Georg von Frundsberg

Georg von Frundsberg , or Jörg von Fronsberg , or Freundsberg (born the September 24th 1473 with Mindelheim, † the August 20th 1528 with Mindelheim) was a soldier and captain of Lansquenet S with the service of Habsbourg. He is regarded as one of the best tacticians of infantry and contractors of war of the Rebirth. Its name remains attached to its equipped sinister in Italy, which culminated with the Sac of Rome (1527).

Biography

Georg von Frundsberg was the son of Ulrich von Frundsberg, captain of the Ligue of Souabe, and Barbara von Rechberg. He was born in the stronghold of Mindelburg that its family had obtained little before. He engaged young person in the army, and followed as of 1492 his father when he put at the service Margrave Frederic de Brandenbourg, which sought to make cancel the Mise at the round of applause of Albert IV of Bavaria. But as Albert IV finally decided to restore all his heritages, peace was signed without combat in Augsburg (1492).

Georg von Frundsberg took part in its first engagements at the time of the Guerres of Souabe (1498-99) against the confederated Swiss ones. The same year, it fought in the army that Maximilien Ier had dispatched near the duke of Milan Ludovic More to protect it from the countryside of the king de France Charles VIII.

The victory of Swiss against the armies of the emperor made him realize that out of military matter the time of the loads of heavy cavalry was completed, and that the decision was done from now on by the Infanterie. Maximilien Ier appointed it captain of the armies of the Tyrol, where it set up an army of infantrymen of Piquier on the Swiss model, which was worth later with the emperor the nickname of “Father of the lansquenets”. Frundsberg improved the tactics of the battalions or squares of piquiers which consisted in grouping these infantrymen according to a tight Ordre . He wrote several treaties on the tactics, such as for example “ DER treue Rat ”.

He married in 1500 Katharina von Schrofenstein, of which he had a girl (Anna von Frundsberg). Its wife having died on February 24th, 1517 or 1518, it remaria on September 11th, 1519 with Anna von Lodron with which he had one second girl (Siguna von Frundsberg).

Its successes at the time of the War of succession of Landshut (it had led a regiment of lansquenets since Memmingen at the time of the decisive battle of Ratisbon) were worth to him annoblissement in 1504 with the row of knight by the emperor Maximilien Ier. During the Sixth war of Italy, Frundsberg took part in many victories of the emperor, inter alia the Bataille of Pavia (1525). He sought to prevent his troops from putting Rome at bag (1527), but not managing to convince his mercenaries, he was struck of an attack of Apoplexie. Broken morally and physically, it turned over to Germany and died the following year.

Sometimes one quotes in this connection the word “All the more of glory that enemies” (“Viel Feind - Viel Ehr”), perhaps that he pronounced with the Bataille of Vicence (1513). The threat is also reported that he uttered against Martin Luther at the time of the Diète of Worms (1521): “Moinillon, you engage on a bad way!” (“ Mönchlein, Mönchlein, of the gehst einen schweren Gang! ”). However theological subtleties were perfectly foreign for him: also it with the Reform joined finally, but only after the carried out antiones of the pope had engaged there.

Frundsberg at the XXe century

the 10th Panzerdivision S Frundsberg accepted this name on order of Hitler on October 3rd, 1943. It is in this division that the writer and future Nobel Prize Günter Grass were versed like volunteer at the 17 years age, after its candidature had been refused in the Kriegsmarine .

There is with Schwaz (the Tyrol, Austria) a catholic association named coed Frundsberg. This league, formed in 1900 intends to promote the republican values and catholics in Austria. Their watchword is naturally Viel Feind - Viel Ehr (see above).

Primary source

Adam Reissner: Historia der Herren Georg und Kaspar von Frundsberg , according to the 2nde ED. (1572) of Karl Schottenloher, Leipzig 1910/1914 (Voigtländers Quellenbücher data base 66).

Reference

Reinhard Baumann: Georg von Frundsberg. Der Vater der Landsknechte und Feldhauptmann von the Tirol . Strumberger Verlag, München 1991, ISBN 3-7991-6236-4

External bonds

the Frundsberg festival in Mindelheim

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