Wrangel, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ERNST

Wrangel, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ERNST, Prussian field-marshal and count (1784-1877), born in Stettin, joined a dragoon regiment, took a distinguished part in the campaigns of 1807, 1813, and 1814, and rose steadily till in 1848 he was general and commander of the Prussian and Federal troops in Sleswick-Holstein. In that year he marched into Berlin and crushed the insurrectionary movement there; in 1856 he became a field-marshal; in 1864 he had supreme command over Prussian and Austrian troops in the Danish war; and, ennobled in 1866, was still able to be present, though without command, with the Prussian army during the Austro-Prussian war.