Ludwig Dietrich Eugen von Gayl

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Ludwig Diedrich Eugen Freiherr von Gayl (born October 4, 1785 in Stendal ; † September 9, 1853 in Oldenburg ) was an Oldenburg lieutenant general .

Life

Ludwig von Gayl came from the East Prussian noble family von Gayl . He was a son of the landowner Kasimir Wilhelm von Gayl (1746-1821) and his wife Sophie Anna Charlotte, born von Jagow from the House of Pöllnitz (1757-1813).

As a younger son destined for an officer career, he joined the Prussian Army as a cadet in 1798 and received his patent as a Second Lieutenant in the Guards Regiment on foot in 1807 . Since his father's estate was in the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia , Gayl had to leave the Prussian army in 1810. He became a captain in the Westphalian Grenadier Guard Battalion. With this he took part in Napoleon's campaign against Russia in 1812 and was seriously wounded in captivity.

After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he entered the military service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as a captain in April 1814 . In 1815 he took part in the campaign against France with the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment . Appointed chamberlain in 1817 , from 1819 he was governor and travel companion of the Oldenburg princes Peter (1812-1891) and Alexander (1810-1829), the sons of Georg von Oldenburg (1784-1812) and the Grand Duchess Katharina Pavlovna (1788-1819) , in second marriage Queen of Württemberg . In 1818 he was promoted to major and in 1830 to lieutenant colonel .

Oldenburg staff officers around 1830

In 1833 he was given command of the 2nd Oldenburg Infantry Regiment while being promoted to colonel . After Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Wardenburg died in 1838, Gayl moved into his position and was appointed major general and commander of the Oldenburg troop contingent on May 1, 1839. Linked to this was the command of the Oldenburg-Hanseatic Brigade . After the outbreak of the revolution and the start of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising in 1848, Gayl took over command of the troops sent to the duchies against Denmark for the German Confederation . However, he was not up to this task and so he was retired on July 13, 1848 with the character of lieutenant general. Wilhelm von Ranzow became his successor. On September 1, 1848, Gayl was briefly assigned the command of the non-mobile troop corps ( X. Bundeskorps ). He was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle First Class and, after his final departure, an Oldenburg Chamberlain .

family

Gayl was initially married to Elisabeth, née von Levetzow , from 1811 . After her untimely death in 1813, he married Anna Marie Hollmann (1796–1857), daughter of the Oldenburg superintendent Anton Georg Hollmann (1756–1831), on October 5, 1819 in Oldenburg. From this second marriage the future general Peter von Gayl and the district administrator Ernst von Gayl and the daughter Marie Friederike Alexandrine Freiin von Gayl (1827-1908) emerged, who married the Oldenburg upper chamberlain Friedrich Kurd von Alten (1822-1894).

Awards

  • Small Capitular Cross January 17, 1840
  • Kapitular-Comthur February 10, 1852

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oldenburg State Calendar. 1844, p. 19.
  2. ↑ This and the others according to the Oldenburg State Calendar. 1853, pp. 44, 71.
personal data
SURNAME Gayl, Ludwig Dietrich Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gayl, Ludwig Diedrich Eugen Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1853
Place of death Oldenburg