Rudolph von Geusau

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Rudolph von Geusau (* before 1778, † 1838 ) was a Prussian major and member of the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony .

Life

He came from the Thuringian noble family Geusau and was the son and heir of Georg von Geusau, who died in 1778. Like many members of his family, he also embarked on a military career and initially became a lieutenant in Halle (Saale) . He later rose to become a major in the Prussian army.

In 1829 Rudolph von Geusau was elected as a member of the state parliament of the Prussian province of Saxony . His constituency, which he represented in the rank of knighthood, was the Alt-Querfurt district in the Thuringian district. His deputies were the captain a. D. Krug von Nidda zu Sangerhausen as well as the Prussian war council and Rittmeister a. D. von Trebra zu Braunsroda in the Eckartsberga district . From 1833 Rudolph von Geusau also belonged to the fourth electoral term of the state parliament of the Prussian province of Saxony in Merseburg .

When the manor owner Carl von Geusau died childless on October 27, 1832, he was the next to receive feudal claims to the manors of Ober- and Unterfarnstädt that he had left behind .

Rudolph von Geusau was an amateur archaeologist and had several burial mounds in the vicinity of Farnstädt opened and examined in 1825. Rudolph von Geusau also socialized extensively with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who, for example, mentioned him in his diaries in 1827.

Around 1820 he had Franz Krüger portray him.

family

Rudolph von Geusau was married to a daughter of the extensive von Heynitz family on Dröschkau .

literature

  • List of elected representatives and deputies for the state parliament of the province of Saxony , 1829.
  • Fritz Fischer: On the older genealogy of the von Geusau family , on the genealogy of primitive noble families Wettiner Lande , XCV (Typoscript, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1982).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This refers to the former Querfurt office in the Thuringian District of the Kingdom of Saxony , which fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 through the Congress of Vienna .
  2. ↑ German Antiquities or Archives for Ancient and Middle History [...] , Volume 2, 1826, p. 120.
personal data
SURNAME Geusau, Rudolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH before 1778
DATE OF DEATH 1838