Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Krusemarck

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Krusemarck , also Krusemark , (born April 9, 1767 in Berlin , † April 25, 1822 in Vienna ) was a Prussian officer , most recently lieutenant general and envoy .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was the son of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Hans Friedrich von Krusemarck .

Krusemarck graduated from the académie militaire and came on April 23, 1784 as a cornet to the regiment of the Gardes du Corps in Potsdam . As a second lieutenant on May 21, 1790, he was initially deputy second adjutant to General of the Infantry von Möllendorff , before Krusemarck received this position on September 7, 1791. On January 9, 1793, he was promoted to Rittmeister . For his work in taking possession of South Prussia in the course of the Second Partition of Poland , he was awarded the Pour le Mérite on April 23, 1793 .

1805 Krusemarck was by Friedrich Wilhelm III. Sent to the court in Hanover with a special assignment and went to Saint Petersburg a little later, accompanied by the Duke of Brunswick . At the beginning of the Fourth Coalition War in 1806 , Krusemarck traveled there two more times in order to coordinate further warfare in the east with the Russian allies. On February 5, 1807 he was made a colonel and at the end of May 1807 he was sent on a special mission to London to negotiate the annexation of England to the Prussian-Russian alliance (Treaty of Potsdam).

After the Peace of Tilsit , Krusemarck returned to Königsberg and from there accompanied his king in 1808 on his journey to Saint Petersburg. In 1809 he sent him with a handwritten letter to Napoleon in Paris in order to obtain financial relief for his country. He remained in the French capital first as envoy, then as Prussian chargé d'affaires and finally as envoy extraordinary and authorized minister. On March 14, 1811, he received the Order of the Red Eagle First Class for his services . After the break with France, he was ordered back to the king in Breslau in 1813 and from there sent to Prince Schwarzenberg's headquarters in Vienna .

At the beginning of the autumn campaign in 1813 , Krusemarck was then plenipotentiary to the leader of the Northern Army, the Crown Prince of Sweden . Several times he had to mediate between the Crown Prince and the Prussian leader Lieutenant General Bülow . In recognition of his services, his king awarded him the Iron Cross II. Class and from Sweden he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword . On May 7, 1814, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

After the end of the war, Krusemarck received a few weeks' leave in September 1815 in order to recover in Karlsbad due to his poor health. In December 1815 he took up his post as the Prussian envoy in Vienna , which he held for the next six years. In 1821 he represented Prussia at the Laibach Congress .

Krusemarck died in 1822 without descendants as the last representative of his family.

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SURNAME Krusemarck, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krusemark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1822
Place of death Vienna