Friedrich von Kielmansegg
Major-general Friedrich Otto Gebhard von Kielmansegg (17 December 1768 – 18 July 1851) was a German soldier and officer in the service of the Kingdom of Hanover who fought during the Waterloo Campaign.
Life
[edit]Friedrich von Kielmansegg was the son of Ratzeburg chemist Friedrich von Kielmansegg (1728-1800). His brother Ludwig von Kielmansegg was a senior officer in the military, while his younger brother Ferdinand von Kielmansegg became Minister of War.
Kielmannsegg joined the military service of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The 1803 Convention of Artlenburg ended his military career and at first he withdrew to the family estate in Holstein. In the German Campaign of 1813 he was a colonel of collective defence at his personal expense (36,000 old taler). The same year he established his corps of jägers the Korps der Kielmannseggeschen Jäger.[1] The corps was disbanded in 1814. Kielmannsegg was promoted to major general in 1815 and the same year led the Hanoverian Brigade at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo.[2] In 1816 he joined the new army of the Kingdom of Hanover and remained on active duty until 1832, becoming a lieutenant-general. He joined the Hannover Freemasons in 1839.
He died on 18 July 1851 in Hanover at the age of 82.
Awards
[edit]He received the following orders and decorations:[3]
Kingdom of Hanover:
- Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, 1821[4]
- Hanoverian Waterloo Medal
- War Commemoration Medal (1813)
- Wilhelm-Cross
Free Hanseatic Cities: War Medal of the Hanseatic League
Electorate of Hesse: Knight of the Military Merit Order, 10 August 1817[5]
Sweden: Grand Cross of the Sword, 1st Class
Denmark: Grand Cross of the Dannebrog, 6 July 1839[6]
Russian Empire:
- Knight of St. Anna, 2nd Class
- Knight of St. Vladimir, 4th Class
References
[edit]- ^ "Hanoverian Light Battalions: 1813 - 1815". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Beamish, North Ludlow. "Volume II • Chapter XVII Campaign of Waterloo". Hannoversche Militärgeschichte. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch für das Königreich Hannover. Berenberg. 1851. p. 147.
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch für das Königreich Hannover. Berenberg. 1851. p. 36.
- ^ Hessen-Kassel (1850). Kurfürstlich Hessisches Hof- und Staatshandbuch: 1850. Waisenhaus. p. 20.
- ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1849) [1st pub.:1801]. Kongelig Dansk Hof-og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1849 [State and Court Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1849] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 14 March 2021 – via da:DIS Danmark.
- Bibliography
- C. v. Düring: Geschichte des Kielmannseggeschen Jäger-Corps. Hannover 1863 (in German)
- Bernhard von Poten (1882), "Kielmansegg, Friedrich Graf von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 15, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 717–718 (in German)
- Klaus Mlynek: Kielmannsegg, Friedrich Otto Gebhard Graf von. In Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Schlüter, Hanover 2002, S. 198 (in German)
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