Friedrich Karl Ferdinand (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern)
Friedrich Karl Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (born April 5, 1729 in Braunschweig ; † April 27, 1809 in Glücksburg ) was the ruling Prince of Braunschweig-Bevern , Danish General Field Marshal and head of the younger Welf line of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern.
Life
He was the son of Duke Ernst Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1682–1746) and Eleanor Charlotte of Courland. He entered the Dutch military service as a captain in 1742 and took part in two campaigns in 1745 and 1746. He switched to the Brunswick army, but remained a volunteer in the imperial army. Under the leadership of his cousin, Duke Ludwig Ernst von Braunschweig, he commanded Both's regiment in the War of the Austrian Succession until the Peace of Aachen in 1748. He then returned to the Dutch service as a colonel and was appointed major general in 1754.
After the outbreak of the Seven Years' War , he traveled to Dresden at the end of 1756, where he was given command of the force-recruited Electoral Saxon regiment Prince Xaver ( Infantry Regiment S 59 of 1756/10 ) from the Prussian King Friedrich II . However, this mutinied and broke up, for which King Friedrich II personally blamed him. Friedrich Karl Ferdinand then quit Prussian service in 1759, joined the British Army and took part in the Battle of Minden on August 1, 1759 under his cousin Ferdinand von Braunschweig . In 1760 he joined the Danish army, where he rose in the following years. In 1761 he became lieutenant general, in 1762 commander of the life guards at Fuß and in 1764 inspector general of the infantry. He became governor of Rendsburg in 1766 and of Copenhagen in 1773 . With the death of his brother August Wilhelm in 1781 he became head of the younger Braunschweig-Bevern line and provost of St. Blasius and St. Cyriakus in Braunschweig. However, with the approval of the Danish king, who appointed him Field Marshal General in 1782, he took up residence at Glücksburg Castle .
On October 26, 1782, he married Princess Anna Karoline (1751-1824), daughter of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich of Nassau-Saarbrücken and widow of Duke Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg, who died in 1779 .
In 1793 he founded a foundation for the poor at his home in Bevern . After the occupation of Brunswick by Napoleonic troops, he took in the sons of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand in Glücksburg in 1806 . Friedrich Karl Ferdinand died childless in Glücksburg in 1809. With him, the younger Braunschweig-Bevern line died out.
literature
- Christof Römer : Braunschweig-Bevern, A Princely House as a European Dynasty 1667–1884. P. 61, Braunschweig 1997.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
- Ferdinand Spehr : Friedrich Karl Ferdinand, Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 507 f.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| August Wilhelm |
Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern 1781–1809 |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Friedrich Karl Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Friedrich Karl Ferdinand von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern, Danish field marshal and chief of the younger Guelph line Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1729 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1809 |
| Place of death | Glücksburg |