Nikolaus von Rauch

Colonel Nikolaus von Rauch in 1901 as a member of the deputation of the Prussian Army at the funeral services for Queen Victoria in London

Nikolaus Georg Gustav von Rauch (born July 6, 1851 in Berlin , † July 28, 1904 in Stolp ) was a Prussian colonel .

Life

origin

Nikolaus von Rauch was the son of the Prussian cavalry general Gustav Waldemar von Rauch and his Russian wife Polyxena, née von Steritsch (1823-1859), grandson of the Prussian war minister , infantry general and honorary citizen of Berlin Gustav von Rauch and great-grandson of the Prussian major general Bonaventure by Rauch .

Military background

In 1870, Rauch joined the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5 of the Prussian Army in Düsseldorf as a portepeefähnrich . During the war against France he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and promoted to second lieutenant. This was followed by assignments as adjutant of the 15th Cavalry Brigade in Cologne and then the 11th Division in Breslau . 1893 was smoke than Major squadron in the second Hanoverian Dragoons. 16 in Luneburg . On April 4, 1899, he was initially commissioned to lead the hussar regiment "Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt" (Pommersches) No. 5 and on June 15, 1899 he was appointed regiment commander. In this position he belonged to the delegation of the Prussian army at the funeral services for Queen Victoria in London and by the end of April 1902 he was promoted to colonel. With the uniform of his regiment, Rauch was commissioned on April 24, 1904 to lead the 29th Cavalry Brigade in Mulhouse, Alsace . He passed away a few months later.

family

Nikolaus von Rauch married Maria von Bodelschwingh on January 3, 1883 in Detmold (* December 9, 1860 in Düsseldorf; † June 13, 1944 in Lederose near Striegau / Silesia). She was the daughter of the Prussian Rittmeister a. D. and District Administrator Ernst von Bodelschwingh and his wife Marie geb. Freiin von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg, granddaughter of the Prussian finance minister Carl von Bodelschwingh and niece of Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh , the founder of the v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel .

The married couple Nikolaus and Maria von Rauch had six children:

• Maria (1883–1976) I ⚭ January 12, 1905 in Naumburg (Saale) with Fritz von Brockhusen , banker, Prussian lieutenant dR (* 1877; ⚔ 1916), ⚮ 1909, II ⚭ December 6, 1920 with Arthur Poensgen (1866– 1944), Prussian Rittmeister dR and industrialist
• Polyxena (1884–1959) ⚭ March 31, 1917 in Berlin with Dr. jur. Hans Tschirch (1880–1935), captain ret., Syndic
• Gustav (1886–1907)
• Elisabeth (Lilly) (1888–1978) ⚭ September 28, 1918 in Berlin with Werner von Holtzendorff (1893–1964), retired Prussian first lieutenant. D., businessman
• Sophie (Sonny) (1890–1965) ⚭ July 16, 1913 in Berlin with Benno von Koschembahr (1869–1939), owner of the Lederose and Türpitz manors in the Strehlen / Silesia district, lieutenant captain a. D.
• Erika (1895–1939) ⚭ September 2, 1921 in Berlin with Haimo Schlutius (1897–1969), owner of the manors Alt-Schwerin and Karow / Mecklenburg, Major dR

Nikolaus and Maria von Rauch's daughter Erika is buried in the mausoleum of the Schlutius family on the edge of Karower Park. The mausoleum was created by Wilhelm Wandschneider and is being restored.

literature

• J. Schott: The family v. Rauch in the Prussian Army. In: Military weekly paper . No. 79, 1893, p. 1985.
• Ernst Zipfel: History of the Royal Prussian Hussar Regiment Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt (Pommersches) No. 5. 1930.
• Gothaisches aristocratic paperback. Volumes B 1928 (older genealogy) to 1939, p. 469f.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volumes B VII (1965), p. 336f., And B XXI (1995), p. 435f.

Web links

• Getty Images Colonel von Rauch