Federico Carlo Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Bevern

Federico Carlo Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Bovern (Braunschweig, April 5, 1729-Glücksburg, April 27, 1809) was the prince of Braunschweig-Bevern, general from Daniese Felcmaresse and last exponent of the cadet branch of the Braunschweig-Bevern line.

He was the son of Duke Ernesto Ferdinando of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Bevern and Eleonora Carlotta di Curlandia (1686-1748) ^[first]

He entered 1742 as captain in the Dutch army and in 1745 and in 1746 he took part in two military campaigns. He then moved to the Braunschweig army and subsequently as a volunteer in the imperial army. Under the direction of the cousin Luigi Ernesto of Braunschweig commanded, during the Austrian succession war the Both’sca regiment up to the peace of Aachen (1748). Finally he returned to the Dutch armed forces as a colonel and here in 1754 he was appointed general lieutenant.
After the outbreak of the seven -year war he went to Dresden in 1756, where he had the command of the Sassone regiment with forced recruitment, Prinz Xaver from the king of Prussia II. However, this was mutinated and dissolved, of which it was personally blamed by King Frederick II. Federico Carlo Ferdinando therefore left the Prussian army in 1759 and entered the English one by participating, under the command of the cousin Ferdinand of Braunschweig, in the battle of Minden on 1 August 1759. In the following year he entered the Danish army, where he became, in the 1761, lieutenant general, in 1762 Commander of the APRICATA guard and in 1764 Inspector General of the Infantry.
In 1766 he became governor of Rendsburg and in 1773 in Copenhagen.
With the death of his older brother Augusto Guglielmo of Braunschweig-Bevern became in 1781 the successor in the cadet line of Braunschweig-Bevern and provost of San Biagio and San Ciriaco in Braunschweig. However, he established his residence, with the consent of the king of Denmark, in the Castle of Glücksburg.
In 1782 he was appointed general Feltmaresse.

On October 26, 1782 he married Princess Anna Carolina of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1751-1824), daughter of Guglielmo Enrico, prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken and widow since 1779 by Duke Federico Enrico Guglielmo by Schleswig-Holstein-GlückSburg.
In 1793 he created a foundation for the poor in his country of origin.
During the occupation of the Braunschweig by Napoleonic troops in 1806, the children of Duke Carlo Guglielmo Ferdinando of Bruswick-Wolfenbüttel welcomed to Glücksburg.
He died without leaving children and with him the dynastic line of Braunschweig-Bevern was extinct

• ( OF ) C. Römer, Braunschweig-Bevern, a princely house as a European dynasty 1667-1884 , P. 61, Braunschweig, 1997.
• ( OF ) Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.), Braunschweigian biographical lexicon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hanover, 1996.