Fabian von Fersen

Baron Fabian von Fersen (February 7, 1626 – July 30, 1677) was a Swedish general, freelord, field-marshal and governor general of Scania, Halland and Blekinge. He served the Swedish Empire in multiple wars and received appointments Field Marshal, and then Governor General of the Scanian lands, which included the provinces of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge in 1676.

Fabian von Fersen
Born	(1626-02-07)February 7, 1626 Tallinn, Swedish Estonia, Swedish Empire
Died	June 30, 1677(1677-06-30) (aged 51) Malmö, Scania, Swedish Empire
Buried	St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn, Estonia
Allegiance	Swedish Empire
Service / branch	Swedish Army
Years of service	1675–1677
Rank	Field Marshal
Battles / wars	Torstenson War Thirty Years' War Deluge (history) Siege of Kraków (1657) Dano-Swedish War (1657–58) March Across the Belts Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660) Battle of the Sound Assault on Copenhagen (1659) Scanian War Siege of Malmö

Not to be confused with Fabian von Fersen (1762–1818).

Early life

Military career

Fabian von Fersen became a court cadet in 1643, participated as a volunteer in the navy in 1644 in Torstensson War and then in the Thirty Years' War, and became a lieutenant colonel in 1647.

Fersen was a cousin of Otto Wilhelm von Fersen and, like him, participated in Charles X Gustav's Polish wars and the wars against Denmark.^[1]

Death

When the Danes stormed Malmö in 1677, Fersen managed to repel the attack with only 2,000 soldiers, but he suffered such severe injuries that he died a few days later. He was buried in St Mary's Cathedral, Reval (modern-day Tallinn), where a sarcophagus created by the sculptor Johann Gustav Stockenberg was erected in his memory. ^[2]

Sarcophagus of Fabian von Fersen in St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn.