Johann Andreas von Gundling

Johann Andreas Gundling , later von Gundling , (also Hans von Gundling ; born June 30, 1715 in Halle an der Saale ; † unknown) was a German military.

Life

Gundling comes from the Franconian-Prussian family Gundling and was the son and third child of the scholar Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling and his wife Sophia Auguste nee Kraut (1690–1732), daughter of the Prussian consistorial councilor Ludwig Gerhard Kraut. He received his education in his hometown and stood out for his jokes as an adolescent. After the death of his father in 1729, his uncle Jacob Paul Freiherr von Gundling took over the guardianship. During this time he and his brother Friedrich Hieronymus Gundling published a funeral pamphlet for their father. Later he became a free corporal , a sergeant in the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 3 under Prince Leopold von Dessau in Halle.

His further life is not recorded.

The Gundling-Happach case

Gundling was the protagonist of the kidnapping of a soldier from the Happach Stolbergischen leading to a reference case for kidnapping was and was considered strange legal case.

In 1735 Gundling was ordered to kidnap the citizen Happach from Stollberg to Prussia, who was noticeable in his time due to his size and had already served with the Hanover troops. For this purpose, Gundling was smuggled there as a lemon trader accompanied by a woman under a false identity. The kidnapping was successful, but Gundling stayed behind and was detained by citizens and taken to court in Wittenberg . There he was sentenced to death . The Gundling affair became the subject of prolonged diplomatic disputes between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Electorate of Saxony . His regiment as well as the Prussian king tried to get the court of the university in Halle , to which Gundling was actually subordinate, to take action and pull the matter over to save Gundling from hanging. The Dresden court agreed to the transfer of Gundling on the condition that Happach would also be released, but the Prussian regiment initially did not agree. After further negotiations, Gundling was released on August 1, 1738 and returned to his regiment.

The story of the Junker Hans von Gundling was described by C. Fritze as How the Prussians otherwise advertised. A documented narrative described and circulated.

literature

Frey corporal Gundling faces a disgraceful death penalty . In: Ernst Ferdinand Klein : Annals of Legislation and Legal Scholarship in the Prussian States , Volume 20, Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1800, pp. 246–250.

C. Fritze: How the Prussians used to advertise. A documented narrative . Published in:

Karl Gutzkow (Ed.): Conversations at the domestic stove , Volume 2, Issue No. 38, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, pp. 593–601.
Exhilarations. Unterhaltungsblatt , Wailandt, Aschaffenburg 1854, issue No. 189, pp. 754–756; No. 190, pp. 758-760; Issue No. 191 p. 763 f .; No. 192 pp. 766-768.

Lukas C. Gundling: The free corporal Junker Johann Andreas von Gundling . In: Genealogical sheets of the Gundling family and related families (GBFG), No. 14 (2019), p. 6 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Lukas C. Gundling: The origin of the scholar Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling in the light of more recent findings in Gundling research . In: Ekkehard, Family and Regional History Research , NF Volume 24 (2017), p. 4.
↑ Friedrich Hieronymus Gundling, Johann Andreas Gundling: Schmertzliche Seuffzer As Der Weyland Well-bored and highly learned gentleman, Mr. D. Nicol. Hieronymus Gundling Famous ICtus ... Our dear father in life The IXth December. 1729. Heavenly dead , Hilliger, Halle an der Saale 1730.
↑ ^a ^b Bopp: kidnapping . In Karl von Rotteck / Carl Theodor Welcker : Staats-Lexikon or Encyclopadie der Staatswissenschaften , 10th volume, Hammerich, Altona 1840, p. 515 f.
↑ kidnapping at Karl Rosenkranz : humanity , Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1864, S. 765, footnote 10..
^ Ernst Ferdinand Klein : Annals of Legislation and Legal Scholarship in the Prussian States , Volume 20, Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1800, p. 246.
↑ Jörg Brückner: Between imperial estate and state rule: The Counts of Stollberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia ... , Dissertation, Wernigerode 2003, p. 193ff.
↑ Saxon State Archives : Happachs violent Away leadership of Stolberg in the Harz Mountains in Thuringia of Prussian militia, this is also located, which because of Stolberg locked Prussian sergeant Gundling proceed , 10025 Secret Consilium, No. Loc.. 06291/03.

personal data
SURNAME	Gundling, Johann Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gundling, Johann Andreas; Gundling, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German military
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	18th century

[1] Lukas C. Gundling: The origin of the scholar Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling in the light of more recent findings in Gundling research . In: Ekkehard, Family and Regional History Research , NF Volume 24 (2017), p. 4.

[2] Friedrich Hieronymus Gundling, Johann Andreas Gundling: Schmertzliche Seuffzer As Der Weyland Well-bored and highly learned gentleman, Mr. D. Nicol. Hieronymus Gundling Famous ICtus ... Our dear father in life The IXth December. 1729. Heavenly dead , Hilliger, Halle an der Saale 1730.

[Staatslexikon-3] Bopp: kidnapping . In Karl von Rotteck / Carl Theodor Welcker : Staats-Lexikon or Encyclopadie der Staatswissenschaften , 10th volume, Hammerich, Altona 1840, p. 515 f.

[4] kidnapping at Karl Rosenkranz : humanity , Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1864, S. 765, footnote 10..

[5] Ernst Ferdinand Klein : Annals of Legislation and Legal Scholarship in the Prussian States , Volume 20, Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1800, p. 246.

[6] Jörg Brückner: Between imperial estate and state rule: The Counts of Stollberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia ... , Dissertation, Wernigerode 2003, p. 193ff.

[7] Saxon State Archives : Happachs violent Away leadership of Stolberg in the Harz Mountains in Thuringia of Prussian militia, this is also located, which because of Stolberg locked Prussian sergeant Gundling proceed , 10025 Secret Consilium, No. Loc.. 06291/03.