August Ludwig Ferdinand Count von Nostitz-Ransen (27 December 1777 inZessel, nearÖls – 28 May 1866 on his estates atZobten, nearLöwenberg in Schlesien) was aPrussian general who acted as adjutant general toFrederick William III of Prussia.^{[citation needed]}

August Ludwig was born as the eldest son of Count Georg August vonNostitz-Ransen (1709-1795) and his wife Baroness Johanna Christine Eleonore vonReiszwitz-Kaderzin (1756-1840). His siblings included Count Karl Wilhelm (1783-1850), Count Ludwig Georg (1784-1839), Countess Eleonore vonDyhrn (1787-1853) and Friederike Henriette vonRosen (1781-1871), countess Martha Henriette (1785-1862) von Tschirschky.

He joined thePrussian Army in 1802, leaving it in 1810 only to return in 1813 as a staff officer of the Silesianuhlans.^[1] After thebattle of Bautzen^{[citation needed]} he became adjutant toGebhard Leberecht von Blücher.^[2]

On 16 June 1815, towards the end of thebattle of Ligny, Nostitz stood guard over Blücher after Blücher fell stunned under his horse and after the FrenchCuirassiers had passed attracted the attention of counter charging Prussian troopers who then remounted the dazed Blücher onSergeant Schneider's horse and escorted him from the battlefield.^[3]

Nostitz became a major general in 1825^{[citation needed]} and served onNicholas I of Russia's general staff during theRusso-Turkish War (1828–1829).^[2]

In 1833 Nostitz became deputy commander ofBerlin,^[2] then lieutenant general in 1838 and commander of the 5th Hussar Regiment (the Blüchersche Husaren) in 1840.^{[citation needed]} He left active service in May 1848,^[2] was promoted togeneral of the cavalry in 1849^{[citation needed]} and from 1850 to 1860 served as Prussian ambassador to theKingdom of Hanover.^[2]

In 1829 August Georg married Countess Klara Louise Auguste vonHatzfeldt-Trachenberg (1807-1858), daughter ofPrince Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg (1756-1827) andCountess Friederike von der Schulenburg-Kennerth (1779-1832).^[1] They had one son and two daughters:

• Countess Maria von Nostitz-Ransen (b. 1832)
• Countess Anna von Nostitz-Ransen (1833-1870); married Count Alexander vonStrachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz (1817-1866) and had issue.
• Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Nostitz-Ransen (1835-1916); married Eleonore Alexandrine von Johnston und Kroegeborn (1868-1938) and had issue

He received the following orders and decorations:^[4]

• Bernhard von Poten (1887),"Nostitz, Ferdinand Graf von" ,Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 24, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 28–29
• Siborne, William (1848),The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4th ed.), Westminster: A. Constable

• Hirtenfeld, Jaromir (1857),Der Militär-Maria-Theresien-Orden und seine Mitglieder,Vienna, p. 1320{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Literature by and about August Ludwig von Nostitz in theGerman National Library catalogue
• Works by and about August Ludwig von Nostitz in theDeutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)

• Prussian Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
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• 1866 deaths
• Nostitz family
• People from Oleśnica County
• Prussian generals
• Recipients of the Iron Cross, 1st class
• Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
• Knights Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa
• Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree
• Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class
• Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
• Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia)
• Knights of the Order of the Sword

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