was an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. On 5 July 1803, as Oberbefehlshaber (commander-in-chief) of the Hanoverian army, he signed the convention of Artlenburg and thus capitulated before the Napoleonic troops arrived. After Wallmoden-Gimborn's death, his nephew King George III acquired his collections of antique sculpture and books, over 8000 volumes. The collections are still in the ownership of the Welfs and since 1979 have formed a collection of the Archeological Institute in Göttingen. Marriages Wallmoden-Gimborn was first married in Hanover on 18 April 1766 to Charlotte Christiane Auguste Wilhelmine von Wangenheim (1740–1783), and they had five children: Ernst Georg August (8 May 1767 – 1 January 1792) Ludwig Georg Thedel (6 February 1769 – 20 March 1862), who became an Austrian General of Cavalry Georgine Charlotte Auguste (1 February 1770 – 13 August 1859) Wilhelmine Magdalene Friederike (22 June 1772 – 15 September 1819), who in 1793 married Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein Friedrike Eleonore Juliane (12 July 1776 – 18 February 1826), who married Ludwig Friedrich Count von Kielmansegg and was the mother of Wallmoden's second marriage, on 3 August 1788 in Bückeburg, was to Baroness Luise Christiane von Lichtenstein (1763–1809), a daughter of Baron Friedrich Karl von Lichtenstein by his marriage to Charlotte Ernestine von Berckefeld, and with her he had three further children: Karl August Ludwig (4 January 1792 – 28 February 1883), an Austrian Privy Councillor and Lieutenant-General. In 1833 he married Zoe, Countess von Grünne, daughter of , and from him is descended the Oberhaus Wallmoden line. Adolf Franz James Wilhelm (25 December 1794 – 3 December 1825) Luise Henriette (1796–1851) See also House of Wallmoden Literature Ralf Bormann: Wallmoden’s Collections at Hanover-Herrenhausen Depicted: Towards the Reconstruction of a Baroque aemulatio of the Uffizi, in: Andrea M. Gáldy, Sylvia Heudecker, Collecting Prints and Drawings, Newcastle 2018, S. 172-189 Ralf Bormann: Das verschleierte Bild. Zur Logik der Kopie in der Sammlung des Grafen Wallmoden (1736–1811), in: Antonia Putzger, Marion Heisterberg, Susanne Müller-Bechtel (Hg.), Nichts Neues Schaffen. Perspektiven auf die treue Kopie 1300–1900, Berlin 2018, S. 231-250 Ralf Bormann: Die Kunstsammlung des Reichsgrafen Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, in: Katja Lembke (Hg.), Als die Royals aus Hannover kamen. Hannovers Herrscher auf Englands Thron 1714–1837''. Katalog zur Niedersächsischen Landesausstellung im Landesmuseum Hannover und im Herrenhäuser Schloss vom 17. Mai bis zum 5. Oktober 2014, Dresden 2014, S. 238–261 1736 births 1811 deaths