Franco-Prussian War Alfred Emil Ludwig Philipp Freiherr von Degenfeld (1816-1888) was a Badensian-Prussian general and a member of the Reichstag.

His older brother Ferdinand Christoph died as early as 1844 as a result of a mental illness, so Alfred inherited the entire property of his father, consisting of the manorial estate on Neuhaus and the co-lordship on the Eulenhof, Ehrstädt, Unterbiegelhof, Waibstadt and Wagenbach.

During the Austro-Prussian War the unit was part of the Baden Division under the command of the Prince Wilhelm and participated in the Campaign of the Main.

[2] The campaign against the Army of the Vosges under Giuseppe Garibaldi led to several smaller skirmishes, as the untrained and inconsistent French volunteers avoided facing a concentrated German unit in open battle.

Die, Etuz am Oignon, Pasques near Dijon and, together with the brigade of Prince Wilhelm von Baden, at Nuits against the division of the French general Camille Crémer.

Then he participated in the Battle of Villersexel and afterwards was able to successfully break away together with the other German units and march on Belfort, creating a head start of two days in which a defensive position was built on the Lisaine.