Friedrich August von Geyso

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The grave monument (left) of the Hanoverian Major General von Geyso, who died in 1787 , in the background the old school - also a listed building in the former village center, now used by the Glocksee School

Friedrich August von Geyso (* 3. July 1715 in Bovenden , † 6. November 1787 in Wülfel before Hannover ) was a kurhannoverscher Major General .

Life

Major General Friedrich August von Geyso was chief of the Electoral-Hanoverian Diepholzische Landregiment from 1766 to 1787 and - almost simultaneously - from 1768 to 1787 chief of the 2nd Cellischen Landregiment .

Von Geyso was the uncle of Georg Bock von Wülfingen and the godfather of his son, the later captain Wilhelm August Friedrich von Geyso (* 16, baptized December 26, 1783 in Elze ; † January 21, 1826 ibid).

Friedrich August von Geyso's listed grave monument was erected at the Church of St. Petri in Döhren , where the Hanoverian painter Karl Hapke captured it in pictures. as one of the last parts of the old center of the former cluster village , the center of which is only made clear by the church with its grave slabs and epitaphs , the rectory and the school.

literature

  • Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg : Illustration of the Chur-Hanoverian Army uniforms. Brief history of the Churhanover troops , unchanged reprint of the Hanover, Leipzig 1791 edition, with an afterword by Alheidis von Rohr , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1979, ISBN 3-87706-177-X , pp. 69f.
  • Ralf Busch : War and everyday life in Bovenden. A source on the Bovendian history of the 18th and 19th centuries , in: Plesse-Archiv , Heft 5, Bovenden 1970, pp. 83–97

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jürgen Huck: The married couple Georg and Adolphine Bock von Wülfingen and his circle of life , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 59 (2005), pp. 135–165; here: p. 136
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neß : The old village , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 97f., And site map 6 Döhren Wülfel , p. 46f .; as well as Döhren in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 19f.
  3. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Karl Hapke, the painter Alt-Hannovers , Verlag Adolf Sponholtz, Hameln 1990, ISBN 3-87766-060-6 , illustration “Grave monument of Fr. Aug. von Geyso at the St. Petri Church in Hanover-Döhren ", P. 126
personal data
SURNAME Geyso, Friedrich August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION major general in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Bovenden
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1787
Place of death Wülfel before Hanover