Johann Rudolph Müller from Andolfingen

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Johann Rudolph Müller von Andolfingen , also just Müller , von Müller or von Müller von Amsoldingen (born September 15, 1737 in Bern , † February 1793 in Amsoldingen ) was a Swiss country major and Prussian colonel .

Life

Origin and family

Müller came from a family in Bern. His parents were Ohmgeltner , Vogt zu Fraubrunnen , escort Wolfgang Müller (1695–1755) and Susanna Elisabeth Hunziker (1706–1781). Since 1783 the family was allowed to use the nobility designation according to a resolution by the Bernese Grand Council. In 1761 he married Maria Margaretha Wild (1738-1738), with whom he had eight children, including the colonel in the British East India Company, Friedrich Rudolf Müller (1767-1816). With Magdalena Hirsig he had another natural son.

Career

Müller was initially a country major in Bern, was entrusted with the management of the hunters and snipers introduced in 1767 and the organization of light troops, but was relieved of his post in 1782 because of advertising for England and banished.

Müller then entered the Prussian service and received his patent as colonel on December 17, 1785 . Müller was considered a propagandist of the so-called hunter tactics . He received from King Friedrich II the order to set up a ten company strong light infantry regiment, the later short-term infantry regiment "Swiss Regiment" No. 3. The officers of this regiment consisted almost exclusively of Swiss . King Friedrich Wilhelm II appointed von Müller head of the regiment stationed in Xanten and Joch. As early as the middle of 1787, the Fusilier Battalions 18, 19 and 20 were formed from the “Swiss Regiment ” in Magdeburg .

Müller then retreated to his in Canton Bern located provost goods in Amsoldingen back, after which he added his name and where he died.

Web links

literature

  • Helmut Eckert: Swiss regiment of Müller von Amsoldingen, news on its history. In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde . 1969, 33rd year
  • Helmut Eckert: Swiss officers in the Frederician Army. In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde. XXXIV, 1970, pp. 72, 99 and 101, ISSN 0044-2852.
  • Anton Balthasar König : Johann Rudolph Müller of Andolfingen . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 72 ( Johann Rudolph Müller von Andolfingen at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. Ohmgeld: see Ungeld .
  2. P. Kessel: Bernese families. 2016.
  3. Emanuel von Rodt : History of the Bernese war system. Volume 2, Bern 1834, pp. 310-311.
  4. ^ A b Max F. Schafroth: The foreign service: short version of a lecture before the Swiss Association for Military History and Military Sciences. In: Swiss History Journal. Volume 23, Issue 1, 1973, p. 77, doi : 10.5169 / seals-80691
  5. 5496 GStA PK I. HA Rep. 96 (Secret Cabinet [1688–1797]), No. 95 L l 8 Establishment of a Swiss Free Regiment 1783–1786 .