Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein

Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein
Photo: In Amiens (France) during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871

Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein (born October 18, 1835 in Glatz , Province of Silesia , † January 31, 1907 in Dresden ) was a Prussian major general . After his retirement, he made lasting contributions to the regional research of Upper and Lower Lusatia , Saxony , Silesia and Bohemia as well as the family research of the noble lords of Biberstein on the Hirschhorn coat of arms from Meißen and the Rogalla von Bieberstein of the Hirschhorn and Buffalo horn coat of arms from East Prussia .

family

He came from an old 1440 Rogale Dzierzbia in Northern Masovia coming in Ordensland Prussia , from 1526 Duchy of Prussia , had become besitzlich and 1599 confirmed the nobility Prussian aristocratic family Rogalla of Rogale (Norman-Germanic-Baltic: Rogala ) (Polish: Rogalski ), the from 1740 assumed the name Rogalla von Bieberstein . He was the eighth of a total of eleven children of the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel Friedrich Christoph Rogalla von Bieberstein and the hereditary tenant daughter Auguste Lorentz from Schönfeld in the Brieg district .

Bieberstein married his cousin Wally Rogalla von Bieberstein (born August 24, 1838 at Gut Barranowen , Sensburg district, East Prussia; † June 28, 1893 in Dresden), the daughter of the landowner Vollmar , on May 3, 1870 in Vollmarstein ( Sensburg district , East Prussia) Rogalla von Bieberstein, landlord on Baranowen, and Marianne von Brucken called von Fock. The marriage resulted in son Paul and daughter Anna.

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  Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein in 1860

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  Wife Wally, b. Rogalla von Bieberstein

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  Wife Wally, b. Rogalla von Bieberstein

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  The Baranowen estate in 1850

Life

Bieberstein spent his childhood up to the age of 10 in the garrison town of Glatz until he came to Görlitz in 1845 with his father being transferred .

Military service 1853–1887

Bieberstein served "from the bottom up" because he received (presumably after at least three months as a commoner and a successful examination) on September 25, 1853 at the age of 18, the post of portepee - ensign with the 3rd Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 29 in Frankfurt am Main , where his uncle Christoph Rogalla von Bieberstein, who was married to his mother sister, was the captain . On July 13, 1854, he was second lieutenant in order to be sent to the military academy in Berlin , where he was promoted to prime lieutenant in 1861 .

In 1864 Bieberstein was sent to Paris to train in the French language , initially made available to the Chief of the General Staff in August 1866 and attached to the Ambassador in Paris in the same year, only to be brought to Berlin in February 1867 as a captain in the General Staff. For "reconnaissance purposes" he was commanded to southern France and Algeria in 1867 , in 1868 assigned to the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps , in which position he was in the 1870/71 Franco-German War in the battles of Spichern , Gravelotte , Metz , Amiens , Hallue , Bapaume and at St. Quentin on January 19, 1871, where he earned the Iron Cross 1st class. Then Bieberstein served as company commander in Infantry Regiment No. 55 in Münster , became a major in the Great General Staff in Berlin in 1872 , joined the General Staff of the 1st Division in Königsberg in 1873 , then on February 5, 1878 as a battalion - commander in Fusilier Regiment No. . 83 to Reichenbach in the Owl Mountains in Lower Silesia , was promoted in 1878 to lieutenant colonel in 1882 and became the Infantry shooting school (probably Spandau - Ruhleben ), commanded on May 5, 1883, for the commander of the . Infantry Regiment No. 71 in Erfurt appointed acquired in 1883 the Colonel -Rang and was dismissed as major general on August 4, 1887 at his request.

Retired and researcher 1887–1906

The war history studies of the history of the Hussite War around 1860 at the War Academy in Berlin had aroused research interest because some members of the "noble lords of Biberstein of the Hirschhorn coat of arms" and a larger number of locations that were formerly their protective cities, interest villages and fiefs affected were.

