Rudolph von Marzin

Rudolf of Morzin

Baron Rudolph von Marzin , also: Rudolph von Marazin , († 1648 in Prague ) was a field marshal from Electoral Saxony .

Life

He originally came from Bohemia , where his brother Paul von Marzin († 1688) ruled over the lordships of Hohenelbe , Lamnitz and Neukunstberg and others. He was initially in the service of Sigismund III. from Poland . He then went to the Muscovite and then to the service of the German Emperor Ferdinand II.

During the Thirty Years' War in 1631 he was in command of Neubrandenburg . He had to hand over the city to the Swedes after a siege. In September 1631 he fought in the battle of Breitenfeld and led his regiment under Wallenstein to Bohemia to increase it. Afterwards he raised an army of 3,000 men to fight the rebellious peasants who had blocked the Danube with chains in the Upper Austrian Peasants' War . Then he stood with Wallenstein near Nuremberg and fought in the battle of Lützen , from there he moved on to Schweidnitz .

In 1633 he became sergeant general and on October 13, 1633, he included a Swedish corps under the Count of Thurn and his Colonel Duval in Steinau an der Oder . In 1634 he fought against the Swedes in the Palatinate and was involved in both the siege of Regensburg and the battle of Nördlingen . He was also noticed by the emperor, who sent him a letter of thanks. So he was promoted to General Feldzeugmeister in Silesia , followed by the Swedish Field Marshal Baner .

On December 2nd, 1635 he captured Havelberg , then Stargard in Pomerania and horrified Gartz , which was besieged by the Swedes. However, when the Swedes got reinforcements, he had to withdraw from Pomerania to Landsberg an der Warthe and from there on to Silesia , always pursued by the Swedish General Wrangel . He briefly united with the Electoral Saxon army and the Hatzfeld troops in order to advance again to Pomerania in 1636.

After nine weeks of siege, Stargard fell and so he moved in the direction of the Oder to the battle of Wittstock . The battle was lost, he was hit on the head by a bullet and lost an eye. From 1637 he persecuted Baner again in Pomerania. In 1638 he was promoted to General Field Marshal in Saxony. He first gathered his troops in Lusatia to drive out the Swedes with the imperial troops in Mecklenburg . However, an attack by the Swedes near Dömitz destroyed the plan.

In 1639 he came to Vienna, where he acted as court war adviser and chamberlain . After he was back with the Electoral Saxon troops, he tried to relieve Freiberg, which was besieged by the Swedes . To this end, he allied himself with the Imperial Sergeant-General Johann Christoph von Buchheim . So it came to a battle near Chemnitz , which was lost. The Count of Buchheim was also taken prisoner. He was then released from the service of Electoral Saxony as a field marshal and went to Bohemia. He died in Prague in 1648.

literature

• Jakob Christoph Beck , u. a. Newly increased historical and geographic general lexicon , p. 1094, digitized
• Johann Friedrich Gauhe, Historical heroes and heroines lexicon , p. 1027 digitized