Background
Pfuel was born in Jahnsfelde, Prussia (present-day Müncheberg, Germany).
Pfuel was born in Jahnsfelde, Prussia (present-day Müncheberg, Germany).
He served as commander of Cologne and the Prussian sector of Paris from 1814-1815 during the Napoleonic Wars. Pfuel later served as Governor of Berlin and Governor of the Prussian Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Pfuel replaced Karl Wilhelm von Willisen as the Royal Special Commissioner of King Frederick William IV of Prussia during the Greater Poland Uprising (1848).
He died in Berlin.
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. From 1816 he was a member of the Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin.