Albert von Rauch

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General of the Infantry Albert von Rauch, photograph by JCSchaarwächter , 1897

Albert Gustav Guido von Rauch (born August 21, 1829 in Berlin ; † January 28, 1901 there ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Albert von Rauch was a son of the Prussian Minister of War , an honorary citizen of Berlin and General of the Infantry Gustav von Rauch and his second wife Rosalie, born von Holtzendorff (born June 30, 1790 in Berlin; † March 3, 1862 ibid). His grandfather was Major General Bonaventura von Rauch .

His brothers were the cavalry general Gustav Waldemar von Rauch and the Prussian head stable master Fedor von Rauch . His half-brother was the court marshal and chamberlain Adolf von Rauch , his sister Rosalie Countess von Hohenau , morganatic wife of Prince Albrecht of Prussia , the youngest brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And Emperor Wilhelm I.

Military career

Rauch attended secondary school in his hometown and then the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . Subsequently, on April 22, 1847, he was transferred as a second lieutenant to the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army in Potsdam, and in 1850 he was assigned to the regiment's budget. In 1855 he became adjutant at the non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam. At the personal request of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia , with whom Rauch had a friendship from his youth, he was appointed adjutant of the 1st Guard Infantry Division in August 1857 . By the end of May 1859 he was promoted to captain and in June 1860 took over the 10th Company of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot. From July to September 1864, Rauch was briefly assigned to represent the commander of the Jülich NCO School. During the war against Austria in 1866 he acted as the commander of the headquarters of the 2nd Army under their commander in chief, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia .

After the end of the war, Rauch was promoted to major and appointed commander of the non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam under the position of his regiment. At the end of February 1868 he was released from his post, reassigned to his regiment and transferred to the staff. In the war against France in 1870/71 Rauch led the III stationed in Graudenz as commander . Battalion of the 1st Guards Landwehr Regiment in the sieges of Strasbourg and Paris as well as in the battles at Noircourt , La Malmaison and Droué . Awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class, after the Peace of Frankfurt in June 1871 , Rauch was commander of the 2nd battalion in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot. In this capacity, promoted to lieutenant colonel in mid-August 1871 , Rauch was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class at the end of September and was appointed commander of the training infantry battalion at the beginning of February 1872. As a colonel , he was assigned on December 12, 1873, to lead the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 in Karlsruhe . February 14, 1874 to February 2, 1880 he was commander of this Association and subsequently with promotion to major general commander of the 41st Infantry Brigade in Mainz . At the beginning of August 1884 he was sent to Hanover to represent the commander of the 19th Division on leave . Shortly thereafter, Rauch was promoted to lieutenant general on September 4, 1884, and appointed division commander, and on May 5, 1888, he was awarded the First Class Crown Order. In approval of his resignation request , Rauch was put up for disposal on August 2, 1888 with the statutory pension .

At the same time he succeeded his brother General of the Cavalry Gustav Waldemar von Rauch in Berlin as chief of the rural gendarmerie . In this position he had to wear the active badges and was continued in the rankings . In mid-August 1889, smoke the character as General of Infantry and in April 1897 on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the service patent to this rank. With the award of the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order with Oak Leaves, Swords and Crown, Rauch was relieved of his position as chief of the rural gendarmerie on August 25, 1897.

He was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. His grave has not been preserved.

family

Rauch married Elisabeth von Bismarck on May 18, 1866 in Potsdam (born January 17, 1845 in Potsdam, † November 19, 1923 in Berlin). She was the daughter of Major a. D. Klaus von Bismarck and Constanze von Schleinitz .

The marriage had four children:

literature

  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 448-450, no. 3005.
  • Gothaische Noble paperback. Volumes B 1928, p. 470.
  • August von Hennin: Master lists of officers, medical officers and civil servants of the current 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109. 1803–1903. Publishing house of Chr. Fr. Müller'schen Hofbuchhandlung, Freiburg im Breisgau / Karlsruhe 1903.
  • J. Schott: The family v. Rauch in the Prussian Army. In: Military weekly paper . No. 79 of September 6, 1893, pp. 1979-1985.
  • Laurenz Demps : Between Mars and Minerva. Signpost for the Invalidenfriedhof. 1998, p. 126.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ colleges.
personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Albert Gustav Guido von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1901
Place of death Berlin