|
By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
Austrian
Generals
1792-1815
K
Kaim to Kuttalek
| K1 |
Kaim,
(Johann) Konrad Valentin
Kaim, (Johann)
Konrad Valentin Ritter von |
Dates of Life
Born: Gengenbach (free imperial
city), 28.11.1737 (baptism)
Died: WIA at the Mincio (Pozzolo)
/ Lombardy, 25.12.1800 à Udine
/ Venetia, 16.02.1801
Name Variants
also: Keim1
Family Status
Married (1): Johanna Franziska Rienecker (1747-1768)
Married (2): 1776 Katharina Viallan (also: Violand
?) (17??-1792)
Promotions
France:
Major
Into Austrian service: 25.09.1770
Major: 25.09.1770
Oberstleutnant: 28.06.1785
Oberst: 19.11.1788 (w.r.f. 20.10.1788)
Generalmajor: 01.01.1794 (w.r.f. 06.11.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 14.01.1797)
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Verona: 26.03.1799 (+/–)
Commander of the Austrian forces during the siege
of Pizzighettone: 09.-11.05.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces during the siege
of Turin: 11.-20.06.1799 (+)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments
(Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.11.1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments
(Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Konrad Valentin von Kaim was born in 1737. At the
age of 57 he received his promotion to Generalmajor (1 January 1794) and
put in command of an infantry brigade in Alvinczy's Reserve under Sachsen-Coburg
in the Netherlands. In 1795, he served in Wurmser's Army of the Rhein and on
18 October took part in the successful assault on Mainz. The next year (1796),
he commanded a grenadier brigade in Riese's division in Baillet-de-Latour's Right
Wing of Wurmser's Army of the Upper Rhine. With his grenadiers Kaim took part
in the battle of Würzburg. Erzherzog Carl pushed the French armies back
over the Rhine and left them in such a state, that they were unable to act with
Napoleon in 1797. In early 1797, the divisions of Kaim and Mercandin were transferred
to northern Italy to reinforce Erzherzog Carl against Napoleon there. On 1 March
1797 Kaim was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1799 Kaim commanded a division in Kray's army.
From mid-March, his division was detached on the upper Etsch; the brigades of
Elsnitz and Gottesheim were used to work on the defences of Pastrengo (between
Verona and Lake Garda). On 26 March 1799 he was wounded at Pastrengo (between
Verona and Lake Garda), but fought again in the victory at Magnano on 5 April
that year. In early 1800 he commanded a division in the Turin area. The same
function he hold in FML Hadik's Main Column at Marengo on 14 June 1800. During
th battle on the Mincio River (25 December 1800) Kaim was mortally wounded, and
died two months later, on 16 February 1801 in Udine.
Printed Sources
Allmayer-Beck, p.76 | Bodart, p.330, 333,
337 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.353f. | Kempf, Johann: FML Johann Valentin
von Keim. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für
Mittelbaden, year 1930, Offenburg 1930, p.37ff. (wrong: GM in 12.1793 / FML in
02.1797) | MD 3, p.39 (wrong: b. Offenburg, 1731) | ÖMKL 3,
p.418f. (wrong: b. Offenburg, 1731 / GM in 12.1893 / FML in 02.1797) | MilSchem | Wurzbach
10, p.354f. (wrong: b. Offenburg, 1731)
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/kaim.html)
(wrong: b. Offenburg, 1731)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: b. 1731)
Notes
1) Although the spelling "Keim" is
used in many contemporary sources, the correct spelling of his name is "Kaim" (see:
baptism record of Gengenbach and the inscriptions on the tombestones of his two
wives).
| K2 |
Kalnássy
von Kalnás, Johann |
Dates of Life
Born: 1754
Died: Eperjes / Com. Saros / Hungary, 29.01.1839
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.10.1804 (w.r.f. 29.12.1802)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 13.12.1811
Retired: 1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K3 |
Karaczay de
Vályeszáka, Andreas
Karaczay de Vályeszáka,
Andreas Freiherr
Karaczay de Vályeszáka,
Andreas Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: Kostajnica / Croatia, 30.11.1744
Died: Wiener Neustadt / Lower Austria, 22.03.18081
Name Variants
also: Karaiczay / also: Wallesaky, Wallje-Szaka
Family Status
Married: Rosalia Freiin von Wimmersberg auf Peterwitz
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1788
Generalmajor: 17.08.1789 (w.r.f. 12.08.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.10.1799
Retired: 1800
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Novi: 24.10.1799 (–)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of his father): 1775
Graf: 01.10.1798
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1798
/ CC: 19.12.1790
Colonel-Proprietor of the Chevauxleger Regiment N°18
/ (since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment N°4: 17.08.1789 – 1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°2:
1801-1802 (disbanded)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment
N°12 / (since 1802:) N°4: 1801 – 23.03.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
[Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1790]2
Printed Sources
ADB, 15, p.117f. | Bodart, p.346 | Frank
3, p.8 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.293ff. | MD 3, p.41 | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.452ff. | Ritter, p.121ff. | Wenzlik-Ebert p.14ff. | Wrede
3, pp.145, 345, 682 | Wurzbach 10, p.456ff. | WZ, 04.05.1808
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) MilSchem: 23.03.1808
(?)
