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.
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Life
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
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order
- Russian Order of St. Anna 2nd class
- Russian Order of St. Vladimir 4th class
- Order of Military Merit of Hessen
- Hanoverian Waterloo Medal
- Hanoverian Ward Medal 1813
- War Medal of the Hanseatic League
- William Cross (Hannover)
- Swedish Knight Grand Cross First Class of the Order of the Sword
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog
References
- "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.
- Bibliography
- C. v. Düring: Geschichte des Kielmannseggeschen Jäger-Corps. Hannover 1863 (in German)
- Bernhard von Poten (1882), "Kielmansegg, Friedrich Graf von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 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)