hermann Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ear, Herman Philip of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Breaks
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1703
Place of death Hanover