2) Refused due to general
imperial order forbidding acceptance of foreign awards.
| K4 |
Karwinsky
von Karwin, Johann Nepomuk Wenzel
Karwinsky von Karwin, Johann
Nepomuk Wenzel Freiherr |
Dates of Life
Born: 08.07.1743
Died: 12.02.1815
Promotions
Major: 1779
Oberstleutnant: 1784
Oberst: 1789
Generalmajor (title): 14.05.1794 (w.r.f. 24.02.1794)
Quit: 1794
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 06.08.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.10 | Frank-Döfering, 2103 | Kneschke 5, p.31f. | MilSchem
(year 1815, p.518 wrong: "Karabinsky") | Ogris, Irmtraut: Franz Seraphin
Fürst Orsini-Rosenberg. 1761-1832, Ph.D. thesis, Vienna 1941, p.54 | Wrede,
DR6, pp.664, 928f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K5 |
Kaunitz-Rietberg,
Franz Wenzel Graf von |
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 02.07.1742
Died: Vienna, 19.12.1825
Family Status
Unmarried
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 04.03.1763
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 15.08.1765)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 12.04.1783)
Feldzeugmeister: 22.04.1794 (w.r.f. 16.04.1794)
Retired: 04.01.1806
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in the Banal-Karlstadt-Warasdin Military Border: 04.1783 – 12.1791
Commanding General in the Karlstadt-Warasdin Military Border: 12.1791- 01.1797
Commanding General in West Galicia: 01.1797 –
04.1805
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 04.1805
– 04.01.1806
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the allied forces at the battle of Merbes-le-Château: 12.05.1794
(–)
Commander of the allied forces at the battle of Grandreng (Rouvroi): 13.05.1794
(+)
Commander of the allied forces at the battle of Erquelinnes (Péchant):
24.05.1794 (+)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Teutonic Order: 1769
Coadjutor of the Bailiwick Westfalen: 1770-1788
Province Commander (Landkomtur) of the Bailiwick Westfalen: 1788-1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°38: 01.05.1773 – 05.1785
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°20: 10.05.1785 – 19.12.1825
I.R. Privy Councillor
I.R. Chamberlain: 1760
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.214, 448f. | Bodart, p.289, 290 | Buschek, IR23,
I, pp.474, 813f. | MD 3, p.48 (wrong: d. 20.12.1825) | MilSchem | Nekrolog
1825/2, p.1642 | ÖMKL 3, p.500 | Oldenhage, p.85 | Pickl,
p.301 | Täubl, p.190 | Wrede 1, p.257 | Wurzbach 11,
p.59f. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.36 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
pp.53, 64, 65
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kaunitz4.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K6 |
Kavanagh,
Moritz Ignaz Graf von |
Dates of Life
Born: Bohemia, 1735
Died: Ofen (Buda) / Hungary, 06.04.1801
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1768
Oberst: ~1773
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 27.04.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 25.02.1790)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°12: 1786 – 06.04.1801
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Duffy, p.374 | Kneschke 5, p.45 | MilSchem | Schmidhofer,
p.187f. | Wenke, DR1, p.274 | Wrede 3, p.145
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K7 |
Kavanagh,
Sigmund Graf von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Graz / Styria, 02.05.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 04.04.1783)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem (wrong: d. 01.1792)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Teschen (Těšin) / Austrian Silesia, 12.10.1809
Name Variants
also: Kaiser
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.09.1807 (w.r.f. 03.08.1805)
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 18.11.1807, 02.12.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K9 |
Keglevich
de Buzin, Georg Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 20.03.1810
Name Variants
also: Keglević
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title a.h.): 03.1807
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K10 |
Keglevich
de Buzin, Stephan Bernhard Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 1740
Died: KIA Uttenhofen, 01.12.1793
Name Variants
also: Keglević
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 01.05.1784
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 17.12.1789)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Allmayer-Beck, p.73 | MD 3, p.49 | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.503 | Wurzbach 11, p.125f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K11 |
Keller,
Adam Laurenz von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 15.11.1832
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.11.1803 (w.r.f. 08.03.1804)
Retired: 1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 07.01.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 09.03.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K12 |
Kempelen
von Pazmánd, Johann Nepomuk
Freiherr |
Dates of Life
Born: 28.11.1725
Died: 31.03.1801
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 05.03.1774 (w.r.f. 12.05.1765)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K13 |
Kempf
von Mansberg, Joseph (Freiherr ?) |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Innsbruck / Tyrol, 23.08.1800
Name Variants
also: Mannsberg
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 11.06.1794 (w.r.f. 10.04.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 07.09.1799)
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (by elevation of a family member):
13.02.1758 (with predicate: "von Mansberg")
Freiherr: ?
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.18 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Bellau (Bjelovar, Belovár) / Croatia,
02.10.18131
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 1806 (w.r.f. 22.04.1805)
Retired: 1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Kreipner, IR34, p.377f. | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Schmidt-Brentano: 03.10.1813
(?)
Dates of Life
Born: Nagy-Bánya1 /
Com. Szatmár / Hungary, 1733
Died: Groß-Steffelsdorf (Rima-Szombat) / Com.
Gömör / Hungary, 16.11.1799
Promotions
Major: 01.05.1784
Oberstleutnant: 21.07.1788
Oberst: 15.11.1788
Generalmajor: 14.03.17902
Retired: 02.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, HR10, pp.96, 114f. (wrong: d. Ruma) | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.512f. | Wurzbach 11, p.169
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
ÖMKL: Nagy-Baranya ?
2) Amon, DR10, p.113: 10.02.1790
/ ÖMKL 3, p.513: 19.03.1790 (?)
