Auguste Riedesel, Freiin zu Eisenbach
(1771-1805)
BIRTH
August 9, 1771
Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Heiliges Römisches Reich
Auguste Riedesel
FATHER
Friedrich Adolf Riedesel zu Eisenbach
(1738-1800)
MOTHER
Frederika Charlotte Riedesel
(1746-1808)
SISTER
Friederike von Reden
(1774-1854)
BROTHER
Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach
(1785-1854)
Auguste Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1771–1805) was the eldest surviving daughter of Brunswick general Friedrich Adolf Riedesel and Frederika Charlotte von Massow. As a child she accompanied her mother to America, sheltered in a cellar during the Saratoga fighting and shared her father’s captivity after Burgoyne’s surrender. They returned to Europe in 1783. In 1792 she married Heinrich XLIV Reuss zu Köstritz, who published her parents’ American letters. She died in Berlin.
BORN
Auguste Riedesel
Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Heiliges Römisches Reich
Married Name
The exact date and place of Auguste Riedesel, Freiin zu Eisenbach’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Auguste Riedesel, Freiin zu Eisenbach is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Auguste Riedesel zu Eisenbach died on Nov 21, 1805, in Berlin, Brandenburg, Preußen. Auguste Riedesel zu Eisenbach was the eldest surviving daughter of Brunswick general Friedrich Adolf Riedesel and Frederika Charlotte von Massow. As a child she accompanied her mother to America, sheltered in a cellar during the Saratoga fighting and shared her father’s captivity after Burgoyne’s surrender. They returned to Europe in 1783. In 1792 she married Heinrich XLIV Reuss zu Köstritz, who published her parents’ American letters. She died in Berlin. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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