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Leopold Hermann von Boyen
(06.06.1811 - 18.02.1886)
place of birth: Königsberg, Ostpreußen (Kaliningrad,
RU)
Königreich
Preußen: Mil-Gouverneur, Generaladjutant SM, General der Infanterie
General Leopold von Boyen served as military governor of Prussia's Fortress
Mainz and Berlin during the pre-World War One years. His father Field Marshal
Hermann von Boyen had previously served as Prussian Minister of War (1841-1847).
Having entered into military service in 1829, he was selected in 1848 to act as
personal adjutant to the Crown Prince (future Kaiser Wilhelm I.) Von Boyen took
part in putting down the Baden Revolution 1848-1849 (Badische
Revolution) and in October 1861 was promoted to Generalmajor with designation as
General à la suite. A few years thereafter, he was promoted to Generalleutnant
and was on Wilhelm I.'s Great Headquarters staff during the
Austro-Prussian War of 1866 (Deutscher Krieg).
From 1866 to 1870, von Boyen headed up 21. Division headquartered in
Frankfurt am Main. He was then engaged in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71,
seeing action at battle sites such as Gravelotte and Sedan.
His outstanding leadership resulted in his being selected to serve as one of
newly-crowned Kaiser Wilhelm I.'s adjutant generals. In addition to these
duties, General von Boyen functioned as Military Governor of Fortress Mainz from
1871 to 1875, and subsequently as Berlin's military governor until 1879.
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