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 31.12.1805
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 03.12.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K17 |
Kerekes,
Timotheus von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Nagy-Enyed / Com. Unter Weißenburg (Also-Feher) / Transylvania, 13.01.1830
Promotions
Major: 05.1794
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 23.06.1808 (w.r.f. 04.07.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.04.1813
Retired: 27.04.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, DR10, pp.131, 169 | MilSchem | WZ, 09.07.1808, 11.05.1813,
08.06.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K18 |
Kerpen,
Karl Anton Leopold Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: 06.12.1742
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 14.09.1823
Family Status
Brother of K19
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 01.03.1789
Oberst: 10.1790
Generalmajor: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 01.10.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.09.1801 (w.r.f. 01.09.1801)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Teutonic Order
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Dragoni, IR45, pp.187, 196, 207 | MilSchem | Petiot, p.274
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K19 |
Kerpen,
Wilhelm Lothar Maria Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: Illingen / Illingen (sovereign imperial lordship),
24.05.1741
Died: Vienna, 26.12.1823
Family Status
Brother of K18
Unmarried
Promotions
Major: 1778
Oberstleutnant: 1788
Oberst: 1791
Generalmajor: 01.01.17941 (w.r.f.
10.11.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 18.01.1797)
Feldzeugmeister: 06.09.18082
Retired: 16.11.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg (Innsbruck):
10.1796 –
04.1797
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Bohemia: 1803(1805
?) – 1807
Commanding General in Inner Austria: 28.10.1807 – 11.1809
Vice-President of the Aulic War Council: 01.1810 – 16.11.1813
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps in the Tyrol:
10.03.-12.1797
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Salurn: 20.03.1797 (–)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Teutonic Order: 04.11.1765
Province Commander (Landeskomtur) of the Bailiwick
Altenbiesen: 11.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°49:
1797 – 26.12.1823
I.R. Privy Councillor: 28.01.1807
I.R. Chamberlain: 28.01.1807
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Wilhelm Lothar Maria Freiherr von Kerpen was born
on 24 May 1741. After his promotion to Generalmajor in early 1794, he
commanded an infantry brigade in Prugglach's division under Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg
in the Netherlands. In the October of that year he was in FML Graf Baillet de
Latour's division. The same function he hold in 1796 in FML Hotze's division
of Latour's Right Wing of Wurmser's Army of the Upper Rhine. He then served in
Italy, initially as brigade commander in Sebottendorf's division. He did not
serve in Mantua, but was sent into the Tyrol to organize the defence there.
On 1 March 1797, Kerpen received his promotion to Feldmarschalleutnant.
Later that month, French General Joubert was sent into the Tyrol with 20,000
men in the divisions of Delmas, his own and one other. On 20 March, Joubert beat
Kerpen at Salurn on the River Etsch, between Trento and Botzen and caused him
1,000 casualties. On 21 March Joubert fended off an assault by GM Laudon at Neumarkt
and entered Botzen.
Leaving Delmas with 5,000 men in the town, Joubert
advanced to Klausen where, on 22 March, he again defeated Kerpen after a hard
fight. Kerpen fell back, northeast to Mittenwalde on the Eisach River, between
Brixen and Sterzing, uncovering the entrance to the Puster valley. Joubert attacked
him here on 28 March and pushed him back through Sterzing. By this time all the
Tyrol was in uproar against the French and Joubert dared advance no further.
He fell back with his two divisions and took post at Brixen. Here he was assaulted
on 31 March and 2 April. On the latter day, Laudon joined Kerpen and the insurgents
here. They now had 12,000 men together. On 4 April Delmas evacuated Botzen, and
next day, Joubert's whole corps set off east for Villach, fighting their way
through. They reached Villach on 8 May, just after the Peace of Leoben had been
signed. Joubert seems to have lost about 6 – 8,000 men in the Tyrol.
In 1797 Kerpen was appointed Colonel-Proprietor of
Infantry Regiment N°49. In 1808, Kerpen was promoted to Feldzeugmeister,
and six years later retired on 16 November 1813. He died in Vienna on 26 December
1823.
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, p.256 | ADB 15, p.647 | Bodart,
p.321 | Kneschke 5, p.70 | MD 3, p.52 | MilSchem | ÖBL
3 p.307 | ÖMKL 3, p.516f. (wrong: d. 26.10.1823) | Petiot,
p.273 (wrong: VicePres of the Aulic War Council: 07.1809) | Ritter, p.138ff. | Wrede
1, p.459 | Wurzbach 11, p.194ff. | WZ, 18.11.1807, 21.09.1808,
24.01.1810 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
pp.54, 72, 128
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Amon, IR4,
p.256: 27.11.1793 ("mit Allerhöchstem Handbillet vom 27.11.1793, dem Regimente
kundgemacht am 1. Jänner 1794") (?)
2)
ÖMKL 3, p.517: 09.12.1808 (?)
| K20 |
Kesporn,
Franz von
Kesporn, Franz Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: around 1724
Died: (Vienna ?), 04.07.1800
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 08.04.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.12.1793 (w.r.f. 20.05.1789)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 08.08.1764
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank, 3, p.20 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K21 |
Kessler,
Johann Baptist von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: (Zolkiew / Galicia ?), 29.08.1818
Promotions
Major: 01.12.1791
Oberstleutnant: 11.05.1798
Oberst: 07.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.18051 (w.r.f.
14.01.1804)
Retired: 1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, HR1, pp.106, 167, 183, 212, 492, 494, 496 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Amon, HR1, p.212: 31.08.1805
(?)
| K22 |
Keuhl,
Christoph Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: 1732
Died: Vienna, 22.11.1802
Name Variants
also: Kheul, Kheyl
Promotions
Major: E. 1789
Oberstleutnant: 07.1794
Oberst: 1795
Generalmajor: 16.02.1799 (w.r.f. 13.02.1799)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Hubka, IR22, pp. 121, 136, 140 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K23 |
Keuhl,
Karl Franz Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: Fiume (Rijeka), 17341
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 11.12.1798
Name Variants
also: Kheul
Promotions
Major: 06.1761
Oberstleutnant2
Oberst: 05.17733
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 01.05.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 21.02.1790)
Retired: 02.1794
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 15.02.1779
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°10:
1790 – 11.12.1798
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.219f. | MD
3, p.54 | Megerle, p.293 (wrong: Mjr
in 1762 / Oberst in 1770) | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.522f. | Wrede 1, p.182
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Hirtenfeld 1, p.219
/ ÖMKL 3, p.522 / Schmidt-Brentano: 1739 (?)
