Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock (22 July 1685 – between 16 and 27 July 1743) was a Swedish baron and

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. He and Carl Emil Lewenhaupt were executed for negligence in the

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, in the aftermath of the defeat at Villmanstrand.

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He was born on 22 July 1685 in Swedish Livonia. He was the son of the landed gentleman and

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army officer Henrik Gotthard von Buddenbrock (1648–1727) and Charlotta Cronman. He enlisted as an officer of the Swedish army, becoming a captain of the Life Guards in 1711, Major of grenadiers in 1715,

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in 1721. He was elevated to

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(matricle number 206) in 1731 and promoted to

of the

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in 1739. As such, he was in 1741 commander of the troops in

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, under General Charles Emil Lewenhaupt, at the onset of the

. On 23 August 1741 (3 September 1741) Swedish Major General

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and his corps in

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in Karelia, at the long disputed frontier between Sweden and Russia, was attacked and defeated by a Russian army under General

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before Buddenbrock, less than 10 kilometers away, could come to his assiantance. As the war was developing unfavorably for Sweden, the defeat was blamed on Lewenhaupt and Buddenbrock. In August 1742 they were dismissed from Finland and immediately arrested by Vice Admiral Ritterstolpe upon their return. On the night of 28 September Buddenbrock was brought to Stockholm, where he was imprisoned and closely guarded. A

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was convened under Field Marshal Hugo Johan Hamilton ( sv) on 8 October to investigate the two cases. The prosecutor was Chancellor of Justice Silverschildt, who submitted an extensive

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. Buddenbrock was accused of, among other things, not assembling his troops in a timely fashion to cross the Russian border, as planned. In addition he had not arrived at

in time to rescue Major General Wrangel. Buddenbrock defended himself so well, that had he only faced the

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, he would have left with his life. However the other Estates of the Riksdag, in particular the peasants, were embittered and demanded a scapegoat. The verdict of the commission was announced to a large congregation on 29 May. Buddenbrock was to be dishonored, his property confiscated, and he himself beheaded with an axe. In an appeal, Buddenbrock wrote a comprehensive account where he detailed his services to the kingdom, but despite this and the pleading of his family, the verdict was confirmed by the Estates the following day. Even a request to be beheaded with a sword as befitting a nobleman, or to be

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was denied. The date of his execution was set to 20 July but king

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postponed it another week. On 27 July 1743 General von Buddenbrock was executed in Stockholm. His wife, Magdalena Elisabeth Rahm, and their four children left Sweden for the

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Children

*Magdalena Elisabeth von Buddenbrock (1717-1768), she married her cousin Carl Magnus von Buddenbrock (died 1778) *Friedrich Magnus von Buddenbrock (1719-c.1785) *Ulrike Dorothea von Buddenbrock (1721-1788) married in 1743 to Cornet Isaac Tham *Carl Heinrich von Buddenbrock (1725-1745) Swedish Lieutenant who was killed in action at Tournay

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