Friedrich August von Eyff

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Friedrich August von Eyff (* 1728 in Geldern , † after 1792) was a Prussian major . He was the last chief of the Szczecin Land Regiment .

Life

Origin and family

Friedrich August was a member of a Gelders family. A Prussian artillery officer named Eyff (Eiff) was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on December 11, 1705 . The sex is said to have belonged later to the Hessian nobility.

Career

Eyff served in the Prussian Army from 1747 . He proved himself in the Seven Years' War and in the Bavarian War of Succession . On January 16, 1781, he was promoted to major in Infantry Regiment No. 8 . On July 19, 1784, he was supplied as chief of the Szczecin Land Regiment . The regiment was disbanded in 1788. Until its dissolution it bore its name as "Stettinisches Landregiment von Eyff".

literature

  • Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626–1807 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1964, p. 325 .
  • Anton Balthasar König : Friedrich August von Eyff . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 407 ( Friedrich August von Eyff at Wikisource [PDF]). Reprint: LTR, Starnberg 1989, ISBN 3-88706-305-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 149.
  2. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 15.
  3. ↑ General “Prussian ennobling” without reference to 1705: Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 1, Berlin 1855, p. 211.
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1861, p. 180.
  5. ↑ Brief list of all regiments and rankings of all regiments of the Royal Prussian Army . Berlin 1786, p. 120.
personal data
SURNAME Eyff, Friedrich August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major
DATE OF BIRTH 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Funds
DATE OF DEATH after 1792