Ludwig Carl von Linsingen

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Ludwig Carl von Linsingen , also Ludwig Carl Freiherr von Linsingen (French: Louis Charles Baron de Linsingen ; † September 1805 ) was a French colonel of the cavalry and German manor owner.

Life

He came from the Eichsfeld line of the noble family von Linsingen and was the fourth son of the manor owner and permanent zerbstischen secret councilor Dietrich Ernst Heinrich von Linsingen, who died in 1762 .

In contrast to his father and his older siblings, he did not pursue an administrative career, but entered the military. In 1766 and 1768 he is referred to as a French cavalry master and in 1775 he had already achieved the rank of French cavalry colonel.

Together with his three brothers, on June 29, 1781 at Mönchhof Castle in Siebleben in Saxony-Gotha, he made a comparison about the inherited family estates of the Eichsfeld line of Burgwalde in the Golden Aue and in Eichsfeld . By drawing lots, he received the Burgwalde estate in Eichsfeld .

While on December 4, 1783 Emperor Joseph II in Vienna raised his two older brothers Adolph Ernst and August Christian Wilhelm von Linsingen auf Tilleda , a Saxon-Gotha lieutenant colonel in Dutch service, to the baron status of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation As a German in foreign service, he did not raise his status. Nevertheless, since 1785 at the latest, he had himself been called a baron and usually signed that way. Under the name of Ludwig Carl Freyherr von Linsingen , he published the text in Heiligenstadt in 1792: Authentic proof of the agnation beyder, the Hessian family, which died out in 1721, and the branches of the knightly and monastery-like Freyherr family von Linsingen that were flourishing in Eichsfelde .

Ludwig Carl von Linsingen died without male offspring. As a result, his estate in Burgwalde fell to his surviving youngest brother, Carl Wilhelm von Linsingen, and his nephews.

Honors

Because of his military merits, he was awarded the Orden Du Merite Militaire in France.

literature

  • Adolph Ernst von Linsingen : Gender sequence of the ancient knight and monastery-like family von Linsingen , Erfurt, 1774.
  • Ludwig Carl Freyherr von Linsingen: Authentic proof of the agnation beyder, the Hessians who died out in 1721 and the branches of the knightly and monastery-like Freyherr family von Linsingen , Heiligenstadt 1792, which flourished in Eichsfelde .
  • Detlev Freiherr von Linsingen: On the history of the lords, barons and counts of Linsingen zu Linsingen, Jesberg, Asphe etc. in Hesse, to Birkenfelde, Udra, Rengelrode, Burgwalde etc. in Eichsfeld, to Ricklingen, Adenstedt, Gestorf etc. in Hanover as well in Holland, France, England, South Africa and Brazil (= series of publications of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Jesberg eV Volume 1), 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian State Archives Vienna, AVA, Adel, RAA v. Linsingen, 1783. Waldstein-Wartenberg, Berthold, Austrian Nobility Law 1804-1918, communications from the Austrian State Archives, vol. 17/18 (1965, pp. 109-146 (137)).
  2. ↑ Exceptions are usually official letters, for example to the Lehnhöfe in Rudolstadt and Stolberg (Harz).
personal data
SURNAME Linsingen, Ludwig Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linsingen, Ludwig Carl Freiherr von; Linsingen, Louis Charles Baron de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cavalry colonel and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH September 1805