Eugen von Raumer

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Eugen von Raumer (born November 5, 1758 in Dessau , † February 28, 1832 in Neisse ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Von Raumer was the grandson of the Anhalt Government President Johann Georg von Raumer and son of the Anhalt Government Director Leopold Gustav Dietrich von Raumer and Anna Eleonore, born von Waldow (1724–1796). She was a daughter of the cathedral provost Christoph Otto von Waldow auf Bernstein in the Neumark and lady-in-waiting of the princesses Anna Luise Föhse and Gisela Agnes von Rath zu Anhalt-Dessau .

Military career

On the recommendation of his father's brother Karl Albrecht Friedrich von Raumer, Raumer was employed as a flagjunker in the infantry regiment "von Hacke" of the Prussian Army in 1773 and underwent his first military training in Stargard in Pomerania . After successfully passing an officer examination, Raumer was assigned to his first major assignment in the context of the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1777/78 . There he took part in the battle at Brix on February 5, 1779. He then continued his studies in the field of military science and was transferred to the General Staff Service in 1790 at the side of the two young Quartermaster General Lieutenant and later Generals Friedrich von Kleist and Julius von Grawert . With them he explored future potential battlefields in Silesia and on the Baltic Sea. On September 21, 1791 he was promoted to captain and participated in the First Coalition War .

Here it was initially taken prisoner by the French during the reconquest of Frankfurt am Main in 1792 , but was soon exchanged again at Custine's instigation . Raumer was then instrumental in the attack on Kostheim . He led a group of 100 volunteers, was able to enter the city via a connecting trench and hold the position until reinforcements arrived and the French surrendered around 150 men. For this he received the order Pour le Mérite . The capture of the city was strategically important for the siege of Mainz and its surrender on July 23, 1793. After his subsequent participation in the Battle of Pirmasens , he was promoted to major .

He remained stationed in the Mainz area until the peace treaty of Campo Formio in 1797, then was transferred back to his garrison in Neisse and in 1803 was appointed commander of the "von Malschitzky" infantry regiment . On June 1, 1805, Raumer became a colonel . Raumer took part in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt with the regiment . He was seriously injured and captured by a shot in the neck. After the war he was released on his word of honor and when the French cleared the Prussian fortresses in 1808 he was appointed commander of Brieg and in summer 1809 as the fortress commander of Neisse. Six years later, his former superior, Grawert, who had meanwhile been promoted to Lieutenant General, put him in command of the 3rd Infantry Brigade , with which he was to take part in Napoléon's Russian campaign in 1812 as part of the Prussian auxiliary corps . But after Grawert's departure due to illness in the same year, his successor General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg made it clear that he did not agree with Raumer as commander, and transferred him back to his post as fortress commander of Neisse. Raumer spent his next years here and was retired with the rank of lieutenant general in 1815.

family

Von Raumer was married to Franziska Pino (1760-1833), who came from a noble family from Como. The couple had a son and daughter Agnes (* October 27, 1799, † 1828), who married Captain Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Dehrmann.

Literature and Sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Agnes von Dehrmann on ULB Münster
personal data
SURNAME Raumer, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raumer, Eugenius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1832
Place of death Neisse