Friedrich von Rauch (General)
Friedrich Leopold Bonaventura von Rauch (born February 15, 1855 in Berlin ; † April 22, 1935 there ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .
Life
origin
Friedrich was the son of the Prussian general of the cavalry Alfred Bonaventura von Rauch and his wife Elisabeth, née Countess von Brühl , lady-in-waiting of Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Prussia . His great-great-grandfather on his mother's side was Heinrich Graf von Brühl , the great-grandfather Hanns Moritz von Brühl and his grandfather Carl von Brühl , the lord of Seifersdorf Castle and director of the royal theater in Berlin at the time the Schauspielhaus (Berlin) was rebuilt by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and under Brühls inaugurated directorship 1821 and Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber was welturaufgeführt on 18 June 1821st His grandfather was Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch , Adjutant General King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia and Prussian military representative at the court of the Tsars in St. Petersburg , and his great-grandfather was Major General Bonaventura von Rauch . His sister Anna von Rauch was lady-in-waiting of the Duchess Charlotte von Sachsen-Meiningen , the eldest daughter of Emperor Friedrich III. of Prussia and his wife Victoria Princess of Great Britain and Ireland.
Military career
After his time as a cadet in Potsdam , Rauch joined the 2nd Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 12 of the Prussian Army in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1871 as a second lieutenant . From 1879 to 1882 he graduated from the military academy . Promoted to prime lieutenant in 1882 , he stayed in Berlin and was assigned to the General Staff from 1884 to 1886 . Then he was promoted to captain in the Great General Staff, and was first assigned to service in the General Staff of the V Army Corps in Posen and then to the General Staff of the Guard Cavalry Division in Berlin.
In 1891 he was promoted to major . Until 1896 he was used in Hanover in the general staff of the 19th Division and then the higher-ranking Xth Army Corps . He was then a-budgetary staff officer for the Brunswick Hussars. 17 added to 1897 after his promotion to lieutenant colonel , the command over the first Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Dragoons. 17 in Ludwigslust to take over. A year later Rauch was appointed commander of the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland" in Berlin, which was stationed in the buildings of the Guards Dragoon barracks that have been preserved in Kreuzberg to this day . In this capacity he was a member of the delegation that represented the Prussian Army at the funeral services for Queen Victoria in London in 1901 . In 1900 he was promoted to colonel .
In 1902 Rauch was transferred to Münster to take over as commander of the 13th Cavalry Brigade . Only one year later he was promoted to major general commander of the 17th Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Cavalry Brigade in Schwerin , to which the two Mecklenburg dragoon regiments No. 17 and No. 18 from Ludwigslust and Parchim belonged and which his father from 1869 until 1875. In 1906 he was appointed inspector of the 1st cavalry inspection in Königsberg . In approval of his resignation , Rauch was put up for disposition on February 2, 1911 and was given the character of General of the Cavalry .
After the First World War he acted as administrator of the Invalidendank .
The Berlin court painter Conrad Freyberg created a portrait painting of Rauch as commander of the 1st Guard Dragoons Regiment. It hung in the Schmoldower manor house until 1945 . Since then it has been considered lost.
Grave in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof
Rauch was buried together with his second wife Amélie von Bülow in Rauch's grave place on the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin-Mitte next to his parents and grandparents. The tomb was designed by court architect Friedrich August Stüler on behalf of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . All graves are preserved. The family grave complex, only a few meters away from the former Berlin Wall , was restored after German reunification in the 1990s by the garden monument maintenance department of the Berlin State Monuments Office . The restoration was funded by the federal government, the Foundation Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin and the Invalidenfriedhof eV association
The grave of his first wife Anna von Behr , who died early in 1896, also remains in the manor cemetery of her father's family in Vargatz in Western Pomerania .
family
Rauch married Anna von Behr (1865-1896) in Schmoldow on September 22, 1885. She was the owner of the Schmoldow estate and daughter of Friedrich von Behr , a member of the Reichstag and Prussian mansion , president of the German Fisheries Association and landowner on Schmoldow and Vargatz, and his wife Marie, née Homeyer .
After her death, Rauch married Amélie von Bülow (1868–1950), lady-in-waiting to Grand Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on April 12, 1902, in Gudow . She was the daughter of the Lauenburg hereditary land marshal and landowner Friedrich von Bülow and his wife Amalie, née von Oertzen .
The first marriage resulted in two daughters:
- Elisabeth (1893–1973) ⚭ 1916 in Schwerin with Major Kurt von Storch (1890–1965)
- Olga (1896–1979) ⚭ 1940 in Ohlstadt with Carl Graf von Thun and Hohenstein (1883–1961), kuk chamberlain, lieutenant colonel ret. D.
The second marriage resulted in a son and a daughter:
- Bonaventura (1903–1976) ⚭ 1929 in Berlin with Käte Wendler (1906–1990)
- Feodora (1907–1990) ⚭ 1934 in Berlin with Andor von Nagy-Mechwart (1896–1971)
swell
- Mecklenburgisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - Grand Ducal Cabinet, Acta re the General of the Cavalry a. D. von Rauch in Berlin.
literature
- Who is it. Berlin 1912.
- Klaus-Ulrich Keubke: Small military history of Mecklenburg. 1995, pp. 84, 87.
- Laurenz Demps : Between Mars and Minerva. Signpost Invalidenfriedhof, 1998, p. 125.
- Gothaische Adeliges Taschenbuch Volumes B 1928 (older genealogy) to 1939.
- Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volumes B VII. (1965), p. 339, and B XXI (1995), p. 441.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rauch, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rauch, Friedrich Leopold Bonaventure von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian general of the cavalry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1935 |
| Place of death | Berlin |