Otto von Gustedt

Memorial stone for Otto von Gustedt and his family in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen . (Here he is called Otto Freiherr von Gustedt Deersheim , although according to the sources he was never raised to the baron class.)

Otto Wilhelm von Gustedt (born February 18, 1839 at Gut Garden near Deutsch-Eylau , † January 23, 1905 in Neuhausen near Königsberg ) was a Prussian officer and wing adjutant to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm .

Life

Gustedt came from an old Lower Saxon noble family with the same family name near Hildesheim and was the son of the Prussian district administrator Werner von Gustedt , landlord at Gut Garden and later at Hof Rosenberg, and the writer Jenny von Gustedt , née Rabe von Pappenheim (1811–1890). The mother was an illegitimate daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), King of Westphalia , and thus Napoleon's niece . She lived for many years in Weimar under the personal influence of Goethe and was close friends with the later German Empress Augusta , wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I.

Gustedt was the Prussian Rittmeister and wing adjutant of the Crown Prince, the later 99-day Emperor Friedrich I. With the saber of his great-uncle Napoleon he went to war against France and was awarded for special services at the Battle of Wörth (August 6, 1870) with the Iron cross awarded.

Gustedt married on January 18, 1864 in Paris Cécile Renouard de Bussierre (born June 7, 1844 in Strasbourg , Alsace , † March 5, 1924 in Bad Kissingen ), the daughter of the merchant Gustave Renouard de Bussierre, gentleman at Ortenberg Castle near Offenburg , and the Johanna (Jenny) Freiin von Türckheim. When his father-in-law wanted to arrange the inheritance among his four children in 1888, his son-in-law Gustedt took over the entire inventory for 250,000 marks.

Gravestone of his son
Werner von Gustedt in the
chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen

Daughter Auguste Victoria von Gustedt (around 1870–1890) was the godchild of Empress Auguste Viktoria , his son was Werner von Gustedt (1864–1943).

literature

• Jenny von Gustedt: Memoirs about the Titans. Experiences with Goethe and the Bonapartes in the circle of the Hohenzollern. 2 volumes. Reissner Verlag, Dresden 1932.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XXI, page 216, volume 98 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1990, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 .
• Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies. Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 [here, as mentioned on the memorial and gravestone, with the addition of Freiherr ]