About Franz Adam Karrer
Lived 1672 – 1741 (aged 68–69). Franz Adam Karrer was a military personnel.
Franz Adam Karrer (1666 – 1740) was a Swiss officer, brigadier in French service, and founder and first colonel-proprietor of the Swiss regiment de Karrer on 15 December 1719. He became a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis in 1709.
Personal life Karrer was born in Landser, Haut-Rhin, Alsace on 22 November 1666. He was married to Johanna Marguerite de Voile before 1703, the daughter of a bailiff (chief court official) in Alsace. He died on 3 May 1740 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France.
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Franz Adam Karrer was born in 1672 in Solothurn.
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Franz Adam Karrer died in 1741.
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Franz Adam Karrer was a military personnel.
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