Fedor from Rauch
Fedor Alexander Gustav von Rauch (born August 8, 1822 in Berlin ; † January 15, 1892 ) was a Prussian cavalry officer and, with the rank of a real secret council, chief stable master of the Prussian kings and German Emperor Wilhelm I , Friedrich III. and Wilhelm II. In horse racing and thoroughbred breeding he worked a. a. as Vice President of the Union Club in Berlin.
Life
origin
Fedor von Rauch was the son of the Prussian War Minister and honorary citizen of Berlin , General of the Infantry Gustav von Rauch and his second wife Rosalie, born von Holtzendorff (1790–1862). His grandfather was Major General Bonaventura von Rauch .
His brothers were the cavalry general Gustav Waldemar von Rauch and the infantry general Albert von Rauch . His half-brother was the court marshal and chamberlain Adolf von Rauch . His sister Rosalie Countess von Hohenau , was the second, morganatic wife of Prince Albrecht of Prussia , the youngest brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And Kaiser Wilhelm I. His cousins included General of the Cavalry Alfred Bonaventura von Rauch , with whom he was his horse racing enthusiast Shared enthusiasm.
Career as a cavalry officer and court stable master
Fedor von Rauch first began a career as a cavalry officer and joined the Guard Dragoon Regiment of the Prussian Army in Berlin in 1839 as an avantageur . In the same year he was promoted to portepee ensign and aggregated as a second lieutenant in 1840 , only to be ranked over the budget in 1845. In 1847 Fedor von Rauch was given the opportunity to get to know the Prussian stud administration for a year, also in Berlin. From 1849 to 1851 he returned to the Guard Dragoons as a regimental adjutant .
After he had been given leave of absence for one year for the stud administration of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1851 , he decided in 1852 - meanwhile promoted to Prime Lieutenant - to finally move to Neustrelitz . At the court of Grand Duke Georg he worked as a travel and stables master and became chamberlain.
Before Prince Regent Wilhelm was crowned King of Prussia in 1861, he reorganized his court and won Fedor von Rauch to return to Berlin as court stable master. Rauch later rose to the position of Vice Head Stableman and Real Secret Councilor. With the retirement of the long-serving court and house marshal Hermann von Pückler , Fedor von Rauch became head stable master of Kaiser Wilhelm I and head of the imperial upper marshal in 1886 . He was the only one among all court batches who belonged to the Berlin court during the entire reign of King or Kaiser Wilhelm I. Fedor von Rauch also held the position of head stable master, which was one of the Oberhof batches, under Emperor Friedrich III. and Kaiser Wilhelm II. In 1891 he retired.
Fedor von Rauch experienced the two wars of 1866 and 1870/71 in the great headquarters of the Prussian king; on January 18, 1871 he took part in the imperial proclamation in Versailles . He reported about this to his wife in letters from the field, which his youngest son, who also had the first name Fedor, published in 1911 under the title Letters from the Great Headquarters .
Horse racing
In addition to his court posts, Fedor von Rauch had made a name for himself in horse racing and thoroughbred breeding, as a racing, dressage and campaign rider, but also as a driver. In 1848 he and his cousin Alfred Bonaventura von Rauch became champion of the men's and amateur racing riders.
After the end of active equestrian sport, Fedor von Rauch worked as court stable master to the Prussian King Wilhelm in 1867/68 in the construction of the Hoppegarten horse racing track and its racing operations. In the 1860s and 1870s, Rauch, together with Wilhelm Herz and Landstallmeister Georg Graf von Lehndorff, formed the board of directors of the Association for Horse Breeding and Horse Training , which was the first to organize horse races in and around Berlin. Later, Rauch u. a. as Vice President of the Berlin-based Union Club, the umbrella organization for horse racing in the German Empire and the races in Hoppegarten.
As the royal stables master, he lived with his wife in the associated service apartment in the Ribbeck House at Breiten Str. 36, which is directly adjacent to the stables and is now the oldest residential building in Berlin that still exists.
Like many of the Rauch family members, Fedor and Elisabeth von Rauch were buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin-Mitte . Their graves are no longer preserved.
family
Fedor von Rauch married in Neustrelitz on October 28, 1856 Countess Elisabeth von Waldersee (1837–1914), lady-in-waiting to Grand Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . She was the daughter of Colonel a. D. Eduard Graf von Waldersee and his wife Laurette, née von Alvensleben .
The marriage produced three sons:
- Mortimer (1857–1879), portepee ensign in the 1st Brandenburg Dragoons Regiment No. 2
- Georg (1861–1905), Landstallmeister and Stud Director of the Prussian State Stud Marienwerder , Rittmeister of the Guard Landwehr Cavalry
- Fedor (1866–1905), author, Imperial Chinese Legation Councilor a. D., First Lieutenant ret. D.
literature
- Fedor von Rauch: Letters from the Great Headquarters 1866 a. 1870-71. Berlin 1911. Biographical introduction.
- Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin. Volumes 24-26, 1907. pp. 63ff.
- H. von Rohr: History of the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment. Theil II, 1880, p. 29.
- Gothaisches aristocratic paperback. Volumes B 1928 (older genealogy) to 1939, p. 470.
- Society of Berlin: Handbook and address book for the Society of Berlin, Charlottenburg and Potsdam. Berlin 1889, p. 329.
- Carl Suchomel (Ed.): Sportblatt (Centralblatt for the interests of horse breeding and sport). III. Year, Vienna 1872, p. 80.
- Association of German Amateur Rennreiter eV (Ed.): 150 years of amateur racing. 1977, p. 150.
- Gerd von Ende: Berlin racing fever - gallop and trot on 150 years of Hoppegartener Turf. Tredition publisher, Hamburg 2018, pp. 91, 94.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rauch, Fedor von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rauch, Fedor Alexander Gustav von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian cavalry officer, head stable master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1892 |