Bonaventura von Rauch

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Bonaventura von Rauch

Johann Bonaventura von Rauch (25 July 1740 – 9 February 1814) was a

Friedrich Wilhelm
also took up military careers and became general as well.

Life

He was born in

Ziegenhain
. In 1764 he was made a conductor in the Brunswick Engineer Corps, rising to lieutenant in 1766 and captain in 1772.

On Charles William Ferdinand's recommendation, Rauch moved to the Prussian Army in August 1777. On personal instructions from

Frederick II of Prussia[1] he became a teacher at the mining corps in the Königsberg garrison. In 1788 Frederick William II of Prussia founded a Royal Engineering Academy in Potsdam - Rauch moved there and was promoted to major. The institution also took part in military surveying and so Rauch travelled to Silesia in 1791 and the Králický Sněžník Mountains
in spring 1792. He also began to write treatises on military theory and to produce collections of maps.

He served as a captain of guides on the Prussian General Staff during the

battle of Jena-Auerstedt
, Prussia's field army retreated and began to split up. Romberg's morale collapsed and when eight hundred French cavalry arrived before Stettin on 29 October 1806 he surrendered immediately without waiting to assess the size of the enemy force, which was vastly dwarfed by Stettin's garrison of 5,184.

Rauch agreed to the surrender

Spandau Fortress.[3] His fate led to protests within Prussia's officer corps, especially since Romberg had only ever been a scientist and lecturer and had never before commanded an army in the field. Frederick William's queen-consort Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz took up the cause, but she was only able to get the sentence commuted to life imprisonment in the town of Spandau
rather than the fortress, though she did also get half of Rauch's pension as a major general reinstated.

Family

In 1773 at Kunow, he married Johanna Bandel (1752–1828).

Bonaventura und Johanna von Rauch had ten children:

married I in 1802 Caroline von Geusau (1780–1867),
married II in 1816 Rosalie von Holtzendorff (1790–1862)

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ (in German) Wortlaut bei Priesdorff (Lit.), S. 182
  2. ^ (in German) Oscar von Lettow-Vorbeck: Der Krieg von 1806 und 1807. 2. Band: Prenzlau und Lübeck. Mittler, Berlin 1892, S. 288–293.
  3. ^ (in German) Großer Generalstab (Hrsg.): 1806. Das Preußische Offizierkorps und die Untersuchung der Kriegsereignisse. E.S. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1906, S. 48–50.
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