Friderich Adolph von Schleppegrell (28 June 1792 – 25 July 1850) was a Dano-Norwegian military officer. Friderich Adolph Schleppegrell Gravestone

Friderich Adolph Schleppegrell Gravestone

Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Otto Heinrich von Schleppegrell (1729-1808) and Cathrine Abigael Zimmer (1750-1836), he was born in

Brunlanes Brunlanes is a parish and former municipality within Larvik municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It was annexed by Larvik on January 1, 1988. The administrative centre of the municipality was located in the adjacent villages of Nevlunghavn ...

. He became a military officer in 1807, and took part in the

Gunboat War The Gunboat War (, ; 1807–1814) was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and the British during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the materially superior Royal Nav ...

for Denmark-Norway. When Norway became independent of Denmark, only to enter a personal union with Sweden in November 1814, Schleppegrell changed his allegiance to Denmark. By 1848 he had been promoted to Major General. The same year, the

First Schleswig War The First Schleswig War (german: Schleswig-Holsteinischer Krieg) was a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig, ...

broke out. Schleppegrell excelled in the battles of Nybøl,

Dybbøl Dybbøl is a small town with a population of 2,339 (1 January 2022)Fredericia Fredericia () is a town located in Fredericia Municipality in the southeastern part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The city is part of the Triangle Region, which includes the neighbouring cities of Kolding and Vejle. It was founded in 16 ...

, but fell on 25 July 1850 following the battle of Isted. He was buried in

Flensborg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...

. The memorial

Isted Lion The Isted Lion (or ''Flensburg Lion'') ( da, Istedløven or ''Flensborgløven''), german: Flensburger Löwe or ) is a Danish war monument originally intended as a monument of the Danish victory over German-minded Schleswig-Holstein insurgents in th ...

is partly dedicated to Schleppegrell.

References

1792 births 1850 deaths Norwegian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Danish generals Danish military personnel killed in action People from Larvik {{Denmark-mil-bio-stub