Gustav Boye af Gennäs

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Baron Gustav Boye af Gennäs (also: Gustaf Boije , Gustav von Boye * May 2, 1779 in Stralsund ; † July 29, 1834 in Bahn , Greifenhagen district ) was a Prussian major general and most recently the commander of the 2nd Landwehr Regiment. He was a knight of the Order of St. John and holder of the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class .

Life

origin

His parents were the Swedish lieutenant colonel a. D. and Post Director of Stralsund Friedrich Boye af Gennäs (* 1723 - 18 December 1809) and his wife Friederike Karoline von Blessingk (* ​​20 February 1752 - 4 February 1828). His brother Carl Frederik (* July 7, 1773; † February 8, 1857) went to the war to Stockholm and was editor of the first Swedish artist lexicon.

Military career

He went into Swedish service in 1786 and was awarded a gold medal at the Battle of Svensksund in 1790. In 1794 he became a lieutenant and in 1798 a captain and company commander in the body regiment of the Queen of Sweden . In 1801 he was awarded the Swedish Order of the Sword . He joined the Russian Army in 1805 and was transferred to General Tolstoy . After his return in 1806 he was assigned to the topographic office, in 1807 he was transferred to the Swedish Landwehr control.

In 1809 he was accompanied by General Hermann von Engelbrechten to Königsberg in Prussia to see King Friedrich Wilhelm III. cleverly. After the withdrawal of the French troops in 1814, he became the commandant of Stralsund. With the handover of Swedish Pomerania to Prussia , he switched to Prussian services and came as a colonel in the 33rd Infantry Regiment . On May 7, 1817 he received the patent of a colonel for November 3, 1815. On July 31, 1817 he was appointed commander of the Stralsund Landwehr Regiment, on March 16, 1820 commander of the 2nd Landwehr Regiment. On February 11, 1824 he received his farewell as a major general, was given permission to wear his Army uniform, and a pension of 800 taler. He died on July 29, 1834 in Bahn in the Greifenhagen district .

family

He married on March 23, 1799 in the Berlin garrison church Johanna Hedwig Wilhelmine Bernhardt (* May 10, 1775, † August 4, 1829) divorced Flies , a daughter of the banker Bernhardt. This marriage ended in divorce in 1811, after which Johanna married Lieutenant General Baron Bengt Erland Franc-Sparre .

He then married Christine Marie von Lindencron (born July 18, 1776) from Möckelsnäs in Sweden on September 26, 1826; this marriage was divorced on December 11, 1827.

He was married for the third time on October 2, 1831. Then he married Marie Charlotte Luise Friederike Heinrich (born January 19, 1793 - August 22, 1865) in the Berlin garrison church, the daughter of the late rifleman Bernhard Heinrich from Infantry Regiment No. 7 .

He had two children: Friederike Wilhelmine (* July 26, 1818) and Karl Gustav (* June 3, 1822; † March 24, 1881), retired Platzmajor . D. in Stralsund.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten , p. 48.
  2. ^ Gustav Boye af Gennäs . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 114 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  3. ↑ Johanna Wilhelmine Hedwig Bernhard was a bekannate Salonnière . She was the daughter of Moses Bernhard, a business partner of Moses Mendelssohn and a friend of Rahel Levin Varnhagen . In her first marriage she was married to the doctor Issak (Karl Bernhard) Fliess. Cf. Hannah Lotte Lund: The Berlin “Jewish Salon” around 1800: Emancipation in the Debate , p. 546.
  4. ↑ Vilhelm Fredrik Palmblad, Peter Wieselgren, Karl Fredrik Werner: Biografiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenske men , p. 77 f.
  5. ↑ She was the daughter of Adolf Ludwig Lindencrona (1748–1832) and Magaretha Sophia Horn af Rantzien (1749–1823), Gabriel Anrep, Svenska adelns ättar-taflor utgifna , p.768
personal data
SURNAME Boye af Gennäs, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boye von Gennäs, Gustav; Boije, Gustaf; Boye, Gustav von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Prussian major general and finally commander of the 2nd Landwehr Regiment
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1834
Place of death Railway , district of Greifenhagen