Frederik von Gersdorff

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Frederik von Gersdorff (born January 11, 1651 in Norway , † May 6, 1724 at Kjærgaard) was a Danish lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Frederik was a member of the von Gersdorff family . His parents were the Danish Colonel Christoph Friedrich von Gersdorff († before 1682) and Dorthe Giedde (1625-1651), daughter of Imperial Admiral Ove Gjedde (1594-1660). The Field Marshal Baron Hannibal von Degenfeld (1648-1691) was married to his sister Anna Marie von Gersdorff, and thus his brother.

career

He began his career in Norway in his father's regiment where he served until 1674. During the War of Gentiles , he was with the Life Guard on horseback ( Hestgarden ) and was promoted to Rittmeister in 1677 . In 1678 he became a lieutenant colonel in the 2nd infantry regiment in Jutland , but soon switched to the naval regiment where he rose to colonel in 1684 . In 1693 he was a brigadier . His promotion to major general took place in 1699, combined with a mission to Norway. In the following year, however, he returned as an inspector of the infantry regiments in Jutland and Funen Infantry Regiment. As deputy commander of the Danish auxiliaries in the imperial service, he took part in the campaign in Transylvania where he distinguished himself on August 11, 1705 in the battle of Szilagy-Somlyo . Repeatedly he temporarily took over command of the corps , which had lost three times in a row to its boss ( Trampe , Harboe, Ahlefeldt ). Finally in 1708 he advanced to lieutenant general and was appointed chief of the corps. In 1709 he became a knight of the Dannebrogden . During the winter campaign in Skåne (1709-1710) he was deputy to Count Christian Detlev von Reventlow . He then went to the Netherlands to take part in the War of the Spanish Succession in the same position under Carl Rudolf von Württemberg until 1713 . With the title of a privy councilor , he lived from then on on his Bramstrup estate on Fyn. Gersdorff was buried in the Hunderup Church.

family

Gersdorff's first marriage was in 1683 with Baroness Sophie Juel († 1685), a daughter of Baron Jens Juel (1631-1700). His second marriage was in 1685 with the noble Margrethe Krag (1663–1738), a daughter of the privy councilor Erik Krag (1620–1672) on Bramminge and Lydum and the Vibeke Rosenkrantz . The following six children were born from the second marriage. The line he had founded expired in 1882.

  • Ide Sophie (1786–1726), ⚭ [1700] Hans Brockenhuus-Løwenhielm (1679–1734), Danish major general
  • Vibeke Dorothea (1687–1720), ⚭I 1702 Baron Jørgen Gyldenkrone (1682–1714), Danish captain; ⚭II 1715 Gotfred von Pentz (1672–1726), mayor in Aalborg
  • Edel Margrethe (1689–1710), ⚭ 1705 Joachim von Gersdorff (1677–1745), conference councilor
  • Erik (1691-1692)
  • Christian Frederik (1697–1759), Danish lieutenant colonel, ⚭I 1723 Comtesse Anne Trolle Holck (1700–1728); ⚭I 1729 Pallene Trolle Urn (1711–1776)
  • Christoph Frederik (1699–1748), Danish Lieutenant Colonel, ⚭ 1733 Margrethe Rosenørn (1715–1786)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII, from 1694-1808 . Altona 1834, p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Gersdorff, Frederik von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1651
PLACE OF BIRTH Norway
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1724
Place of death Kjaergaard