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
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
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
- "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 (ADB) (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)