Gottfried von Goos
Gottfried Goos , since 1809 Knight of Goos (born May 21, 1776 in Friedelsheim ; † February 12, 1822 ibid) was a Bavarian officer and holder of the Military Max Joseph Order .
Life
origin
He was the son of Friedrich Caspar Goos and his wife Maria Anna, née Tussing. The father officiated as court administrator for the Counts of Wiser-Siegelsbach , who were the local lords in Friedelsheim at that time.
Military career
On June 21, 1795 Gottfried Goos joined the 1st Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian Feldjäger Regiment as a sub-lieutenant , where he was promoted to first lieutenant on December 11, 1797 and to captain on October 31, 1805 . In the Bavarian Army he took part in the Austro-French War of 1809. In the relief of the besieged Kufstein , during the Tyrolean popular uprising , he commanded on May 12, 1809 Company of the 1st Light Infantry Battalion "Habermann". Here "on the advance against Kufstein he was the first who waded through the Kieferbach with his company under the lively enemy fire, pushed the insurgents back over several mountains and finally, on his own initiative, prevented the enemy from occupying the Klausen Pass , which accelerated the whole undertaking and that Fatherland of many brave warriors. "
According to the army order of June 8, 1809, Goos received the Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor for his bravery near Kufstein . On June 27th he was promoted to major and the chapter of the Military Max Joseph Order named the officer a knight on August 30th of that year. Associated with this was the elevation into the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Goos after being entered in the nobility register .
On June 19, 1812, Goos retired from the army and retired into private life.
family
He married Josephine Eckart, née Reichard from Mainberg , with whom he had the children August, Regine and Franziska (1816–1862). The latter daughter married her cousin, the Bavarian baron Max Caspar Du Jarrys de La Roche (1798–1872) and her ornate tombstone is preserved in the Bad Dürkheim main cemetery .
After Goo's death, his widow married the second marriage to the landowner Heinrich Riesè from Forst an der Weinstrasse .
Gottfried's sister Wilhelmine Goos (1774–1848) was married to Joseph Anselm Du Jarrys de La Roche (1768–1812). Her son Max Caspar Du Jarrys de La Roche married his cousin, the daughter of Gottfried Goos; their daughter Franziska Du Jarrys de La Roche (1809–1848) married Alexander Freiherr von Feilitzsch (1803–1873) and was the mother of the future Bavarian interior minister Maximilian von Feilitzsch (1834–1913).
literature
- Bavarian War Archives: The Bavarian soldier in the field. Volume 1. Munich 1898. pp. 335f.
- Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Hennig Publishing House. Edenkoben 2004. ISBN 3-9804668-5-X . P. 285.
- Friedrich Münich: History of the development of the Bavarian army for two centuries. Munich 1864. p. 583. ( digitized version )
- Baptist Schrettinger: The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. Oldenbourg publishing house. Munich 1882. pp. 256-258. ( Preview on Google Books )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bavarian soldier in the field. Volume 1. P. 335, 336. Bavarian War Archives . Munich 1898.
- ^ Supplement to the Intelligence Gazette of the Rheinkreis , No. 18, Speyer , February 26, 1830; Scan from the source
- ^ Leonhard Lenk: Feilitzsch, Maximilian Alexander Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 57 f. ( Digitized version ). - with detailed genealogy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goos, Gottfried von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goos, Gottfried; Goos, Gottfried Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian officer, knight of the Max Joseph Order |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedelsheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1822 |
| Place of death | Friedelsheim |