Christian Carl Gabel

Christian Carl Gabel was a Danish naval officer who later served as Secretary of War and Director of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy and Holmen Naval Base. Prior to that, he had reached the rank of vice admiral after distinguishing himself in the Great Northern War. After falling out of favour at the court, in 1725 he was sent to Jutland as diocesan governor of Ribe and county governor of Riberhus. He was a major landowner but had to sell most of his estates in the middle of the 1730s.