Rudolph Otto von Budritzki

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Rudolph Otto von Budritzki

Rudolph Otto von Budritzki (born October 17, 1812 in Berlin ; † February 15, 1876 ​​there ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Budritzki (1770-1820) and his wife Henriette Charlotte, née Wißmann (1782-1842).

Military career

Budritzki occurred on 13 August 1830 after his time in the Cadet Corps in Potsdam and Berlin as a second lieutenant in the Emperor Alexander Grenadier Guards Regiment. 1 of the Prussian army and was appointed battalion adjutant on 1 January 1840. In this position promoted to Prime Adjutant on September 26, 1844, he took part in the street fighting in Berlin during the 1848 revolution and in the campaign against Denmark in the battle near Schleswig in the same year . With his promotion to captain on December 14, 1848 Budritzki was appointed company commander. As such, he distinguished himself through personal bravery in the street fight in Dresden in 1849 . He himself led the attack on the fortified Hotel de Rome on Neumarkt and was the first to jump through a window on the ground floor after the door could not be opened.

Von Budritzki was promoted to major in May 1856 and became a lieutenant colonel in 1860. In the following year, he was appointed commander of the Ducal Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Regiment. In 1864 he returned to the Guard as commander of Queen Augusta's Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 . He took part in the war against Denmark , where he and his guards regiment received the special attention of the king , and especially Queen Augusta . For the wounded in the war he received:

a gift of one thousand thalers for appropriate use either in an endowment fund or for partial distribution among the wounded and the families of those who fell in the field of honor .

His regiment had not been actively involved in the fighting at all.

On April 18, 1865, he took over the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 , in which he had started his career. In the German War of 1866, meanwhile promoted to major general, he took over the 3rd Guard Infantry Brigade, which he led in the Battle of Königgrätz , among others .

In the war of 1870 he was Lieutenant General in command of the 2nd Guard Infantry Division . With this large association he fought in the battle of Gravelotte and successfully at Sedan before the guard corps was moved outside Paris . Here he led the successful counterattack at the Battle of Le Bourget on October 30, 1870 . In this battle he personally carried the flag of the 2nd Battalion of the Elisabeth Regiment , this scene was depicted in several pictures and postcards. For his service in this battle he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on November 1, 1870 .

After the war, von Budritzki became a member of the commission for the consultation of the military penal code for the German Reich in 1871. On October 28, 1875, Budritzki was given the character of general of the infantry with a pension available. At the same time he was placed à la suite of the Kaiser-Alexander-Garde-Grenadier-Regiment No. 1.

After his death on February 19, 1876, he was buried in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Budritzki had married Therese Agnes von Tresckow (born November 5, 1826 in Doelzig, † December 3, 1874 in Berlin) in Berlin on October 17, 1845 . The marriage resulted in four daughters and one son:

  • Karl Friedrich Ferdinand (born July 23, 1853 in Berlin), Prussian officer

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie gives Trier as the place of birth
  2. ↑ http://amtspresse.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/vollbeispiel.php?file=9838247/1864/1864-08-31.xml
  3. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1904. Fifth year, p.829
personal data
SURNAME Budritzki, Rudolph Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1876
Place of death Berlin