Rudolf von Wartenberg

Rudolf Johann Karl Albrecht von Wartenberg (born December 18, 1816 in Neuruppin , † September 20, 1898 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the cadet corps.

Life

origin

Rudolf was a son of the Prussian major and gentleman on Guhlsdorf Alexander von Wartenberg (1778-1846) and his second wife Friederike, née Haake (1783-1854).

Military career

Wartenberg visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . He was then transferred to the Emperor Franz Grenadier Regiment of the Prussian Army on August 5, 1833 as an aggregated Second Lieutenant , and on June 16, 1836 he was classified. For further training, he completed the General War School from October 1836 to June 1839 . For a short time, Wartenberg was commanded from April 1, 1840 to the Guard Reserve Battalion and from June 1, 1840 to February 4, 1841 to the cadet house in Berlin. From the end of May 1846 to 1848 he was assigned to the Topographical Office of the General Staff. In March 1848 he took part in the suppression of the street fighting in Berlin and in April during the campaign against Denmark in the battle near Schleswig . After Wartenberg had been promoted to Prime Lieutenant in mid-May 1848 , he became company commander with the III. Battalion in the 1st Guard Landwehr Regiment in Graudenz .

On October 2, 1849, he was commanded for one year as the military companion of Hereditary Prince Karl Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . On June 22, 1853, Wartenberg rose to captain and was appointed chief of the 12th Company on September 22 . In the same position, he was transferred to the Cadet Corps on May 19, 1855, and on November 22, 1856, he was commissioned with the functions of regular staff officer at the Berlin Cadet House. Wartenberg was promoted to major on June 15, 1857, initially without a patent , and received the patent for his rank on January 12, 1858. From August 19, 1858 he was also a member of the study commission of the cadet corps and the senior military study commission. On the occasion of the coronation celebrations of King Wilhelm I , he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in mid-October 1861 and returned to service on September 22, 1863 when he was appointed commander of the 2nd battalion in the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 . In position à la suite of his regiment, Wartenberg was ordered to Altenburg on July 3, 1864 to take over command of the Saxon-Altenburg contingent. In this capacity he was promoted to colonel in mid-June 1865 and at the end of September 1865 with the Crown Order III. Class excellent.

During the German War , Wartenberg was in Bavaria in 1866 with the II Reserve Army Corps. After the peace treaty he received the Commander's Cross, 2nd class, of the House Order Albrecht the Bear on September 12, 1867, and at the end of the month he was appointed commander of the newly formed 7th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 96 . Wartenberg gave this command to his successor Karl von Scheffler on January 9, 1868 and was appointed commander of the cadet corps. In this position he received the Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen on March 17, 1870 and rose to Lieutenant General by early September 1873. Under awarded the Red Eagle , First Class with oak leaves Wartenberg was on 21 September 1876 Pension for disposition made.

He died unmarried in Berlin on September 20, 1898 and was buried in the Hasenheide cemetery on September 23, 1898.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , Volume 8, pp. 11-12, No. 2453.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. 1908. Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 781.