Friedrich Theodor Alexander Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen
(25.06.1818 - 09.05.1894)
place of birth:  Karlsburg, Vorpommern
Königreich Preußen:  Gen-Gouv,  Generaladjutant SM,  General der Cavallerie

                            


Friedrich Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen served as a Prussian cavalry officer and Governor General of Alsace prior to the Great War. He was also a distant cousin to German's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Friedrich was commissioned in 1835 as a Sekonde-Lieutenant in the Garde-Dragoner-Regiment (dragoons). He spent much of his younger life as a military advisor and travel/university companion to Prince Adalbert von Preußen and Prince Friedrich Friedrich Karl von Preußen.

King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in 1848 named him his personal aide-de-camp, and in 1858 von Bismarck-Bohlen took command of the Garde-Husaren-Regiment (hussars). He later commanded 5. Cavallerie-Brigade in Frankfurt an der Oder. During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 (Deutscher Krieg), Generalmajor von Bismarck-Bohlen headed up the cavalry corps subordinate to the First Army and saw action in battles at Königgrätz, Münchengrätz, and Gitschin.

From 1868 through 1870, Bismarck-Bohlen served as Commandant of Berlin and Chef of the Landgendarmerie, Prussia's national military police force. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg he functioned as Governor General of Alsace (Elsaß) and on 21 November 1871 was brought to Kaiser Wilhelm I.'s court as a Generaladjutant. He served in this capacity until the Kaiser's death in 1888. After his death in 1894, Friedrich was laid to rest on the family estate in Karlsburg, Vorpommern.

	General der Cavallerie	18.09.1880
	Erinnerungs-Kreuz	Deutscher Krieg 1866
	Eisernes Kreuz II	Deutsch-Französischer Krieg  1870–1871