Ludwig von Gall

Baron Ludwig Christian Philipp von Gall (born May 9, 1769 , † June 22, 1815 in Wiesloch ) was a Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt Chamberlain and Major General .

origin

His father Wilhelm Rudolph von Gall (1734–1799) commanded a Hessian regiment as a colonel in the American War of Independence . His mother was Juliane Albertine von Curti (1744–1799 or 1800) from the Curti di Gravedona family in Groß-Umstadt .

He is the uncle of Ferdinand von Gall (1807–1872). His brother Karl von Gall (1773–1861) was an important forest scientist and founder of the Academic Forest Garden in Giessen .

Life

Ludwig von Gall took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign as an officer of the Rhine Confederation , from which he returned in 1812 with the remnants of the Grande Armée . After Hessen-Darmstadt had renounced the alliance with France with the rest of the Confederation of the Rhine, he commanded a brigade in the Hesse-Darmstadt division under Prince Emil von Hessen-Darmstadt of the 6th German Federal Corps and distinguished himself in advancing against Napoleon near Lyon and in Battle of Belleville on March 18, 1814. He was then accepted on March 29, 1814 as a knight in the Maria Theresa Order .

He died in Wiesloch in 1815 on the way to France as a result of an accident.

family

Ludwig von Gall married Friederike von Müller (1784–1841), the daughter of Johann Helfrich von Müller . The writer Louise von Gall (1815–1855) is his daughter.

literature

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1862 . Twelfth year, p. 259
Gall, Ludwig Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Philipp von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

swell

↑ Manfred von Gall: Hanauer Journals and Letters from the American War of Independence 1776-1783 of the officers Wilhelm Rudolph von Gall, Friedrich Wilhelm von Geismar, his boys (anonymous), Jakob Heerwagen, Georg Paeusch and others involved Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, Volume 41, Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 2005, ISBN 3-935395-04-3 .
↑ The connection to the Curti di Gravedona family can be proven on the still intact coat of arms of the demolished Curti Castle in Groß-Umstadt.
↑ Her father, the English baronet and diplomat Wilhelm von Curti, called Curtius, created his ancestral seat in 1654 with the Curti Castle in Groß-Umstadt.
↑ Peter Schröck-Schmidt: Wilhelm Curti: A nobleman from the Electoral Palatinate from Bensheim and his castle in Groß-Umstadt , pp. 194–198 in 1250 years of Groß-Umstadt 743-1993 Ed. Magistrat der Stadt, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, 378 pages.
↑ Jaromir Hirtenfeld : The military Maria Theresa Order and its members p. 1307 ( digitized version ).
^ Friedrich Peppler: Description of my imprisonment in Russia from 1812 to 1814, p. 133.
^ Ralf Bülow: Müller, Johann Helfrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 313 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Gall, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gall, Ludwig Christian Philipp von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hessian Chamberlain and Major General
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1769
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1815
Place of death	Wiesloch

[1] Manfred von Gall: Hanauer Journals and Letters from the American War of Independence 1776-1783 of the officers Wilhelm Rudolph von Gall, Friedrich Wilhelm von Geismar, his boys (anonymous), Jakob Heerwagen, Georg Paeusch and others involved Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, Volume 41, Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 2005, ISBN 3-935395-04-3 .

[2] The connection to the Curti di Gravedona family can be proven on the still intact coat of arms of the demolished Curti Castle in Groß-Umstadt.

[3] Her father, the English baronet and diplomat Wilhelm von Curti, called Curtius, created his ancestral seat in 1654 with the Curti Castle in Groß-Umstadt.

[4] Peter Schröck-Schmidt: Wilhelm Curti: A nobleman from the Electoral Palatinate from Bensheim and his castle in Groß-Umstadt , pp. 194–198 in 1250 years of Groß-Umstadt 743-1993 Ed. Magistrat der Stadt, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, 378 pages.

[5] Jaromir Hirtenfeld : The military Maria Theresa Order and its members p. 1307 ( digitized version ).

[6] Friedrich Peppler: Description of my imprisonment in Russia from 1812 to 1814, p. 133.

[7] Ralf Bülow: Müller, Johann Helfrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 313 f. ( Digitized version ).