Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald
(01.09.1795 - 15.01.1866)
place of birth:  Marienwerder, Westpreußen (Kwidzyn, Poland)
Königreich Preußen:  Ministerpräsident

                            

Rudolf von Auerswald served as Prussian Minister President (Prime Minister) and Foreign Minister for a brief period in 1848. He was born and raised in West Preussen (present-day Poland) as a member of the Meissen nobility, but spent much of his youth in Königsberg. Auerswald served in a cavalry regiment as part of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, seeing action in Livonia and Courland. His brother Alfred was also a Prussian politician, and his brother Hans served as a Prussian general officer.