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Edwin von Manteuffel

Edwin von Manteuffel
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Born (1809-02-24)24 February 1809
Dresden, Saxony
Died 17 June 1885(1885-06-17) (aged 76)
Karlsbad, Bohemia
Buried at Frankfurt Main Cemetery
Allegiance  Kingdom of Prussia
 German Empire
Service/branch Prussian Army
Imperial German Army
Years of service 1827–1885
Rank Generalfeldmarschall
Commands held IX (Schleswig-Holstein) Corps
I Corps
I Army
Army of the South
Army of Occupation
Battles/wars Second Schleswig War
Austro-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
Awards Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
Pour le Mérite
Order of the Black Eagle

Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (24 February 1809 – 17 June 1885) was a German Generalfeldmarschall noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian War.

Son of the president of the superior court of Magdeburg, he was born at Dresden, and brought up with his cousin, Otto von Manteuffel (1805–1882), the Prussian statesman, entered the guard cavalry at Berlin in 1827, and became an officer in 1828. After attending the War Academy for two years, and serving successively as aide-de-camp to General von Müffling and to Prince Albert of Prussia, he was promoted captain in 1843 and major in 1848, when he became aide-de-camp to Frederick William IV, whose confidence he had gained during the revolutionary movement in Berlin.

Promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1852, and colonel (and commanding officer of the 5th Uhlans) in 1853, he was sent on important diplomatic missions to Vienna and St Petersburg. In 1857 he was promoted to major-general and chief of the Prussian Military Cabinet (the King's military advisers). He gave strong support to the Prince Regent's plans for the reorganization of the army. In 1861 he was violently attacked in a pamphlet by Karl Twesten (1820–1870), a Liberal leader, whom he wounded in a duel, for which Manteuffel insisted in being briefly imprisoned. He served as lieutenant-general (to which rank he was promoted on the coronation of William I, on 18 October 1861) in the Danish war of 1864, and at its conclusion was appointed civil and military governor of Schleswig. In the Austrian War of 1866 he first occupied Holstein and afterwards commanded a division under Vogel von Falkenstein in the Hanoverian campaign, and succeeded him, in July, in command of the Army of the Main (see Seven Weeks' War).


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