Alfred Graf von Waldersee was born in Potsdam on April 8, 1832, the son of the general of the cavalry Franz von Waldersee. The Waldersees, which originated from an originally Anhalt noble family and later settled in the Mark Brandenburg, served the Prussian state primarily as officers and can therefore be counted among the Prussian military nobility. After his education in his parents' house and in the cadet corps, Waldersee left the latter in 1850 as an officer in the guards artillery and was an adjutant of the 1st artillery inspection in 1858 bus in 1859 and was transferred to the general staff and promoted to major in 1866 by Captain, Prince Charles of Prussia's adjutant in 1865. Waldersee took part in the campaign in Bohemia in the large headquarters, came to the general command of the 10th army corps in Hanover after peace, became military attaché in Paris and aide to the wing in 1870, joined the mobilization as the large headquarters, became chief of the general staff of the army department of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1871 and was chief of staff of the governor of Paris, while German troops stood in Paris, then from June to September business bearer of the German government in the French Republic. Waldersee then retired into practical service as colonel and commander of the 13th Uhlan Regiment, became chief of the general staff of the 10th army corps in 1873, major general and general à la suite in 1880. In 1882 he became Quartermaster General and representative of the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, in the same year Lieutenant General, soon afterwards Adjutant General of the Emperor. Promoted General of the Cavalry under Emperor Friedrich in 1888, Waldersee was soon appointed Chief of Staff of the Army as successor of Muldke after the accession to the throne of Emperor Wilhelm II and was also appointed to the manor house and to the Council of State. In 1891 he was appointed commander general of the 9th army corps, in September 1895 general colonel of the cavalry. In April 1898 he was relieved of his commanding general position and appointed Inspector General of the 3rd Army Inspectorate. In May 1901 he was promoted to General Field Marshal. By agreement between the allied powers he was given the supreme command during the Chinese Boxer Uprising in the province of Pechili, which he held from September 27, 1900 to June 4, 1901. After his return to Germany he took over the 3rd army inspection again. Since 1874 Count Waldersee was married to an American, the widow of Prince Noer, Marie Esther Lee. Waldersee died in Hanover on 5 March 1904. The Waldersee estate was transferred to the Prussian Secret State Archives in 1935. The estate was published by H. O. Meisner in "Memories of Field Marshal Alfred Grafen v. Waldersee", 3 vol., Stuttgart - Berlin 1922/23 H. O. Meisner "From the correspondence of the General Field Marshal Alfred Grafen v. Waldersee", vol. 1 1886 - 1897, Stuttgart - Berlin 1928 H. O. Meisner "Briefwechsel zwischen dem Chef des Generalstabes Grafen v. Waldersee und dem Militärattaché in Petersburg Graf York v. Wartenburg", 1885 - 1897, in: Hist. Polit. Archive 1930 Vol. I, p. 133 - 192 Fornaschon, Wolfgang "Die politischen Anschauungen des Grafen Alfred v. Waldersee und seine Stellungnahme zur deutschen Politik", Berlin 1935, Hist. Stud. 273 During the reorganization of the estate, attempts were made to bring related pieces, such as diaries and the private files of Waldersee, which had been torn apart by the processing, back into their original context. In cases where a large number of exhibitors were present, the letters were sorted alphabetically. Individual, already existing folders were only sorted chronologically. The letters were also included individually. This detailed list can be found in Appendix 1 of the repertory. For all other letters, a chronological order has been established and an alphabetical register has been created (Annex 2) to make it easier to find individual persons. The large number of newspaper clippings was also sorted chronologically and placed in individual folders. The relevant register (Appendix 3) contains all the available newspapers, listed separately for German and foreign newspapers. No exact signature is given, only the year has been included. The signatures are completely new. Each number is foil-wrapped, the number of sheets is on the inside cover. Additions to Waldersee's diaries contain the number of pages, marked with the letters a ff. The notes and markings with pencil and crayon originate from earlier adaptations, as well as the cutting up of individual pages. For practical reasons, the subsequent separation of individual numbers into several volumes was made during the bookbinding treatment of the estate. Description: Biographical Data: 1832 - 1904 Resources: Database; Reference book, 1 vol.

