Ernst von Pfuel

Ernst Heinrich Adolf von Pfuel
Ernst von Pfuel
4th Minister President of Prussia
In office 21 September 1848 – 1 November 1848
Monarch	Frederick William IV
Preceded by	Rudolf von Auerswald
Succeeded by	Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg
Personal details
Born	(1779-11-03)3 November 1779 Jahnsfelde, Prussia (present-day Müncheberg, Germany)
Died	3 December 1866(1866-12-03) (aged 87) Berlin, Prussia (present-day Berlin, Germany)
Military service
Allegiance	Prussia
Branch/service	Prussian Army

Ernst Heinrich Adolf von Pfuel (3 November 1779 – 3 December 1866) was a Prussian general, as well as Prussian Minister of War and later Prime Minister of Prussia.

Pfuel was born in Jahnsfelde, Prussia (present-day Müncheberg, Germany). He served as commander of Cologne and the Prussian sector of Paris from 1814-15 during the Napoleonic Wars. Pfuel later served as governor of Berlin and governor of the Prussian Canton of Neuchâtel.^{[citation needed]}

Pfuel replaced Karl Wilhelm von Willisen as the Royal Special Commissioner of King Frederick William IV of Prussia during the 1848 revolution.^[1] He was a member of the Prussian National Assembly of 1848 and later that year served as Prussian Minister of War from 7 September to 2 November, as well as Prime Minister of Prussia.

Pfuel was a close friend of Heinrich von Kleist. He was also an innovator of the breaststroke swimming technique, and the founder of the world's first military swimming-school, in 1810 in Prague. From 1816 he was a member of the Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin. He died in Berlin. ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Pfuel cabinet

References

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