Georg Ludwig von Oeynhausen

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Count Georg Ludwig von Oeynhausen (* May 10, 1734 , † March 11, 1811 at Gut Bierde near Walsrode ) was a lieutenant general and chief of the 7th Cavalry Regiment (Dragoons) from the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg . He was also the founder of the Count's line to Hameln.

His father was the Oberjägermeisters and Major General Count Friedrich Ulrich von Oeynhausen (* June 11, 1695 - April 5, 1776), his mother was his wife Friederike Wilhelmine de Lorraine called de Beauvernois (* October 13, 1702 - December 18, 1751) .

Life

He joined the footguard as an ensign in 1748 and was baptized by fire in the unfortunate battle of Hastenbeck on July 26, 1757 . Soon afterwards he was transferred to the bodyguard on horseback as a lieutenant captain and took part in various positions, partly in the front, partly as adjutant in the Seven Years' War . In the battle of Minden on August 1, 1759, he was the orderly officer of the Commander-in-Chief, Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig , later his personal adjutant. In the war against France in the Netherlands, for which the electorate had provided an "auxiliary corps" since the spring of 1793, he moved in as major general with the bodyguard regiment.

He later commanded a cavalry brigade and fought at Famars (May 23) and Hondschoote (September 6-8). The new French Commander-in-Chief Pichegru opened the campaign of 1794 with an attack down the line; On April 26th General Bertin took the position from Moucron, occupied by a Hanoverian detachment under General von Wangenheim, which covered the important courtrai behind it . On the afternoon of the 27th, Oeynhausen received the order to take over command of his troops in place of the seriously ill Wangenheim and to recapture that position “it costs what it may”. It was a difficult task. In his report to Feldzeugmeister Count Clerfait , Oeynhausen noted that only his assurance that he would cover the wing of the attacking troops "could make him free of charge for such a daring undertaking". He had only 3,600 men at his disposal, who had already been badly battered by previous fights. But they solved the task given them brilliantly; Having set out early on April 28, Oeynhausen was in possession of the position by noon; not long afterwards Clerfait arrived with reinforcements which it needed to hold on to. The following day the position was lost again and the French were able to advance to Menin . There they came across General Rudolf von Hammerstein .

Oeynhausen was later commissioned with a shipment to England. Most recently he was lieutenant general and chief of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, Dragoons, with garrison in Nienburg on the Weser . After the army was disbanded in the summer of 1803 as a result of the French occupation of the country, he retired to his estate in Bierde near Walsrode in Lüneburg, where he died on March 11, 1811.

family

He married Karoline Christiane Spiegel zu Peckelsheim in 1763 (* September 18, 1739, † December 25, 1796). The couple had the following children:

  • Friederike Melosine Ernestine Henriette (* August 25, 1764, † November 14, 1799), conventual in the Marienwerder monastery
  • Sophie Ferdinandine Luise Wilhelmine (* December 27, 1765; † 1802) ⚭ Henri Maximilian de Tulliers, Count of Mentjoie-Froberg (* July 31, 1765; † July 19, 1809)
  • Carolina Christiane Wilhelmine (* December 21, 1766; † February 24, 1827) ⚭ 1791 Christian Friedrich Rudolf Freiherr von Geltingen (* November 19, 1764; † February 21, 1820)
  • Charlotte Antoinette Friederike (* March 21, 1768; † December 6, 1842) ⚭ Johann Wilhelm Reinhard von Künsberg (* 1757; † September 25, 1829), Upper Court Marshal of Nassau
  • Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (born September 16, 1769; † November 4, 1794 near Nijmegen), Hanoverian cavalry master
  • Luise Sophie Johanna (March 17, 1771; † March 5, 1828) ⚭ 1792 Georg Ernst Graf Grote Imperial Baron von Schauen (March 12, 1764; † December 12, 1850) (parents of Louis Grote to Schauen )
  • Ernst Wilhelm Albrecht August (July 9, 1772 - March 14, 1807)
  • Sophia Caroline Sabine Eleonore Elisabeth (* 18/19 February 1774 - † 28 July 1784)
  • Antoinette Sophia Christiane Luise (December 29, 1776 - January 15, 1801)

a second wife was Eleonore Sophia Maria Kirchmann (born December 15, 1765, † February 28, 1828). The couple had the following son:

  • Georg Ludwig (Louis) (April 1, 1801 - February 21, 1863) major in Hanover
⚭ 1828 Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine Elisabeth von Reden (* January 25, 1808; † September 15, 1832)
⚭ 1835 Susanne Ernestine Sophia von Oldershausen (* December 15, 1807; † February 19, 1870)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius von Oeynhausen: History of the family of Oeynhausen , Bd. 4, family tables , Frankfurt a. M .: Wilhelm Rommel, 1889, family table 8; Digitized , Rambow Genealogy: History of the family of Oeynhausen  : viewed on July 17, 2014
  2. ^ Archive for State and Church History of the Duchies of Schleswig , Volume 3, p. 39, digitized Baron von Geltingen
  3. ↑ www.garnisonkirche-hameln.de/065_Oeynhausen,%20G.L.htm ( Memento from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Gravestone
  4. ↑ www.garnisonkirche-hameln.de/064_Oeynhausen,%20A.WChtm ( Memento from October 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Gravestone AWC Oeynhausen
personal data
SURNAME Oeynhausen, Georg Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg lieutenant general and chief of a dragoon regiment
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1734
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1811
Place of death Gut Bierde near Walsrode