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Friedrich Wilhelm Roderich von Rauch (3 January 1827 in
Friedrich Wilhelm Roderich von Rauch (3 January 1827 in Potsdam
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– 25 March 1907 in Schwerin
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) was a lieutenant general in the Prussian Army. His father Friedrich Wilhelm and his grandfather Bonaventura Bonaventura may refer to:
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both also pursued military careers. He was born in Potsdam
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and died in Schwerin.
Early life
Rauch was born in 1827 to lieutenant general Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch and Laurette née Countess vonMoltke
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. He was one of six siblings. On October 30, 1863, he married Katharina von Behr-Negendanck (1842-1897) in the German municipality of Passow, Mecklenburg
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.
Together they had seven children:
* colonel Alfred (1864–1948),
* cadet Wilhelm (1869–1890),
* Amélie (1870–1921), who married Paul Kriebitz,
* major Friedrich (Fritz) Egmont Gustav (1874-1945),
* Elisabeth (1877-1945), who married lieutenant colonel Konrad von Warnstedt,
* Egmont (1878–1935),
* first lieutenant Roderich Hermann Armand (1882-1914).
Military career
In May 1846 Rauch became a second lieutenant and worked from January 1851 as a regimental adjutant. In this position he was promoted toRittmeister
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until the end of May 1859. Otto von Bismarck, then a Prussian envoy to St. Petersburg
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, wrote about him: "The young Rauch is an officer of the kind I always regard as a reserve of diplomacy: his father's calm mind and good manners." Rauch received command of the 1st Squadron in Perleberg
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and occupied Flensburg with his Uhlans in 1864 in the war against Denmark. He confiscated a number of Danish merchant ships with his soldiers in the harbor, which prompted King Wilhelm I to comment on the entry of Prussian troops into Berlin
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: "Look at the man who has conquered more ships than the entire Prussian fleet." For his achievements, Rauch received the Order of the Red Eagle
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, 4th class.https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Rauch_(General%2C_1827)
References
1827 births 1907 deaths Lieutenant generals of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm (1827-1907) Military personnel from Potsdam {{Germany-mil-bio-stub