Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch (born 1868)

Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Claus von Rauch (10 September 1868 in Potsdam – 11 August 1899 in Kassel) was an officer in the Prussian Army.

In 1896 Rauch was promoted to First Lieutenant, leaving  in his command and in the position à la suite of the 1st Foot Guard Regiment.

After returning from Austria, Rauch died in August 1899 in the Imperial Castle Wilhelmshöhe near Kassel of pneumonia.

His successor as First Military Governor was Lieutenant (Imperial Navy) Oskar Graf von Platen-Hallermund, Wing Adjutant of the Emperor, later Vice Admiral and longtime Court Marshal of Wilhelm II from 1911 to 1935.

The preserved tomb of the Rauch family was designed by the royal court architect Friedrich August Stueler on behalf of the Prussian King Frederick William IV.

Grave cross for first lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch on Berlin's Invalids' Cemetery (foreground)