Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch (born 1827)

Friedrich Wilhelm Roderich von Rauch (3 January 1827 in Potsdam – 25 March 1907 in Schwerin) was a lieutenant general in the Prussian Army.

[citation needed] Together they had seven children: In May 1846 Rauch became a second lieutenant and worked from January 1851 as a regimental adjutant.

Otto von Bismarck, then a Prussian envoy to St. Petersburg, wrote about him: "The young Rauch is an officer of the kind I always regard as a reserve of diplomacy: his father's calm mind and good manners."

Rauch received command of the 1st Squadron in Perleberg and occupied Flensburg with his Uhlans in 1864 in the war against Denmark.

[citation needed] He confiscated a number of Danish merchant ships with his soldiers in the harbor, which prompted King Wilhelm I to comment on the entry of Prussian troops into Berlin: "Look at the man who has conquered more ships than the entire Prussian fleet."