Ludewig von Bastineller

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Ludwig von Bastineller
Alexander Christian Ludewig von Bastineller II.jpg
Major von Bastineller as commander of the
Royal Prussian 11. Husaren-Regiment in Münster[1]
Birth name Alexander Christian Ludewig von Bastineller[2]
Birth date 26 August 1783(1783-08-26)
Place of birth Wittstock (Priegnitz), Electorate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
Death date 20 October 1850 (aged 67)
Place of death Münster, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation
Allegiance Coat of arms (1818) of Hesse-Kassel.png Electorate of Hesse
Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor with haloes (1400-1806).png Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
Germany Prussian Eagle.jpg Kingdom of Prussia
Wappen des Deutschen Bundes.jpg German Confederation
Service/branch Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel (Militär).jpg Hesse-Kassel Army
War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Rank 1st Lieutenant (Hesse-Kassel)
Colonel (Prussia)
Battles/wars War of the Fourth Coalition
Wars of Liberation
Awards Red Eagle Order
Relations ∞ 1815 Henriette Philippine Albertine Friederike Freiin von Hünefeld

Alexander Christian Ludewig von Bastineller (sometimes Alexander Christian Georg Ludwig; 26 August 1783 – 20 October 1850) was a German officer, finally Colonel of the Prussian Army.

Life

Carl Gottlob von Bastineller (father), in: Biographisches Handbuch der preußischen Verwaltungs- und Justizbeamten 1740-1806/15, p. 44

Von Bastineller joined the Hesse-Kassel Army in 1797 as Standartenjunker (officer candidate of the cavalry) and was promoted to Cornet (2nd Lieutenant) in January 1799. In 1802, he was promoted to Premierlieutenant (1st Lietenant) and was appointed adjutant of the Regiment Gens d’Armes (cavalry guard) from 1804 to 1805. On 1 November 1806, the Elector of Hesse Wilhelm I was deposed by Napoleon and the regiment was dissolved. Von Bastineller was given leave and went to the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar where he was appointed to Valet (Kammerjunker) in 1806. The duchy was known as Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach as of 1809. In 1811, von Bastineller was elevated to Chamberlain (Kammerherr). Like all patriots, he was excited to fight against the French occupiers when the King of Prussia called for major armed resistance in 1812.

On 25 November 1812, he joined the Prussian Dragoner-Regiment (Königin-Dragoner) as Stabsrittmeister (Captain 2nd Class) and with half pay. In 1813, the regiment was part of the Reserve Cavalry of the 3rd Army Corps, during the campaign of the Seventh Coalition (Siebte Koalition) in 1815, the regiment was part of the Reserve Cavalry (Generalmajor von Wahlen-Jürgass) of the 2nd Army Corps (Generalmajor von Pirch I) of the Army of the Lower Rhine under Generalfeldmarschall Gebhard Leberecht Fürst von Blücher.

Since 29 March 1815, he was Rittmeister and commander of the 2nd Squadron/11. Husaren-Regiment (Reserve Cavalry of the 3rd and later 2nd Army Corps; took part in the battles of Ligny, Wavre and Namur). But this 2nd Squadron had to be formed new in Düsseldorf. The former 2nd Squadron under Rittmeister Potscharli was also sent to Düsseldorf in April 1815 to be a part of the new 5. Ulanen-Regiment (formed on 7 March 1815). Because of this duty, von Bastineller and his squadron arrived in France at the beginning of July 1815, too late for the main battles of the regiment. Until 9 August 1815, the regiment monitored Laon, then took part in the blockade of Givet Fortress and had to occupy the right bank of the Meuse. After the Second Treaty of Paris, was signed on 20 November 1815, the regiment returned to Germany. Rittmeister von Bastineller arrived with his 2nd Squadron in warendorf on 25. November 1815.

