Wulf-Heinrich von Thienen

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the royal Danish district administrator with a similar name, see Wulf Heinrich von Thienen (1721–1809).

Wulf Heinrich von Thienen (born January 2, 1736 ; † 1814 ) was a Danish general under two Danish-Norwegian kings and court chief, i.e. chief steward, at the Augustburg court from the Thienen family .

family

Wulf Heinrich von Thienen was born on January 2, 1736 as the son of Henning von Thienen († 1782) to Kühren and Friederike Dorothea von Ahlefeld .

Life

Wulf Heinrich's uncle, the Danish lieutenant colonel Wulf Heinrich von Thienen, got him a job as a page at the Augustburg court in Alsen in 1755 . In 1757 he became a lieutenant in the Augustburg battalion and later a major in the Schleswig-Holstein infantry regiment.

Then Wulf Heinrich is from Thienen adjutant of King Christian VII. Of Denmark and Norway and later General . He served as a general both under Christian VII and under his son Friedrich VI. At the age of Thienen became head of the Augustburg court, where he died in 1814 at the age of 78.