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Hans Reinhold von Fersen
Swedish count, politician and soldier
Hans Reinhold von Fersen (2 March 1683 Tallinn – 25 May 1736 Stockholm) was a Swedish count, politician and soldier of Baltic-German origin. He served as lieutenant general from 1720 and as president of the Svea Court of Appeal from 1731.[1]
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He was the son of count Reinhold Johan von Fersen and Anna Sophia von Ungern-Sternberg, likewise of Baltic German nobility. In 1715 he himself married countess Eleonora Margareta Wachtmeister, daughter of the royal counsellor Axel Wachtmeister. They had two children:
- Carl Reinhold von Fersen (7 April 1716, Stockholm – 7 May 1786, Stockholm)
- Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 1719 – 24 April 1794)