Cai Hegermann-Lindencrone

Cai Ditlev Hegermann-Lindencrone (1807–1893) was a Danish general and politician who was the main Danish commander at the Battle of Vejle during the Second Schleswig War as well as the personal adjutant general of Frederik VII. He was also the father of and .

Early life He was the son of the Norwegian-born Lieutenant General (1765–1849) and his wife Louise Hegermann-Lindencrone. In 1816 he became a volunteer in the Royal Danish Army and studied at the Royal Danish Military Academy in Copenhagen along with Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, whom he became friends with. Hegermann-Lindencrone graduated in 1819 he was promoted to a full cadet. In 1822, he became senior lieutenant and in the same year, he became a second lieutenant à la suite in the infantry but didn't become a full second lieutenant until 1828. After his troops had rested and received a lack of equipment, he moved south again in April and made a plan with General Christian Lunding to throw the enemy out of Jutland and to threaten the Prussian Army at Dybbøl but the plan had to abandoned as when a new Prussian brigade arrived on the battlefield, the 4th Division had to retreat. In May, Hegermann-Lindencrone became commander of the North Jutland army corps, consisting of 2nd and 4th divisions, and a new offensive movement across the Limfjord was prepared, but the armistice halted its execution, and the corps was abolished on June 24, after which Hegermann-Lindencrone again became commander of the 4th Division, which came to Funen.

Later years When the war was over, he again became adjutant general and commander of the cavalry as well as 1865 commanding general in the 1st General Command District .

In considering the Army Act of 1867, he criticized the proposals, especially the restriction of cavalry, and shortly after the law was passed, he was fired, retired and put on hold as a 60-year-old because the Minister of War Waldemar Raasløff wanted the Army Act of July 6 on the same year where new conscripts would arrive. Hegermann-Lindencrone remained in high favor with the king, who had held on to him to the last. After standing à la suite until 1878, he was dismissed on application due to age. In the following years he wrote a military-political paper on the War of 1864 and its Influence on our Army, which provoked a response from Ditlev Gothard Monrad, which in turn spawned another writing by Hegermann-Lindencrone.

He became a Valet de chambre in 1828, a chamberlain in 1858, a knight of Dannebrog in 1845, commander in 1858 and received the Grand Cross in 1865.

He is buried in Garrison Cemetery, Copenhagen.

Legacy There are portrait paintings in family ownership by Just Holm 1844 and Carl Wentorf 1887. There was a lithograph 1856 from Em. Bærentzen & Co. after drawing by Eduard Hansen. A Xylography in 1889 and after a picture from 1866 by Hans Peter Hansen in 1894. There was also a Satirical xylography in 1864 on the poem "General Baglæns".