2) Megerle presumably wrong:
1769 (?)
3)
ÖMKL 3, p.522: 01.01.1773 (?)
| K24 |
Khevenhüller-Metsch,
Franz Maria Johann Joseph Graf von
Khevenhüller-Metsch, Franz
Maria Johann Joseph Fürst von |
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 07.04.1762
Died: Fronsburg / Lower Austria, 02.07.18371
Family Status
Nephew of K25
Married (1): 1791 Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von
Kuefstein (1771-1798)
Married (2): 1798 Maria Josepha Gräfin von Abensberg
und Traun (1782-1799)
Married (3): 1812 Christine Gräfin Zichy de
Vásonykeö
(1792-1830)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 01.05.1797
Oberst: 07.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 22.01.1804)
Retired: 07.10.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Fürst: 02.06.1823
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, pp.353, 361 | Buschek, IR23, I,
pp.642, 676, 678 | Kreipner, IR34, p.314, 349, 375 | MD 3, p.54 | MilSchem | (Wurzbach
11, p.221: genealogical table II)
Internet Sources
Marek (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/khevenuller.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) MilSchem: 03.07.1837
(?)
| K25 |
Khevenhüller-Metsch,
(Johann) Joseph Franz Quirin Graf von |
Dates of Life
Born: 30.03.1733
Died: Vienna, 21.02.1792
Family Status
Uncle of K24
Married: 1774 Maria Josepha Gräfin von Schrattenbach, the widowed Gräfin
von Dietrichstein (1750-1806)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 30.09.1761)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 21.02.1781
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Lieutenant Captain of the First Arcièren Life Guard: 17?? – 21.02.1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of St. Stephen – CC
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°12: 1775 – 21.02.1792
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MD 3, p.54 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.199 | Wurzbach, 11, p.221
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K26 |
Khuen
von Belasi, Johann Nepomuk Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: Chamutitz (Chamutice) / Bohemia, 25.02.1740
Died: Graz / Styria, 16.09.1810
Promotions
Major: 1794
Oberstleutnant: 25.06.1795
Oberst: 05.1797
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 15.12.1800)
Retired: E. 1800
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation: 1807
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°143 | Leitner 2, p.59f. | MD 3, p.55 | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.525 | Svoboda 1, col.10 | Wurzbach 11, p.234f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K27 |
Kienmayer,
Michael von
Kienmayer, Michael Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 17.01.17551
Died: Vienna, 28.10.1828
Family Status
Married: 1801 [N.] von Auernhammer
Promotions
Major: 11.11.1788
Oberstleutnant: 01.08.17892
Oberst: 21.11.17893
Generalmajor: 11.06.17944 (w.r.f.
02.04.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 04.09.1799)
General der Kavallerie: 03.08.18095
Retired: 20.11.1826
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Silesia (Troppau): 05.1801 – 09.1805
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Hungary: 16.11.1809 – 1813
Commanding General ad interim in Galicia:
07.1813 –
07.1814
Commanding General in Transylvania: 07.1814 – 05.1820
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 05.1820 – 01.12.(20.11.)1826
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Frankenmarkt: 17.12.1800 (–)
Commander of the (autonomous) Reserve Corps of the
Army of Germany: 09.-11.1805
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Parsdorf: 12.10.1805 (–)
Commander of the (autonomous) Reserve Corps: 12.1805
Commander of the 2nd Reserve Corps: 02.-05.1809
Commander of the Corps in Saxony: 18.(26.)06.-08.1809
Commander of the 11th Army Corps: 08.-11.1809
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of his father): 30.09.1775
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1789
/ CC: 04.1810
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°8:
23.01.18026 – 28.10.1828
I.R. Privy Councillor: 12.02.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Hessen-Kassel:
Order of the Golden Lion – GC: 1809/10
Order of Military Merit: 1809/10
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Michael von Kienmayer was born on 17 January 1755
in Vienna; he entered Austrian military service as a cadet in the Infantry Regiment
N°26, in 1774. Next year he transferred to Dragoon
Regiment N°5
"Jung-Modena". In January 1778 he became captain (2nd class) in Hussar Regiment "Barco" N°35.
He fought in the War of the Bavarian Succession 1778 and was distinguished in
Wurmser's raid into the Prussian county of Glatz in Silesia; on 18 January 1779,
he was again to the fore in the capture of the block house at Ober-Schwedeldorf,
being promoted to 1st captain on the field.
The wars against the Turks in 1788/89 gave him more
chances to demonstrate his skills and bravery. On 24 April 1788, 2,000 Turkish
troops made a sortie from the fortress of Chotim on the River Dniestr (now Chochim,
Poland) to attack the weak, 40-man Austrian posts on the pass of Rohatyn (now
Rogatin in the Ukraine) and on the hill at Pojana Losi, when Kienmayer returned
with 13 "Barco" hussars from a scouting patrol. He rallied the tiny Austrian
garrison and repeatedly repelled Turkish assaults, in a fighting withdrawal onto
two companies of Infantry Regiment
"Khevenhüller" N°12.
Kienmayer and his regiment also shone in the siege
of the fortress of Chotim, under command of Prinz Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld,
by constant harrying of the foraging parties sent out by the Turkish garrison.
In November 1788, Kienmayer was promoted to major. On 21 July 1789, the allied
Austro-Russian army advanced to the battle of Focsani (northeast of Bucharest)
and Kienmayer won more laurels for his raid, which captured the Turkish camp
and baggage, driving the enemy to the River Putna. For this he was promoted to Oberstleutnant.