Description of the holdings: The personal papers of Ernst Schweninger were transferred to the Reichsarchiv in July 1926 by his widow, Mrs. Lena Schweninger. In September 1936, numerous letters from the Bismarck family to Ernst Schweninger, owned by Mrs. Ingeborg Schulze, Stuttgart, were added. A single volume (N 2281/184) was handed over to the Federal Archives in 2001. In the Second World War, the estate was relocated to the Soviet Union and then transferred to the GDR in two parts - 1950 and 1959 - and transferred to the Central State Archives in Potsdam. There he received the stock signature 90 Schw 4 and was indexed in 1980 by a finding index. In accordance with the agreement, the documents were blocked for any use until December 1956. In the course of German reunification in October 1990, the documents finally reached the Federal Archives and have since been kept under the inventory signature N 2281. In the year 1997 a finding aid book was provided to the existence, which represented a to a large extent unchanged copy of the finding aid file at that time. During the current processing, the archive units were transferred to the archive database BASYS-S. The archive units are now stored in the archive database BASYS-S. Classification, title recordings, terms were checked and partially corrected. Dr. Ernst Schweninger, the personal physician of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, has conducted extensive correspondence with many well-known personalities of his time, such as Herbert von Bismarck, Bernhard von Bülow, Maximilian Harden, Alfred Krupp and others. The tradition therefore consists mainly of letters from friends, colleagues, patients and not least family members and covers the period 1866 - 1925. Reference: E. Espach: Beiträge zur Biografie Ernst Schweningers. Series of publications of the Munich Association for the History of Medicine, Munich 1979 Citation method: BArch, N 2281/...

Contains: - Preibisch, Maximilian, city musician, an von Gneisenaus son: von Gneisenau as flute player, Rawicz, 1819, 1831 (2 letters) - Prussia, Wilhelm Prince von (the elder), an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letter of condolence, 4.9.1831 - Prussia, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (IV. century) - Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Austria), an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letters of condolence, 10.9.1831 - Prussia, Wilhelm (I.) Prince von, an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letters of condolence, 29.8.1831 - Prussia, Karl Prince von, an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letters of condolence, January 1830, 2.9.1831 - Prussia, Friedrich Prinz von, an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letter of condolence, 27.3.1828, 26.10.1831 - Priesdorff, von, retired prime captain, (later major and chief of 2nd Invalidenkompagnie): request for garrison or invalidity company, Treptow/Rega, 1811 (2 letters), and son; prime lieutenant 2. Infantry Regiment, Stettin, 12.12.1826 - Prince, Ernst-Wallisch, Landwehrmann, Schwarzfärber: Request for Support, 1822 (2 letters) - Prittwitz, (by), Cousin of Gneisenaus; Conradswalde, 1805, 1808, 1811 (?), n.d. (4 letters) - Prittwitz, (from); 1809-1821 (7 letters) - Prittwitz, (from), Government director: Salary increase, Official residence, Kleve, 1816, 1818 (3 letters) - Prittwitz, Theodor (from), Brother-in-law of Gneisenaus: von Gneisenaus Erdmannsdorfer Wirtschaft, Wolmsdorf, Jauer, 1821, 1822, 1824 (3 letters) - Prittwitz, (von), Aggregated Staff Captain 2. Schlesisches Husaren-Regiment: written testimony, Glatz, 10.8.1813 - Prittwitz, (from), Commander 