Disdéri, prince Friedrich-Charles commandant de la 2ème armée en 1870, Friedrich Karl
[PC9141]
Année : Circa 1870
Type : Tirage albuminé
Format (cm): 6,5x10,5
CDV vintage albumen. Friedrich Karl was the only son of Prince Carl of Prussia, a younger brother of Emperor William I, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the elder sister of Empress Augusta. 1842-1846 Friedrich Karl received in the military disciplines teaching by the then Major and later War Minister Albrecht Graf von Roon. This was also his military companions, as the prince in 1846 the University of Bonn was referring. There he was in 1847 a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn. [1] In the same year he was Rettungsmedaille on tape awarded because he had saved a child from Bonn at the Rhine.
After completing his studies in 1848, the prince took in the wake of General Friedrich Graf von Wrangel as captain at the Schleswig-Holstein war part and excelled in the fighting in Schleswig and chaff by personal courage from. In 1849 he participated as major in the General Staff in the campaign in Baden part and was severely wounded in the battle of Wiesenthal at the top of a Husarenschwadron.
In the ensuing peacetime, during which he 1852 Colonel 1854 Major General and in 1856 Lieutenant-General was, he devoted the military sciences diligent study. He shared its results with a small circle of officers in lectures and lithographed treatises. Of the latter, 1860, without the knowledge of the prince "A military memorandum PFK" published which aroused by their reform proposals stir. As Commanding General of III. Army Corps (since 1860), he led these reforms practically, made this corps to nursery his military ideas and gained thereby to the development of the Prussian army outstanding achievements.
1864 was awarded the Prince, now the general of cavalry conveyed, the supreme command of the Prussian troops in Schleswig-Holstein. He went after the unsuccessful attack on Missunde early February at Arnis on the Schlei and forced the enemy, the Danewerk abandon and to the Diippel withdraw. On April 18, he stormed and won this order in the German-Danish War the decisive victory for Prussia and Austria. After Wrangel had resigned his command in May, the Prince was supreme commander of the Allied army, conquered Jutland and on 29 June Alsen. As thanks for his victory gave William I the Country Estate of Prince the status of a manor. In memory of the decisive battle in the Diippel the property was from 13 January 1865, the name chaff.
1866 Friedrich Karl as commander of the First Army (II., III. And IV. Corps) appointed, moved from the Oberlausitz in Bohemia a struck on 26 and 27 June in Liebenau and Podol, on the 28th at Miinchengratz, on 29 at Gitschin the Austro-Saxon troops under Eduard Clam-Gallas and attacked on 3 July, the Austrian position in Hradec Kralove on. In stubborn fight he held the numerically superior enemy at the front so long, until the Crown Prince Frederick William arrived on the battlefield and in the right, General Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld intervention into the left flank of the enemy. From there the prince marched to the vicinity of Vienna.
In constituting the North German Reichstag in 1867, he represented the East Prussian constituency Labiau - Wehlau. [2]
Unveiling of the monument of Field Marshal Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia 1899 in Friesack
In the Franco-German War with the command of the second German army entrusted, he held on 16 August 1870 in the Battle of Mars-la-Tour, the French Army of the Rhine under Marshal François Achille Bazaine at Metz back and brought on 18 August at Gravelotte by defeating the enemy's right wing at St.-Privat the decision. Then he received the command of the first and second army to take over the investment of Metz. He beat back all failures Bazaine and forced him to surrender on 27 October. On October 28, the Field Marshal appointed, moved Friedrich Karl of Metz on November 2 with three army corps in forced marches against the Loire to the French Loire Army from advancing towards Versailles and Paris hold. After he had repulsed the attacks of the French, he went on December 3 in turn to the offensive, occupied on December 4, Orléans and drove the enemy army to Bourges and Le Mans back.
In January 1871, he beat Antoine Chanzy at Le Mans in several battles (January 6 to 12) and shattered Chanzy army so complete that any further attempt to relieve Paris from the west, was made impossible.
For his services in this war, he received an endowment of 300,000 taler.
After the war, Friedrich Karl was appointed Inspector General of III. Army inspection and appointed Inspector General of Cavalry of the Prussian army. Tsar Alexander II. Appointed him Russian field marshal. He was also chief of several Prussian, Russian and Austrian regiments.
Friedrich Karl made several trips to the Orient; over the last, 1883 by Egypt and Syria undertaken journey appeared a magnificent work (Berlin 1884).
His final resting place in the marble vault in it St. Peter and Paul (Berlin-Wannsee).
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