Joachim von Sydow

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Joachim von Sydow (born December 19, 1632 in Lübenow im Weizacker , † September 26, 1686 in Danzig ) was a German officer in the service of the kingdoms of Sweden and Denmark-Norway and the city of Danzig.

Life

Joachim von Sydow was a son of Jochim von Sydow († 1653) on Blumberg and his wife Anna Catharina von Schöning . In 1648 he began his military career with Lieutenant Colonel Meerbach in Stettin and took part in the fight against imperial troops. Then he came to Lieutenant Colonel Adam von Weyher . In 1655 he entered Swedish service as an ensign under the Dragoons Captain Bomstorff and took part in the Swedish-Polish war . In 1657 Sydow married the daughter Eleonora (1641–1711) of Colonel Sergeant Hans Heinrich von Gräbel. In 1661 he was appointed captain in Wrangel's body regiment . From 1669 to 1671 Sydow was in command of Damm near Stettin. In 1673 he was appointed lieutenant colonel. Until 1682 he was city commander of Hamburg . In 1683 he entered the Danish service, where he became major general and chief of a dragoon regiment. He then entered the service of the city of Danzig and became city commander there. He died after a long illness and was buried on November 28, 1686 in Danzig's Marienkirche , where an epitaph was set for him.

One of his sons was the later lieutenant colonel Georg Heinrich von Sydow (1661-1725), married to Eleonore von Pufendorf (1674-1723), daughter of Chancellor Esaias von Pufendorf (1628-1689). Another son was the future Colonel Bernhard Joachim von Sydow († 1742), married to Beate Elisabeth von Pufendorf, another daughter of the Chancellor Pufendorf; from this marriage comes the grandson Lieutenant General Heinrich Bernhard von Sydow .

literature

  • Samuel Schelwig : a spiritual war hero . Funeral sermon. Danzig 1687, pp. 21–32 ( digitized version )
  • Hans von Sydow: Genealogy of the family von Sydow . 2nd edition Hamburg 1897, p. 52 f. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration of the portrait in the epitaph
  2. ↑ Willi Drost: The Marienkirche in Danzig and its art treasures , Kohlhammer 1963, p. 165 (illustration plate 185)
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sydo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish major general, most recently city commander of Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübow
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1686
Place of death Danzig