page_title: Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach
section_title: Ruler of Upper Baden 1595–1604
hierarchical_section_title: Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach / Life / Ruler of Upper Baden 1595–1604
caption_attribution_description: Markgraf Georg Friedrich von Baden-Durlach
context_page_description: George Frederick of Baden-Durlach was Margrave of Baden-Durlach from 1604 until his abdication in 1622. He also ruled Baden-Baden.
  He was the third son of margrave Charles II of Baden-Durlach and his second wife, Anna of Veldenz. He was the youngest of eight children and was only four years old when his father died.
  He succeeded his brother Ernest Frederick as margrave in 1604. He also continued his brother's occupation of Baden-Baden. George Frederick was a prominent member of the Protestant Union.
  He raised an army of 12,000 men at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War in 1618. When Catholic League forces under General Tilly approached Baden in 1622, he marched against them, but came too late for the Battle of Mingolsheim. Setting off to pursue the retreating Catholics, he was defeated at the Battle of Wimpfen, and his army was destroyed, a few days later.
  In 1627 he joined the Danish army.
  He died at Strasbourg in 1638.
context_section_description: Upon reaching adulthood, George Frederick became the ruler of Upper Baden.  At first, he ruled from Rötteln Castle. In 1599 he moved his residence and the entire National Administration to Sulzburg). After the conversion of his brothers Ernest Frederick to strict Calvinism and James to Catholicism, George Frederick remained a Lutheran and founded his own Latin school in his small residence Sulzburg, so he would not have to depend on the Calvinist school in Durlach for the education of pastors in his territory.  He constructed several buildings in Sulzburg, among them a real tennis hall.  Between 1600 and 1610, he built the Castle Church in Sulzburg. Hence, the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach remained Lutheran since he survived the longest among his brothers.
caption: George Frederick of Baden-Durlach in 1603
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