Christian Ludwig von Wangenheim

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Christian Ludwig von Wangenheim († May 1, 1794 in Tournai ) was an electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 9-A .

origin

His parents were Johann Otto Ernst von Wangenheim (* 1693; † July 25, 1768) and his wife Christine Auguste Elisabeth von Röder.

Life

During the Seven Years' War he came into service with the Infantry Regiment Sachsen-Gotha in Hanover and was taken over as a captain with a patent on January 31, 1759 in the Kurhannoversche army . On December 1, 1762 he became a major in the von Behr cavalry regiment . In 1776 he was transferred to the Bremer cavalry regiment . There he became lieutenant colonel on February 11, 1782 and colonel on July 30, 1786. In 1786 he joined the Hanoverian troops in India , who fought for the British East India Company there . He replaced Colonel Christian August von Wangenheim after he had fallen out with Commander-in-Chief Carl Ludwig Reinbold. He survived his deployment in India and returned with the troops in November 1792. He was made major general on February 28, 1793 and chief of Infantry Regiment No. 9-A. He died in the First Coalition War on May 1, 1794 in Tournai.

family

In 1793 he married Amalie Sophie Elisabeth von Hardenberg (* April 2, 1767, † November 24, 1848), a daughter of Field Marshal Christian Ludwig von Hardenberg . The couple also had one son: Paul August Friedrich Georg (1794–1796).

The widow later married Count Adolph Franz Carl von Seckendorff .

literature

  • Bernhard von Poten , supplement to the military weekly paper 1903 - The Generals of the Royal Hanoverian Army and their regular troops , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, p. 283, No. 243
  • History of the Barons of Wangenheim, Göttingen, 1874, panel IV.no.450
  • Historical-genealogical atlas since the birth of Christ p.66

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to: Poten 9th Dragoon Regiment Queen
  2. ↑ Luis Heinrich F. von Sichart, History of the Royal Hanoverian Army , Volume 4, p.368 On the death of Wangenheim
  3. ↑ Johann Wolf, History of the Hardenberg family: With 123 documents , Volume 2, p.264
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses for the year 1840, p.222
personal data
SURNAME Wangenheim, Christian Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg Major General and Chief of the 9th Infantry Regiment
DATE OF BIRTH before 1759
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1794
Place of death Tournai