Karl Wilhelm Ernst von Waldenfels

Prussian officer (b. 1772, d. 1807)

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War of the Fourth Coalition
- Siege of Kolberg †

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Pour le Mérite

Major Karl Wilhelm Ernst von Waldenfels (10 April 1772, Baireuth – 15 June 1807, Kolberg) was a Royal Prussian Army officer who served as Vice Commander of Kolberg during the French siege of that place in June 1772 and fell in its defence.^[1]

References

^ Poten 1896, pp. 691–2.

Sources

Poten, Bernhard von (1896). "Waldenfels, Karl Wilhelm Ernst von". In Liliencron, Rochus von (ed.). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 40. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 691–2.