You are bidding on one Pre Philatelic Cover the end Gersdorf (Biendorf, district of Rostock).

Dating without year Gersdorf, 23.12. -- Written probably around 1830?

With postmark "CROEPELIN 12/23." (Kröpelin is a neighboring town).

addressed to the "Frau Generalin von Krohn" in Rendsburg.

It is a matter of Charlotte von Krohn, b. Thomas (d. 1885), wife of the Holstein Major General and Minister of War August von Krohn (1781-1856) and mother of the Prussian Major General Alfred von Krohn (1820-1877).

Excerpts: "Yesterday evening your pretty things arrived, dearest Lotte, and - as you probably already know from my letters - the auction is already on the 19th. been in Rostock. What should I start now [...] Please make your decision [...]. God be with you on holy Christmas. My dears! Don't be so sad - the lovely festival should lift us all up [...]. All the best to you from Carl Wilhelm{?} and your{?} M."

Signature hard to read, it could also be called Carl Mige, Carl Migl or similar.

Format: 27.8 x 22 cm (folded 6.9 x 14.2 cm).

Circulated as a pre-philatelic cover; with postmark and several handwritten tax notes.

Condition: Thin paper somewhat stained, ins. Good. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: FM 220814 at Krol

About the recipient's husband (source: wikipedia):

August Friedrich Nikolaus von Krohn (born 23. February 1781 in Neustadt in Holstein; † 12 June 1856 in Ballenstedt) was a Holstein major general and minister of war. He had received the Danish officer's staff nobility, had been a knight of the Order of Dannebro since 1809 and was later commander of the order.

Life

Origin: His parents were the Lübeck notary Christian Friedrich Krohn and his wife Fredrike, née Fruehl.

Career: Krohn joined the Oldenburg infantry regiment as a free corporal at the age of 14 and was promoted to premier lieutenant by 1807. In 1809 he received the Order of Dannebro for his bravery in the storming of Stralsund. He rose to the rank of captain in 1813 and was adjutant to General Friedrich von Hessen, who commanded a Danish auxiliary corps. When he was able to defeat the Russian General von Wallmoden in the Battle of Sehested, Krohn was his chief of staff. Denmark still lost the war and now turned against Napoleon Bonaparte.

After the war, Krohn joined the Schleswig Jägerkorps, but remained adjutant until 1825, when he became adjutant to the Danish governor in Schleswig and Holstein, Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel. He was promoted to major after the death of the Landgrave Hofmarschall of Duke Wilhelm zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. In 1839 he became commander of the Order of Danebro. In 1840 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in 1843 to colonel. The latter was only possible because he was considered one of the most capable officers in the army.

During the Schleswig-Holstein uprising from 1848 to 1850 he was a major general in the Schleswig-Holstein army. After the end of the survey, he retired to Rendsburg and then went to his daughter in Ballenstedt around 1852.

Between 1820 and 1848 Krohn was the director of the military-run Christians-Pflegehaus in Eckernförde, an educational institution for children and orphans of state-level Danish soldiers and non-commissioned officers.

There is a portrait lithograph of him made in 1851 by Friedrich Adolf Hornemann.

Family: Krohn married on April 4. January 1810 Charlotte Thomsen († 1885). The couple had several children:

Ludwig (1812–1886), director of the salt works in Lüneburg ⚭ 1854 Charlotte Harding (1824–1885)

Auguste (1814–1902), lady-in-waiting in Anhalt-Bernburg (Anhalt-Bernburg nobility 1834) ⚭ 1836 Adolf von Moltke (1804–1871), lord of Ratzau

Clairant (1816–1867), Mayor in Bielefeld ⚭ Ida Diederichsen (1821–1860)

Alfred (1820–1877), Prussian major general, (Prussian nobility 1871) ⚭ 1863 Mathilde Freiin Braun von Wartenberg (* 1839)

Julius (1828–1904), Lotzen commander (Prussian nobility 1891) ⚭ Louise Karoline Brass (1834–1921)

factories

Basics of the art of war of our time. Schleswig, 1824, Institute for the Deaf and Dumb (Publisher)

Pedagogical remarks: with special reference to the nature and value of mutual schooling. 1825, digitized

Carl Friedrich Heinrich von Lange, Colonel and Commander of the Schleswig Jäger Corps, Grand Cross of the Dannebrog and Dannebrogsmann. a biographical sketch, 1830, Deaf and Dumb Institute (publisher)