Vanity from and to Gilsa

Eitel Ludwig Philipp von und zu Gilsa (born April 18, 1700 in Gilsa , † March 8, 1765 in Ziegenhain ) was a Hessian baron and lieutenant general in the service of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel .

origin

He was the offspring of the family of von and zu Gilsa , which still exists today and belongs to the Althessian knighthood , with its headquarters in Neuental Gilsa . His parents were Christian Eitel von und zu Gilsa (* February 4, 1655, † March 5, 1709) and his wife Margarethe, born von Hanstein from the Wahlhausen family.

Life

Gilsa came to the Hesse-Darmstadt court in 1711 as a noble boy and in 1715 as an ensign in the Hesse-Kassel infantry regiment "Prince Georg". He took part in the Rhine campaign in 1734/35 and also in the War of the Austrian Succession . By the Seven Years' War he rose to the position of colonel and commander of the infantry regiment "Prince Karl".

At the beginning of the war, Gilsa came to England with the German auxiliary corps. The regiment should be used against a feared French landing. After the troops moved back to Northern Germany, Gilsa - now promoted to major general - was deployed at the head of a brigade in the battle of Hastenbeck to protect a large battery near the village of Hastenbeck. The defeat of the Electoral Hanoverian troops led to the Zeven convention and the Duke of Cumberland was replaced by Ferdinand von Braunschweig . Gilsa was able to distinguish itself in the Battle of Krefeld in 1758 . In 1759 he was commended by Duke Ferdinand after the battle of Minden . He then fought in Vellinghausen (July 15 and 16, 1761), Wilhelmsthal (June 24, 1762) and in Lutternberg (July 23, 1762). In the winter of 1759/60 he led his own corps with six battalions , six squadrons and 16 heavy artillery in the Saxon Ore Mountains . At a meeting with the Prussian King Friedrich II. He received a gift of 4000 thalers and a box with the image of the king.

In 1759 Gilsa became the owner of the Hessen-Kassel Infantry Regiment No. 3 , in which the later general and military theorist Johann von Ewald began his military career. After the war he became governor of Ziegenhain. He died on March 8, 1765 on his Gilsa estate.

family

He married Anna Juliane Sabine von Scholley on November 3, 1728 (* September 19, 1707; † October 24, 1765). The couple had several children including:

• Wilhelm Friedrich (* October 23, 1744; † November 6, 1784) ∞ Elisabeth Ernestine Wilhelmine von und zu Urff (* June 4, 1751; † October 2, 1784)
• Georg Ernst (1740–1798) ∞ Henriette Luise Charlotte Christiane von der Malsburg (* September 2, 1748; † December 5, 1767)

literature

• Bernhard von Poten :  Gilsa, Eitel von und zu . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 173-175.
• The sex of and to Gilsa in the register of the Althessian knighthood (page 87 and 89)
• Yearbook of the German nobility. Volume 1, 1896, p. 672. Digitized
• Holger Th. Gräf: "A hero" - Eitel Philipp Ludwig von und zu Gilsa (1700–1765). (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse: Kleine Schriften. 14, Vol. 46 d. Complete Works ), Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-942225-29-8

Web links

• Eitel Philipp Ludwig from and to Gilsa at Stammreihen.de
• Gilsa, Eitel Philipp Ludwig from and to. Hessian biography. (As of March 4, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rüdiger Bergien: philistines, patriots, revolutionaries: military mobilization and social order in modern times. V&R unipress, 2010, ISBN 9783899717235 , p. 47.