Johann Georg Kauffer from Sturmwehr

Johann Georg Kauffer von Sturmwehr , also Johann Georg Kaufer von Sturmwehr , in Czech Jan Jiří Kaufer ze Sturmwehru (born 1616 in Prague; died after 1664) was a Bohemian nobleman, lawyer and captain of the student company during the siege of Prague towards the end of the Thirty Years War . The Bohemian King Emperor Ferdinand III. awarded Kauffer in 1649 for his participation in the defense.

Life

His father Johann Georg Kauffer († 1632) was a lawyer and supposedly came from Reich. He arrived in Prague around 1590. He received the office of an Appelation Council and after 1616 he used the coat of arms and the predicate "von Arnsdorf and Mohrau".

When Swedish troops under General Johan Banér besieged Prague in 1639, a student legion was set up in Prague, which Johann Georg Kauffer joined. He was recognized for his commitment. Kauffer received his doctorate in both rights .

On July 26, 1648, the Swedish general Hans Christoph von Königsmarck took the Lesser Town of Prague and besieged the city again. It is reported that Kauffer brought the flag of the Student Legion that was kept in the Carolinum in front of the Old Town Hall . Kauffer was wounded during the siege.

Coat of arms of Johann Georg Kauffer von Sturmwehr

After the withdrawal of the Swedish troops, many officers, citizens and students were given certificates of their participation in the defense by the generals at their request. With these they went to the royal court, where they were rewarded with titles of nobility, gifts of gold, offices and positions. Kauffer was raised to the nobility of a knight with the coat of arms and the title "von Sturmwehr" and was appointed to the royal appellate council. He also received a gold chain of mercy. Kauffer obtained the elevation to the nobility for the free members of the student company and the acquittal of their lords for the submissive members. From the royal tax fund, 5000 Rhenish guilders were distributed among the members of the student company, so that each received 18 guilders and 20 kreuzers.

As a lawyer, Kauffer was later, among other things, a member of the commission that was supposed to decide on the complaint that Wenzel Bernard Winbersky filed against the Prague chief rabbi Aaron Simeon Spira-Wedeles on August 28, 1664 because of the accusation that was later proven to be false of converting to Catholicism To have murdered boys.

The person of Kauffer was emphasized again during the time of National Socialism in several publications that appeared during the Second World War .

literature

Peter Wokaun, Knights of Wokaunius: Chronological directory of the most famous men in Bohemia. Prague 1777, p. 65.
Johann Korbinius Zatočil von Löwenbrut: Diary of the siege of Prague by the Swedes in 1648, from Bohemian into German by Johann Ritter von Rittersberg , in: Monthly of the Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia. Publishers of the Bohemian Museum, Prague June 1827, p. 19 ff., On Kauffer: p. 38–39.
- Reprinted in: Illustrirte Chronik von Böhmen. A national historical work. Volume 1, Verlag Anton Renn, Prague 1852, pp. 407-408.
Arthur Werner: The student legions of the Prague University from the 30 Years War to 1848. Publishing house K. André, Prague 1934.
Jan Županič: Praha 1648. Nobilitační listiny pro obránce pražských měst roku 1648 (Prague 1648. Nobilization deeds for defenders of Prague cities from 1648). Verlag VR Atelier, Prague 2001, p. 26 (biography), p. 75–75 (letter of nobility), p. 290 (coat of arms).
Jan Županič: Kauffer ze Sturmwehru / Kauffer of Sturmwehr .
Jan Županič: New elites. The ennoblement of the defenders of Brno and Prague in the context of the change in the Bohemian-Moravian aristocratic community in the 17th century, Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , Vol. 127, Part 1, 2019, pp. 35-87, ISSN 0073-8484.

Individual evidence

↑ Kauffer ze Sturmwehru | Nová šlechta v českých zemích a podunajské monarchii. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
↑ Further contributions to the history of the siege of the k. Capital of Prague through the Swedes in 1648 (continued) , in: Monthly of the Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia. JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague October 1828, p. 283 ff., On Kauffer: p. 299.
^ Arnold Brügmann: Zucht und Leben der Deutschen Studenten, 1648-1848. (= Publications of the Institute for German Student History Würzburg, Volume 1) Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin 1941, p. 23; Wolfgang Wolfram von Wolmar : Prague and the Empire. F. Müller, 1943, p. 121.

personal data
SURNAME	Kauffer von Sturmwehr, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sturmwehr buyer, Johann Georg; Kaufer ze Sturmwehru, Jan Jiří (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian nobleman, lawyer and captain of the student company
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1639
DATE OF DEATH	after 1664

[1] Kauffer ze Sturmwehru | Nová šlechta v českých zemích a podunajské monarchii. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .

[2] Further contributions to the history of the siege of the k. Capital of Prague through the Swedes in 1648 (continued) , in: Monthly of the Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia. JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague October 1828, p. 283 ff., On Kauffer: p. 299.

[3] Arnold Brügmann: Zucht und Leben der Deutschen Studenten, 1648-1848. (= Publications of the Institute for German Student History Würzburg, Volume 1) Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin 1941, p. 23; Wolfgang Wolfram von Wolmar : Prague and the Empire. F. Müller, 1943, p. 121.