2nd Landwehr-Kavallerie-Regiment: his nephew, Oberjäger Graf von Dyhrn, with the hunter Detach of the Braunschweigischen Husaren-Regiments, Saatz, 8.10.1813 - Prittwitz, Aug. (from); Paris, 24.10.1815 - Prittwitz, (from), Lieutenant a. D.; Steinau/Oder, 12.2.1825 - Pritzelwitz, by, Major and Commander 1st Battalion 13th Landwehr-Infanterieregiment: Meldung von Ernennung, Potsdam, 15.7.1825, Antwortentwurf von Gneisenaus, 25th Landwehr-Infanterieregiment: Report of Appointment, Potsdam, 15th July 1825, Answer Draft von Gneisenaus, 25th Battalion of the German Army, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 15th July 1825, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 15th July 1825, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 25th Battalion of the German Armed Forces8.1825 - Pritzelwitz, by, Colonel, and wife Henriette, née von Schladen, Berlin, 1813, 1820 (3 letters, Count von Schladen, former envoy to St. Petersburg, an von Gneisenau, 1813; illness of Captain Schirgel, 1820) - Pückler-(Muskau), Prince von; o. O., 1823, n/a. (2 letters) - Pullet, Samuel, Major General, Inspector 2nd Engineer-Insp.: Reorganization of the Corps of Engineers, Fortress Graudenz, "Calculation of the Time Required to Make 68 Defensive Places Defendable in One Strike and at the Same Time", Fortress Spandau, 1808-1811, 1825, (6 letters; printed at Pick 192,3; cf. No. 719) - Pusch, Battalion Physician: Subsidy for Studies, Berlin, 5.1.1820 - Putbus, M. Fürst zu: Pferdekauf, Berlin, 19.4.1818 - Quadt, von, Oberst und Kommandeur 28. Infantry Regiment: Report of Promotion, Cologne, 7.4.1824..;

Contains: - Richter, Gom.-Pred.; Kolberg, 1808 (2 letters), with answer draft by Gneisenaus, 8.1.1809; 1809 - Judge, Gottfried Ernst, retired forestry official: Forstkauf bzw, Bookbinder: Stage Collection, Rudelstadt, 9.8.1820 - Judge, Lieutenant a. W.: Application for Support, Münsterberg, 20.9.1825 - Judge, Criminal Judge: Institute for the Improvement of Neglected Children, Königsberg, 10.12.1827 - Richthofen, R. Baron von; Barzdorf, 6.8.1808 - Richthofen, Friederike von, née Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Beck; 1809, 1818, 1829 (4 letters) - Richthofen, Baron von, District Administrator; Würgsdorff, 1816, 1818 (2 letters); wife, née Nicolovius; 1820 (2 letters); son Oswald, Portepée-Fähnrich 2nd Silesian Hussar Regiment; 25.8.1816 - Richthofen, Charlotte Freiin von, née Freiin von Nordeck zur Rabenau; Conradswaldau, 10.3.1826 - Richthofen, Friedrich Daniel Freiherr von, Council of Justice; Breslau, 23.6.1819 - Ricoeur, von; Breslau, 6.2.1827 - Riedesel zu Eisenbach, Dorette von: Death of his daughter Agnes, Schlangenbad, 24.7.1822 - Riegel, F., bookseller: family tree of the House of Hohenzollern by K. von Reinhard, Potsdam, January 1826 - Ries, Ferdinand: his concert, Berlin, 22.1.1827 - Riesenthal, Ch.., Building inspector widow, née Renck; 1825, 1826 (3 letters) - Riesenthal, Jul. von, son of the previous ones; 1823, 1824, 1825 (3 letters) - Rietz: Writing about Stralsund's defence 1628, Stralsund, 30.7.1828 - Rigel, F. H.., Bat. captain: his work: The 7-year fight on the Pyrenean peninsula, Rastatt, December 1819 - Ristow, Ludwig, Gardejäger: employment in the forestry, Sagersberg, 29.8.1817 - knight; Königsberg, 15.2.1809 - knight, Prof. C.; Berlin, 28.2.1822 - knight, G. F.., Gunsmith; Oldenburg, 30.3.1826 - Robinski, NCO, Rider: dismissed from Gneisenaus Dienst, Berlin, 18.2.1818 - Roche aymon, Comte de la; pair de France, 1811, 1817, 1821 (3 letters) - Rochow, Theodor von, Major; Fischbach, 1830 (2 letters) - Rode, J. P. von, Major General; 1810, 1824 (2 letters) - Roebel, Fr. von; Berlin, 28.11.1811..;