Joachim Castenschiold

Lieutenant-General Joachim Melchior Holten von Castenschiold (29 November 1743 – 6 April 1817) was a Danish army officer and landowner who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

He was son of slaveholding planter Johan Lorentz Castenschiold and his wife Jacoba von Holten.

In 1760, Castenschiold enlisted in the Danish army as an officer at the Schleswig Cuirassier Regiment, and was eventually promoted to the rank of major in 1776.

Because of Queen Caroline Matilda's dislike of Castenschiold, he was chosen to escort her to Kronborg together with 30 dragoons after she was arrested.

In 1807, Castenschiold led the East Danish (mainly Zealandic) territorial force, which was established to defend Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars.