Emanuel Félix de Wimpffen

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General von Wimpffen
Bust on the grave monument

Baron Emanuel Felix von Wimpffen (born September 13, 1811 in Laon , † February 26, 1884 in Paris ) was a French general of German descent.

Life

Emanuel Félix de Wimpffen was a grandson of Felix von Wimpffen . He attended the military school in Saint-Cyr and entered an infantry regiment. Wimpffen served a long time in Algiers, where he organized the Turkos and commanded a regiment of them in the Crimean War . In 1855 he became General de brigade . Wimpffen distinguished himself in the Sardinian War in 1859 and was Général de division . Then he was sent back to Algeria, where he administered first the province of Algiers, then Oran, and in March 1870 suppressed a dangerous uprising.

In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War , he was appointed to command the V Army Corps in Failly's place.He arrived at the army in Sedan on August 31, took over command of the army on September 1 after Mac Mahon's wounding and signed the surrender on September 2 .

He then lived in Algiers and died on February 26, 1884 in Paris, where he is buried on the Père Lachaise .

Works

  • Sedan . - Paris: Librairie Internationale, 1871
  • Réponse au général Ducrot  : Par un officier supérieur . - Paris: Librairie Internationale A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1871
  • La situation de la France et les reformes nécessaires . - 1873
  • La Nation armée . - Paris: Dentu, 1876

Emile Corra published the following from his abandoned papers:

  • La bataille de Sedan, les véritables coupables: Histoire complète, politique et militaire d'après des matériaux inédits, élaborés et coordonnés . - Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1887; German Augsburg 1889

See also

Wimpffen (noble family)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wimpffen, Emanuel Félix de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimpffen, Emanuel Felix von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Laon
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1884
Place of death Paris