Again distinguished in the battles of Rimniki (22 September 1789) and Martinesti
(23 September 1789) Kienmayer was sent to carry the news of the victories to
emperor Joseph II. in Vienna.
On 26 October, he was back at the front. He commanded
the advanced guard in the advance into Wallachia, and on 9 November 1789 occupied
Bucharest, which had been abandoned by the Turks. Three days later he was sent
from Kalagureni, with 300 hussars, 500 Arnauten (heavily armed Albanians) and
two guns, to scout the land around the fortress of Giurgiu, on the north bank
of the Danube, south of Bucharest. On the way, Kienmayer heard that the fortress
commander, Jussuf Pasha, was on a foraging raid in the nearby village of Onyak.
Kienmayer at once planned to take him, which was done just after dusk. Jussuf
Pasha, his escort and some 2,000 cattle and horses were taken. That same month,
he was promoted to Oberst and given command of Chevauxleger Regiment "Levenehr" N°19.
As a result of his outstanding behavior during the campaign of 1789 he was awarded
the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order at the end of that year.
In April 1792, Kienmayer was posted to command Hussar
Regiment "Barco" N°35 and sent to Flanders. He was distinguished, first in
the clash at Solre-le-Chateau (23 April 1794), then at Rouvroi on 13 May, where,
as part of FZM Kaunitz-Rietberg's corps, he charged a French column under GdD
Louis Charbonnier (6,000 strong) with four squadrons of his regiment and threw
them back into the Sambre. Only five years after his appointment to colonel Kienmayer
received his promotion to Major General on 11 June 1794.
In 1796 Kienmayer served under Erzherzog Carl, commanding
a mixed brigade of two battalions of the O'Donell Freicorps and eight squadrons
of the "Barco"
Hussars, in Staader's division of the Army of the Lower Rhine. He distinguished
himself in the clash of Sulzbach-Rosenfeld on 17 August 1796 and also fought
at the battle of Würzburg. On 4 September 1796, Kienmayer led Hussar Regiment
N°2 to capture an enemy magazine at Wertheim on the River Main, and then
took ten ships, laden with 60 guns and 340 barrels of powder at Freudenberg,
further downstream. He was again distinguished on 21 March 1799 in the battle
of Ostrach and again at Stockach on 25 March of the same year.
On 24 May 1799, Kienmayer commanded the advanced
guard at Andelfingen in northern Switzerland, during the retreat, when he held
up the six-times-stronger pursuing French under Ney for hours and then escaped
with his men by swimming the River Thur. For this he was promoted Feldmarschalleutnant on
6 March 1800. On 25 April 1800, his division was attacked by GdD Saint-Suzanne
near Buhl on the upper Rhine. He conducted a skillful fighting withdrawal, allowing
his commander, FZM von Kray, time to concentrate his corps and to send him support.
Kienmayer also fought in the battle of Biberach (9 May 1800) and commanded the
allied right wing in the defeat at Hohenlinden on 3 December 1800. In January
1802, he was appointed Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°8.
For the 1805 campaign he commanded an independent
corps under FML Werneck's overall command. At Austerlitz he was put in command
of the Austrian Avantgarde of the 1st allied Column of General Buxhoewden.
In 1809 Kienmayer fought with distinction at Aspern,
where he led a division in the I Reserve Corps. On 18 June he received his appointment
to command the XI Corps, operating against King Jerome in the Bamberg area. On
28 June, he beat off a Westphalian assault at Nossen, in Saxony and on 8 July,
he joined GM Radivojevich at Gefrees, to defeat GdD Junot. His actions in that
campaign won him the Comander's Cross of the MMTO and promotion to General
der Kavallerie on 3 August. After that campaignKienmayer served in Hungary
as Inspector General of Cavalry. In 1814 he was appointed Commanding General
of Transylvania and
– in 1820 – of Moravia and Silesia. He retired in 1826 and died in
Vienna on 28 October 1828.
Printed Sources
ADB 15, p.723ff. | Am Ende, Ch.G. Ernst: Feldmarschall-Lieutenant
Carl Friedrich am Ende besonders sein Feldzug in Sachsen 1809, Vienna 1878 | Amon,
HR10, pp.96, 104, 111, 130, 135f. | Bodart, pp.358, 364 | Frank
3, p.31 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.882ff. | MilSchem (wrong: d. 18.10.1828) | Nekrolog
1828/2, N°1123 (p.970) | ÖBL 3, p.324 | ÖMKL 3, p.526ff. | ÖMZ,
year 1835, vol.4, p.286ff. [= part 1: 1779-1794] and year 1836, vol.1, p.275ff.
[= part 2: 1795-1809]: Gebler, Wilhelm: Kriegsszenen aus dem Leben des k.k. Generalen
der Kavallerie Freiherrn Michael von Kienmayer. Aus den hinterlassenen Papieren
des Verewigten und den
östreichischen Feldakten dargestellt [necrology inclusive]. | ÖMZ,
year 1836, vol.2, p.31ff.: G-r: Dienstes-Jubelfeier des kommandirenden Generalen
in Mähren und Schlesien. Michael Freiherrn von Kienmayer ... abgehalten
zu Brünn am 16. November 1824. | Wrede 3, p.271 | Wurzbach
11, p.244ff. | WZ, 25.11.1809, 20.02.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.53, 58, 63, 74, 129, 131
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/kienmayer.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
ÖMZ, year 1835: 17.01.1756 (?)
2)
ÖMZ, year 1835: 13.04.1789 (?) / Amon, DR10, p.104: 13.08.1789 (?)
3)
ÖMZ, year 1835: 21.09.1789 and 21.11.1789 (?) / Amon, DR10, p.111: 10.11.1798
(?)
4)
ÖMZ, year 1835 / Amon, DR10, p.135f.: 28.05.1794 (?)
5) Zivkovic, Generalität:
31.07.1809 (?)
6)
ÖMZ, year 1835: 12.06.1802 (?)
| K28 |
Kinsky
von Wchinitz und Tettau, Franz de
Paula Ulrich Graf
Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau,
Franz de Paula Ulrich Fürst |
Dates of Life
Born: Zlonitz (Zlonice) / Bohemia, 23.04.17261
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 18.12.1792
Family Status
Uncle of K30 and K31
Married: 1749 Maria Sidonie Gräfin von Hohenzollern-Hechingen
(1729-1815)
Promotions
Major: –
Oberstleutnant:
–
Oberst: 10.02.1754
Generalmajor: 25.06.1757 (w.r.f. 26.01.1757)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.03.1759
Feldzeugmeister: 25.01.1767 (w.r.f. 29.11.1766)
Feldmarschall: 18.03.1778
Elevation of Social Status
Fürst (by succession): 23.09.1752
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Director-General of Artillery: 02.17722 – 01.01.1778
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 21.09.1771
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.03.1758
/ CC: 15.10.1758
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°36:
1761 – 18.12.1792
I.R. Privy Councillor: 28.01.1767
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 15, p.752f. | Folkmann, Josef Erwin: Die
gefürstete Linie des uralten und edlen Geschlechtes Kinsky. Ein geschichtlicher
Versuch, Prague 1861, p.66f. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.202ff. | MD 3, p.57 | MilSchem,
especially: year 1797, p.222ff. | ÖMKL 3, p.531f. | Wrede
1, p.375 | Wurzbach 11, p.295f. | Zivkovic, Generalität, pp.12,
33 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.12
Internet Sources
Boettger
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kinski3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/kinsky.html)
Notes
1) Marek, Theroff: 23.07.1726
(?)
2) Folkmann: 02.04.1772
(?)
| K29 |
Kinsky
von Wchinitz und Tettau, Franz de
Paula Joseph Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: 12.10.1768
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 04.01.1843
Family Status
Nephew of K33
Brother of K32
Married: 1834 Sophia Koerner (1815-1884)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.1804 (w.r.f. 12.03.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant (title a.h.): 15.03.1833
Retired: 15.03.1833
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MD 3, p.57 | MilSchem | (Wurzbach 11, genealogical table I)
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kinski2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/kinsky.html)
| K30 |
Kinsky
von Wchinitz und Tettau, Franz Joseph
Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 06.12.17391
Died: Vienna, 09.06.1805
Family Status
Nephew of K28
Brother of K31
Uncle of K33
Married: 1779 Maria Renata Gräfin von und zu
Trauttmansdorff (1741-1808)
Promotions
Major: 13.10.1764
Oberstleutnant:
–
Oberst: 24.02.1768
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 14.07.1770)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.03.1785 (w.r.f. 18.03.1785)
Feldzeugmeister: 22.09.1794 (w.r.f. 19.04.1794)2
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Local Director of the Wiener Neustadt Military Academy:
12.07.1779 – 21.03.1785
Supreme Director of the Wiener Neustadt Military
Academy: 21.03.1785 –
09.06.1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°47:
13.06.17793 – 09.06.1805
I.R. Privy Councillor: 03.12.1801
I.R. Chamberlain: 1760
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Franz Josef Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau was
born on 6 December 1739 in Prague; he entered Austrian military service in 1759
and by 1769 was Oberst and CO of an infantry regiment. He raised a cadet
school in his regiment at his own expense. This was the first institution of
its type in the Austrian army. On 1 May 1773, he was promoted to Generalmajor and
on 19 March 1785 to Feldmarschalleutnant. In the War of the Bavarian Succession
in 1778 he commanded a column in the raid on Habelschwerdt. In 1779, count Kinsky
became Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°47 and was then appointed
Director of the Wiener Neustadt Military Academy, a post which he hold until
his death. In early 1794, he commanded an infantry division of the brigades of
Heister and Mittrowsky, under Sachsen-Coburg in the Netherlands. That year Kinsky
received his promotion to Feldzeugmeister. In 1805 he fell ill and died
in Vienna, on 9 June.
Printed Sources
ADB 15, p.773f. | Amon, IR47, pp.285, 439ff. | Leitner
1, p.159ff. | MD 3, p.57 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 3, p.534ff. | ÖMZ
year 1826, vol.1, p.320ff. and vol.2, p.61ff.: Des k.k. Feldzeugmeisters Grafen
Franz Kinsky gesammelte Schriften | ÖMZ, year 1828, vol.4, p.135ff.:
Schels, Johann Baptist: Biographie des k.k.
östreichischen Feldzeugmeisters Grafen Franz Kinsky | Ritter, p.1(bis)ff.
(wrong date of death) | Svoboda 1, p.Xf. | Wrede 1, p.444 | Wurzbach
11, p.290ff. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.36 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.35
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kinski2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/kinsky.html)
Notes
1) MD / Marek / Theroff:
also 23.04.1737 (?)
2)
ÖMZ ("by supreme imperial handbill ...") / Zivkovic, Heerführer: 22.04.1794
(?)
