Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi
Marquis Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi (also: Ludwig von Angenelli ; * 1716 in Bologna ; † March 5, 1797 ibid) was a Prussian major general and leader of a free battalion , later he became lieutenant general in Hesse-Kassel . He comes from a noble family from Bologna and has fought in various European armies.
Life
He was initially in the Dutch service. But on August 6, 1741 he became a captain in the Bavarian Regiment "Graf von Preysing" and was in the First and Second Silesian War from 1741 to 1745 . On July 9, 1745 he became a colonel in the Bavarian Leib-Infanterie-Regiment and on August 26, 1746 General Adjutant. In the campaign of 1747/48 he fought in Holland. On November 2, 1748 he was made Colonel 1st Regiment Orange-Nassau in Holland. In 1755 he was wounded in the fighting for Donauwörth. In 1756 he again took leave of the Dutch service. In December 1756 he came to Dresden to enter Prussian service. For the Seven Years' War he recruited a free battalion in Merseburg and in March 1758 was appointed major general. With the regiment he took part in the fighting in Silesia and Bohemia. As early as March 1760 he asked for his release, which was also approved. The free battalion then became the Collignon Free Battalion. He went back to Italy, but stayed in contact with King Friedrich II . From 1767 he was in the Senate of Bologna, where he also met Lessing in 1775 .
In Italy he also met the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel , who took him into his service. In 1773 he became lieutenant general and chief of a grenadier regiment in Hessen-Kassel. He became a knight of the Hessian Lion Order and the Pour la Vertu Militaire Order. In 1779 he took over General Trümbach's regiment. In 1784 he resigned from the service and returned to Bologna.
literature
- Anton Balthasar König : Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 9 ( Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Kurd Wolfgang von Schöning : The Generals of the Chur-Brandenburg and Royal Prussian Army , p. 94, digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , p. 82, digitized
- Hochfürstl.-Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adre-︣Calender , p. 35, digitized
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 489, no. 499.
- ^ Wolfgang Albrecht, Lessing Museum Lessing: Appendix; Commentary and Register , p. 711
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| SURNAME | Angelelli de Malvezzi, Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ludwig von Angenelli; Louis Markies d'Angenelly; Louis de Angelelly; Louis Angelelly-Malvezzy; Marquis d'Angelelli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general and leader of a free battalion , lieutenant general and chief of a grenadier regiment in Hessen-Kassel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1716 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1797 |
| Place of death | Bologna |