Alfons Girodz by Gaudi

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Alfons Wilhelm Georg Heinrich Girodz von Gaudi (born June 10, 1818 in Glogau , † May 8, 1888 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Alfons Girodz of Gaudi's paternal ancestors, the Girodz, originally lived in Chalon-sur-Saône . After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 , they came to Geneva in 1689 as part of the second great emigration of French Protestant religious refugees , where they then, engaged in successful trading ventures, belonged to the wealthy and highly respected bourgeoisie . In addition to imposing houses in the city, some family members also had handsome country estates , such as a younger brother of Alfons' great-grandfather, Pierre (1715–1792), who was the grandfather of Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842) through his daughter. was.

Alfons' great-grandfather Jaques-Isaac de Girodz (1710-1780) was married to Alphonsine de Balthasard. Their son Bartelemy de Girodz (1744 – before 1821) married Catherine de Gaudy († 1821) in 1767, from a respected family that had already been naturalized in Geneva in 1577.

Coat of arms of the Girodz de Gaudy

Their son was Alfons' father of the same name, Alphonse Girodz de Gaudy (1770-1839). He joined the Prussian army in 1785, became a knight of the order Pour le Mérite in 1794 and was promoted to colonel in the 1st Silesian Rifle Battalion. In 1827 he had received the Prussian nobility as Girodz from Gaudi through the Prussian Supreme Cabinet Order . In 1829 he had received the corresponding letter of nobility , which confirmed the French noble tradition of his family. In 1805 he married Henriette Hedwig Adelheid von Warsing (1782–1860) in the Westphalian Münster , who gave birth to Alfons in 1818 and whose mother was a sister-in-law of General Prince Blücher (1742–1819), in whose headquarters Alfons' father stayed during the Wars of Liberation found. One daughter, Alfons' sister, was married to Major Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Thadden, 1830-1840 commander of the Guard Rifle Battalion . Alfons' other great-uncle on his mother's side were the Prussian district president Ludwig Christoph von Colomb (1767–1831) and the Prussian general Peter von Colomb (1775–1854).

Military career

Alfons Girodz von Gaudi visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin one after the other . Subsequently, on August 12, 1835, he was transferred as a non-commissioned officer to the Guard Rifle Battalion of the Prussian Army , whose commander Major von Thadden was his brother-in-law, and was promoted to second lieutenant until mid-May 1837 . In 1840 he was assigned to exercise the reserve hunters in Wriezen. During the March Revolution he found himself in the street fighting in Berlin . Later that year he fought in the campaign against Denmark near Schleswig, Friderica and Düppel and was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on November 21, 1848 .

In 1850, Gaudi led the reserve hunter exercise in Wriezen. After his promotion to captain , he joined the Guard Jäger battalion on July 13, 1852, and rose to company commander in mid-August 1854 . On June 14, 1859 he was promoted to major and was commander of the 3rd Jäger Battalion during the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War . On June 25, 1859 he was aggregated to the battalion and commissioned with its leadership and appointed commander on July 1, 1860. This was followed on February 10, 1863 by his transfer as commander of the fusilier battalion to the 8th Leib Grenadier Regiment . During the German-Danish War , Gaudi took part in the assault on the Düppeler Schanzen and was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite on June 7, 1864. On June 25, 1864 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

During the German War Gaudi fought at Gitschin and Königgrätz in 1866 and received the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords on September 20, 1866 . On October 30, 1866 he was appointed regimental commander and on December 31, 1866, with a patent from October 30, 1866, he was promoted to colonel.

During the mobilization for the war against France , Gaudi was commander of the 1st Guards Landwehr Brigade, with which he took part in the sieges of Strasbourg and Paris as well as the fighting at Malmaison and Mont Valerien. Awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, he was appointed commander of the 62nd Infantry Brigade on March 20, 1871, with the position à la suite of his regiment , and promoted to major general on August 18, 1871 .

On February 27, 1872, Gaudi took over the 20th Infantry Brigade and on the occasion of the Order's festival in January 1875 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves and Swords on the Ring. Under awarding of the character as a lieutenant general Gaudi was on April 13, 1875 Board for disposition made.

Gaudi was a knight of the Order of St. John . He died on May 8, 1888 in Berlin and was buried on May 12, 1888 in the Matthäifriedhof .

family

Gaudi married Maria Charlotte Elisabeth Harpe (* 1825) in Berlin on May 4, 1844, a daughter of the major in the War Ministry Friedrich Ferdinand Harpe. The marriage was divorced on March 16, 1872. After the divorce, he married on June 18, 1872 in Kiel Marie Scheibel (1851-1916), a daughter of the founder of the Kieler Actien brewery and consul Johann Christian Carl Scheibel. The couple had several children:

  • Theodor Ludwig Alfons (* 1872), lieutenant colonel at the telegraph school
  • Dorothea Hedwig Marie (1875–1960) ⚭ 1896 Wilhelm Ludwig Maria von Klitzing (* 1858)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Henry Deonna: Lettres de noblesse et d'armoiries de familles genevoises , in: Archives héraldiques suisses = Swiss archive for heraldry = Archivio araldico Svizzero, Volume 32 (1918), Issue 3, p. 141.
  2. ↑ Notices généalogiques sur les familles genevoises , Geneva 1829, pp. 218/220.
  3. ↑ Helmut O. Pappe : Biography of Sismondi [ Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi ], University of Sussex, Intellectual history Archive, Institute of intellectual history , p. 1.
  4. ↑ Édouard-L. Burnet: Le premier Tribunal Revolutionnaire Genevois: Juillet - Aout 1794 , Geneva 1825, p. 383 , or Notices généalogiques sur les familles genevoises , Geneva 1829, p. 179 and p. 218 f.
  5. ↑ Notices généalogiques sur les familles genevoises , Geneva 1829, p. 179 and p. 218 f. , Sven Stelling-Michaud : Livre du Recteur de l'Académie de Genève (1559-1878) , Geneva 1972, p. 421.
  6. ↑ Notices généalogiques sur les familles genevoises , Geneva 1829, p. 219. Coat of arms of Girodz de Gaudy (Switzerland, Savoy, Prussia) in Victor Rolland: Armoiries des familles contenues dans l'Armorial général de JB Rietstap , Paris 1903, p. 102 . (Bottom row, 3rd coat of arms from the left.)
  7. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 235. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1861, p. 528.
  8. ^ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1978, p. 127.
  9. ^ Daughter of Heinrich Ludwig von Warsing (1750–1817) and Hedwig Adelheid von Colomb (1762–1855), daughter of Peter Colomb , cf. Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon . Volume 5, Leipzig 1839, p. 180.
  10. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 235.
  11. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. 1906. Seventh year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 391.
personal data
SURNAME Girodz by Gaudi, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girodz von Gaudi, Alfons Wilhelm Georg Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1888
Place of death Berlin