Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau ia i Hesse-Kassel. Ko ia te tama taitamariki o te whare kingi o Sweden me te whare rangatira o Hesse o Schaumburg. Ko tana papa ko Karl Philip Christian, Count Wartensleben, a ko tona whaea ko Albertine Louise, te Baroness von Quadt me Wykradt o mua. I te tuatahi i uru ia ki te ope taua o Netherlands, engari i whakawhiti i ana taranata ki te ope o Habsburg i te tau 1758, i whakawhiwhia hei rangatira nui. I whakawhiwhia ia ki te "Szluiner" Grenz Infantry Regiment. Mo tana mahi i te
I te Pakanga o te Whakawhiti Bavarian i whakatairangahia ia ki te Koronela me te Kaituku o te Rōpū Rererangi No. 28, he tūranga i mau ia mai i te 1779 tae noa ki tona matenga i te 21 o Aperira 1798. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te Knights 'Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa i te 22 o Aperira 1790, me te Cross o te Kaihauturu i te 19 o Tihema. I whakahaua e ia te mana motuhake o te Lower Rhine i te tau 1796. I te mutunga ka hono atu tana ope ki tera o Archduke Charles, Duke o Teschen i Akuhata 1796, ko a raatau mahi honohono i patu i te hinganga tuatahi o te pakanga raumati ki te ope French, i te Pakanga o Amberg. I whara mate ia i te Pakanga o Emmendingen i te 19 o Oketopa 1796, i pakaru ai tona ringa maui i te pupuhi French, a ka mate ia neke atu i te tau i muri mai i Vienna.