Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch (General, 1827)

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Friedrich von Rauch (Lieutenant General)
Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch

Friedrich Wilhelm Roderich von Rauch (born January 3, 1827 in Potsdam , † March 25, 1907 in Schwerin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch (1790–1850) and his wife Laurette, née Countess von Moltke (1790–1864) from the Wolde family . His grandfather was Major General Bonaventura von Rauch , his great grandfather was General of the Cavalry Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz . His brothers were General of the Cavalry Alfred Bonaventura von Rauch and Colonel Egmont von Rauch, Commander of the Brandenburg Hussar Regiment (Zietensche Hussars) No. 3 . His sister Elise Countess von Fersen (1820–1908) was lady-in-waiting to the Russian Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna .

career

Like his brothers Alfred and Egmont, Rauch visited the cadet house in Potsdam. On 10 August 1843 he was a sergeant the (gen. Emperor of Russia) 6. Cuirassiers of the Prussian army in Brandenburg an der Havel paid. In May 1846 he was promoted to secondary lieutenant and from January 1851 worked as a regimental adjutant. In this position he rose to Rittmeister by the end of May 1859 . Otto von Bismarck , at that time the Prussian envoy in Saint Petersburg , wrote about him: "The young Rauch is of the class of officers, whom I always regard as a reserve of diplomacy: the calm mind of his father and good, confident manners". From June to August 1859, during the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , Rauch acted briefly as squadron leader of the 6th Heavy Landwehr Cavalry Regiment and then as leader of the replacement squadron of the 6th Cuirassier Regiment. On May 12, 1860 he was commanded as a squadron leader to the 3rd Combined Uhlan Regiment, from which the 2nd Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment (No. 11) was formed in July 1860 . Rauch was given command of the 1st Squadron in Perleberg and occupied Flensburg with his Ulans in the war against Denmark in 1864 . He and his soldiers confiscated a number of Danish merchant ships in the harbor, which prompted King Wilhelm I to comment when the Prussian troops entered Berlin: "Look at the man who has captured more ships than the entire Prussian fleet." Rauch received the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords, for his achievements .

In mid-April 1866, Rauch became an adjutant at the General Command of III. Army Corps in Berlin and during the mobilization on the occasion of the war against Austria as an adjutant at the High Command of the 1st Army under General of the Cavalry Friedrich Karl Prince of Prussia . In this position he advanced to major in mid-May and, on behalf of the commander-in-chief, as a parliamentarian, reported to the Austrian high command that Prussian troops were entering Bohemia. It was the only written declaration of war in this campaign. In the further course of the war, Rauch took part in the battles near Münchengrätz and Königgrätz . His behavior was through the award of the Crown Order III. Class honored with swords.

Major General von Rauch (right) reports to the outgoing commanding general of the VII Army Corps Wilhelm Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (on the mold), oil painting by Emil Hünten , signed, 1882

After the peace treaty , Rauch was transferred to the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment as a regular staff officer at the end of October 1866 . Under position à la suite of this regiment, he was commanded to Braunschweig on March 15, 1869 to take command of the Hussar Regiment No. 17 stationed there . With the beginning of the war against France , Rauch was appointed regimental commander and shortly thereafter promoted to lieutenant colonel. During the battle of Mars-la-Tour and Vionville , his regiment managed to break up the staff of the French Marshal Bazaine in an attack , so that the French troops were without proper leadership in the following hours. The name of the Braunschweig Mars-la-Tour barracks , which is now used as a residential and office complex, is a reminder of the events . Rauch was wounded in the subsequent Battle of Gravelotte , but stayed with his association .

Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross, he fell ill with a knee disease after the peace treaty and was only fit for duty again at the end of 1872. In the meantime he had been promoted to colonel on January 18, 1872 . Under position à la suite of the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment, he was appointed commander of the 14th Cavalry Brigade in Düsseldorf on January 2, 1876 , which was responsible for the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5 and the 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11 . Initially without a patent , Rauch was promoted to major general on September 20, 1876 . He received the patent for this rank on January 3, 1877. After he had taken over the brigade from Major General Prince Heinrich of Hesse and the Rhine in 1876, he handed it over to Major General Maximilian von Versen in 1882 . With his promotion to lieutenant general smoke was transferred on 21 November 1882 the officers of the army and. Under the star ceremony for Red Eagle II Class with oak leaves and swords with the law on June 10, 1884 Pension for disposition made.

After his farewell, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Crown, 1st Class with Swords on the Ring, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Mars-la-Tour and Vionville. The retired Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch lived in Schwerin at Jungfernstieg 4b and later at Schelfmarkt 6 until his death .

family

Colonel Alfred von Rauch (1864–1948) - signed portrait photograph by Ernst Sandau ; senior, 1917

Rauch had married Katharia Tugendreich von Behr-Negendank (1842-1897) on October 30, 1863 in Passow . She was the daughter of Chamberlain Hermann von Behr-Negendank, entertainer on Torgelow , Passow , Neverin , Kavelsdorf and Ravenhorst , and his wife Antonie, née von Renthe-Fink.

The following children emerged from the marriage of Friedrich Wilhelm and Katharina von Rauch:

  • Alfred (1864–1948), Prussian colonel and commander of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 27 ⚭ 1898 Elisabeth von Bandel (1877–1947)
  • Wilhelm (1869–1890), Prussian cadet in the main cadet institute in Groß-Lichterfelde
  • Amélie (1870–1921) ⚭ 1896 Paul Kriebitz, general director of a Görlitz brown coal accelerator

Rauch was buried next to his wife in the old cemetery in Schwerin. The grave was lost when the city was bombed in April 1945. The grave of his daughter Elisabeth von Warnstedt, née von Rauch, and his fallen son-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel Konrad von Warnstedt, could be rebuilt in the old cemetery in the 1990s. On the south wall of the Schwerin Castle Church , the fallen soldiers of the First World War are commemorated, including Konrad von Warnstedts.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bismarck's correspondence with the Minister Freiherr von Schleinitz. ed. by Otto von Bismarck (1858–1861), Series German Reich - Writings and Discourses - Reich Chancellor Volume I / IV., 2012, p. 139.
  2. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 412.
personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Friedrich Wilhelm Roderich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1907
Place of death Schwerin