Georg von Rohr (1550-1632)

Georg von Rohr (1550-1632)

Ancestry
This family, from Mark Brandenburg, is known from 1191; so, in 1400 Otto von Rohr was Bishop in Havelberg. From Brandenburg this ancient family has extended to Pommern, Mecklenburg, Meissen, Denmark and in many other things the states. The Swedish line begins with Hans von Rohr (1485-1569), lord of Freienstien, Meyenburg, Neuhausen, Dremnitz and Leddin. He was a descendant of Amtshauptmann (the deputy, praefectus provinciale) in Prignitz, Brandenburg and Elector Joachim II's Prime Minister in Brandenburg Hans von Rohr (1485-1569) and Lovisa Eleonora von Arnim(b) (1494-1565), the daughter of Colonel Joachim von Arnim(b).

Birth
He was born May 8, 1550.

Service
Per 1610 he has submitted the application in Livonia, where he was the Captain on the Swedish service; eventually it has served to a rank of the Lieutenant Colonel in Ingria.

First marriage

 * Ludovica Eleonora Chemnitz (1565-1619) in 1585.

Second marriage

 * Margareta von Fleeten (1600-1655). She was born March 9, 1600 at Narva and died on December 15, 1655. She was the daughter of colonel Hans von Fleeten. If this information is correct, she would have been 50 years younger than her husband, and 35 years younger than his first wife. It is possible an intervening generation has been ommitted, and she is the wife of his son.

Children

 * Elisabeth von Rohr, who married a merchant in Pernow (today Parnu, Estonia) Hans (von) Soldan
 * Joachim Georg Fredrik von Rohr (d. 1709), the Lieutenant Colonel, who married 1stly Christina Cronman, 2ndly Elisabet Juliana von Funcken and 3rdly Sofia von Berends
 * Carl von Rohr (1620:s-1699), the Lieutenant Colonel who married 1654 Hedvig von Brandten
 * Hans Christoffer von Rohr (1626-1700), the Captain who killed in Action, Battle of Narva, Estonia

Death
He died November 30, 1632 in Svida, Ingria, Sweden