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Leopold Ferdinand Karl Wilhelm
von Woelckern
(31.10.1829 - 21.03.1905)
place of birth: Ulm, Württemberg
Königreich
Württemberg: KG,
General der Infanterie
Wilhelm von Woelckern served as a Royal Württemberg
general officer during the pre-Great War years. He was commissioned as
a Leutnant in 1848, attached to Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 124 in Stuttgart. After
various other assignment, Woelckern returned to the 124th,
seeing action as a company commander during the Austro-Prussian War of
1866.
Woelckern was promoted to Major in 1870 and thus
led a battalion of infantry in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. He
and his troops were engaged at Wörth and Sedan, and they were also
part of German forces laying siege to Paris during the final months of 1870.
After the war, Woelckern worked his way up through the ranks in peacetime Württemberg,
ultimately with a promotion to General der Infanterie. He was in command of Stuttgart's XIII. Armee-Korps from 1890 to 1895.
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