Wilhelm von Rappard

Wilhelm von Rappard (* May 1788 in Hamm , Westphalia , † July 30, 1827 in Torgau , Province of Saxony ) was a royal Prussian lieutenant colonel and district administrator .

Life

He came from the Kleve-Mark family Rappard, ennobled in 1791. The father Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold von Rappard was 1820-30 first chief president of the higher regional court in Hamm. He received his lessons in his parents' house. Since he showed a tendency to become a soldier at an early age, he joined the Prussian army as a junker in 1801 at the age of 13 . In 1806 he was promoted to ensign . A year later he was second lieutenant and took part in the war of 1806 . In 1813 he was appointed adjutant in the Silesian rifle battalion. There he was appointed first lieutenant and then captain . Rappard took part in the campaigns between 1813 and 1815. He distinguished himself in the Battle of Bautzen and the Battle of Nations near Leipzig .

In 1815 he was transferred to the Prussian War Ministry, where he - major since April 14, 1818 - became a member of the first department in 1819. A year later he moved to the Emperor Franz Grenadier Regiment. Later he was appointed battalion commander in the 20th Line Infantry Regiment (in Torgau). With the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1825, he left active military service and was a district administrator circle Torgau in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony hired, but died in the 1827th

Rappard wrote a manual to instruct the Landwehr subaltern officers about their professional and official duties (two editions, 1818 and 1823).

literature

• Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945 , series A: Prussia, vol. 6: Province of Saxony, edit. by Thomas Klein, Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 149.
• Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhardt Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 5, Part 2, Page 738, Nr. 256 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Militair-Wochenblatt No. 96 of April 25, 1818 p. 549