3rd General Command (Denmark)

The 3rd General Command (Danish: 3. Generalkommando) (formerly the General Command of the Duchies (Danish: Generalkommandoen over Hertugdømmerne)) was the overall command of all Royal Danish Army units in Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. The command was abolished following Denmark's loss of Schleswig-Holstein, following the Second Schleswig War.

Commanders

General Command of the Duchies (1739–1852)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
1		Lieutenant field marshal Frederick Ernest of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1703–1762)	1739	10 March 1762	22–23 years	^[1]
2		General field marshal Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain (1707–1778)	10 March 1762	1769	6–7 years	^[1]
3		Lieutenant general Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744–1836)	1769	19 March 1814	44–45 years	^[2]
4		General Prince Frederik of Hesse (1771–1845)	20 March 1814	25 March 1842	28 years, 5 days	^[3]
5		Prince Frederick of Nør (1800–1865)	31 March 1842	18 April 1846	4 years, 24 days	^[4]
–		Gotthard Lützow [da] (1784–1850) Acting	18 April 1846	?	3–4 years
?		Christoph von Krogh [da] (1785–1860)	11 August 1850	30 November 1851	1 year, 111 days	^[5]
?		Frederik Bardenfleth [da] (1781–1852)	1 December 1851	19 August 1852 †	262 days	^[6]

General Command of Holstein and Lauenburg (1852–1855)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
1		Lieutenant general Christoph von Krogh [da] (1785–1860)	1852	1855	2–3 years	^[7]

3rd General command (1855–1864)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
–		Georg Schøller [da] (1793–1863)	10 December 1856	23 June 1857	195 days	^[8]
1		Georg Schøller [da] (1793–1863)	23 June 1857	17 June 1863 †	5 years, 359 days	^[8]
2		Peter Frederik Steinmann (1812–1894)	22 October 1863	3 January 1864	73 days	^[9]

Names

**Names**^[10]
Generalkommandoen over Hertugdømmerne	General Command of the Duchies	1739	–	1852
Generalkommandoen over Holsten og Lauenborg	General Command of Holstein and Lauenburg	1852	–	1855
3. Generalkommando	3rd General command	1855	–	1864

Notes

Ref

^ ^a ^b Norrie 1962, p. 646.
^ Liebe & Borgstrøm 1978a, p. 165.
^ Richter 1977a, p. 127.
^ Richter 1977a, p. 16.
^ Richter 1977b, p. 12.
^ Richter 1977a, p. 22.
^ Statshaandbog for det danske Monarchie for Aaret 1854 (in Danish). Copenhagen: Bianco Lunds Bogtrykkeri. 1854. p. 9.
^ Richter 1977b, p. 162.
^ Liebe & Borgstrøm 1978b, p. 165.
^ "3. Generalkommando". sa.dk/daisy (in Danish). The Danish National Archives. Retrieved 1 July 2022.

Sources

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Liebe, P. I.; Borgstrøm, P. (1978b). Biografiske oplysninger om faste artilleriofficerer af linien 4. Bind (in Danish). Rigsarkivet.
Norrie, Gordon (1962). "Felttoget i Mecklenburg 1762*". Historisk Tidsskrift. 11 (6). da: 641–669. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
Petersen, Vagn Aage, ed. (1984). Vejledning og oversigt I: Hæren 1660-1980. Rigsarkivet og hjælpemidlerne til dets benyttelse III (in Danish). Danish National Archives. ISBN 87-7497-073-9.
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