Governor-General of Silesia. In this position Grawert managed to win the respect of the French generals and of Napoleon himself. The later requested him as commander of the Prussian Auxiliary Corps which, as part of Jacques MacDonald's X Corps of the Grande Armee, participated in the French invasion of Russia in 1812. Early in the campaign Grawert commanded his corps at Ekau. There he fell off his horse and broke his leg, forcing him to relinquish command to Lieutenant General Ludwig Yorck. There is a widespread rumor in literature that Grawert was sharply opposed to the French, and a broken leg was only a pretence to leave the army. Grawert went back to Silesia, was promoted to General der Infanterie and never served in the field again. He spent the last years of his life in his estate at Landeck, in the County of Kladsko, and, having fully retired the year before, died on 18 September 1821. Grawert's correspondence with the Duke of Brunswick, which contains a description of events for about thirty years, is considered a notable source on the military history of Prussia during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. References Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia 1806. London: Lionel Leventhal Ltd., 1993 (1907). 1746 births 1821 deaths German untitled nobility Prussian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Generals of Infantry (Prussia) Military personnel from Königsberg