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Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein Baron Riesenberg, Count Scharffenstein (born c. 1590; died June 26 1635, was executed in Vienna) was an officer in the Thirty Years' War.
Together with Georg Wolmar von Fahrensbach, he was in a conspiracy to deliver Ingolstadt to the Swedes. Unlike Fahrenbach, he could defect to the Swedes, and took their side as a field marshal, but was arrested at the Battle of Nördlingen and immediately sent to the gallows.[1]
Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein in 1632[]
Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein was commander of the Bavarian garrison in Ingolstadt while the city was besieged by Johan Banér.[2]
In September of 1634, tired of dealing with the siege, and increasingly convinced that Duke Maximilian had become unhinged, he betrayed Ingolstadt to Banér in exchange for money and the offer of a job. Erik Haakansson Hand suggested giving him the garrison at Stralsund, where he could "study the glorious waters of the Baltic all day, keeping an eye out for fish with evil ambitions."
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- ↑ Information from Google translation of German Wikipedia, slightly edited for readbility.
- ↑ 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, Ch. 57.