Gustav Adolf von Rauch (25 August 1805 - 26 June 1877) retired in 1854 as a cavalry officer with the rank of major in the Prussian Gardes du Corps regiment, to act as chamberlain and court-marshal to Princess Louise of Prussia, wife of Alexis, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, who have been divorced since 1861, in the following decades at Berlin's Monbijou Palace.
Since 1842 commander of its Charlottenburg squadron opposite the royal palace, he retired from military service in 1854 with the rank of major.
[1]50 selected coins from Rauch´s collection were presented in a special publication in 1843 by the numismatist Bernhard von Koehne,[2] soon after director at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
On initiative of Julius Friedländer, Benoni Friedländer´s son and first director of Berlin´s Münzkabinett, many of Adolf von Rauch´s coins became part of the collection of this new museum.
The three surviving sons followed the family tradition and took up an officer career: Adolf von Rauch succumbed to longstanding illness in Baden-Baden in 1877.