Johann Pleitner (ok. 1604–1664). Inżynier wojskowy i żołnierz w służbie króla Władysława IV. Część trzecia: 1648–1664.
Johann Pleitner (ok. 1604–1664). Military engineer and solider in the employ of King Władysław IV. Part Three 1648–1664.

Summary/Abstract: During the Polish-Swedish War 1655–1660, in the rank of a Finnish infantry regiment, Johann Pleitner took part in warfare in Polish Livonia, Lithuania and Royal Prussia. As the commander of the Garrison of Brodnica, he circled the town and the castle with a ring of earthen fortifications. He upheld the stronghold, an isolated Swedish pocket in southern Royal Prussia for nearly four years. He finally surrendered in late 1659 after the city was laid siege to by outnumbering Polish troops. Until the signing of the Treaty of Oliwa in 1660, he was for a short spell a prisoner of war in Prussian Königsberg. He was dispatched with his regiment back to Finland. Released from military service in 1661, he returned to Germany Reich. He was first employed by the Alsatian town Strasbourg (then a German Reich town) as colonel of a regiment of the town militia and fortification specialist. From the early 1664, he served his hometown Nuremberg as a colonel of a Franconian infantry regiment, dispatched in the summer to Hungary to help the House of Habsburg to fight the Ottoman Empire. He died in the very first assault of the Turkish troops onto the Christian army at St. Gotthard on the River Raab, 1 August 1664. His regiment, in panic upon the loss of their commander, retreated from the battlefield. Nuremberg’s propaganda commemorates Pleitner as an intrepid Franconian hero with an exquisite engraving with a versed epitaph.

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