Hans Schack, 6th Count of Schackenborg

He was the sixth holder of the Countship of Schackenborg from 1809 to 1814 with the title of enfeoffed count (Danish: lensgreve).

Born into the noble family of Schack, he was the second child and only son of the Danish nobleman and civil servant Otto Didrik Schack, and his first wife Amalie Magdalene Christiane Caroline von Krogh.

[2] At the death of his father on 18 August 1809, he inherited the Countship of Schackenborg and assumed the title of enfeoffed count.

[2] He was succeeded as Count of Schackenborg by his eldest surviving son, Otto Didrik Schack.

[1][3] Count Schack married in 1810 Countess Louise Frederikke Lerche, daughter of Dano-Norwegian aristocrat and civil servant Christian Cornelius Lerche, 1st Count of Lerchenborg and Ulrikke Sophie von Levetzow, by whom he had two children.

Schackenborg Castle , photographed in 2006.
Schackenborg Castle , front from east side (2023)