Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Friedrich Karl Ferdinand of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel - Bevern ( born April 5, 1729 Braunschweig, † April 27, 1809 in Glücksburg ) was Duke of Brunswick- Bevern, Danish Field Marshal and Chief of the younger Welf line of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel - Bevern.

Life

He was the son of Duke Ernst Ferdinand of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel - Bevern (1682-1746) and of Eleonore Charlotte of Kurland. He joined in 1742 as a captain in the Dutch military service in 1745 and 1746 and took part in two campaigns. He moved to the Brunswick army, but remained as a volunteer in the Imperial Army. Under the guidance of his cousin Duke Ernst Ludwig of Brunswick, he commanded the Austrian Succession War, the regiment Both'sche to Aachen Peace of 1748. Then he came back as a colonel in the Dutch service, and was in 1754 appointed Major General.

After the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, he traveled at the end of 1756 to Dresden, where he by the Prussian King Friedrich II in command of the regiment recruited by force Electorate of Saxony Prince Xaver received ( Infantry Regiment S 59 from 1756 /10). However, this mutinied and ran apart, what personally King Frederick II gave him the debt. Friedrich Karl Ferdinand acknowledged then in 1759 the Prussian service, joined the British army and took her under his cousin Ferdinand of Brunswick at the Battle of Minden in part on 1 August 1759. In 1760 he joined the Danish army, where he rose in the following years. So he became lieutenant general in 1761, in 1762 commander of the bodyguard at foot and in 1764 inspector general of infantry. He was governor of Rendsburg 1766 and 1773 in Copenhagen. He was in 1781 head of the younger branch of Brunswick- Bevern and provost of St. Blaise and St. Cyriacus in Braunschweig by his brother August Wilhelm 's death. He took up his residence, however, with the permission of the Danish king, who in 1782 appointed him Field Marshal, at Schloss Glücksburg.

On October 26, 1782, he married Princess Anna Karoline ( 1751-1824 ), daughter of Prince Heinrich Wilhelm von Nassau- Saarbrücken and widow of the late Duke Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm 1779 of Schleswig -Holstein - Glücksburg.

In 1793 he founded a poor foundation at its established location in Bevern. After the occupation by Napoleon's troops, he took Braunschweig 1806, the sons of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Glücksburg on. Friedrich Karl Ferdinand died childless in 1809 in Glücksburg. With him died from the younger branch of Brunswick- Bevern.