In 1831, von Bastineller commanded a 1st lieutenant, his deputy, two 2nd lieutenants (troop commanders), 12 NCOs (soon to be 14, after two Hussars were promoted), three trumpeters, 125 hussars, one surgeon, one Kurschmied[3] and 141 royal service horses. On 25 July 1834, he was promoted to Major and appointed staff officer on 14 October 1834 for the deceased Major Brockhoff (d. 13 July 1834). Commander Colonel August Ferdinand von Glaser (1782–1840) retired with the Charakter als Generalmajor (Honorary Major General) on 14 October 1934.[4]

Major von Bastineller was never commander of the 11. Husaren-Regiment, as is sometimes stated. It can be assumed, that he was delegated with the deputy leadership for a short time. When Major Carl Friedrich von Forstner took over ad interim command on 4 April 1835, von Bastineller returned to his duties in the regimental staff. On 6 November 1841, he was transferred to the 7. Gendarmerie-Brigade in Münster, where he was appointed to Brigadier.On 30 March 1844, he was promoted to Oberstlieutenant (Lieutenant Colonel) and on 27 March 1847 to Oberst (Colonel).[5]

Death

Gendarmerie-Brigadier Colonel von Bastineller died in 1850 in Münster.[6] Older sources state that he died at his estate (Rittergut) Ossa near Narsdorf in the Kingdom of Saxony.[7][8] Münster seems logical, but it is also possible he fell ill and travelled home, where he then died.

Family

The Bastinelli family originated in Plürs (Piuro), Graubünden (Switzerland), until the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 a part of the Holy Roman Empire. On 4 September 1618, Plürs (then belonging to the Three Leagues) and the village of Schilano (Scilano) was the site of one of the worst landslides in recorded history. The mudslide from the mountain Cont (Monte Conto) completely wiped out Piuro and killed between 1,000 and 2,500 people. Family Bastinelli was wiped out. Only Merchant Johann Bastinelli, who was on business in another city with his two oldest sons, survived. They appealed to the Roman-German Emperor and were invited to resettle, which the family did in Saxony and Brandenburg.[9]

Ludewig's grandfather was Prof. Dr. jur. Gebhard Christian Bastineller (1689–1755), who had seven children, three daughters and four sons:

  • Christiana Friderica (b 28 March 1723 in Wittenberg; d. 9 June 1723 ibid)
  • Carolina Louisa (b 3 August 1724 in Wittenberg; d. 8 October 1727 ibid)
  • Gebhard Friedrich (b. 29 August 1727; d. 7. November 1784 in Magdeburg), jurist, Government Council in magdeburg; ⚭ 31 May 1752 in Berlin (Sophienkirche) Louisa Charlotte Christiane von Eckhardt, daughter of the royal traveling stable master Christian Eberhard von Eckhardt
  • Carl Gottlob (b. 25 January 1730 in Wittenberg; d. 19 October 1786), Royal Prussian War and Tax Council; ⚭ 24 August 1760 in Himmelfort Friederica (Friedrike) Amalia (Amalie) Albinus (b. 5 August 1744 in Himmelfort), daughter of the jurist and Secret War Council Paul Gotthold Albinus (1741–1807) and his wife Magdalena Sydonia, née Brewitz
  • Heinrich Ludwig (b. 24 August 1731 in Wittenberg; d. 17 December 1793), Dr. iur. utr., Electoral Saxon and Naumburg Monastery Court and Government Councilor, Consistory Councilor and Canon in Zeitz
  • Christian Adolph (b. 16 November 1733 in Wittenberg; d. 1 September 1749 ibid)
  • Wilhelmine Caroline (b. 14 June 1736 in Wittenberg; d. 1 March 1798 in Schweinitz/Elster); ⚭ 5. Mai 1753 in Wittenberg Electoral Saxon Judicial Council Georg Gottfried Eckhardt (1730–1786)

Elevation to nobility

On 9 November 1763 in Vienna, the Holy Roman Emperor elevated the brothers Gebhard Friedrich, Carl Gottlob and Heinrich Ludwig to Imperial nobility (Reichsadel). All three received the Red Eagle Order from the King of Prussia on this day. Their cousin, lord of the manor (Ossa) and Royal Court Council Andreas Friedrich Bastineller (b. 4 June 1714), son of the Mayor of Leipzig Johann Friedrich Bastineller, was nobilized by the Emperor Franz I. on 29 September 1764.

