Johann Peter Vogt

Epitaph of the Danish colonel Johann Vogt (1621–1679) (Voogt) from the St. Jürgen Church in Wismar

Johann Peter Vogt (born January 6, 1621 - † June 8, 1679 in Wismar ) was a royal Danish colonel and most recently commandant of Wismar.

Life

He was captain from October 27, 1657 and was transferred as such to the Beßler infantry regiment on December 24, 1657. On August 10, 1658 he found himself captain of a company in the Zealand Regiment of Vollrath Bath . On August 15, 1664 he became lieutenant colonel of the Rüses infantry regiment, and in October of the same year he became the first commandant of the newly built fort there. On April 14, 1665 he was then commander in Fredriksort . On April 28, 1665 he was named as the head of the local free company. On October 28, 1667, he was transferred to the Krempe Fortress as a commander, and he became head of the local free company. From 1670 he was head of the Danish part of the Lower Saxony district contingent , in April 1673 he was transferred back to Fredriksort. On October 26, 1674, he was given command of the district regiment. This existed in its time:

• 60 royal Danish riders
• 44 Duke of Schleswig-Gottorpsche Reiter
• 120 men royal Danish infantry
• 80 men ducal Schleswig-Gottorp infantry

He fought against the French under Turenne on the Rhine.

On August 15, 1675, he was replaced by Major Catterbade in Strasbourg and ordered back to Denmark. Duke Friedrich also gave him a very positive letter of recommendation. On October 13, 1675 he was then colonel and commandant in Tönning . His garrison consisted of four companies from the North Jutland National Infantry Regiment, four companies from the Funen National Infantry Regiment and four companies from the Max Rosenkrantz Regiment. But on May 2, 1676 he became the commandant of Rendsburg and chief of the Holstein National Infantry Regiment there. But he didn't stay long here either. On September 30, 1676 he was appointed as the representative of General Baudissin to the commandant of Oldenburg and was also given command of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst . He handed over the regiment and command in Rendsburg on October 27, 1676 to Colonel Hartwig Otto von Deden . On December 11, 1676, he took command of the Oldenburger Landregiment, which at the time comprised 6 companies. But as early as January 1, 1677 he received new orders, he was appointed commander of Wismar (Wismar was conquered by the Danes in 1675), but he was only to receive a regiment when one became free. So he handed over the Oldenburg regiment on January 14, 1677 to its new commander Detlev Lütken . On January 19, 1677, he took command in Wismar. On July 16, 1677 the garrison in Wismar comprised: 4 companies of the North Jutland National Infantry Regiment, 4 companies of the South Jutland National Infantry Regiment (also called Vogtsches Bataillon ) and 8 companies of the Funen National Infantry Regiment. In April 1679 there was the Zealand National Infantry Regiment under Adolph Fuchs , the South Jutland National Infantry Regiment and a Zealand battalion (presumably under Lieutenant Colonel Puttkamer ). On October 25, 1678, Lieutenant Colonel Puttkamer wrote that the Vogt was seriously ill, and that he died on June 8, 1679 on the Schlagfluss . His epitaph was placed in St. Jürgen's Church. At his funeral on July 25, 1679, his widow requested that 27 gun salutes be fired.

He was married to Maria Elisabeth von Walther , a daughter of Georg Hans von Walther .

literature

• Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773 . In: Oldenburger Jahrbücher , 1940/41, pp. 79–80, digitized