Rutger von Ascheberg

Count Rutger ash Berg ( born June 2, 1621 Good Berbonen, Duchy of Courland and Semgallen, † April 17, 1693 in Gothenburg ) was a Baltic German field marshal in Swedish service and one of the greatest generals and politicians in Sweden.

Life

He was in Kurland, a part of Latvia born today and fought in the Thirty Years' War in the service of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden. Under Charles XI. he defeated as commander and confidant of his king in 1676 and 1677 in the battles of Lund and Karlskrona the Danish army, was appointed Field Marshal in 1678 and finally in 1687 raised to the peerage ( Earl ).

In the 1650s he was in Hessen. There he was bailiff of Hesse -Darmstadt urban Itter. During these years he married Eleonora Magdalena von Buseck called Munch, with whom he had 25 children. Rutgers daughter Sofia Lovisa married in 1685 Hans Wachtmeister to Johannishus.

Rutgers wife Eleonora Magdalena died on 9 June 1690 in Malmö at the age of 58 years. The following year she was reburied and Gothenburg, in the presence of the king, buried.

It was 1693 in the Christine Church in Gothenburg, also called German Church, buried. There his tomb is still to be seen.

Trivia

The Aschebergsgatan in Gothenburg is a street named after him.