Nicholas Plow

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Nikolaus Pflug († March 19, 1631 in Neubrandenburg ) was a Rittmeister in the service of Christian von Braunschweig .

Life

In 1621, Pflug joined Christian von Braunschweig's mercenary army as Rittmeister . He worked as a looter, including later from Paderborn Abbey , and as a murder burner . Later he took to Colonel Sergeant promoted and as commander of the Brunswick cavalry regiment on horseback in this campaign and the Battle of Höchst in part on June 20 1622nd In 1631, Pflug was a captain in the Swedish service under the command of Knyphausen in Neubrandenburg, where he died on March 19, 1631 as a result of the siege of Neubrandenburg by military leader Tilly . A memorial can be found on a plaque at the Friedländer Tor in Neubrandenburg.

Trivia

In the board game Saints in Armor , in which some battles of the Thirty Years' War can be re-enacted historically, Nikolaus Pflug is a pawn.

Web links

  • Bernd Warlich: Pflug (Pflugh, Pfluegh, Pfluch), Nikolaus In: The Thirty Years War in personal reports, chronicles and reports. ( 30jaehrigerkrieg.de )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Lindner, Aloys Meister (Hrsg.): Munster contributions to historical research… Volume 1 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1882, p. 74, 76 ( books.google.de , books.google.de - restricted view).
  2. ^ Hans Wertheim: The operations of the year 1622 . International Library, 1929, pp. 236 .
  3. ^ Karl von Reitzenstein (historian) : The campaign of 1622 on the Upper Rhine and in Westphalia up to the battle of Wimpfen. 1891, p. 85 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Stefan Smid : Der Tolle Halberstädter: Christian von Braunschweig - war entrepreneur, his army and his campaigns (= armies & weapons. 16). Zeughausverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938447-53-6 ( regimentjohannwolf.de ).
  5. ↑ GMT Games: Saints in Armor. Tilly's Battles in the early Thirty Years War. Playbook. 2012, p. 20, accessed December 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Plow, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Rittmeister
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1631
Place of death Neubrandenburg