GROLMANN, KARL WILHELM GEORG VON Prussian general of infantry, was born in Berlin on July 3o, 1777. He entered an infantry regiment when scarcely thirteen, and received rapid promotion. As a subaltern he became intimate with Scharnhorst, and after the defeat of Jena (18o6) was one of his active assistants in the reorganization of the Prus sian army. He served as a volunteer in the Spanish army through out the Peninsular War, returning to Prussia in 1813. He joined the general staff, and was engaged throughout the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. He was now appointed quartermaster-general to Blucher. The most famous incident in his life is his persuasion of Gneisenau to press forward to Wellington's assistance at Water loo (see WATERLOO CAMPAIGN and GNEISENAU). After the peace of 1815 Grolmann served on the general staff, at the ministry of war, and as commander-in-chief at Posen, where he died on June I, 1843. General von Grolmann supervised and provided much of the material for von Damitz's Gesch. des Feldzugs 1815 (Berlin, 1837-1838), and Gesch. des Feldzugs 1814 in Frankreich (Berlin, See v. Conrady, Leben and Wirken des Generals Karl von Grolmann (1$94-96)•