Wilhelm
Leopold August
von Geßler
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Brother of
Beate Henriette (von Gessler) von der Tann, Luise Albertine Gerturd (von Geßler) von Grumbkow, Georg Ludwig Konrad von Geßler, Eleonore Charlotte Margarethe (von Geßler) von Hirsch, Sophie Charlotte von Geßler, Justus Bernhard von Geßler, Anna Adelheid (von Gessler) von Buddenbrock, Friedrike Adolfine (von Gessler) von Schlieben, Marie Gottliebe (von Gessler) von Kleist, Friedrich Leopold Theodor von Gessler and Friedrich Siegmund von Gessler
Husband of
Caroline (von Poppe) von Gessler
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 69
in Bad Landeck
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Biography
Wilhelm Count von Gessler was born on December 18, 1724, and died on July 8, 1794. He was the son of Friedrich Leopold Count von Geßler and Anna Eleonore Countess von Seeguth-Stanislawski.
He served in the Royal Prussian Army. He was a Captain of Calvary in the Cuirassier Regiment (von Gessler) No. 4 and a Brigade Major in the Corps von Bevern.
He was the owner of Dirschel, Ehrenberg, Klizichkowitz, Lengo, Lohnitz, Odersch, Patrowsky, Rzuchow and Schlausewitz.
Sources
Julius Kindler von Knobloch, Oberbadisches Geschlechterbuch (Heidelberg, Germany; Carl Winter's Universtatsbuchhandlung; 1894), vol. 1, pp. 438-439.
Kurt von Priesdorff, Geßler (Berlin, Germany: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft; 1935).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Leopold_von_Gessler
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