New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
FON W4LDERSEE DEAD.
The Field Marshal Expires at Han
OUeT-His Career.

OUer-HiS Career
Hanover March 5-Field Marshal Count Won
waldersee died shortly after o'clock this even
ing.
Count Won Waldersee was almost the only
subject not OF a royal house who was always
cheered by the public He was a strong and
handsome old man. and not even the Chan
ceor was treated with more respect and ad-
miration for he had 10 do with the things that
made Prussia great and the empire possible.
His partial estrangement from the present En-
perOr in the early part OF the reign. the reason
for which stfl remains obscure. had long since
disappeared and had been replaced by the En-
perors cordial friendship.
Field Marshal Count Won waldersee. who COM
manded the allied forces in China IN 1900 had been
a conspicuous figure in German military life for
half century. and flled many Important posi-
tons. Count Alfred Heinrich Carl Ludwig Won
waldersea born AZ Potsdara ia Apr.l. $50 He
began his military career In 1850 second leu
tenant in the Artillery OF the Guard. and nine
years later attained the FIRST grade Of the same
subaltern rank In 1872 he received the command
Of a battery. did brilliant service In the campaign
OF 1854 and the following year vas transferred 10
the Branderburg Fie!G Artillery Regiment with
the right 10 antedate his rank % captain by three
years. on the outbreak OF the Austro-frus-
sian War he received stan appointment with the
active while also at0cFed 10 fne NfFaild
eral stan. and with the rank OF major. was placed
at the service OF provisional government at
Hanover while the Bohemian campaign was In
progress In October, 1866. he was transferred to
the general stan OF the Tenth Army Corps, and
IN January 1870. having in the Interval risen high
er on the staff he appointed military attache
OF Prussia Paris. In May OF the same year
King William made Count won Waldersee one OF his
personal aIdes-de-camp while permitting him TO
stay at Paris: and then the broke out in July.
nh ff.r amt slF a 10 Of
tenant colonel and took the place OF General Won
Stosch as chief OF tbs STAN TO the Grand Duke OF
Mecklenbu-g- Schwerin during the second half NJ
the Loire campaign. He took part in the battles
OF Gravelotte Beaumont. Sedan. Beaunne Ia Ro-
lande. Logny. Orleans and lie Maus. In August,
ls7i he received the command OF the i3th. Han
overian. Uhlans. After the end OF the war he was
charge d'snaires in Paris Toward the end OF
1873 the count received the appointment Of chief
OF staff his army corps and in January.
1875 he achieved the rank Of brgadler and. IN
the following year. that OF divisional general. In
1882 he became quartermaster general and acted as
deputy chief OF the general stan on behalf OF
Field Marshal Count Won Moltke on whose resig-
nation lss he succeeded TO the post OF chief Of
the general staff. Won Moltke always looked on
him as one Of the ablest of the officers he had
trained. Count waldersee became a great
favorite OF William II. and II asserted at one
time that he would succeed Prince Bismarck but
he did not secure the Chanceorship. The Kaiser
made him member OF the Order of the Black
Eagle a member Of the House OF Peers and OF the
Council OF State and in the autumn Of 1889 he took
him with him on his North Cape tour. IL
then that the wrath OF Prince Bismarck and his
followers burst into flames: campaign
ganlzed against the count who was denounced as
the most ungraeful. treacherous and dangerous OF
mortals an intrtguer who Was bent on plunglng
Germany into war. Count Won WaldeTsee protested
that he was a soldier and cared not one whit for
politicg and the matter smoothed over. but in
ISL Count Won waldersee removed from the
corps by the influence Of Bismarck In 1895 he be
came inspector general OF the third Army; Ills
While count Won waldersee was not so volu
| rntnous an author Count Won Moltke; what he
onlv conplete work on the Danish war. based
official sources and published naU ANONYMOUSLY
IN lass Count Won waldersee married to the
Princess Maria won Noer. the widow OF Prince
Frederick OF schleswig Holstein She Is the daugh-
field Conn When he died his widow and his
daughter Mary Esther Lee. went TO live in SUIT
woman and gained access 90 the best society there.
In Stuttgart she met Prince Frederick Of schles-
her This was I'm 1854. The prince
enty years old. and his bride was twenty-six.
They made trip 10 the Holy Land ana there.
sly months after the marriage. the prince died.
leaving a fortune to the young widow OF about
$1,000 s01n ar'e Of hSstris made his widow
princess in her own right under the ute o. Prin-
eonspcuous figure in Europe, but in political rather
20 nan her first husband she became Countess Won
Waidersee she is credited with having brought
about The marriage between the German Emperor.
Who was then Prince William OF Prussia, and the
at Tnarrisge in the face OF the protestatons OF
The Young princes mother. The advancement OF
neas,,re 10 the influence OF the countess. During
the short reign OF Emperor Frederick Countess
German Ger Court. and she has since retained high
standing IN Berlin