Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Thielmann ki Dresden. Ka uru atu ia ki te hoia eke hoiho o Saxon i te tau 1782, ka kite ia i te mahi ki nga Wīwī i te
Ko nga pakanga a Rhine me te mahi i te taha o Prussia i te pakanga a Jena. Whai muri i te aitua o Jena, i tukuna a Thielmann e Saxony hei karere ki a Napoleon I, ka noho hei kaiwhaiwhai nui, a he nui tana mahi ki te kawe mai i te hononga Franco-Saxon. I haere tahi a Thielmann i te roopu Saxon i whawhai i te whakapae o Danzig me Friedland.