PAPPENHEIM, pap'pen-him, GOTTFRIED HEINRICH, Count (1594-1632). One of the lead ing Imperialist generals in the Thirty Years' War. He was born at Pappenheim, Bavaria, May 29. 1594, of an old and distinguished Swa bian family. He studied at Altdorf and Tfibingen and early identified himself with the Catholic cause. He served under the Poles against the Russians and Turks; was in the service of the Catholic League in 1620, and at the battle of the White Hill in the same year contributed great ly to the victory over the Bohemian forces. He was in 1623 made commander of the mounted regiment which became famous as Pappenheim's cuirassiers. He was a cavalry commander in the Spanish service in Lombardy in 1625-26, but rejoined the Imperialist army in the following year, suppressed a revolt of the Protestant peas ants of Upper Austria, and then was engaged under Tilly in the campaigns against the Danes.
Swedes, and Saxons. He took a prominent part in the storming of Magdeburg (1631), was engaged at Breitenfeld (1632) and cov ered the retreat of the defeated army. He served under Wallenstein in the final campaign against Gustavus Adolphus. Just before the fateful battle of Lfitzen he had been detached with eight regiments for an independent movement, hut a recall was sent after him when the rapid ad vance of the Protestant leader became known to 1Nallenstein. His splendid charge on the left wing of the Swedish army had almost changed the result when lie was mortally wounded in the last charge. He died a few hours afterwards at Leipzig, November 17, 1632. Consult Hess, Gott fried Heinrich, Graf zu Pappenheint (Leipzig, 1855).