Thomas Wilhelm von Fahrensbach

Thomas Wilhelm von Fahrensbach (Fahrensbeck) (* in Livonia ; † 1639/1640) was a Swedish and Electoral Saxon officer in the Thirty Years War .

Life

Thomas Wilhelm came from the German-Baltic Fahrensbach family . His widow Agnes Dorothea called him around 1647/1648 with the title of baron .

After he was first under "Colonel Schlang " as a lieutenant colonel in Swedish service, he entered the Saxon electoral military service. He became famous for his participation in the siege and capture of the Moritzburg in Halle an der Saale .

After the Moritzburg could not be taken by force, Fahrensbeck had the seal of the Swedish field marshal Johan Banér re-engraved, issued an order as if Banér had cleared him, and also re-signed his signature. With this wrong order, the officer Fahrensbeck went to Moritzburg under the name of a Swedish captain from the Karish regiment, addressed the captain in Finnish, and handed him the order. He believed it to be true and handed over the castle and its crew on October 26, 1637 to the Saxon Colonel Sergeant Hans Ernst König from the Vitzthumian regiment.

He signed the contract to hand over the Moritzburg together with nine other officers as:

"Thomans Wilhelm Fahrensbeck, of the Karrischen Regim. appointed captain and now commissarius in Electoral Saxony "

Around 1647/1648 his widow Dorothea Agnes von Fahrensbach asked in a letter to Count Palatine Karl Gustav von Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, the generalissimo of the Swedish troops in Germany , for support against her poverty, in which she had to live as a widow after eight years.

literature

Heinrich Oraeus : Theatrum Europaeum 1639, pp. 800–801
Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Historical heroes and heroines lexicon . 1716, col. 558
Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History (...). CP Francken, 1764, Vol. 5-6, p. 592
Carl Renatus Hausen : History of the Duchy of Magdeburg. 1772, p. 90
Armin Stein : The city of Halle ad Saale: in pictures from its historical past . E. Strien, 1901, p. 291

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Swedish Reichsarchiv , Briefarchiv, signature: RA / 720810.011 (Fahrensbach's widow Dorothea Agnes to Count Palatine Karl Gustav von Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, the generalissimo of the Swedish troops in Germany )
↑ Bernd Warlich, The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonials, chronicles and reports, Slang [Slange, Schlange, Schlang, Schleng], Erik Klarson (accessed on July 16, 2014)

↑ Bernd Warlich, The Thirty Years' War in Personal Testimonies, Chronicles and Reports, Kerr [Carr, Karr], Thomas (accessed on July 16, 2014)

Web links

The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports

personal data
SURNAME	Fahrensbach, Thomas Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fahrensbeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish and Saxon officer in the Thirty Years War
DATE OF BIRTH	16th century or 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Livonia
DATE OF DEATH	1639 or 1640

[Dorothea_Agnes-1] Swedish Reichsarchiv , Briefarchiv, signature: RA / 720810.011 (Fahrensbach's widow Dorothea Agnes to Count Palatine Karl Gustav von Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, the generalissimo of the Swedish troops in Germany )

[2] Bernd Warlich, The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonials, chronicles and reports, Slang [Slange, Schlange, Schlang, Schleng], Erik Klarson (accessed on July 16, 2014)

[3] Bernd Warlich, The Thirty Years' War in Personal Testimonies, Chronicles and Reports, Kerr [Carr, Karr], Thomas (accessed on July 16, 2014)