Sigismund von Rosen

Sigismund von Rosen as Prime Lieutenant
(Drawing: Niels Simonsen, 1849)

Sigismund Ludwig Carl von Rosen (born February 23, 1827 in Segeberg , Holstein , † April 18, 1864 in Düppel , Schleswig ) was a royal Danish staff officer at the Army High Command .

Life

He came from the official and officer family Rose, first mentioned in Stralsund in 1622, and was the third son of the royal Danish bailiff and chamberlain Wilhelm von Rosen (1788-1853) and Sophie Decker (1799-1868). His two older brothers were the royal Danish chief president and chamberlain Carl von Rosen (1819-1891) and the royal Prussian district president Alfred von Rosen (1825-1912).

He began his military career in 1844 as a cadet (1844) for the 1st Jägerkorps , where he was soon promoted to second lieutenant. In 1846 he was at the royal military college and in 1848 took part in the Schleswig-Holstein war with his hunter corps . In 1849, Rosen was appointed adjutant to the Artillery Command as Premier Lieutenant . Having distinguished himself as a determined officer several times, he returned to the military college and in 1853 was a candidate for the general staff.

In the same year, on July 7, 1853 in Copenhagen , Rosen married Franziska Viborg (born August 20, 1835 in Copenhagen, † February 10, 1912 in Færgegaarden , Lolland ), the daughter of the General War Commissioner and Budget Officer Niels Viborg , head of department in the Danish Ministry of the Navy, and the Hansigne Henriette Fogh . The couple had two daughters and a son.

In 1855 he was promoted to captain 2nd class in the general staff and in 1857 transferred as captain 1st class to the chief of staff of the 3rd general command. In 1863 he became a staff officer as a sous-chief at the Army High Command. In this function he took part in the council of war in the Prince's Palace on February 5, 1864 and advocated the withdrawal from the Danewerk . Promoted to major in March 1864 . Just one month later, at the age of 37, he was killed in the German-Danish War in the battle of the Düppeler Schanzen .

The portrait drawing by the Danish painter Niels Simonsen (1807–1885) from 1849, which shows Rosen as a young first lieutenant, is now in the Frederiksborg Museum .

literature

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses . Part B. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941, p. 432 .
PN Nieuwenhuis: v. Rosen, Sigismund Ludvig Carl . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 14 : Resen – Saxtrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1900, p. 167-168 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Rosen, Sigismund Ludvig Carl v. In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Renden – Schinkel . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 385-386 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Poem of praise to Sigismund v. Rosen - Internet Archive (Danish), published in Berlingske Tidende , April 25, 1864, one week after his death

Web links

Commons : Sigismund von Rosen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Niels Simonsen: Portrait of Sigismund Ludwig Karl von Rosen (1827–1864)
Major v. Roses in uniform. Two photos.

Individual evidence

↑ In the summer of 1846, Theodor Storm described the young Sigismund von Rosen in a letter to his bride Constanze Esmarch : “A son of K (ammerherrn) Rosen is here for a visit, a young exuberant person from 18 to 19 years of age, about whom we talk Everyone amused. ”- Source: Regina Fasold (Ed.): Theodor Storm - Constanze Esmarch. Correspondence (1844–1846). Verlag Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2002, p. 392 ( digitized version ).
↑ Hans Christian Andersen : Brevveksling med Jonas Collin dea ældre og andre medlemmer af det Collinske hus. Volume 3, p. 115, Helge Gottlich Topsøe-Jensen (ed.), Verlag E. Munksgaard, 1945 ( excerpt ).

personal data
SURNAME	Rosen, Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rosen, Sigismund Ludwig Carl von; Rosen, Sigismund Ludvig Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish staff officer in the general staff
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Segeberg , Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF DEATH	April 18, 1864
Place of death	Dybbøl , North Schleswig

[1] In the summer of 1846, Theodor Storm described the young Sigismund von Rosen in a letter to his bride Constanze Esmarch : “A son of K (ammerherrn) Rosen is here for a visit, a young exuberant person from 18 to 19 years of age, about whom we talk Everyone amused. ”- Source: Regina Fasold (Ed.): Theodor Storm - Constanze Esmarch. Correspondence (1844–1846). Verlag Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2002, p. 392 ( digitized version ).

[2] Hans Christian Andersen : Brevveksling med Jonas Collin dea ældre og andre medlemmer af det Collinske hus. Volume 3, p. 115, Helge Gottlich Topsøe-Jensen (ed.), Verlag E. Munksgaard, 1945 ( excerpt ).