3rd General Command (Denmark)

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 [da] (1784–1850) Acting	18 April 1846	?	3–4 years
?		Christoph von Krogh [da] (1785–1860)	11 August 1850	30 November 1851	1 year, 111 days	[5]
?		Frederik Bardenfleth [da] (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 [da] (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
–		Georg Schøller [da] (1793–1863)	10 December 1856	23 June 1857	195 days	[8]
1			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 Hertugdømmerne	General Command of the Duchies	1739	–	1852
Generalkommandoen over Holsten og Lauenborg	General Command of Holstein and Lauenburg	1852	–	1855
3. Generalkommando	3rd General command	1855	–	1864

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