Wilhelm von Calcum

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Wilhelm von Calcum called Lohausen also called Kalcum , Calcheim or Calchum called Lohehausen (born March 4, 1584 in Lohausen , † January 30, 1640 in Rostock ) was a Swedish - Mecklenburg major general and commander of Rostock.

Life

Origin and family

Wilhelm was a member of the noble family of the Lords of Kalkum and a son of Heinrich von Lohausen on House Lohausen and Lauffenberg and his wife Christina von Egern, a daughter of Drosten Heinrich von Egern on the Diesdonk in Geldern and the Magaretha von Ingenhaff.

In 1629 he married Magdalene von Stralendorf , widow of Arndt von Steding , and daughter of Christoph von Stralendorf on Gamehl . This marriage remained childless. His heir was his nephew, Wilhelm von Lohausen, who at that time served as a major in the Swedish regiment of Colonel Christoph Heinrich von der Goltz (1600–1643).

His step daughter Rebecca von Steding married Kasper Detlof von Warnstedt († 1652) on Brüel. She died on December 20, 1677 and was buried in Bützow.

Career

At the age of seven, Wilhelm was a page at the Palatine court in Zweibrücken . As such, he accompanied the princes' cavalry tour and became court squire, but entered imperial military service during the three-year Turkish siege of Eperies . Then he was back Kammerjunker on Palatine Court, was in 1609 after Jülich sent and entered there in Jülich'schen war of succession in Brandenburg military service. Here he lost his right leg as a lieutenant in Colonel Kracht's regiment before Jülich.

Supported by an electoral salary , he then studied mathematics and fortress construction for four years . He then resigned as captain in Brunswick military service , but was bound again immediately to Brandenburg an "Jülichsche Guard" advertising , which he in 1619 to Berlin commanded. He then entered the service of the Silesian estates with the electoral approval as a lieutenant colonel and leader of a regiment on foot, where he was promoted to colonel and commander-in-chief of the artillery in the Duchy of Jägerndorf .

As a result of the war , he changed as a colonel, privy councilor and governor in 1624, initially in Oldenburg , but already in 1625 as privy councilor and colonel via the body regiment in Danish services. As General sergeant , he fell at the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge the imperial captivity. After 1½ years in prison he joined the city ​​of Bremen as a colonel and commander in 1628 and 1629 .

After the Swedes landed in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1630, he signed up as a secret war council and colonel in a regiment that was to be established. As such, he forced the imperial to surrender Dömitz , entered with the Mecklenburg troops under Swedish command and became commandant of Wismar . Gustav Adolf made him head of the general staff in the Lower Saxony army. For a short time he was in command of Magdeburg , but left the Swedish service in 1636 after the Peace of Prague and became a war councilor and major general in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1636 the soldiers of the Rostock Fortress mutinied. Thereupon Wilhelm was sent there. He knew many of the soldiers from the fighting in 1632 and was able to dampen the uprising. Then he was appointed commander of the city of Rostock. In the following years he managed to protect Rostock from the imperial and Swedish troops moving through. But these plundered the surrounding province. Wilhelm died after a brief illness on January 30, 1640. He left little money as the Duke owed him almost 10,000. His wife insisted on the duke to get at least part of the money. He was buried on April 15, 1640 in St. Mary's Church. The epitaph and the corpse stone disappeared from the church after 1840.

Wilhelm had a good knowledge of Latin , mastered other languages ​​and was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society as a feast capable with the Brazilian wood badge .

literature

Web links

  • Bernd Warlich: The Thirty Years' War in personal reports, chronicles and reports. Volkach. ( Online version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 3, p. 193.
  2. ^ Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 3, p.170f
  3. ↑ Klaus Garber : City and literature in the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period , Walter de Gruyter , 1998, p. 229.
personal data
SURNAME Calcum, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalkum called Lohausen, Wilhelm von; Calcheim, Wilhelm von; Calchum, Wilhelm von; Lohehausen, Wilhelm von; Calcum von Lohausen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Mecklenburg Major General and Commandant of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohausen
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1640
Place of death Rostock