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
1 Georg Schøller
(1793–1863)		 10 December 1856 23 June 1857 195 days [8]
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

Names[10]
Generalkommandoen over HertugdømmerneGeneral Command of the Duchies1739–1852
Generalkommandoen over Holsten og LauenborgGeneral Command of Holstein and Lauenburg1852–1855
3. Generalkommando3rd General command1855–1864

Notes

    Ref

    1. 1 2 Norrie 1962, p. 646.
    2. ↑ Liebe & Borgstrøm 1978a, p. 165.
    3. ↑ Richter 1977a, p. 127.
    4. ↑ Richter 1977a, p. 16.
    5. ↑ Richter 1977b, p. 12.
    6. ↑ Richter 1977a, p. 22.
    7. ↑ Statshaandbog for det danske Monarchie for Aaret 1854 (in Danish). Copenhagen: Bianco Lunds Bogtrykkeri. 1854. p. 9.
    8. ↑ Richter 1977b, p. 162.
    9. ↑ Liebe & Borgstrøm 1978b, p. 165.
    10. ↑ "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.
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