Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

Adam Ludwig Graf Lewenhaupt (* April 15 1659 in a warehouse before Copenhagen, † February 12, 1719 in Moscow, Russia) was a Swedish general.

After completing a university education in Sweden and Germany Lewenhaupt first entered the military service of Bavaria. Here he fought from 1685 to 1686 against the Turks in Hungary. Then he went with Swedish auxiliary troops as a colonel to Holland where he fought from 1691 to 1697 against the French.

1697 Lewenhaupt returned to Sweden, where he was King Charles XII. at the beginning of the Northern War, the head of a regiment made ​​new recruits. He successfully fought against the Russians won in 1703 Saladen ( Saločiai ), 1704 Jakob City, 1705 at the Battle of Gemauerthof and then was promoted to General of the Infantry. 1708 he suffered at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Dnieper River by Peter the Great defeat, when he joined the King Charles XII. wanted to perform an auxiliary corps. He could indeed penetrate to the king and unite the troops, but he had after the battle of Poltava in 1709 and the final persecution by the Russians at Perewolotschna accept a surrender, which brought almost all the rest of the Swedish army in Russian captivity.

He himself remained ten years as a prisoner in Russia and was appointed by Ulrika Eleonora at her accession to the Imperial Parliament. Lewenhaupt died on February 12, 1719, without having seen again his country as a prisoner in Moscow.