Friedrich Alexander von Bismarck-Bohlen

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General Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen
Friedrich Alexander Count von Bismarck-Bohlen

Friedrich Theodor Alexander Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen (born June 25, 1818 in Karlsburg (Western Pomerania) , † May 9, 1894 ibid) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .

Life

origin

Friedrich Alexander von Bismarck-Bohlen came from the noble family Bismarck . He was the eldest son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Theodor Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen (1790–1873) and his wife Caroline, née Countess von Bohlen (1798–1858). The Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was a distant cousin.

Military career

Friedrich Alexander von Bismarck-Bohlen was born at the ancestral home of his family at Schloss Karlsburg near Wolgast and raised at a young age in the cadet corps in Berlin, from which he was transferred in 1835 as a second lieutenant to the Guard Dragoons Regiment of the Prussian Army . In 1842 he was assigned to Prince Adalbert of Prussia , with whom he visited Brazil and other overseas countries. On his return he was given two years' leave to visit the University of Berlin . In 1846 he became a military advisor to Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia when he was studying at the University of Bonn .

In 1848 he returned to his regiment , was appointed Rittmeister the following year and soon became squadron chief . In 1853, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia committed him to personal service and made him a wing adjutant . In 1856 Bismarck-Bohlen became the commandant of the body gendarmerie and in 1858 took over the Guard Hussar Regiment . In 1859 he was promoted to colonel and in 1861 was given command of the 5th Cavalry Brigade in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Bismarck-Bohlen (third from left) in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Prussian headquarters in Versailles

In 1864 he became major general and took part in the German War on the General Staff of the General Command of the Cavalry Corps of the First Army . He was involved in the battles of Münchengrätz , Gitschin , Königgrätz and Blumenau .

In the same year he was appointed commandant of Hanover and promoted to lieutenant general. In 1868 he became the commandant of Berlin and chief of the entire state gendarmerie . In the war against France in 1870/71, Bismarck-Bohlen was Governor General in Alsace . In August 1871 he was awarded the rank of Commanding General added to the officers of the army and on November 21, under appointment as adjutant general of the emperor with board for disposition made. On March 30, 1873, Bismarck-Bohlen received the character of General of the Cavalry. He received the patent for this rank on September 18, 1880.

Friedrich Alexander Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen died on his Karlsburg estate.

family

Friedrich Alexander von Bismarck-Bohlen was married to Pauline von Below (1825-1889), a daughter of Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Below and his wife Auguste, née Zimmermann. The couple had the following children:

⚭ I. on December 28, 1871 in Karlsburg Georg Werner Count von Arnim -Muskau (1845–1881)
⚭ II. On July 24, 1889 in Mellenau Traugott Hermann von Arnim-Muskau (1839–1919) her brother-in-law

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knights and Aristocratic families 1881. Sixth year, p. 33.
personal data
SURNAME Bismarck-Bohlen, Friedrich Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bismarck-Bohlen, Friedrich Alexander Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsburg (Western Pomerania)
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1894
Place of death Karlsburg (Western Pomerania)