Maximilian Felix Christoph Wilhelm Leopold Reinhold Albert Fürchtegott von Versen (November 30, 1833, in Wurchow – October 7, 1893, in Berlin) was a German general and nobleman.
[1] King William I of Prussia approved his request, and he went to South America, where he was made prisoner of both the allied forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (they thought he was hired by Lopez to command his armies), and of the Paraguayans (López thought Von Versen was a spy hired by the allied forces to murder him).
[2] Von Versen rejoined the Prussian Army in 1869 and fought in the Franco-Prussian War.
He continued to serve throughout the rest of the century; his assignments including being a general-adjutant to Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, commanding the Guards Cavalry Division and eventually being named commanding general of the III Army Corps.
He married in Wiesbaden on May 16, 1871, Alice Brown Clemens (St. Louis, Independent City, Missouri, May 12, 1850 – Burzlaff, August 19, 1912), Lady of Burzlaff and Mandelatz, daughter of James Clemens, Jr. and wife Elizabeth "Eliza" Brown Mullanphy, and had issue, among whom a daughter Hulda Elisabeth Anna von Versen (Merseburg, March 18, 1872 – West Berlin, May 4, 1954), married in Berlin on September 9, 1893, with Georg Gustav von Arnim.