Christian Thomesen Sehested

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Christian Thomesen Sehested (born August 24, 1664 in Copenhagen , † September 13, 1736 in Oldenburg ) (other spellings: Christen Thomesen Sehested and German Christian Thomesen von Sehestedt) was a Danish admiral and Oberlanddrost in the county of Oldenburg . His parents were the squire and lieutenant colonel Axel Sehestedt and Øllegaard Ottesdatter Thott. He should not be confused with his grandfather, the Danish Chancellor Christen Thomesen Sehested (1590–1657) .

On his father's side, Sehested came from an old noble family originally resident in Schleswig , while on his mother's side he belonged to the ancient Danish nobility.

Life

After entering the officer school of the Navy of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1680 and several sea voyages on various warships , he was promoted to lieutenant in 1687 . In addition to the Danish navy, he served several times between 1685 and 1691 in the French and Dutch navies . During this time he fought against the Turks in the Mediterranean and took part in the French bombardment of Algiers in 1688.

The landing on Rügen on November 15 and 16, 1715

In 1689 he returned to Denmark via Amsterdam . From 1690 to 1691 he served again in Holland and France. From 1691 he was in command of various warships, including frigates and the royal yacht Elefanten . From 1701 to 1715 he was head of the newly established naval cadet corps and had a great influence on the training of young Danish naval officers. During this time he went on a two-year trip to France with Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve , son of the Danish King Christian V. In 1704 he was promoted to rear admiral. From 1709 he took various positions at the Great Northern War (1700-1721) part, had 1,710 participants in the battle in the Køgebucht and at the Siege of Tönning in the spring of 1713. He was with the seaward defense of Copenhagen against the later 1713 Sweden entrusted and promoted to Vice Admiral. In 1715 he led the Danish armed forces in the conquest of Rügen and the successful siege of Stralsund . He was considered an excellent troop leader and tactician and was promoted to admiral for his services in the battle for Rügen and was awarded the Dannebrog Order .

Nevertheless, in 1715 he lost the favor of the suspicious King Friedrich IV , who preferred German aristocrats and citizens in his immediate vicinity, and was replaced on April 22, 1718 as head of the sea cadet corps. He was no longer to have any influence on the fleet and was dispatched to the Danish-ruled county of Oldenburg as Oberlanddrost when he was appointed privy councilor . Unlike other Danish administrators, he developed a great deal of energy for the land entrusted to him and took care of the restoration of the dykes devastated by various storm surges , especially the Christmas flood in 1717 . His greatest achievement was, together with the Oldenburg dike count Johann Rudolf von Münnich , to close the breakthroughs between the Weser and Jadebusen that had existed since the 14th century with dikes and thus to reconnect Butjadingen to the mainland. In his honor, a dyke settlement on the Jade Bay is called Sehestedt.

After the end of the Northern War, Sehestedt was appointed to a naval commission in 1726, which was supposed to investigate the errors and omissions of the naval leadership during the war. In 1729 he became chairman of a shipbuilding commission. After the death of Frederick IV in 1730, he was succeeded by Christian VI. finally rehabilitated, received the title of secret conference council in 1731 and took over an embassy to Stockholm in 1734. He died unmarried in Oldenburg in 1736, shortly before his intended recall to Denmark.

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SURNAME Sehested, Christian Thomesen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish admiral and Oberlanddrost in Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1664
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1736
Place of death Oldenburg