Along with Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein of Friedland and Mecklenburg, he was one of two chief commanders of the Holy Roman Empire ’ s forces in the first half of the war.

In 1627, Wallenstein ’ s counter-attack forced the withdrawal of the Danish army from Moravia, and sent the Valachs into retreat.

After the king had interfered in the Thirty Years ' War the town in 1627 / 28 was besieged for fifteen weeks by the united Imperial and Catholic troops under the command of Albrecht von Wallenstein and Count Tilly, though without success.

Following the death of Wallenstein ( who had previously denied him the overall military command of the Catholic side ) in 1634, he was made titular head of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years ' War, and later that year joined with his cousin, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, being nominally responsible of the capture of Donauwörth and Regensburg, and of defeat of the Swedes at the Battle of Nördlingen.

He is the author of seventeen books on military history and strategy, of which Command in War ( 1985 ), Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton ( 1977, 2nd edition 2004 ), The Transformation of War ( 1991 ), The Sword and the Olive ( 1998 ) and The Rise and Decline of the State ( 1999 ) are among the best known.

* Albrecht von Wallenstein, military leader during Thirty Years ' War was killed in Cheb.

Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein () ()( 24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634 ), also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader and politician, who offered his services, and an army of 30, 000 to 100, 000 men during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.

Albrecht von Wallenstein was a military general-in-chief of Emperor Ferdinand II.

Piccolomini was with Wallenstein but disapproved of his policy and joined in the military conspiracy to oust the Duke.

Encirclement has been used throughout the centuries by military leaders, including generals such as Alexander the Great, Khalid bin Waleed, Hannibal, Sun Tzu, Shaka Zulu, Wallenstein, Napoleon, Moltke, Heinz Guderian, von Rundstedt, von Manstein, Zhukov, and Patton.

After occupying various military positions in Lorraine, he was sent as an ambassador into Germany, where he rendered important services in negotiations with Wallenstein.

* Albrecht von Wallenstein ( 1583-1634 ), talented Bohemian military commander and powerful politician

This attachment to Wallenstein, and a spirit of religious toleration, were the leading motives of a strange career of military and political inconstancy.

* Albrecht von Wallenstein of Bohemia ( 1583 – 1634 ), co-Supreme commander of the forces of the Holy Roman Empire

* April 7 – Albrecht von Wallenstein is appointed German supreme commander.

Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg allotted the fief to Albrecht von Wallenstein, his supreme commander in the Thirty Years ' War in 1627.

Finally, with the seventy-two year old Tilly's recovery far from certain ( and he did indeed die within six months while crossing the Lech river ), and with no alternative commander at hand, Emperor Ferdinand II had no choice but to rehire Wallenstein.

* Albrecht von Wallenstein ( 1583 – 1634 ) – supreme commander of the armies of Habsburg Monarchy, major figure of Thirty Years ' War ( matriculated 1605 )

He expected no further move that year from the Protestant army, led by the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, since unseasonably wintry weather was making it difficult to camp in the open countryside ; however, Gustavus Adolphus ' army marched out of camp towards Wallenstein's last-known position and attempted to catch him by surprise, but his trap was sprung prematurely on the afternoon of 15 November, by a small force left by Wallenstein at the Rippach stream, about 5 – 6 kilometres south of Lützen.

Dissatisfied with the Emperor's treatment of him, Wallenstein considered allying with the Protestants.

They had raised him bilingually – the father spoke German while his mother preferred Czech – yet Wallenstein in his childhood had a better command of Czech than of German.

Wallenstein also used his credit to grant loans to Ferdinand II, who then repaid him through lands and titles.

The Emperor's advisors advocated dismissing him, and in September 1630 envoys were sent to Wallenstein to announce his removal.

Wallenstein was aware of the plan to replace him, but felt confident that when the army came to decide between him and the Emperor the decision would be in his favour.

But on 25 April 1626 Wallenstein inflicted a severe defeat upon him at the bridge of Dessau.

Wallenstein decides he'd prefer to ally with Gustavus and the Americans rather than face the assassination the Americans ' history books have him slated for in 1634.

Cotta awakened in Schiller so warm an attachment that, as Heinrich Döring tells us in his life of Schiller ( 1824 ), when a bookseller offered him a higher price than Cotta for the copyright of Wallenstein, the poet firmly declined it, replying “ Cotta deals honestly with me, and I with him .” In 1795 Schiller and Cotta founded the Horen, a periodical very important to the student of German literature.

* November 20 – Thirty Years ' War: Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, signs the Capitulation of Franzburg, in which Pomerania is forced to pay for the Imperial army that Wallenstein sent to occupy it.

During the night, Wallenstein deployed his army in a defensive position along the main Lützen-Leipzig road, which he reinforced with trenches.

* The Battle of Lützen ( 1632 ) in the Thirty Years ' War, in which Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden defeated Albrecht von Wallenstein.

Wallenstein recovered his lands ( which the rebels had seized in 1619 ) and after the Battle of White Mountain ( 8 November 1620 ) he secured the estates belonging to his mother's family and confiscated tracts of Protestant lands.

He attempted to aid forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, which were fighting Sweden in 1629 ; however, Wallenstein failed to engage any major Swedish forces and this significantly affected the outcome of the conflict.

In November, came the great Battle of Lützen, in which Wallenstein was forced to retreat but in the confused melee, Gustavus Adolphus was killed.

Composer Bedřich Smetana honored Wallenstein in his 1859 symphonic poem Wallenstein's Camp, which was originally intended as an overture to a play by Schiller.

Made field-marshal after the assault of the Alte Veste near Nuremberg, at which he had been second in command under the Herzog von Friedland ( with whom he was a great favourite ), he was next placed at the head of the corps formed by Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria to support Wallenstein.

Upon being approached by Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal at the Emperor Ferdinand's behest, he became one of the chief conspirators against Wallenstein, and after the tragedy of Eger was appointed to the command of the army which Wallenstein had formed and led.

Mansfeld, however, quickly raised another army, with which he intended to attack the hereditary lands of the house of Austria, and pursued by Wallenstein he pressed forward towards Hungary, where he hoped to accomplish his purpose by the aid of Bethlem Gabor, prince of Transylvania.

In 1628 Vilém Kinsky was elevated to the rank of count in the Bohemian nobility when the Albrecht von Wallenstein, to which he was connected, was elevated to Duke of Frýdlant.

The town was first mentioned in 1279 and contains a Renaissance castle which used to belong to the Wallenstein family.

It was succeeded by Seni at the Dead Body of Wallenstein ( 1855 ), which gained for the young painter the membership of the Munich Academy, where he succeeded Schorn ( his brother-in-law ) as professor.

Although Döblin's 1920 epic about the Thirty Years ' War was in general favorably received by critics, he was disappointed with the reception because he felt he had created in Wallenstein a peerless work ; as a consequence, he wrote a scathing critique of critics which he published in 1921 under the title Der Epiker, sein Stoff und die Kritik ( The Epic Poet, his Material, and Critique ).

Döblin saw a strong similarity between the Thirty Years ' War and the First World War, during which he wrote Wallenstein.

The municipality itself is now the owner of the Valdštejn Castle, the cradle of the famous Wallenstein family, which is also open for tourists.

He was one of the principal agents in the negotiations between John George and Wallenstein, which were terminated by the latter's death in 1634.