Marc François Jérôme Wolff

Marc François Jérôme Wolff , occasionally Marx François Jérôme Wolff (born March 4, 1776 in Strasbourg , † October 24, 1848 in Paris ) was a French general of the cavalry .

Life

Wolff came from Strasbourg and was related to the businessman Cerf Beer . Despite later conversion, Wolff is considered the first officer of the Jewish faith in the French army.

At the age of 18, he entered the army in 1794 and was assigned to the cavalry of the Rhine Army. Between 1805 and 1808 he served in the Grande Armée . In 1808 Napoleon commissioned him to set up several cavalry units for his brother Jérôme and the Kingdom of Westphalia . During this time Wolff converted - with the rank of colonel - to the evangelical faith.

As a general de brigade , Wolff took part in the Russian campaign in 1812 . After Napoleon's abdication, Wolff welcomed the return of the Bourbons and joined the army of King Louis XVIII. on. He converted to Catholicism and stayed as king during the " Rule of the Hundred Days ". Therefore Wolff was rewarded with several military-administrative offices in the Restoration .

Marc François Jérôme Wolff died at the age of 72 on October 24, 1848 in Paris, where he found his final resting place.

Honors

• 1813 baron de l'émpire
• His name can be found on the western pillar (39th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris)

literature

• David Chandler: The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 . (Reprint of the London 1966 edition)
• Kevin F. Kiley: Once there were titans. Napoleon's generals and their battles, 1800-1815 . Greenhill, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6 .
• Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . 2 volumes. Poignavant, Paris 1852.
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & amiraux français de la révolution et de l'émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 . (Reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
• Digby Smith : Napoleonic Wars data book . Greenhill, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .