Waldemar of Prussia (1817–1849)
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar of Prussia (born August 2, 1817 in Berlin , † February 17, 1849 in Münster ) was a Prussian major general .
Life
His parents were Princess Marianne and Prince Wilhelm , the youngest brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm III .
On his tenth birthday, Waldemar, like all born princes of the Prussian royal family, was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle and was placed à la suite of the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Guard Landwehr Regiment. The young prince completed the cadet education customary in the Prussian aristocracy , which seamlessly led to a military career. His actual military career began on April 7, 1835, when he was transferred to the active 2nd Guards Regiment on foot . This was followed on June 26, 1836, the promotion to prime lieutenant and on March 29, 1838, the promotion to captain . On December 4, 1838, the prince was assigned to the Guard Dragoons Regiment with simultaneous promotion to Major , and at the same time to commander of the III. Battalion in the 3rd Guard Landwehr Regiment. After these activities in the infantry and cavalry he was assigned to the Guards Artillery Brigade for one year on November 3, 1842. On March 30, 1844, he was promoted to colonel .
In the same year 1844, the prince, together with the captain in the general staff Eduard von Oriola , the lieutenant Albrecht Wilhelm von der Groeben and the doctor Werner Friedrich Hoffmeister, began a long trip abroad to India , which led to the Himalayas and the Tibetan border . During the stay in India the tour company watched the First Sikh War on the side of the English . Waldemar was present at the great skirmishes at Mudki on December 18, 1845, at Ferozeshah on December 21 and 22, 1845, and at Sobraon on February 10, 1846. Werner Hoffmeister was killed during the Battle of Ferozeshah. In 1846 Waldemar returned to Berlin, where he and Oriola were awarded the Pour le Mérite order . In the following years, the Berlin Deckersche Hofdruckerei published the earnings of the trip in several scientifically and artistically elaborately produced books and albums. These works are considered rare collector's items in the antiquarian book trade.
On July 3, 1846, he was appointed major general à la suite of the Guard Dragoon Regiment and on August 15, 1846 he was appointed regimental commander. In July 1848 he received a " Master of Arts " doctorate from Cambridge University . On March 9, 1848, he became the commander of the 13th Cavalry Brigade in Munster in Westphalia. He died there on February 17, 1849. He was buried in the family crypt in the Berlin Cathedral .
As early as 1834, Waldemarstrasse in Berlin's Spandau suburb was named after him . Shortly after his death in 1849, the name was transferred to a new street in the newly created Luisenstadt ; an area in which streets and squares were named after his mother, his brother Adalbert , his uncle Heinrich and his aunt Alexandrine ( Mariannenplatz , Heinrichplatz ).
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 155, no. 1771.
- W. Hoffmeister, doctor of Waldemar v. Prussia: letters from India. In: Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Learned advertisements. Born in 1847. Volumes 24, 25, Franz, Munich 1847.
- [Eduard von Oriola, according to the foreword by Alexander von Humboldt in Volume 1]: In memory of the trip of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to India in the years 1844–1846. The illustrations are based on travel sketches by the Prince by Ferdinand Bellermann and Hermann Kretzschmer . Publishing house of the Royal Secret Upper Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1853 [2 volumes, the "splendid work"]
- E. von Sydow : Journey of Prince Waldemar von Prussen to India in the years 1844-1846 and the magnificent work published in 1855 in memory of the same. In: A. Petermann (Hrsg.): Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new researches on the whole area of geography. Year 1855, Booklet XII, Gotha 1855
- J. [Johann] G. [Gottlieb] Kutzner: The journey of His Royal Highness the Prince Waldemar of Prussia to India in the years 1844 to 1846. Excerpted from the magnificent work published about it. Publishing house of the Royal Secret Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1857
- Johann Friedrich Klotzsch and Christian August Friedrich Garcke : The botanical results of the trip of his royal. Highness of Prince Waldemar von Prussen in the years 1845 and 1846. Through Dr. Werner Hoffmeister [...] plants collected on Ceylon, the Himalayas and on the borders of Tibet. Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1862, [2 volumes]. Reprint, Norderstedt: Hansebooks, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7428-4872-7 .
- Georg von Helldorf: The establishment of the Guard Dragoons Regiment in 1815 . Berlin 1865
- Bernhard von Poten : Waldemar, Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar, Prince of Prussia . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 688.
- Rolf Weber: Portraits and historical representations in the miniature collection of the Museum for Indian Art Berlin (= publications of the Museum for Indian Art, Volume 6). Museum for Indian Art, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88609-025-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernard Le Calloc'h: Kanum, the Village of Alexander Csoma de Koros. A Narrative of Werner Hoffmeister . In: The Tibet Journal. Volume 21, No. 1, Dharamsala, Spring 1996, pp. 47-57.
- ^ Waldemarstrasse (Berlin-Mitte) . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ^ Waldemarstrasse (Berlin-Kreuzberg). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prussia, Waldemar von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian prince and major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1849 |
| Place of death | Muenster |