Carl Gottlob von Egidy

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Hans (Otto) Carl Gottlob von Egidy (born October 28, 1756 on the manor Sachsendorf near Wurzen ; † October 13, 1814 in Gera ) was an Electoral Saxon officer as well as a princely Russian march commissioner and city ​​governor of Gera.

Origin and family

Carl Gottlob von Egidy came from the noble family von Egidy . He was the son of the heir, feudal lord and court lord of Sachsendorf near Wurzen and an Electoral Saxon officer, Otto Gottlob von Egidy (1718–1788) and his Johanna Christiane nee. von Döring (1727–1788), daughter of the royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Rittmeister Johann Christoph von Döring auf Sachsendorff and Wäldgen and his wife Friederike Magdalene born. from Karras .

Von Egidy married on October 13, 1785 in Gera Auguste Henriette Christiane Luise von Bonin (1763-1845), daughter of the Grand Duke of Reussian-Plauen, Chancellor and Consistorial President Christian Friedrich Heinrich von Bonin (1730-1801) and his wife Luise Amalie née . von Dieskau from the house of Kitzen (1743–1826). The couple had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood.

Live and act

Von Egidy joined the Saxon Cadet Corps in Dresden in 1771 at the age of 16 , like five other family members before him and another 25 after him. There he was prepared for military service in the Electoral Saxon Army , where he served for several years as an officer in the first lieutenant's rank , as a sous-lieutenant in the regiment of Le Coq .

After the great fire of 1780, which destroyed a large part of the historic old town of Gera, von Egidy went to the royal Russian court of the younger line there, where he was appointed city governor of Gera. At the time the line Lobenstein the family Reuss the title of prince was, happened in the reign of Gera, a peasant revolt due to the introduction of local Sterbelehns that often a heavy burden for farmsteads was. When angry peasants began their march on Gera on September 14, 1790, von Egidy rode towards the crowd as city commander and was able to persuade the peasants to enter the city calmly, whereupon the farmers moved to the government courtyard in Gera.

As city governor, von Egidy was in command of all military units in the city of Gera. In addition, he received the office of march commissioner, with which he was responsible for the accommodation and catering of troops passing through by the rule of Gera. This post was given to experienced officers at the time of the Napoleonic Wars . In 1812, two years before his death, he was in charge of the march commissioner together with the Princely Russian Councilor Johann Christian Andreas Weissenborn.

Egidy's passion for hiking has been handed down. So he climbed the Brocken on August 21, 1788, together with the forest master from Landwüst and Johann Carl Christian König from Braunschweig , where he was immortalized in the Brocken book.

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  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1908, Gotha, p. 235ff .
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelige Häuser B, Vol. 1 (1954), Vol. IX (1970), Vol. XVI (1985), Vol. XXV (2004), Limburg
  • Berndt von Egidy: 300 years of the Egidy family 1687–1987 , self-published in Tübingen 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringian State Archives Greiz, Findbuch, Community Government Gera (voluntary jurisdiction) 1622-1853. In: Death of the widow city governor Christiane Henriette Louise von Egidy, b. von Bonin in Gera 1845–1847, also contains the estate of Constantin von Egidy, who died on Java. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Justus Perthes: Bonin in: Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, Uradel, Gotha 1902, 3rd year, digitized from ULB Düsseldorf , p. 145
  3. ^ Obituary of May 24, 1830 in: Leipziger Zeitung 1830, digitized on Google Books , p. 1484
  4. ^ August Wilhelm Bernhard von Uechtritz: Derer von Egidy in: Diplomatische Nachrichten aristocratic families ..., 6th part, Leipzig 1793, digitized on Google Books, p. 26f.
  5. ^ Ferdinand Hahn: History of Gera and its immediate surroundings, 2nd part, Gera 1855, digital copy of the SLUB, p. 313
  6. ↑ Dr. Heinrich Schorch: State and Address Handbook of the States of the Rhenish Federation, Weimar 1812, Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, digitized on Google Books, p. 123
  7. ↑ Jahrbücher des Brockens, Zweyter Theil, 1783–1790, digitized version on Google Books, p. 201

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Egidy (noble family)

personal data
SURNAME Egidy, Carl Gottlob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon officer and city governor of Gera
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Saxon village near Wurzen
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1814
Place of death Gera