Karl Heinrich Friedrich von Raumer

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Karl Heinrich Friedrich von Raumer (born September 20, 1757 in Dessau , † July 2, 1831 in Demmin ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

He came from the southern German noble family von Raumer and was the third son of the Anhalt government director Leopold Gustav Dietrich von Raumer (1726–1788) and his wife Anna Eleonore, born von Waldow from the Bernstein family (1723–1796). His brothers were the archivist Karl Georg , the chamber director Georg Friedrich (1755-1822), and the later Prussian lieutenant general Eugen (1758-1823).

Military career

Raumer attended high school in Stargard . On August 16, 1772 he was employed as a private corporal in the infantry regiment "von Plötz" of the Prussian Army . During the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778/79, he took part as a second lieutenant in the battle at Weißkirch and rose to staff captain until January 1793 . With his regiment, Raumer was used in the campaign against Poland in the siege of Warsaw and the battle near Tykoczyn in 1794/95 . In the meantime promoted to major , Raumer was captured by the French in 1806 at the Battle of Auerstedt , which he spent in Metz and later in Nancy . He only returned home in the spring of 1808. Due to the defeat of Prussia, he was given half his salary with the prospect of being re-employed .

At the intercession of Blücher , Raumer was appointed President of the Examinationskommission in Stargard on February 26, 1810. On October 27, 1812, he was appointed chief brigadier of the new gendarmerie in Pomerania . This activity was briefly interrupted in 1813 when he was employed as a brigadier in the Pomeranian Landwehr between the Oder and the Vistula . Raumer was promoted to colonel by mid-September 1818 and was appointed brigadier of the 2nd Landgendarmerie Brigade on December 30, 1820. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in the military, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class. After being given the character of major general, Raumer said goodbye on March 25, 1829 with an annual pension of 1200 thalers.

family

He had married Albertine von Tschirschky (1768-1838) on August 22, 1804 in Stargard. She was the daughter of the Prussian major general Carl Wilhelm von Tschirschky . The marriage had two children:

  • Karl Otto (1805-1859), Prussian Minister of Education ∞ Elise Wilhelmine Clementine von Brauchitsch (1820-1891)
  • Pauline Luise Dorothea (* 1808)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1 , pp. 198-199.
personal data
SURNAME Raumer, Karl Heinrich Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1831
Place of death Demmin