Ludwig Wilhelm Gayling from Altheim

Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm August Freiherr Gayling von Altheim (born October 14, 1758 in Hanau ; † January 9, 1847 in Hanau) was a Hesse-Hanau politician, diplomat and member of the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt .

Life

Ludwig Wilhelm Gayling von Altheim was the son of the Hesse-Hanau Chamberlain and Oberamtmann of the Office Babenhausen Eberhard Friedrich Freiherr Gayling von Altheim (born April 9, 1714, † 1782) and his wife Augusta Carolina Wilhelmina von Reischach-Reichenstein (born September 2, 1728 ) born. As heir to his father, Ludwig Wilhelm became master of Babenhausen . Ludwig Wilhelm, who was an evangelical reformist, married Maria Sophia Bayer von Boppard .

He became a member of the Hessian-Hanau government and court judge and worked as a diplomat for Elector Wilhelm I. He represented Wilhelm in the Execution Commission of the Rhenish Empire from 1804 to 1806, in 1804 with Napoléon Bonaparte in Mainz and in 1807 in Paris . After the French occupation of the country, he followed Elector Wilhelm I to Itzehoe and later accompanied him to Prague . Then he returned to his Hessian goods.

In 1810 he was elected to the Estates' Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt for the Department of Hanau and the group of scholars and artists . After the Elector's return in 1813, he was appointed Oberhofmeister of the Electress and holder of the Grand Cross of the Electoral Hessian Order of Lions .

His marriage to Maria Sophia remained childless, so his goods Hauenstein, Babenhausen, Altheim and all the others came to the line in Ebnet in Baden.

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Jochen Lengemann : Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , pp. 139-140.

Johann Samuelansch : General encyclopedia of the sciences and arts in alphabetical order. (Digitized version)

Individual evidence

↑ Root register for the family foundation of Baroness Agnes Schilling von Cannstatt, born in 1646. Freiin von Münchingen, intended to be prebendants for female relatives of the founder, along with news about this foundation. P. 59. (digitized version)
^ Ralf Schumacher: The political integration of the Principality of Hanau into the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV: Hanau in the Napoleonic era (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 47). Hanau approx. 2015, ISBN 978-3-935395-21-3 , p. 154.

personal data
SURNAME	Gayling von Altheim, Ludwig Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gayling von Altheim, Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm August Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Member of the Assembly of Estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanau
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1847
Place of death	Hanau

[1] Root register for the family foundation of Baroness Agnes Schilling von Cannstatt, born in 1646. Freiin von Münchingen, intended to be prebendants for female relatives of the founder, along with news about this foundation. P. 59. (digitized version)

[2] Ralf Schumacher: The political integration of the Principality of Hanau into the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV: Hanau in the Napoleonic era (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 47). Hanau approx. 2015, ISBN 978-3-935395-21-3 , p. 154.