Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock

Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock (22 July 1685 – between 16 and 27 July 1743) was a Swedish baron and Lieutenant General. He and Carl Emil Lewenhaupt were executed for negligence in the Russo-Swedish War, in the aftermath of the defeat at Villmanstrand.

Biography He was born on 22 July 1685 in Swedish Livonia. He was the son of the landed gentleman and Swedish Empire army officer Henrik Gotthard von Buddenbrock and Charlotta Cronman. He enlisted as an officer of the Swedish army, becoming a captain of the Life Guards in 1711, Major of grenadiers in 1715, Major General in 1721. He was elevated to friherre (matricle number 206) in 1731 and promoted to Lieutenant General of the infantry in 1739. As such, he was in 1741 commander of the troops in Finland, under General Charles Emil Lewenhaupt, at the onset of the Russo-Swedish War.

Children Magdalena Elisabeth von Buddenbrock (1717–1768), she married her cousin Carl Magnus von Buddenbrock (died 1778) Friedrich Magnus von Buddenbrock (1719–c.1785) Ulrike Dorothea von Buddenbrock (1721–1788) married in 1743 to Cornet Isaac Tham Carl Heinrich von Buddenbrock (1725–1745) Swedish Lieutenant who was killed in action at Tournay