HERWARTH VON BITTENFELD

HERWARTH VON BITTENFELD, KARL EBERHARD (1796-1884), a Prussian general; came to the front during the war of liberation, and in 1864 as general captured the Isle of Alsen, and two years later operated with great success at the head of the army in Saxony and Bohemia; during the Franco-German War he became governor of the Rhine provinces and a field-marshal.