Descent

Ludewig was born the son of Carl Gottlob von Bastineller. His father died only three years after his birth. He had two siblings:

  • Carl (Karl) Gottlob (1764–1830), officer of the Hesse-Kassel Army (Regiment Gens d’Armes) and as of January 1808 the Kingdom of Westphalia (Garde du Corps, 1810 Chevauxleger-Garde), Colonel in 1812 (2. Kürassier-Regiment; Battle of Borodino) and Brigadegeneral in 1813 (Honorary Equerry of the King);[10] He was also made a Freiherr/Baron of the Kingdom of Westphalia on 13 May 1813, this was although not recognized by Prussia, therefore never listed; ⚭ Wilhelmine Charlotte Sophie von Winterfeld (d. 13 June 1824 only three days after giving birth), their daughter Wilhelmine Karoline Luise (b. 10 June 1824 in Streckenthin; d. 24 March 1900 in Berlin) married the later General of the Infantry Ferdinand Franz Karl Wilhelm von Dannenberg (1818–1893); six children.
  • Amalie Friederike (b. 1769 in Wittstock; d. 1820); ⚭ Royal Prussian War and Tax Council Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1754–1806), who took over his father-in-law's position in Wittstock in 1786

Marriage

On 26 December 1815 in Pegau (Saxony), Rittmeister von Bastineller married his fiancée Henriette Philippine Albertine Friederike Freiin von Hünefeld (1797–1882) from Limbach (Vogtland). They had several children:

  • Friederica Amalia Henriette Eusebia Mathilde (b. 18 February 1817)
  • Ludwig Alexander Rudolf Friedrich (b. 22 March 1821 in Münster; d. 1 January 1876 in Wiesbaden), Major; ⚭ Neumark near Geithain 17 April 1840 (o¦o 14 July 1874) Maria Henriette Melitta Winkler (1840–1908)
  • Malwine Gustave Elisabeth (b. 21 June 1822; d. 29 November 1903)
  • Henriette (b. 18 August 1824; d. 1 January 1905); ⚭ 4 September 1849 Ferdinand Otto (d. 11 July 1864)
  • Albrecht Christian Carl/Karl Friedrich Rudolph/Rudolf (b. 10/12 January 1826 in Münster; d. 1903; could not be verified without a doubt), Major General of the of the Prussian Army, Iron Cross 1st Class in the German-Franco War as Captain in the 5. Rheinisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 65;[11] ⚭ Lindau 11 May 1886 Marie Johanne Caroline/Karoline von Ahlefeldt (1842–1896)
  • Carl August Ludwig (b. 6 July 1827; could not be verified without a doubt)
  • Louise Caroline Wilhelmine Henriette Natalie (b. 17 October 1828 in Hamm; baptized 26 December 1828)[12]
  • Carl/Karl Friedrich Joseph Oscar/Oskar Albrecht (b. 28 September 1831 in Hamm; d. 14 September 1886 in Kleve), Lieutenant Colonel of the Prussian Army, Iron Cross in the German-Franco War as Captain in the 5. Westfälisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 53; ⚭ Kleve 16 September 1869 Maria Luise Gertrudis Emilie Koenig (1852–1914), 4 children

Gallery

  • Bastineller coat of arms.jpg
  • Alexander Christian Ludewig von Bastineller III.png
  • Ossa, Familie von Bastineller.jpg

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Rittmeister von Eck: Geschichte des 2. Westfälischen-Husaren-Regiments Nr. 11 und seiner Stammtruppen von 1807–1893, Part 3, 1893
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser, Teil B, 1940, p. 22
  3. ↑ A Kurschmied was formerly a blacksmith who cured horses on the side (later the veterinarians in the army), when they were still responsible for shoeing horses and had little scientific training (limited training in the treatment of animal diseases).
  4. ↑ Rittmeister von Eck: Geschichte des 2. Westfälischen-Husaren-Regiments Nr. 11 und seiner Stammtruppen von 1807–1893, Zweiter Theil, 1893, S. 177
  5. ↑ Allgemeine Preußische Zeitung, No. 88, 29 March 1847, p. 396
  6. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser, Teil B, 1928, p. 26
  7. ↑ Rittmeister von Eck: Geschichte des 2. Westfälischen-Husaren-Regiments Nr. 11 und seiner Stammtruppen von 1807–1893, Part 3, 1893, p. 365
  8. ↑ Geschichte des Königlich Preußischen Husaren-Regiments König Humbert von Italien (I. Kurhess.) Nr. 13, Diedenhofen 1913, p. 648
  9. ↑ Neues allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Leipzig 1859, p. 220
  10. ↑ Cavallerie – Regiment Gens d'Armes
  11. ↑ Königlich Preußische Ordens-Liste, 1877, p. 7
  12. ↑ 1828 (Geburtsregister)
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