Niels Stromberg

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Count Niels Stromberg also Strö (h) mberg (originally Brattman), (born March 25, 1646 in Jönköping , † August 16, 1723 in Klastorp , Södermanland ), was a Swedish officer. Stromberg was the son of Jönköping's judge and postmaster Jons Pedersson Brattman.

Life

As a young man, Stromberg served with his four brothers in the army of the Dutch Crown. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1674 the family was ennobled in Holland and gave themselves the name Stromberg . After returning to Sweden, he was appointed commander of the Skaraborg regiment in 1689 .

In 1690 he married Anna Catharina Fleming. She came from an old Swedish noble family.

In 1697 he was promoted to major general and sent to Pomerania that same year . In 1699 Nils Stromberg and his brother Alexander were appointed barons . In 1703 he was made lieutenant general and successfully participated in the siege of Thorn.

In 1705 Stromberg was promoted to general and privy councilor of Estonia . In 1706 the king raised him to the rank of count and Stromberg became governor of Estonia. 1709 appointed Charles XII. Stromberg as Governor General of Livonia and in command of the Riga Fortress .

When the Riga fortress was surrounded, Stromberg made it clear to the Russian Tsar Peter I that he would not surrender the fortress without a fight and fight for his fatherland to the last man. The siege, under the command of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev , began on November 14th, 1709 and lasted until July 4th, 1710. During this time, the inhabitants of the fortress suffered from daily bombardments by the Russians (about 8,600 artillery shells were fired at Riga ), Hunger and the plague . During the siege, around 60,000 residents and soldiers in Riga died as a result of the epidemic.

Under these circumstances and because the Swedish Navy could not bring supplies to Riga by sea, Stromberg capitulated in July 1710 and handed the city over to the Russians. In the surrender negotiations, he enforced the free withdrawal of the Swedish garrison, so that the remaining 5132 soldiers (with the exception of the Livonian members of the Swedish army) could march to Dünamünde and translate to Sweden.

Together with part of his General Staff, Stromberg was taken prisoner by Russia .

Through an exchange of prisoners in 1711 (Stromberg was exchanged for General Adam Adamowitsch Wejde , who had been in Swedish captivity since the Battle of Narva in 1700) he was released and returned to Sweden.

Return to Sweden

Stromberg was elected President of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in 1711 and was General of the Army and President of the War. He was also the administrator of the Swedish war chest.

Participation in the following battles

  • 1703 Stromberg participated in the siege of Thorn part
  • 1705 capture of Krakow
  • 1710 Siege of Riga

Possessions

The Stromberg family settled in Katrineholm , a municipality in Södermanland , Sweden . In the vicinity of Klastorp the family owned some lands that Count Stromberg had received from the king.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Gauhe, The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexicon 2nd Part, Leipzig (1747)
  • Otto Haintz, Sweden's Struggle for Supremacy in Northern and Eastern Europe , Ed. W. de Gruyter, (1958)
  • Justus Philipp Adolf Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Wolhaben and Neuhaus (1851), memoirs of the Royal Prussian General of the Infantry Ludwig Freiherrn von Wolhaben , Leipzig
  • Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1789), biography of Field Marshal General Count Boris Petrowitschj Sheremetew , Saint Petersburg, Riga, Leipzig

Individual evidence

  1. Gauhe p. 1119
  2. von Wolzüge Third Supplement Memorandum on Riga, p. 34
  3. Müller p. 70
  4. Gauhe p. 1119
  5. Otto Haintz p. 111