Hermann von Kardorff
Hermann von Kardorff († 1677 in Krempe ) was a Danish officer and German court official.
Life
Kardorff was the son of Joachim von Kardorff and Margarethe von Levetzow . Apart from a Protestant upbringing, very little is known of Kardorff's childhood and youth.
While still a minor, Kardorff started working as a page for Duke Philipp Julius of Pomerania in 1622 . During the Thirty Years War he served as a Danish officer. After the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge (1626), he defended the small Holstein fortress of Krempe against the Tilly and Wallenstein troops. The war was beneficial to his career and in 1630 Kardorff was promoted to royal Danish lieutenant colonel. He died in 1677 as commandant of the Feste Brimpe.
At the beginning of September 1642 Kardorff was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society together with his employer, Duke Christian Ludwig von Braunschweig and Lüneburg-Celle . Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen performed the admission rite on his great north German trip. Kardorff became the company name of the beautiful white people and the motto is the same for others . His emblem was the full white thousand beautiful ( Anemone nemorosa L. ). Kardorff's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under number 387. The rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission is also recorded here:
- The white thousand beautiful in beautiful full blooms'
- Other flowers are also beautifully white:
- Well, my name is now: A wonderfully comfortable
- Pure in sincerity Schönweis stands blooming,
- The next one can recognize his kindness,
- If it is unclean it will never puff itself up:
- But God's grace 'alone' it makes pure, beautiful white
- Fruitful 'he gives the highest thanks and praise.
As court squire of the duke he is still recorded between July 12, 1643 and January 7, 1644.
In the first marriage Kardorff was married to Barbara von Datenberg , in the second with Margarethe von Koss . From this second marriage came the son Christoph Friedrich von Kardorff , landlord of Wöpkendorf (today part of Dettmannsdorf ) and others.
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried von Kardorff : Wilhelm von Kardorff , Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, 1936, page 2 excerpt
- ↑ Gottlieb Matthäus Karl Masch: History and documents of the von Kardorff family , 1850, page 190 digitized
- ↑ Klaus Conermann (ed.): The ore shrine opened to the fruitful society. The Köthener society book of Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen 1617–1650 , 3 volumes, 1985
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 5, 1864, page 25 digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kardorff, Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish soldier and German court official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1677 |
| Place of death | Brim (stone castle) |