Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode

He participated in the Napoleonic wars part, and was Lieutenant General and commander of the 27th Landwehr Regiment.

On 18 December 1815, his father had transferred the Lordship of Kreppelhof (Grodztwo) in Silesia (today part of Kamienna Góra, Poland) to him in fideicommiss and majorat.

This meant that he was not allowed to sell it and it would be owned by him and his descendants in perpetuity and it would be indivisible and inherited according to primogeniture.

In 1831, he inherited the Lordship of Diersfordt near Wesel from his brother-in-law Baron Christopher Alexander Charles Frederick von Wylich.

In 1837, he was appointed chief minister in Magdeburg as well as governor of the Prussian Province of Saxony.

Memorial plaque from 1913 at Ilsestein hill, explaining why Count Anton erected a cross on top of the hill in 1814