Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi (also Gaudy ) (born January 5, 1734 in Spandau , † June 17, 1784 in Genslack ) was a Prussian civil servant and heir on Genslack.

Coat of arms of those of Gaudi

Life

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi was the son of Andreas Ernst von Gaudi (* 1686; † February 14, 1745 near Habelschwerdt ), owner of the Paddeim estate in the Labiau district , and heir to Laukischken , later reactivated, fell on February 14, 1745 as a colonel and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 2 in action near Habelschwerdt . His mother was Maria Elisabeth von Graevenitz (1691–1774). The names of his siblings are known:

• Friedrich Wilhelm von Gaudi (1725–1788), Prussian lieutenant general;
• Leopold Otto von Gaudi (1728–1789), Prussian Real Secret Minister of State and War at the General Directorate , Head of the Department for East and West Prussia.

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi received private tuition at home until 1746 and then attended public schools in Königsberg . In 1749 he joined the Prince Holstein infantry regiment and was promoted to lieutenant in the infantry regiment by Hans von Tettenborn . In 1769 he asked to leave, after falling from his horse in the Battle of Freiberg, he was unfit for service. He then managed the noble estate Dothen in the Heiligenbeil district , which belonged to his wife.

In April 1767 he was proposed by Johann Friedrich von Domhardt as extraordinary war and domain council , which King Friedrich II rejected. The proposed successor to the war and domain council Christoph Albrecht von Ostau in Königsberg was also rejected by the king because he did not want to employ officials in their home province.

In September 1770 he was proposed for the office of district administrator in Schaacken , which had become vacant after Friedrich Albrecht von Borck was promoted to second chamber director in Königsberg . To this end, he successfully passed the Grand Examination on October 6, 1770 in the presence of Minister Valentin von Massow and was then officially introduced as district administrator.

On July 4, 1771, he was appointed War and Domain Council in Königsberg and took over the department from Nikolaus Bertram von Below , who had become General Manager in Elbing . Julius Wilhelm Albrecht von Ostau (1738–1808) became the new district administrator in Schaacken. In November 1772 he was transferred to Marienwerder as a war and domain council , where he was appointed secret war council and chamber director on June 14, 1773 and took over the business of Nikolaus Bertram von Below, whom he had already followed in Königsberg; his previous office went to Johann Friedrich Borbstaedt (born 1741).

In July 1774, he was by the king to support Fiscal Franz Balthasar Schönberg from Brenkenhoff having a severe hemorrhage suffered after Schönlanke sent to there the Kameralgeschäfte for the circles Bydgoszcz , Naklo and German crown and the districts beyond the network to edit ; In addition, he should immediately start surveying and classifying the area after completing the border regulation .

In January 1775 he was appointed director of the Chamber Deputation in Bydgoszcz and on June 7th, 1775 he was instructed to carry out amelioration and to try to move Polish trade from Danzig to Bydgoszcz. In March 1776 he was asked to look for some poor and poor border villages in the area of Filehne and Bromberg with no Protestant population, which could be transferred there in a comparison with Poland . Until the summer of 1777 he was involved in this new border regulation.

In February 1777 he was intended as a candidate for the office of President of the Chamber in Kleve , but the king then decided on Ludolph Wilhelm von Luck (1742-1820).

In July 1780 Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi submitted a population list for his department and was then asked to gradually reduce the number of Jewish residents. In an order dated June 14, 1781 it was noted that he did not act as expected by the king, that he relied on protection, that he had to show more diligence and precision in his service, and that he was said to have made mistakes in filling the district offices. In mid-December 1781 he asked to leave for health reasons, his successor was Ludwig Friedrich von Domhardt .

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi's first marriage was Sophie Luise Dorothea, born von Burgsdorff (* February 25, 1739, † December 18, 1774) from the Dothen family. The names of their children are known:

• Caroline Elisabeth Dorothea von Gaudi (born April 22, 1766 in Dothen; † April 27, 1839 in Breslau), married to Ludwig Adolph Ehrenfried von Krauthoff (1767–1829), colonel and regimental commander of the 1st Breslau Landwehr Regiment;
• Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold von Gaudi , Lieutenant General;
• Ludwig Otto von Gaudi (* 1768; † unknown), Lieutenant in the Moellendorf Regiment,
• Hans Alexander von Gaudi (* 1771; † unknown), ensign in the von Krockow regiment.

When he died, he left behind his second wife Louise Charlotte (1729–1796), b. from Buddenbrock.

literature

• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 295 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi in Political Correspondence of Frederick the Great . 37th Volume, pp. 503 , 544 ; 38th Volume, pp. 336 , 428 , 485 ; Volume 39, pp. 8 , 27 , 45 , 205 .