Leopold Hermann von Boyen

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Leopold Hermann von Boyen (born June 6, 1811 in Königsberg , † February 18, 1886 in Jena ) was a Prussian infantry general and governor of Mainz fortress and later of Berlin .

Life

origin

Leopold Hermann was the only son of Field Marshal General and temporary Prussian War Minister Hermann von Boyen (1771-1848) and his wife Amalie, née Berent (1780-1845).

Military career

Boyen embarked on a military career and at the end of July 1829 was transferred from the cadet corps as a second lieutenant to the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army . From May 1834 he worked as an adjutant at the General Command of the V Army Corps . On April 7, 1842, he was assigned to the General Staff . From 1848 he was the personal adjutant of the prince and later emperor Wilhelm I. After the campaign in Baden in 1849, he became his wing adjutant. On October 18, 1861, Boyen was promoted to major general and general à la suite of the king.

Tomb of the von Boyen family in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof

Promoted to lieutenant general in 1865 , Boyen served in the German war in 1866 in the great headquarters of the Prussian king. In the interwar period he was the commander of the 21st division in Frankfurt am Main . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he took part in the battles of Gravelotte and Sedan and in the siege battles at Malmaison and Mont Valérien . Because of special services in the war, he was later appointed adjutant general.

Boyen became known when, in place of Bismarck, he was commissioned to meet the French Emperor Napoleon III. to be brought to Wilhelmshöhe Castle after his capture after the Battle of Sedan . On March 23, 1871, he was appointed governor of the Mainz fortress , which he held until November 1875. At the end of his tenure, Boyen was made an honorary citizen of the city by the Mainz City Council. He then became governor of Berlin and held the office until 1879. In 1877 he received the highest Prussian order with the Black Eagle .

family

Franziska von Boyen, nee Princess Biron von Curland

Boyen was married to Princess Franziska Biron von Curland , the daughter of Lieutenant General Gustav Kalixt Prince Biron Biron von Curland and his wife Franziska, née Countess von Maltzan , since June 25, 1850 .

The couple had a daughter, Luise (born May 26, 1852, † July 3, 1911). My godfather was Emperor Wilhelm I . She married Wilhelm Wolf Friedrich Ferdinand Clemens Anton Georg von Tümpling (born March 25, 1845). The last representative of this line died with her daughter Luise von Tümpling.

Franziska and Hermann von Boyen are buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin in the Boyen's hereditary funeral, created by court architect Friedrich August Stüler .

Although officials and officers from Prussia were very unpopular after the annexation of Frankfurt by Prussia in 1866, Boyen and his wife were respected and valued in high society.

literature

  • Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz: personalities of the city history. Volume 1: Honorary citizens of Mainz, princes of Mainz, military personalities, Mainz mayors. Kügler Verlag, Ingelheim 1985. ISBN 3-924124-01-9 .
  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , pp. 145-149, no. 2211.
  • Wolf von Tümpling: Memories from the life of the adjutant general Kaiser Wilhelm I, Hermann von Boyen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1906, seventh year p. 808
  2. ↑ Wolf von Tümpling, history of the sex of Tümpling , Volume 2, family tree
  3. ^ Henning Roet de Rouet: Frankfurt am Main as a Prussian garrison. From 1866 to 1914. Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-395542-227-1 , p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Boyen, Leopold Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1886
Place of death Jena