Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An haife shi a Hesse-Kassel. Shi ne ƙaramin ɗan gidan sarauta na Sweden da gidan sarauta na Hesse na Schaumburg. Mahaifinsa shi ne Karl Philip Christian, Count Wartensleben, kuma mahaifiyarsa ita ce Albertine Louise, tsohuwar Baroness von Quadt da Wykradt. Da farko ya shiga rundunar sojan Holland, amma ya canza basirarsa zuwa rundunar Habsburg a 1758, an ba shi izini a matsayin Manjo. An sanya shi zuwa "Szluiner" Grenz Infantry Regiment. Domin hidimarsa a cikin War of Bavarian Succession
an daukaka shi zuwa Kanal kuma Mai mallakar Rundunar Sojojin Sojojin 28, wani matsayi da ya rike daga 1779 har zuwa mutuwarsa a ranar 21 ga Afrilu 1798. Ya karɓi Knights 'Cross na Soja na Maria Theresa a ranar 22 ga Afrilu 1790, da kuma Cross na Kwamandan a ranar 19 ga Disamba. Ya umurci ikon mallaka na Lower Rhine a 1796. Lokacin da sojojinsa suka haɗu da na Archduke Charles, Duke na Teschen a watan Agusta 1796, haɗin gwiwarsu ya haifar da rashin nasarar farko na yakin bazara a kan sojojin Faransa, a yakin Amberg. Ya ji rauni sosai a yakin Emmendingen a ranar 19 ga Oktoba, 1796, wanda hannun hagunsa ya karye ta hanyar Faransa, kuma ya mutu fiye da shekara guda a Vienna.