15 February 1714(1714-02-15) (aged 72) Stockholm, Sweden
Buried
Riddarholmen Church, Stockholm
Allegiance
Sweden
Service/branch
Navy
Years of service
1666-1714
Rank
General admiral
Spouse(s)
Sofia Lovisa von Ascheberg
(m. 1685)
Children
7
Hans Wachtmeister (1641–1714)
Hans Wachtmeister af Johannishus, (3 January 1642 [O.S. 24 December 1641] – 15 February [O.S. 26 February] 1714) was admiral general of the Swedish Navy and advisor to King Charles XI of Sweden and King Charles XII of Sweden. He served in the Scanian War of 1675–1679 and during the following twenty years of peace worked to build up the Swedish Navy. When the Great Northern War began in 1700 he was able to take his fleet to sea in good condition.
He was governor of Kalmar län between 1680 and 1683. When the new fleet base was established at Karlskrona in 1681, he became governor of a new enlarged county, Kalmar and Blekinge län. Hans Wachtmeister was also admiral general over the entire Swedish Fleet at the same time that he was a governor. In 1681–1683, he took the additional title of ståthållare or stadtholder.
He was raised to the dignity of a count in 1687 with the name of Wachtmeister af Johannishus and introduced in the Swedish House of Nobility in 1689 as number 25 among the families with the title of count [Grevliga ätter] in the List of Swedish noble families. His younger brother was Swedish field marshal Axel Wachtmeister, and his father-in-law was Rutger von Ascheberg.
HansWachtmeister af Johannishus, (3 January 1642 [O.S. 24 December 1641] – 15 February [O.S. 26 February] 1714) was admiral general of the Swedish Navy...
families of Wachtmeister, which originated from HansWachtmeister, who from Livonia came to Sweden and was ennobled in 1578. His grandson Hans became a Friherre...
Axel Wachtmeister (13 January 1643 – 24 July 1699) was a Swedish count and field marshal. Axel Wachtmeister was the younger son of HansWachtmeister and...
Brauer Confession Under Four Eyes (1954), as Tscheche 08/15 (1954), as Wachtmeister Platzek The Phantom of the Big Tent (1954), as Naso, Clown mit Puppe...
Kolberg on 24 April 1715, Wessel captured the Swedish Rear-Admiral HansWachtmeister, as well as the frigate Hvita Örn (White Eagle), which he was granted...
ISBN 978-91-89442-27-6. Rystad, Göran (2005). Kampen om Skåne. ISBN 91-85057-05-3. Bjerg, Hans Christian; Frantzen, Ole L. Danmark i Krig (2005). ISBN 87-567-7269-6 Holm...
baron of Skälby to Robert Douglas barony of Koivisto (in Finland) to HansWachtmeister barony of Lempäälä (in Finland) to Johan Kurck barony of Wetter-Rosenthal...
himself married countess Eleonora Margareta Wachtmeister, daughter of the royal counsellor Axel Wachtmeister. They had two children: Carl Reinhold von Fersen...
(1677–1679) Hans Georg Mörner (1679–1680) HansWachtmeister (1680–1683) Hans Clerck (1683–1694) Carl Gyllenpistol (1694–1695) Blechardt Wachtmeister (1695–1701)...
November 1737. Sofia Lovisa von Ascheberg (1664–1720), who married HansWachtmeister Otto Vilhelm von Ascheberg (1665–1687) Margareta von Ascheberg (1671–1753)...
working in co-operation with a Swedish fleet under Admiral-General HansWachtmeister, attacked Copenhagen so facilitating the landing of King Charles XII...
Småland. While he organized defenses in Karlshamn with General admiral HansWachtmeister and the governors of Blekinge and Kronoberg counties, he handed over...
mainland. The first city plan, drawn up in 1683 by Erik Dahlbergh, HansWachtmeister and Carl Magnus Stuart, shows Karlskrona as a pure fortress. The 1694...
kilometers south of the estate. The manor was founded around 1670-1680 by HansWachtmeister (1641-1714), Admiral general of the Swedish Royal Navy. The main building...
la Gardie 1585–1588 Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna [de] 1588–1588 HansWachtmeister 1588–1590 Gustaf Axelsson Banér 1590–1592 Erik Gabrielsson Oxenstierna [de]...
Count Carl Johan Wachtmeister (1 February 1903 – 22 May 1993) was a Swedish Army officer and fencer. He served as commanding officer of Norrland Dragoon...
Count Wilhelm Hans Fredrik Wachtmeister (29 April 1923 – 3 February 2012) was a Swedish career diplomat who served as the Swedish Ambassador to the United...
Navy throughout the ages (together with Claes Larsson Fleming and HansWachtmeister). Henrik Trolle was born in 1730 to the Danish admiral Georg Herman...
Party 1895–1916 Södermanland County HansWachtmeister independent 1867–1877 Blekinge County Hans Hansson Wachtmeister Protectionist Party United Right...
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