Johan Georg Ræder (2 August 1751 – 13 November 1808) was a

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military officer.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of Johan Christopher Rhäder and his second wife Cathrine Margrethe Riiber. He was the grandson of Johan Georg Rhäder, the person who immigrated to Norway and started the family branch there. In February 1782 in

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he married Catharina Margrethe Lind (1759–1820). They had nine children, including the sons Johan Christopher Ræder (1782–1853), Nicolai Ditlev Amund Ræder (1790–1867), Johan Philip Thomas Ræder (1795–1869), Jacob Thode Ræder (1798–1853) and Severin Henrik Ræder (1800–1878). He was the grandfather of Jacques Ræder,

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. In Denmark he had the grandsons Carl Gustav Valdemar Ræder, Johan Georg Frederik Ræder and Oscar Alexander Ræder and great-grandson Hans Henning Ræder. He lived at Nes near Veblungsnes from 1787 to 1806, then in Orkdalsøra until leaving to fight in the war in 1808. In the same year he contracted illness which developed into gall fever. He died in November 1808 in

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Career

He took his military education in Copenhagen, and from 1787 to his death he served in the ''Trondhjemske Regiment''. He headed the ''Romsdalske Kompani'' from 1787, the 2nd Battalion from 1804 and then the 3rd Battalion from 1806. His forces were employed in the

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without entering battle, and in the Dano-Swedish War (1808–1809). Already from 1807, at the outbreak of the

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, his forces were in active garrison in

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. In the war of 1808–1809 Ræder had notable roles in the victorious

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and the non-victorious Skirmish of Mobekk. He reached the rank of second lieutenant in 1769, premier lieutenant in 1782, captain in 1787, major in 1804 and lieutenant colonel in 1808. In 1808 he was also decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. He died, and

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called it the biggest loss of a single man in the war.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raeder, Johan Georg 1751 births 1808 deaths People from Meldal Norwegian people of German descent Norwegian expatriates in Denmark Norwegian Army personnel Norwegian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog