3rd General Command (Denmark)

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The 3rd General Command (Danish: 3. Generalkommando) (formerly the General Command of the Duchies (Danish: Generalkommandoen over Hertugdømmerne)) was the overall command of all Royal Danish Army units in Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. The command was abolished following Denmark's loss of Schleswig-Holstein, following the Second Schleswig War.

Commanders[edit]

General Command of the Duchies (1739–1852)[edit]

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Lieutenant field marshal
Frederick Ernest of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
(1703–1762) 		1739 10 March 1762 22–23 years [1]
2 General field marshal
Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain
(1707–1778) 		10 March 1762 1769 6–7 years [1]
3 Lieutenant general
Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel
(1744–1836) 		1769 19 March 1814 44–45 years [2]
4 General
Prince Frederik of Hesse
(1771–1845) 		20 March 1814 25 March 1842 28 years, 5 days [3]
5 Prince Frederick of Nør
(1800–1865) 		31 March 1842 18 April 1846 4 years, 24 days [4]
– Gotthard Lützow [da]
(1784–1850)
Acting 		18 April 1846 ? 3–4 years
? Christoph von Krogh [da]
(1785–1860) 		11 August 1850 30 November 1851 1 year, 111 days [5]
? Frederik Bardenfleth [da]
(1781–1852) 		1 December 1851 19 August 1852 † 262 days [6]

General Command of Holstein and Lauenburg (1852–1855)[edit]

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Lieutenant general
Christoph von Krogh [da]
(1785–1860) 		1852 1855 2–3 years [7]

3rd General command (1855–1864)[edit]

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Georg Schøller [da]
(1793–1863) 		10 December 1856 23 June 1857 195 days [8]
23 June 1857 17 June 1863 † 5 years, 359 days
2 Peter Frederik Steinmann
(1812–1894) 		22 October 1863 3 January 1864 73 days [9]

Names[edit]

Names[10]
Generalkommandoen over Hertugdømmerne General Command of the Duchies 1739 – 1852
Generalkommandoen over Holsten og Lauenborg General Command of Holstein and Lauenburg 1852 – 1855
3. Generalkommando 3rd General command 1855 – 1864

Notes[edit]

Ref[edit]

  1. ^ a b Norrie 1962, p. 646.
  2. ^ Liebe & Borgstrøm 1978a, p. 165.
  3. ^ Richter 1977a, p. 127.
  4. ^ Richter 1977a, p. 16.
  5. ^ Richter 1977b, p. 12.
  6. ^ Richter 1977a, p. 22.
  7. ^ Statshaandbog for det danske Monarchie for Aaret 1854 (in Danish). Copenhagen: Bianco Lunds Bogtrykkeri. 1854. p. 9.
  8. ^ Richter 1977b, p. 162.
  9. ^ Liebe & Borgstrøm 1978b, p. 165.
  10. ^ "3. Generalkommando". sa.dk/daisy (in Danish). The Danish National Archives. Retrieved 1 July 2022.

Sources[edit]

  • Clemmesen, Michael Hesselholt (1982). Jyllands landforsvar fra 1901 til 1940 (in Danish). Copenhagen: Det Krigsvidenskabelige Selskab. ISBN 87-981346-0-4.
  • Liebe, P. I.; Borgstrøm, P. (1978a). Biografiske oplysninger om faste artilleriofficerer af linien 1. Bind (in Danish). Rigsarkivet.
  • Liebe, P. I.; Borgstrøm, P. (1978b). Biografiske oplysninger om faste artilleriofficerer af linien 4. Bind (in Danish). Rigsarkivet.
  • Norrie, Gordon (1962). "Felttoget i Mecklenburg 1762*". Historisk Tidsskrift. 11 (6). da: 641–669. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  • Petersen, Vagn Aage, ed. (1984). Vejledning og oversigt I: Hæren 1660-1980. Rigsarkivet og hjælpemidlerne til dets benyttelse III (in Danish). Danish National Archives. ISBN 87-7497-073-9.
  • Richter, Volhelm (1977a). Den Danske Landmilitæretat 1801-1894: I. Bind (in Danish). Copenhagen: Dansk Historisk Håndbogsforlag.
  • Richter, Volhelm (1977b). Den Danske Landmilitæretat 1801-1894: II. Bind (in Danish). Copenhagen: Dansk Historisk Håndbogsforlag.
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