3rd General Command (Denmark)
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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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 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 (1784–1850) Acting |
18 April 1846 | ? | 3–4 years | ||
| ? |  |
Christoph von Krogh (1785–1860) |
11 August 1850 | 30 November 1851 | 1 year, 111 days | [5] |
| ? |  |
Frederik Bardenfleth (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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 |  |
Lieutenant general Christoph von Krogh (1785–1860) |
1852 | 1855 | 2–3 years | [7] |
3rd General command (1855–1864)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| – |  |
Georg Schøller (1793–1863) |
10 December 1856 | 23 June 1857 | 195 days | [8] |
| 1 | 23 June 1857 | 17 June 1863 † | 5 years, 359 days | |||
| 2 |  |
Peter Frederik Steinmann (1812–1894) |
22 October 1863 | 3 January 1864 | 73 days | [9] |
Names
| 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 |