Hans von Fersen

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. 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) References 1683 births 1736 deaths 17th-century Estonian people 18th-century Estonian people Baltic-German people Swedish nobility Estonian nobility Swedish politicians Swedish generals Estonian people of Swedish descent Politicians from Tallinn Hans Reinhold