Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu#
b. Treutlingen Castle (Germany), May 29, 1594, d. Leipzig (Germany), Nov. 17, 1632, general, imperial commander in the Thirty Years' War. While in the service of Bavaria in 1626 suppressed the Upper Austrian Peasants' Revolts; fatally wounded in 1632 in the battle of Luetzen. The cuirassiers of his regiment became famous as the "Pappenheimer".
Literature#
B. Stadler, P. und die Zeit des 30jaehrigen Krieges, 1991.