Leo Packmor

Leo Packmor (* in Glombowen in the Duchy of Prussia ; † September 30, 1583 in Arnstadt ) was a mercenary in the service of various European rulers and Drost of the Oldenburg counts in Delmenhorst .

Life

Packmor came from an East Prussian noble family . The well-known Landsknechtführer Andreas Packmor, who was in the service of Albrecht of Brandenburg , was his brother.

Presumably thanks to these relationships, Packmor was also committed to military service with the Oldenburg Count Anton I and his successor Johann VII . In 1559 he was on the Danish side of the campaign of the so-called Last Feud , in which Duke Adolf I of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , King Friedrich II. Of Denmark and Duke Johann II. Of Schleswig-Holstein-Hadersleben conquered the peasant republic of Dithmarschen . Under the command of Günther XLI. von Schwarzburg-Arnstadt he fought on behalf of Johann VII in the Three Crown War against Sweden and took part in the siege of the Grimmenstein Fortress near Gotha in 1567 alongside Johann VII under the same commander-in-chief . His rank was a colonel .

In 1573 he was in civilian employment again for the Counts of Oldenburg, for whom he served as Drost in Delmenhorst from that year until at least 1578 . He also carried out several diplomatic missions. In 1573 and 1574 he conducted negotiations with Edzard II of East Friesland about the succession of the Jever rule , which fell to Oldenburg after the death of Maria von Jever . 1576 and 1577 negotiated Packmor with the city of Bremen for shipping and fishing affairs and led in 1577 the negotiations because of the inheritance of the County of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst between Johann VII. And his brother Anton II. After his service in Oldenburg he made probably more war service, perhaps in France or the Netherlands.

Most recently he lived in Arnstadt, the residence of Count Günther von Schwarzburg, and owned real estate there as in his East Prussian homeland. His grave slab in the upper church in Arnstadt has been preserved.

literature

• Harald Schieckel: Packmor, Leo. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 549 ( online ).
• Harald Schieckel: Leo Packmor († 1583). An East Prussian nobleman as a colonel under Count Günther von Schwarzburg and as an Oldenburg Drost. Published in the yearbook Prussia . Volume 14th edition 1. 1976.