Philipp Friedrich von Breuner (Feldzeugmeister)

Bust from 1849 in the Heldenberg Memorial

Epitaph for Philipp Friedrich von Breuner (Breiner) in the Schottenkirche in Vienna

Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Breuner (* 1601 ; † March 25, 1638 near Warnemünde ) was Feldzeugmeister in the Imperial Army , then treasurer in the Imperial Army of Wallenstein and colonel of a regiment on foot ( Jung-Breuner ). His parents were Kasper von Breuner and Anna Maria von Trautmannsdorf .

At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War , Philipp F. von Breuner distinguished himself in various undertakings and appeared in 1625 as a colonel in a regiment with whom he supported Hans Christoph von Löbel and Auersberg in the suppression of the Austrian peasant uprising . Then he fought in northern Germany under Pappenheim against the Danes. His cousin, Feldzeugmeister Johann Philipp von Breuner , also fought as a colonel in the von Wallenstein army, but fell in the battle of Lützen . Philipp F. von Breuner initially continued to fight in the army of Wallenstein, which after his death came under the command of Gallas for a short time . In the summer of 1634 he took part in the siege of Regensburg with his regiment , was seriously wounded in June as commander of a general storm on the city, was taken prisoner and survived his wounding. It is not known whether he commanded his regiment in the battle of Nördlingen in September 1635 . He took part in the reconquest of the Swedish-occupied city of Heidelberg , then moved with the imperial army towards the Baltic Sea and died of a heated fever during the siege of Warnemünde . His body was transferred to Vienna and buried in the Schottenkirche in Vienna .

literature

Franz Karl Wißgrill : Scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility , Volume 1, p. 381, digitized
Wilhelm Edler von Janko : Breuner, Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 320 f.
CA Schweigerd: Oesterreichs Helden und Heerführer , Volume 1, P. 790f, digitized

Web links

Commons : Philipp Friedrich von Breiner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Bernd Warlich: Breuner (Kielmansegg), Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von auf: The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports (accessed on September 9, 2014)
Family tree Breuner at genealogy.euweb.cz

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Engerisser Pavel Hrnčiřík: Nördlingen 1634 The battle of Nördlingen - turning point of the Thirty Years' War . Heinz Späthling, Weißenstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-926621-78-8 , pp. 68, 275 .

personal data
SURNAME	Breuner, Philipp Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Feldzeugmeister, Chamberlain Wallensteins and Colonel of a regiment on foot ("Jung-Breuner")
DATE OF BIRTH	1601
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1638
Place of death	near Warnemünde

[1] Peter Engerisser Pavel Hrnčiřík: Nördlingen 1634 The battle of Nördlingen - turning point of the Thirty Years' War . Heinz Späthling, Weißenstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-926621-78-8 , pp. 68, 275 .