3) Amon, IR47, p.285: 16.06.1779
(?)
| K31 |
Kinsky
von Wchinitz und Tettau, Joseph Graf |
Dates
of Life
Born: Prague (Praha)
/ Bohemia, 22.02.1731
Died: Vienna, 07.02.1804
Family
Status
Nephew of K28
Brother of K30
Uncle of K33
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 24.06.1767
(w.r.f. 04.07.1761)
Feldmarschalleutnant:
19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 16.01.1768)
General der Kavallerie:
08.09.1787
Feldmarschall: 22.05.1796
Posts
and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in
Hungary: 1787 – 09.1790
Commanding General in
Upper and Lower Austria and (since 22.05.1796 also:) in Anterior Austria: 09.1790 – 05.09.1800
Field
Service (1788-1815)
Commander of the main
army: 11.1788 – 04.1789
Orders,
Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian
Order – KC: 30.04.1762
Colonel-Proprietor of
the Dragoon Regiment N°7 / (since 1775:) Chevauxleger Regiment N°7 /
(since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment N°12 / (since 1802:) Chevauxleger Regiment
N°5: 01.03.1773 – 07.02.1804
I.R. Privy Councillor
Orders,
Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed
Sources
ADB 15, p.774f. | MD
3, p.57 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 3, p.532ff. | Pizzighelli,
DR10, pp.181, 240 | Wrede 3, p.192 | Wrede (6), p.29 | Wurzbach
11, p.296ff. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.13 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
pp.49, 56
Internet
Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kinski2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/kinsky.html)
| K32 |
Kinsky
von Wchinitz und Tettau, Karl Graf |
Dates
of Life
Born: Chlumetz
(Chlumec) / Circle of Neubydschow (Neubydžow) / Bohemia, 28.07.1766
Died: Burgstein near
Prague (Sloup v Čechách) / Bohemia, 04.09.1831
Family
Status
Nephew of K33
Brother of K29
Married: 1810 Elisabeth
Gräfin von Thun-Hohenstein (1791-1867[1876?])
Promotions
Major: 1795
Oberstleutnant: 02./03.1797
Oberst: 1801
Generalmajor: 09.1806
(w.r.f. 12.04.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant:
30.04.1815
Retired: 02.02.1828
Orders,
Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian
Order – KC: 11.05.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of
the Dragoon Regiment N°6: 03.1822 – 04.09.1831
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders,
Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st
cl.: 1815
Printed
Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.481f. | Leitner
2, p.144f. (wrong: FML in 1809) | MD 3, p.58 | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.537f. | Pizzighelli, DR10, pp.227, 421 | Strobl, DR12, p.191f. | Svoboda
1, col.172f. | Wrede 3, p.209 | Wurzbach 11, p.298f. | WZ,
08.05.1815, 18.10.1815
Internet
Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kinski2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/kinsky.html)
(wrong: d. 10.10.1831)
| K33 |
Kinsky
von Wchinitz und Tettau, Philipp
Joseph Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: Chraustowitz (Chroustovice) / Bohemia, 04.08.1741
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 14.02.1827
Family Status
Nephew of K30 and K31
Uncle of K29 and K32
Married: 1787 Maria Theresia Gräfin von Dietrichstein
(1768-1822), divorced: 1788
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 19.06.1773
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 07.04.1783)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, p.274f. | Kreipner, IR34, p.167 | MD
3, p.58 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 11, p.282
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kinski2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/kinsky.html)
| K34 |
Kirchheim,
[N.] Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 01.01.1796
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 03.08.1765)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K35 |
Kirchner,
Friedrich von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 08.05.1820
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 26.11.18001
Generalmajor: 20.12.18022 (w.r.f.
06.02.1803)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, pp.338, 371, 379 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Date of supreme imperial resolution
2)
Amon, IR4, p.379: retired on 01.01.1803 (with
rank of major general) by supreme imperial
resolution from 13.11.1802 (?)
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Peterwardein (Petrovaradin, Pétervarád)
/ Slavonia, 19.06.1822
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 12.04.1806 (w.r.f. 28.02.1804)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
12.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Auer, N°144 | MilSchem | WZ, 02.02.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K37 |
Klebeck,
(Ernst) Wilhelm von
Klebeck, (Ernst) Wilhelm Freiherr von |
Dates of Life
Born: Lasdohn (Lazdona) / Livland / Russia, 1729
Died: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas)
/ Hungary, 04.06.1811
Family
Status
Unmarried
Promotions
Russia:
Major: 07.1760
Oberstleutnant: ~ 1763
Into
Austrian service: 29.09.1764
Oberstleutnant: 29.09.1764
Oberst: 25.05.1773
Generalmajor: 30.04.1779 (w.r.f. 20.04.1779)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.10.1789 (w.r.f. 08.05.1789)
Feldzeugmeister: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 06.09.1794)
Retired: 04.03.17961
Posts and Offices (Army,
Politics, Court)
Commanding General in the Warasdin Military Border:
07.1779 – 04.1783
Fortress Commandant of Maastricht: 19.09.1794 – 04.(07.)11.1794
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 22.06.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 15.02.1779
/ CC: 21.12.1789
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°14:
13.10.1788 –
04.06.1811
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.37 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.256ff. (wrong:
FZM on 01.06.1796) | Kneschke 5, p.120 | MD 3, p.60 | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.547f. | Sigmund, Martha: Feldzeugmeister Ernst Wilhelm Freiherr von
Klebeck. 1729-1811. Biographie, Ph.D. thesis, Vienna 1943 | Wrede 1, p.210 | Wurzbach
12, p.26f. (wrong: FZM on 01.06.1796) | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.36 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.65
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale: 01.06.1796 (?)
| K38 |
Klebelsberg
(zu Thumburg?), Johann Graf |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 26.10.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. ?)
