Hans Reinhold von Fersen

Count Hans Reinhold von Fersen ( born March 2, 1683 Tallinn, † May 25, 1736 in Stockholm) was a Swedish soldier and politician deutschbaltischer origin. He was the son of Count Johan Reinhold von Fersen and his wife, who also derived from German - Baltic nobility Countess Anna Sophia von Ungern -Sternberg. Johan Reinhold, military and statesman in Swedish service, had been charged in 1712 for his services in the Swedish title of count and was after Estonia had fallen in 1710 under Russian suzerainty, finally resettled from Estonia to Sweden.

Heels served in the Swedish army and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1720. 1731, he was elected President of the Svea hovrätt, the first and largest of the six courts of appeal today in Sweden, was appointed. The court had been founded in 1614 as the first Swedish court of its kind and was domstolen to the establishment of the Högsta in 1789, the highest judicial body under the King and the Imperial Council.

Marriage and issue

Heel married in 1715 Countess Eleonora Margareta Wachtmeister, daughter of the royal council Axel Wachtmeister. They had two children: