San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-23
COUNT Won WALDERSEE,
THE NEW CHIEF OF FHE GENERAL
STAFF IN THE GERMAN ARMY.

The appointment of General Won
Waldersee to be chief of the general
staff of the German army, in success
sion to Count Won Moltke, is regarded
by the evening papers in Paris as a
triumph for the war party in Ger
many. 1t brings into bold promi-
nence the career of man upon whom
it might fall to direct the most power
full military machine ever constructed.
Count Won Waldersee was born at
Potsdam in April, 1882, of noble
family. He began his military
career in 1850, as second lieutenant in
the artillery, and nine years later was
made second lieutenant. In 1862 he
was put in command of battery, did
brilliant service in the cam
paign of 1864, and the follow
ing year was transferred to the Bran
den burg field artillery regiment, with
the right to antedate his captaincy
three years. On the outbreak of the
Prusso-Austrian war he received a
staff appointment with the active
army, and with the rank of major was
placed at the service of the provision
al government of Hanover. In OctO-
Der, 1866. he was transferred to the
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January, 1870, was made Military
Attache of Prussia at Paris. When
the war with France broke out the
Count became Colonel and Chief of
Staff to the Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin. In August, 1871, he
took command of the Hanoverian
Uhlans, and in 1873 he was made
Chief of Staff to his army corps. Two
years after he was appointed a Br1ga-
dier, and in 1876 a Divisional General.
In 1882 the Office of Quartermaster-
General was created for him, and he
became the assistant and direct repre-
sentative of Field Marshal Won
Moltke.
Count Won Waldersee married in
1866 the Countess Won NOer, an
American lady with romantic histo-
ry. The countess was born in 1888,
in New York city, where her father,
David Lee, was a wholesale grocer.
He died, leaving wife and four
children, a son and three daughters,
with only small fortuue to divide
among them. In course of time the
eldest daughter married Baron
Wachter, and when he was sent as
the ambassador of the king of Wur-
temberg to Paris, Mrs. Lee and the
three children went over to visit him.
Soon after their arrival in Paris the
second daughter married Captain
hurry, of the British army. Miss
Mary Lee, the third daughter, made
the accquain lance of the Princess
Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, whose
father, the prince, had been driven
off the throne by the Prus-
slams. The two young women
became intimate, and Miss Lee
met the old prince. VIII fell
i'm love with her, and laid aside his
title of serene highness in order to
marry her. He then accepted from
the Austrian emperor the title OF
Count Won Noer. After the wedding
the pair started for the east, the count
dying in Egypt only two months later
and ieavin g his young bride fortune.
The countess returned to Vienna and
soon won the esteem of the emperor,
who raised her to the rank of princess.
After the Austro-Prussian war she
married the Count Won Waldersee.
At Berlin the countess, who is a
brilliant woman, has had strong in
fluence in political society, especially
with the Bismarckian party.
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