Oswald von Kielmansegg
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Count Oswald August Ernst Adolph Karl von Kielmansegg (17 July 1838 – 24 September 1896) was a German Lieutenant Field Marshal in the Austro-Hungarian service.
Kielmansegg was born on 17 July 1838 in Hanover into the Holstein/Hanoverian branch of the Kielmansegg family, which had special ties to the House of Welf. He was the third son of Count Eduard Georg Ludwig William Howe von Kielmansegg (1804–1879), Minister-President of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1855 to 1862, and his wife, Juliane Sophie Wilhelmine Friederike Johanne von Zesterfleth zu Bergfried (1808–1880). Among his brothers were Imperial and Royal naval officer Count Alexander von Kielmansegg, and Count Erich von Kielmansegg, later Governor of Lower Austria and briefly Minister-President of Cisleithania in 1895.[1]
His paternal grandparents were Count Ludwig Friedrich von Kielmansegg and Friederike Eleonore Juliane von Wallmoden-Gimborn (a daughter of Lieutenant-General Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, an illegitimate son of King George II of Great Britain by his German born mistress, Countess Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, created Countess of Yarmouth in 1740). Upon the death of Karl von Wallmoden-Gimborn, the half-brother of his paternal grandmother, in 1883, Kielmansegg came into possession of the Wallmoden estates of Heinde, Walshausen and Uhry in the now Prussian Province of Hanover.[2]
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