Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz

Lieutenant General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz Franciscus (26 October 1768 in Silesia – 11 March 1837 in Potsdam) was a Prussian officer and cartographer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Steinmetz commanded a brigade in the Waterloo campaign. He was the uncle, and though his daughter Julie, father-in-law of the Field Marshal Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz.[1]

Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz

Notes
  1. Bernhard von Poten 1893, pp. 6–10.

References
  • Bernhard von Poten (1893), "Steinmetz, Karl Friedrich Franciscus von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 6–10


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