Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (26 October 1768 in Silesia – 11 March 1837 in Potsdam) was a Prussian officer and cartographer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Steinmetz commanded a brigade in the Waterloo campaign. He was the uncle, and through his daughter Julie, father-in-law of Field Marshal Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz.[1]

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  1. ↑ Bernhard von Poten (1893), "Steinmetz, Karl Friedrich Franciscus von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 6–10
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