Renard Keller

Renard (Reinhard) Keller (* Bremen ; † before 1686 ) was a royal Danish colonel and chief of the body infantry regiment .

Life

On May 13, 1657 , Keller became an ensign in the Wanchensch Infantry Regiment in the company of a Hauptmann Bahn. The regiment was stationed in Glückstadt at the time. In 1662 he moved as a cornet to Major General Schulze's cavalry company. Already on 14 April 1662 he was appointed Seconde Lieutenant (with payment as a cornet) in the body company of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve . From 1670 to 1675 he was a major in the Rosenkrantz Infantry Regiment, and in 1692 he was transferred from Fredericia to Delmenhorst . In 1675 he tried to get a transfer, but remained a major in the infantry regiment in Delmenhorst. But in 1676 he joined the Baudissin infantry regiment as a lieutenant colonel . During the Northern War, in October 1676, he was commissioned to occupy Carlsburg , but the Lüneburg soldiers stationed there defended themselves and so the Danes withdrew. On November 1, 1676, he was in Oldenburg in Quartier. He was made a colonel and led the Baudissin infantry regiment to Skåne, where it remained from 1676 to 1677. The regiment was disbanded on June 27, 1677. But Keller and Major Biges were assigned to the foot body regiment with two captain companies . In July 1677, Kellers became head of the Leibregiment. One battalion was in Copenhagen and one in Landskrona . He took part in a landing in Rügen with the Leibcompanie in September 1677 . In October 1677 he asked for leave to support his wife in trials in Bremen or his release. He received his release, but still had to spend the winter on Rügen. There he became the commandant of the Neufehr ski jump. When the Swedes landed on Rügen on January 8, 1678, he led the reserve troops. The Danes were defeated and Kellers saved himself with Colonels Willis, Hülsen and Ussen in an open boat to Wolgast . On January 25, 1678 he asked again for release, which was granted to him on January 31, 1678.

family

Keller was married to Engel Kellers . She was terminally ill on November 6, 1677, but is described as a widow on July 19, 1686.

literature

• Otto Fock, Rügensch-Pomeranian stories from seven centuries , Volume 6, p. 399, digitized Fighting on Rügen
• Jonathan Smith: On the history of the Oldenburg army during the Danish period 1667–1773. In: Oldenburg yearbooks. 1940/41, p. 67, (digitized version)