Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn

Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn
Born	19 February 1778 Baden part of Sponheim County
Died	9 December 1845 Vienna
Allegiance	Austria, Russia, Baden
Service/branch	Light cavalry
Years of service	1794-1815
Rank	Lieutenant-colonel
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars (Wagram, Russia)
Other work	Envoy for Baden

Baron Friedrich Karl of Tettenborn (19 February 1778, in what was then the Baden part of the County of Sponheim - 9 December 1845, Vienna) was a famous cavalry commander in the Austrian and Russian armies during the Napoleonic Wars.

Tettenborn first studied at the Waltershausen Forstwissenschaft and then at the Universities of Göttingen and Jena. In 1794 he joined the Austrian military and quickly rose to captain during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. In the Austro-French war he was in 1805 in the army under Mack, which dispersed after raising the siege of Ulm. At the battle of Wagram (1809), he rose to the rank of major. After the Treaty of Schönbrunn he accompanied prince Schwarzenberg to Paris.

At the outbreak of the Russian war of 1812, he entered the Russian army as a lieutenant colonel. At the head of Kutuzov's vanguard, he was again the first to engage at Moscow, pursuing the French as far as the Beresina at the head of the light cavalry, raising the siege of Vilnius, going beyond the Neman River, chasing MacDonald through East Prussia and occupying Königsberg.

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