Sehr geehrter Herr Starsy,
zwei meiner mecklenburgischen Ahnen berufen sich b�i ihre Adelsverleihung
darauf, bei den T�rkenkriegen vor der Stadt Wien "Blut, Leib und Leben geopfert
zu haben". Daher meine Frage: sind bei Georg Tessin die Namen M�ller und
Brand und der Name Brasch(en) erw�hnt?
MfG jennus
Hallo jennus
--Zu Brasch hei�t es auf S. 183:
"So wurde 1664 der Korporal Jakob Brasch, der in der Schlacht am St.
Gotthard 3 Fahnen gerettet hatte, deren Tr�ger gefallen waren, wegen
Tapferkeit zum F�hnrich bef�rdert."
--Brand wir im Namenregister nicht erw�hnt.
-- Erw�hnt wird auch ein Johann Friedr. M�ller als Rittmeister und sp�ter
als Oberstleutnant, sowie
--Joachim Heinrich M�ller als Rittmeister.
MfG
Robert Praefcke
Excuse me for replying in English, since I write very bad German. I read the book "Mecklenburgisches Militär in Türken- und Franzosenkriegen
1648-1718" a few years ago. Is is quite interesting, but it is probably not important as a source to Mecklenburg family history. One reason is what Peter Starsy wrote, that the names of officers (only unit commanders) are only given with surnames (without "von") and military rank, another that as is written in the book, in the military units raised by the dukes of Mecklenburg (Mecklenburg was after the 30-year wars [Westfalenfried] an unarmed state, and not allowed to have its own army, but was obliged to provide miltary units for the army of the Emperor and to the army of the "Niedersachsisches Kreis" of the Reich, and the dukes were allowed to have a very small own garrison in their castels of residence, i.e., Schwerin and Guestrow), very few of the officers (almost none in the infantry) were Mecklenburgers. A very large proportion were of the nobility of Pommern, many also from the German-Baltic nobility of Livland and Kurland. The officer profession was in the 17th and early 18th centuries an international profession, and noblemen took service in whichever army paid best. The salary for officers, especially in the infantry units, was comparatively low in the Mecklenburg army units, and Mecklenburg noblemen/officers who were relatively in high esteem, mostly got jobs in better paying armies! Especially in the armies of Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Holstein and states in the North-West of Germany.
Per B. Lilje
Oslo, Norway