Wilhelm Rüstow

Writer, Author

1821 – 1878

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Who was Wilhelm Rüstow?

Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow was a Prussian-born Swiss soldier and military writer.

Rüstow was born in Brandenburg an der Havel in the Province of Brandenburg. He entered the Prussian Army and served for some years, until the publication of Der deutsche Militärstaat vor und während der Revolution. Rüstow partcipated the Revolution of 1848. He was sentenced by a court-martial to 32 1/2 years of fortress imprisonment, but succeeded in escaping to Switzerland, where he obtained a military posting. By 1857 he was a major on the engineer staff.

Three years later Rüstow accompanied Giuseppe Garibaldi in the famous expedition against the Two Sicilies as colonel and Chief of staff, and to him must be ascribed the victories of Capua and Volturno. At the end of the campaign he settled down in Zürich. At the outbreak of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, he offered his services to Prussia, but was rejected. In 1878, on the foundation of a military professorship at Zürich, Rüstow applied for the post, but taught only short, and, on its being given finally to another officer, lost heart and committed suicide at Aussersihl near Zürich.

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Born
May 25, 1821
Also known as
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Rustow
Nationality
  • Switzerland
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Aug 14, 1878

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on July 23, 2013

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