Posts and Offices (Army,
Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Karlsburg: 17??-1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| K39 |
Klebelsberg
zu Thumburg, Johann Nepomuk Graf
von |
Dates of Life
Born: Szoboszló / Com. Hajdu / Hungary, 30.01.17721
Died: Theresienstadt (Terezín) / Bohemia,
01.06.1841
Family Status
Son of K40
Married: 1806 Anna Gräfin Péjàscevich
von Veroecze (1785-1847)
Promotions
Major: 28.06.1797
Oberstleutnant: 09.01.1804
Oberst: 01.09.1805
Generalmajor: 18.05.18092
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.09.1813
General der Kavallerie: 30.12.1831
Posts and Offices (Army,
Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in Moravia and
Silesia: 30.12.1831 –
1832
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 1832 – 06.1834
Fortress Commandant of Theresienstadt: 1834-1836
Fortress Governor of Theresienstadt: 1836 – 01.06.1841
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Saint-Julien (Landecy, Les Lusiettes): 01.03.1814 (+)
Commander of the 2nd Army Detachment: 05.-06.1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 24.10.1809
Order of Leopold – CC: 26./29.03.1814
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Uhlan Regiment N°4:
1813 – 01.06.1841
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1832
I.R. Chamberlain: 1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Baden:
Order of Fidelity – ?C:
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – GC: 1816
Poland
(Russia):
Order of the White Eagle: 1835
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: vor 1820
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
1814
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Nepomuk Joseph Graf von Klebelsberg, Freiherr
zu Thumburg was born on 30 January 1772 in Szoboszló, Hungary. In November
1785, he joined Chevauxleger Regiment "Modena" N°13 as a cadet. His father,
Oberst Prokop Graf von Klebelsberg, commanded the regiment from 1784-1789 (see
K40). Young Lieutenant Klebelsberg fought with the regiment in the wars against
the Turks, from 1787-92. He was in action at Semlin in 1788 and at the siege
of Belgrade in the autumn of 1789.
In 1793, he had risen to captain in the Frei-Corps "Wurmser" and
fought in the successful actions around Trier in Prinz von Hohenlohe-Kirchberg's
corps against GdD Beurnonville's Armée de la Moselle. In 1794, he served
in Flanders, the next year on the upper Rhine, under Wurmser. His regiment was
distinguished in the capture of the Hartberg, in the siege of Mainz (20 September – 13
October). He was also in action in the assaults on the redoubts at Mannheim (18
October), in the clashes at Pfrimm, Frankenthal (12 November) and Schwengenheim.
After promotion to Oberst (1 September 1805) Klebelsberg
took over command of Uhlan Regiment N°3, in northern Italy. He was distinguished
in the victorious battle of Caldiero, on 29-31 October.
In the campaign of 1809, he served with his regiment
in Erzherzog Ludwig's V Corps of the main army (later taken over by FZM Fürst
Reuss) in the Danube valley. He came into action on 21 April at Landshut, in
the Austrian defeat there. During the great battles of Aspern and Wagram, he
was with his regiment on the Bisamberg, on flank security duties. Following the
defeat of Wagram, his regiment took over rear guard duties of the army. They
fought at Znaim on 10-11 July. For his conduct in this battle, he was promoted
to Generalmajor and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian
Cross.
On 2 September 1813, Kerpen was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
He took over command of a cuirassier division and fought at Dresden on 26-27
August and at Leipzig. In 1814 he commanded a mixed division in FML Fürst
Alois von Liechtenstein's corps on the upper Rhine. He won a victory at St. Julien
(9 km southwest of Geneva) on 1 March, over GdD Count Jean-Gabriel Marchand.
On 30 December 1831, count Kerpen was promoted to General
der Kavallerie. He died on 1 June 1841, in Theresienstadt (now Terezin),
in Bohemia.
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.475 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1048ff. | Kneschke
5, p.120 | MD 3, p.60 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 3, p.548f.
(wrong: Mjr in 07.1797) | Persa, Albert v.: Das Geschlecht derer von Klebelsberg
zu Thumburg (= Schlern Schriften. Veröffentlichungen zur Landeskunde von
Südtirol. Ed. by R.v. Klebelsberg, vol.35), Innsbruck 1937, p.42, N°X/104
(at the beginning of the article wrong: d. 10.06.1841 / wrong: "Commandeur des
Marien-Theresienordens"), genealogical table D | Pickl, p.305 | Riedl,
UR3, p.24 | Wrede 3, p.333 | Wurzbach 12, p.27ff. | WZ,
25.11.1809, 09.09.1813, 14.04.1814, 15.09.1815, 12.09.1816 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.53, 132
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/klebelsberg.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
MD / Schmidt-Brentano: 10.01.1774 (?)
2)
Riedl, UR3, p.334: 17.04.1809 (?)
| K40 |
Klebelsberg
zu Thumburg, Prokop Sigismund Graf
von |
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: (Brünn [Brno] / Moravia ?), 17.01.18191
Family Status
Father of K39
Married: Maria Josepha Leopoldine Gräfin Ugarte
(1739-1800)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 20.11.1789)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain: 1811
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Kneschke 5, p.120 | MD 3, p.60 | MilSchem | ÖMKL
3, p.548 | Persa, Albert v.: Das Geschlecht derer von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg
(= Schlern Schriften. Veröffentlichungen zur Landeskunde von Südtirol.
Ed. by R.v. Klebelsberg, vol.35), Innsbruck 1937, p.42, N°VIII/104 (wrong:
GM in 1780 / wrong: "seit 1764 unangestellter General Feldwachtmeister")
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Persa (presumably wrong): Priblic, 17.06.1819 (?)
| K41 |
Kleber
von Mildenberg, Ludwig |
Dates of Life
Born: around 1735
Died: Vienna, 18.12.18051
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.10.1804 (w.r.f. 27.12.1802)
Retired: 01.10.1804
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 20.11.1805 (?)
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 18.12.1815
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 07.05.1800 (w.r.f. 18.05.1800)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 22.01.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC: 07.01.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 20.02.1808, 11.01.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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