Nikolaus von Flüe (1788-1851)

Nikolaus von Flüe (* 1788 in Sachseln ; † January 26, 1851 ibid) was a Swiss officer in the Spanish service and Obwalden governor .

Life

Nikolaus von Flüe was born on his parents' farm Gibel , in the vicinity of his cousin Nikolaus von Flüe (1763–1839), predecessor in the office of governor. One of his ancestors was Niklaus von Flüe .

In 1805 he completed the grammar school course at the Engelberg Abbey School . Like most of his family members, and especially exemplary was his brother Ludwig von Flüe , who entered French service as a captain, Nikolaus von Flüe became an officer in Spanish service and in 1805 joined the Traxler Regiment No. 5 (also spelling: Trachsler Regiment ) as a sub-lieutenant. At first he was stationed in Cartagena , but then had to go to Valencia with his regiment in 1808 and fought against the French troops of Marshal Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey in the war on the Pyrenean peninsula ; the 1st and 5th battalions of the Traxler regiment were captured. But when Marshal Moncey after Madrid had to withdraw, ranzionierten most soldiers captured Corps and he returned to Cartagena. There the entire regiment was reorganized and came back to Valencia.

In 1809 he was promoted to lieutenant and he was involved in the campaigns in Catalonia and Aragon . During these battles there was also the case that he had to fight the unit in which his brother Ludwig von Flüe served. He was also involved in the fighting at Monzón and in the siege of the Lerida fortress in May 1810. On May 10, 1810, Lerida was stormed by the French and a surrender negotiated with General Louis Gabriel Suchet , through which the Traxler regiment fell into French captivity and was brought to Autun in France. In July 1811 he was released from captivity and returned home; there he lived in rural seclusion.

The peace treaty in 1815 allowed him to return to Spain to serve again as a soldier. He was now assigned to the Zay Regiment as an aggregate and was promoted to captain , then he was stationed on Mallorca in Palma and Tarragona .

In 1822 the Swiss regiments Zay and Kaiser, in which the officers of the now disbanded regiments Wimpfen, Reding, Courten and Traxler performed their services, were disbanded by the Cortes and discharged home. In the following year the rule of Ferdinand VII was restored and the decree of dissolution of the Cortes was annulled by him, after which Nikolaus von Flüe returned to Spain. There the soldiers of the dissolved regiments gathered in Mataró (province of Catalonia ). Nikolaus von Flüe remained aggregated as a captain in the Zay regiment until he was able to return home after the capitulation of the Spanish crown and the Swiss regiments in 1835 with a pension of 600 francs and the Order of St. Hermenegild .

After the death of his cousin, he was by the rural community of Obwalden in April 1840. Governor elected, connected to the rank of a member of government.

The Sonderbund caused riots in the mid-1840s and Nikolaus von Flüe took over the leadership of the Landwehr in 1847. However, due to the rapid succession of surrenders, he was not active in the military, but he now had a large number of tasks due to the federal occupation forces until he died four years later. With his death, the adjacent three courtyards were well Matt ( six hundred and sixty-one thousand two hundred seventy-one  /  one hundred and ninety thousand nine hundred twenty-six ) Gibel ( 661500  /  one hundred and ninety-one thousand and forty-six ) and Obkirchen (with the villa Obkirchen from 1600, 661,270  /  191016 ) on the other in the hands of families. In his will, he established a foundation for the poor in his community.

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  The Brunnenmatt residential building

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  The country house Obkirchen from 1600

literature

• Nikolaus von Flüe in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 29th year, 1851, 1st part. Weimar 1853. pp. 138-141.

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