Heinrich Christoph Karl Herrmann, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum

German general (1773–1830)

Major General Heinrich Christoph Karl Herrmann, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum (8 January 1773 in Cleves – night of 7/8 February 1830, in Berlin) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars including the Waterloo Campaign in 1815.^[1][a]

Notes

1. Regarding personal names: Reichsgraf is a title, usually translated as Imperial Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Reichsgräfin. Titles using the prefix Reichs- were not created after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.

1. Friedlaender 1884.

References

• Ernst Friedlaender (1884), "Lottum Graf von Wylich, Heinrich Christoph Karl Hermann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 19, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 284

Further reading

• Neues Rheinisches conversations-lexicon: oder Encyclopädisches handwörterbuch für gebildete stände. Vol. 12 (3 ed.). Comptoir für kunst und literatur. 1836. pp. 715 (¶ 2)–716.
• Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Band 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, ohne Jahr, p. 230–231.
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: Neues preussisches Adels-Lexicon. Band 3, p. 308.