Kurt Reinicke from Callenberg

Kurt Reinicke from Callenberg

Kurt Reinicke von Callenberg (born September 7, 1607 in Wettesingen , † May 7, 1672 in Muskau ) was a German soldier, administrative officer and Count of Muskau.

Life

Callenberg was a son of Lieutenant Colonel Hermann von Callenberg , who was in French service, and his wife Margarethe von Bodenhausen and brother of Otto Heinrich von Callenberg . After he had been taught by a private tutor , he attended the witch-like monastery school in Roßleben .

He then joined the army of Albrecht von Wallenstein as a page to Count Merode . In the battle of the Dessau Elbe Bridge in September 1626, he distinguished himself as a cuirassier . After a difficult time in Hungary, Callenberg was promoted to ensign in 1629 . A year later he was transferred to Greifswald and Rostock as a lieutenant for two years . In 1631 he served as a captain lieutenant in Wismar and from 1632 to 1634 he was stationed as a captain in Silesia . As such he said goodbye and in 1634 completed a kind of Cavalier tour through Holland . Rumors that this trip was serving a secret diplomatic mission have not been confirmed. After his return in January 1635, Callenberg joined the 1st electoral body regiment in Torgau as a sergeant- major under the leadership of Dietrich von Taube .

In the same year, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen accepted him into the fruit-bearing society with the company name Der Durchwachsene .

When Wittstock was defeated in 1636, he was distinguished by his bravery. In 1638 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. As such he was taken prisoner of war near Leipzig at the end of 1639 , which he soon left again through a prisoner exchange.

In 1641/42 Callenberg fought against Torsten Stålhandske in Silesia . His engagement brought about the promotion to colonel of the 1st body regiment. He took part in the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1642 and in the relief of Freiberg in 1643 . On March 31, 1643, while fleeing the Swedes, he fell from his horse in the moat of Senftenberg Castle ( Niederlausitz ) and was seriously injured.

In 1644 he drove the Swedish troops out of Sonnewalde and Lübben , but failed in Luckenwalde . On December 1st of the same year he married Ursula Catharina von Dohna , heiress of the Free State of Muskau .

In 1645 Callenberg was involved in the lost battle of Jankau as commander of the Kursachsen . On March 25 of the same year he was appointed governor of Upper Lusatia . He held this office until his death in 1672. With confirmation from the Electorate of Saxony on April 7, 1652, he was appointed baron on March 4, 1651 .

In 1652 he was appointed chamberlain and councilor of the Electorate of Saxony. In 1654 he was raised to the rank of count . On June 23, 1664, Callenberg reached the climax of his career when he was appointed elector high court marshal .

Kurt Reinicke von Callenberg died on April 27, 1672 at the age of 64 as count and lord of the Muskau class .

family

He married on December 1, 1644 Ursula Catharina von Dohna (* April 23, 1622; † November 3, 1671), heir daughter of Karl Christoph von Dohna (1595-1625) and his wife Ursula Brigitta von der Schulenburg . The couple had the following children:

• Karl Christoph
• Anna Margareta (* 1646; † July 2, 1671) ∞ Wigand von Lützelburg
• Ursula Marianne (April 11/12, 1648; † March 30, 1690) ∞ Hans Kaspar von Klitzing († December 26, 1709), son of Hans Caspar von Klitzing
• Margareta Katharina Eleonora († September 30, 1692)
• Magdalena Sophie (April 16, 1657 - January 21, 1691)

∞ Georg von Reisewitz, Saxon Privy Councilor

∞ Hans Georg Haubold from Schleinitz-Blanckenhain

• Hedwig Susanne (* February 23, 1661; † 1725) ∞ Johann Wladislaw von Reisewitz
• Kurt Reinicke (* October 22, 1651; † April 1709) ∞ Ursula Regina Maria von Friesen (* August 27, 1658; † October 29, 1714)
• Anna ∞ Ernst Friedrich von Callenberg zu Westheim († before 1715)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Funeral Sermon ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Callenberg , in: Carl Günther Ludovici: Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , p. 167 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Callenberg, _Curt_Reinicke_I._Reichsgraf_von ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia
• Family tree at geneall.net
• Curt Reinicke Count v.Callenberg