Carl Gustaf Wrangel (23 December 1613-5 July 1676) was a Swedish general who served in the Thirty Years' War, Torstenson War, the Second Northern War, and the Scanian War.
Biography[]
Carl Gustaf Wrangel was born to a Baltic German family in Uppsala, Sweden in 1613, and he distinguished himself as a captain during the Thirty Years' War. He became a Major-General in 1638 and commanded a Swedish fleet during the Torstenson War, before being promoted to Field Marshal in 1646. He served as commander-in-chief of the Swedish army in Germany from 1646 to 1648, as Governor-General of Pomerania from 1648 to 1652 and from 1656 to 1676, Lord High Admiral of Sweden from 1657, and Lord High Constable from 1664. He died at his castle in 1676.