Bieberstein resumed his earlier studies, which had been postponed during his military service, and intensified them in 1893 after the death of his wife. First, he expanded the collection of family data, which he searched for and found scattered among the large number of old and new printed publications, chronicles , national and local histories, monographs , lexical works, etc. As an additional source, he used the public libraries of his boarding house, the Saxon capital Dresden. The materials in the main state archive there proved to be particularly successful, with a valuable collection of documents from Biberstein among their treasures. When the collected messages were tidied up, their stateliness was revealed, but also revealed numerous gaps that could only be closed by researching additional, external archives, which the more than 60-year-old Bieberstein is now planning to do. Despite his old age, he traveled to the following 25 imperial German and Austrian cities to work in the archives there: 1898 Königsberg , Lyck , 1900 Breslau and Weimar , 1901 Prague and Raudnitz , 1902 Berlin, 1903 Friedland and Görlitz, 1904 Magdeburg , Zerbst , Berlin, Lübben , Guben , Forst (Lausitz) , Pförten , Sommerfeld and Sorau , 1905 Pförten, Luckau and Finsterwalde and 1906 Vienna , Wittingau , Pisek and Smilkau .

The structure of the two research legacy items presented in his last decree give an impression of the abundance of material and preparation (abbreviated):

• A. Noble gentlemen from Biberstein (coat of arms Hirschhorn, high nobility). Material from 1218–1667:

1. Card catalog, chronologically with over 7,000 messages, at least half new
2. Card catalog
3. Name board:
   1. The Meissen-Silesian knight family of the von Biberstein
   2. The Bohemian-Lusatian family of the noble lords of Biberstein, until 1551
   3. the same until 1667
4. Directory of all family members
5. Verification of the localities
6. Overview of the acquis
7. Proof of Biberstein's vassals
8. Evidence of the Biberstein protonotaries, chancellors, captains, etc.

• B. Family Rogalla von Bieberstein , in particular Leegen'scher Zweig (coat of arms stag and buffalo horn or Rogala, lower nobility. According to the coat of arms legend, descended from the noble lords):

1. Detailed, chronological order regarding the families Rogalla, Rogalski (coat of arms Hirschhorn), Rogalla von Bieberstein (coat of arms ditto), Kazimirski von Bieberstein (also called von Bieberstein Kazimirski ) (coat of arms Hirschhorn), members of the family Rogalla von Bieberstein who cannot be accommodated, finally the civil ones Bieberstein families
2. Family letters
3. Rogalla von Bieberstein, Personal Notes I – IV
4. Family table of Rogalla von Bieberstein, Leegen'schen Zweig

Works

• Documented contributions to the history of the noble lords of Bieberstein and their goods. From the handwritten estate of Major General Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein communicated by Albert Hirtz, edited, explained and supplemented by a regesta addendum by Julius Helbig, publisher: Verein für Heimatkunde des Jeschken-Isergaues, Reichenberg in German Bohemia 1911.
• The " genealogy Rogalla von Bieberstein Legensch'sches branch " with 237 people is informed personally of (unpublished) accompanying letter of 4 November 1900 corrected and increased family tree design engineer Albert Hirtz from 1893, created by this on the basis of the estate of his father-Erdmann Rogalla von Bieberstein (1824–1886). With the in March 1920 by Lieutenant General a. D. Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein (1865–1938) updated German family members, it was published in GOTHA B 1925.

literature

• Julius Helbig: Outline of the life of the Prussian general Paul Rogalla von Bieberstein, b. October 18, 1835 in Glatz, died January 1907 in Dresden. Reichenberg in German Bohemia 1909, printed by Gebr. Stiepel in Reichenberg.
• Gothaische genealogical paperbacks of the noble houses. Part B, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1925.
• Kuno Rogalla von Bieberstein: Documentary contributions to the history of those with stag and buffalo horn in their coat of arms. (Polish Rogala) with special consideration of the “Rogala de Butkowo”, whose descendants are the “Rogala de Rogale Dzierzbia”, the “Rogala de Rogale (also Rogalski)” in Gollubia, Lyck District (Polish Golubie pow. Ełk) in Prussia , the "Rogalla von Bieberstein" zu Leegen and the pastor branch latinized "Columbus" and the Rogalla von Wasosz together with descendants of the "Rogalla von Bieberstein zu Baytkowen" (unpublished)
• Ernst-Adolf Otto Hilmar von Mansberg, Officer master list of the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 55 , page 112 No. 140

Web links

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