Jobst Hilmar von Knigge

Jobst Hilmar von Knigge the famous , also Johann von Knigge , Jodok von Knigge or Jost von Knigge (* 1605 , † 1683 ) was an Imperial Colonel , Lieutenant General Field Marshal and Commandant of Glogau .

Life

family

Jobst Hilmar von Knigge was the son of Jobst von Knigge (1572-1626) and his second wife Hippolyta von Oberg († 1657) and brother of Friedrich Ulrich von Knigge . His sister Justine Lucie (1582–1602) married the Danish secret court and chancellery Johann Joachim von Wartensleben (1594–1633). In 1642 Jobst married from Knigge Eva Katharina von Bourscheid (1612–1653). When his wife died in 1653, he married Anna Theresia von Nostitz after a short period of mourning .

He was the father of Franz Jobst von Knigge.

Military career and participation in battles

Apart from his Catholic upbringing, nothing is known about Knigges childhood and youth.

Military career (selection)

• from 1665: Commander of the Glogau fortress / Lower Silesia
• from 1674: Imperial Lieutenant General Field Marshal

Participation in battles

Around 1640 there were repeated armed conflicts between the imperial troops and the opposing warring factions. Jobst von Knigge himself stood in front of Bodenwerder in 1640 and reported in early 1641 about a meeting with troops led by the Hessian Colonel Otto Ludwig von Eberstein (1617–1645). This was followed by his advocacy for the release of Treusch von Buttlar from arrest in mid-1641 and the skirmishes near Göttingen . The city could not be conquered due to the cold weather, so that von Knigge stayed in Vechta at the beginning of 1642 . There he gave Melchior von Hatzfeldt the information about the conversion of the former Swedish officer Ernst von Burgsdorff (1599–1674) and the investigation into Lambert's explosive game . At the beginning of 1643 he was in Zons with his troops and in the middle of the year took part in the battle against the Hessian-Kassel troops at Kaster . End of 1643 he killed the imperial colonel Johann Wilhelm von Eppe he of desertion had accused, in a duel . From 1644 onwards he was stationed in Römhild and Hildburghausen in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg under the displeasure of Friedrich Wilhelm von Sachsen-Altenburg .

In October 1644 his regiment still had the following troop strength:

• 160 riders ready for action
• 45 riders with lame or wounded horses
• 93 riders without a horse
• 83 soldiers lost and captured in the fight against the Swedish troops
• 7 wounded and left behind
• 38 fallen soldiers

In 1645 he took part in the last major battle of the Thirty Years' War , the Battle of Jankau , and marched and killed with almost 500 soldiers through the Upper Palatinate to Amberg . There he was imprisoned for the deeds of his soldiers and released again against the assurance of damages (in the end he only replaced a leather doublet that a rider had stolen, he never replaced the actual damage caused by his troops). He even escaped an official request from the city of Amberg with flimsy excuses and with the support of friends, such as Field Marshal Otto Christoph von Sparr : he would be indispensable because of his proximity to the enemy.

His weakened regiment moved on to Bergrheinfeld . At the beginning of 1646 von Knigge reached Leveste and reported von Hatzfeldt that he had been released from Swedish captivity.

Von Knigge had taken down six opposing flags and two timpani during the Turkish wars in 1664 , which were said to have been hung in the Marktkirche in Hanover at the time. The flags with the crescent moon can be found as commemorative symbols in the coat of arms of the von Knigge family .

From 1669 until his death he was in command of the 11th Bohemian Infantry Regiment.

Jobst von Knigge was in command of the Glogau fortress until his death . In Silesia he bought several estates and in 1681 owned a. a. the Schwiebus estate , which he bequeathed to his son, the imperial lieutenant colonel, Franz Jobst von Knigge. He owned the pledge until a fatal duel with Mr. von Lauenstein in 1686.

Awards

In 1644, Jobst von Knigge was accepted into the Fruitful Society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . The prince gave him the company name of the famous , the motto heals eating damage and the emblem of the crab flower . Knigge's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 413. This also includes the rhyme law that Knigge wrote on the occasion of its inclusion:

The crab flower is famous for its power

Because it properly heals the damage that eats up

With her sharply around you: Therefore determined for me

My name became famous: A noble heart forgotten

All lusciousness should, against it,

What is brave and virtuous is not to be avoided

Virtue eats the vices in common,

With which a brave Hertz should always be adorned.

On June 19, 1665, Emperor Leopold I awarded the then Oberfeldwachtmeister Jobst Hilmar von Knigge and his younger brother Friedrich Ulrich the baron status for the empire and the hereditary lands .

Trivia

• More than 100 letters of Knigges are archived in the university library, among others with Balthasar von Schrattenbach (a member of the Fruitful Society), the composer Heinrich Schütz , the theologian Achatius Mylius , the lawyer Justus Oldekop , the Bishop of Strasbourg Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg and to Field Marshal Gottfried Huyn von Geleen .
• Knigge was present as a judge at the coronation ceremony of Emperor Leopold in 1658.

Works

• with Henri de Rohan, Horatius Michael Wagner: Le Parfaict Capitaine or Kurtzer Excerpt and War Rules, about the Commendaria Iulii Caesaris, first Roman Käyser , 1670
• with Henri de Rohan, Horatius Michael Wagner: Kriegs Discurssen, or Kurtze Militarische Erinnerungen Therein is dealt with by a perfect Feldt-Hauptmann, his extraordinary virtues and excellent qualities , 1670

Web link

• Letters of the Job of Knigge
• Johann Seifert: Ancestral Taffeln, First Part, 1716
• resume
• Directory of members of the Fruitful Society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Silesian nobility . Rohrlach, 1728 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2018]).
2. ↑ Julius von Wartensleben: News from the family of the Counts of Wartensleben . A. Nauck & Comp., 1858 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
3. ^ ^{A b c} Friedrich-Albert Zimmermann: Contributions to the description of Silesia . Trang., 1789 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2018]).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} (Kalb - Loewenthal) . Voigt, 1864 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2018]).
5. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Boldewin Ferdinand von dem Knesebeck: Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover . Hahn, 1840 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
6. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families: in an exact, complete and generally understandable description: with historical and documentary evidence . Weigel, 1855 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2018]).
7. ^ Austro-Hungarian Monarchy K. and K. War Ministry: Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire . From the kk Hof- und Staats-Druckerei., 1838 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
8. ↑ Kurtze, but perfect news of the election and coronation of a Rom. Königs and Kaysers: In which of all curials, ceremonies and pomps ... Also of the imperial electoral capitulation ... more satisfactory ... report . 1741 ( google.de [accessed June 27, 2019]).