Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakazosvika 1650, Spaen akashanda saLanddrost, kanzura wehurumende, uye Oberst (colonel), uye akava mutungamiri weboka revarwi vemabhiza gore rakatevera. Muna 1654 akabata Dietrich Karl zu Wylich-Winnenthal, mutungamiri wekumukira Elector Frederick William, ndokumuunza kuSpandau. Spaen akatungamira maPrussia's Horse Guards ("Leibregiment zu Pferde") panguva yeNorthern Wars, achitora chikamu muHondo yeWarsaw
. Mukuru mukuru wacho akaendeswa kuLower Rhine muna 1656. Akava mutungamiri weKalkar musi wa 27 Chivabvu 1657 uye akasimudzirwa kuva Generalmajor gore rakatevera. Pana 25 May 1661, Spaen akagamuchira zita rokuti Freiherr kubva kuMambo Mutsvene weRoma.