Levin von Geusau

Portrait of Levin von Geusau

Levin von Geusau (born October 15, 1734 in Creuzburg , † December 27, 1808 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and chief of the army general staff , quartermaster general and chief of the engineering corps .

Life

origin

Levin was the son of the margrave of Baden's bailiff and governor Levin von Geusau (1691–1776) and his wife Sophie Magdalene Dorothea, née von Heeringen.

Military career

Geusau entered in October 1752 as a private corporal in the fusilier regiment "von Kreytz" of the Prussian army. King Friedrich Wilhelm II appointed Geusau his adjutant general and in 1790 promoted him to major general and chief of the Feldjägerkorps . On May 23, 1805 he became a Knight of the Black Eagle Order .

From 1782 until his death in 1808 he was the order master of the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany . He was a member of the Berlin lodge to the three golden keys and donated the Minerva lodge in Potsdam.

Geusau's grave is located in the old Berlin garrison cemetery on Linienstraße.

family

Since 1788 he was married to Marie Karoline Grepler (1754–1829), the daughter of the Potsdam sculptor Franz Grepler. The children Rudolf (* 1771) and Henriette Charlotte (* 1787) as well as Karoline Christiane Amalie (1780–1867), who in 1802 married the later General of the Infantry Gustav von Rauch , were born. This marriage ended in divorce in 1815.

literature

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , pp. 335-339, no. 820.

Carl Reichard, Modern Biographies. Volume 3, p. 79, digitized

Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The Royal Prussian and Electoral Brandenburg Real Secret State Council on its bicentennial foundation day. P. 532 digitized version

Friedrich Buchholz, Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Johann Wilhelm Lombard, Gallery of Prussian characters: translated from the French manuscript , p.103ff

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The Knights of the Royal Prussian High Order of the Black Eagle and their coat of arms (1701–1901). Berlin 1901, p. 27.

^ Friedrich Mossdorf: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Third volume . Publisher: WENTWORTH Press, 2018 (804 pages) ISBN 0-274-88977-3 , 9780274889778, (p. 666)

↑ www.freimaurer-wiki.de

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personal data
SURNAME	Geusau, Levin from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of the Army General Staff
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH	Creuzburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1808
Place of death	Berlin

[1] The Knights of the Royal Prussian High Order of the Black Eagle and their coat of arms (1701–1901). Berlin 1901, p. 27.

[2] Friedrich Mossdorf: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Third volume . Publisher: WENTWORTH Press, 2018 (804 pages) ISBN 0-274-88977-3 , 9780274889778, (p. 666)

[3] www.freimaurer-wiki.de