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Daniel Gottfried Georg Langermann (born October 17, 1891 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg, Germany) was an officer of the Napoleonic armies, general of the Polish and Belgian armies, German nationality, November Uprising, Virtuti Militari. Outline of biography Langermann came from the Lutheran clergy. At the age of 16, he fled the house, enrolled in the Napoleonic army in 1807 and took part in in the battle of Moscow. In 1830 he was a major and adjutant of the famous general Maksymilian Lamarque. In 1831, the president of the Franco-Polish Committee for Help for the November Uprising, the Marquis Marie Joseph de La Fayette urged him to apply for accession to the Polish insurgent army, where Langermann was awarded the rank of colonel.

Upon his arrival in Poland on 19 May 1831, he was placed at the head of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. On May 22, fighting for the bridge in Tykocin, he distinguished himself and received the Golden Cross of the Virtuti Militari. He participated in the Battle of Ostrołęka, where his troops suffered great losses against the Russians. On July 27, 1831, he was appointed Brigadier General. In September 1831, Langermann was transferred to General Girolamo Ramorino's corps, which he had reached after the fall of Warsaw on September 7. On September 18th, he and Ramorino went to Galicia where, after a short internship, he went with Ramorino and several Polish officers whom he persuaded to emigrate to France and to Paris.

In 1832, Langermann joined the Belgian army, which he left in 1851 as Lieutenant General. The family did not set up and died in Paris. As in Sweden, Ernst Leopold von Schantz did not receive a permit in Belgium to wear the Virtuti Militari. Bibliography

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