Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor

Count Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor (7 December 1744 – 15 May 1814) was a Swedish noble military officer and one of the Lords of the Realm.

He was the son of Christian Fredrik Klingspor (1711–1785) who was vice president of Svea Court of Appeal and who in 1771 had been made a friherre (baron).

When the Finnish War broke out in 1808, Klingspor turned out to lack suitable experience or temperament to fulfill the role of commanding general in wartime.

[1] After Klingspor had concluded the Truce of Lohteå on 29 September 1808, which meant that the army should retreat to Himanka, he was relieved of his command in a harshly worded decision.

In 1809, he was made Governor of Stockholm, but was removed from this position in 1810 after his passivity failed to prevent the lynching of Axel von Fersen.

[1] In a letter in December 1810 to the Russian empress dowager Maria Feodorovna he asked her to support his claim of damages for his loss of property in the Finnish War to the amount of half a million rubles.