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By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
Austrian
Generals
1792-1815
M
MacElligot to Mylius
M1
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MacElligot,
Peter Karl Freiherr von
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Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 20.03.1825
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 07./08.1807
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 04.12.1812
Retired: 1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Duffy, p.376 | MilSchem | WZ, 15.08.1807, 02.12.1809, 02.02.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M2
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Mack,
Karl
Mack von Leiberich, Karl
Mack von Leiberich, Karl Freiherr
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Personal Information
Born: Nennslingen near Weißenburg / Bavaria, 24.08.1752
Died: St. Pölten / Lower Austria, 22.10.1828
Family Status
Married: Katherina Gabriel
Promotions
Major: 14.05.1788
Oberstleutnant: 1789
Oberst: 1789
Generalmajor: 24.02.1794 (w.r.f. 20.02.1791[1794?])
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.03.1797 (w.r.f. 02.03.1797)
Cashired: E.1805
Deprivation of rank, title and orders: 07.1807
Rehabilitation (by Imperial act of grace): 03.12.1819
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff: 03.1797
– 03.1798 / 25.04.1805 – 10.1805
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Moravian Observation Army:
04.-08.1790
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of the Netherlands: 02.-05.1793
/ 02.-05.1794
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of the Rhine: 03.-04.1797
Commander of the Neapolitan forces at the battle of Cività Castellana:
04.12.1798 (–)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of Germany: 09.-10.1805
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of Günzburg: 09.10.1805 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the capitulation of Ulm: 17.10.1805 (–)
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 19.06.1786 (with predicate: "von Leiberich")
Freiherr: 22.02.1791
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1789
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°20 / (since 1798:) N°10
/ (since 1802:) N°6: 05.1793 – 07.1807
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 24 August 1752 in Nennslingen in Bavaria Mack entered Austrian military
service as a trooper in the cavalry regiment in which his uncle was an officer
in 1769. He was commissioned in 1777. The next year he fought in the War of the
Bavarian Succession and was then selected for staff duties. He served under Lacy
and Loudon and was very distinguished at the siege of Belgrade (where he was
badly wounded in the head) in the wars against the Turks of 1788/89. For this
he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order on 21
December 1789. In that latter year he was appointed ADC to the Emperor.
In 1793 he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Prince of Sachsen-Coburg and planned
the crossing of the River Roer. He also helped to organize Dumouriez' defection
to the allied side and was again wounded at Famars on 23 May. In this year, he
was made Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°20 although he did not hold
a general officer's rank at this time. He lost this post as a consequence of
the 1805 campaign.
On 24 February 1794 he was promoted to Generalmajor and appointed QMG
to the Austrian army in the Netherlands, but fell into disfavour because his
plans were always too complicated and the timing unrealistic. On 2 March 1797
Mack was promoted Feldmarschalleutnant and attached – at the Emperors's
request – to take command of the Neapolitan army. This was a hopeless task;
the army repeatedly disintegrating before the French and Mack had to fly for
his life from his own mutinous troops. He was captured by General Macdonald and
spent two years as a prisoner in France before escaping in 1800.
Nelson observed his activities in Naples; he wrote:
"…let not General Mack be employed; for I knew him at Naples to be a scoundrel
and a coward." By dint of much clever political manoeuvering, he became chief
military advisor to the Emperor and much reduced Erzherzog Carl's influence on
his elder brother. In 1804 Mack was practically Chief of Staff of the Austrian
army and was tasked with wide-ranging reforms. In 1805 he was appointed QMG and
Aide to Erzherzog Ferdinand, commander of the Austrian army in southern Germany.
The consequences were the debacle of Ulm where Mack generated so much chaos and
confusion in his army that it was no longer capable of functioning. He ignored
valid intelligence reports of French advances and on 15 October, he was forced
to capitulate with most of his army. After the end of the 1805 war, Mack was
court-martialled and sentenced to death, but this was commuted to him being cashiered,
stripped of his honours and being imprisoned for two years. At Prince Schwarzenberg's
initiative, Mack was rehabilitated in 1815 (1819 ?) and given back his rank of
FML and pension. He died in St. Pölten on 22 October 1828.
Printed Sources
ADB 20, p.8ff. | Bodart, p.326, 363, 365 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.272ff. | Hollins,
p.46ff. | Leppa, (Konrad) Joseph Franz: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Heinrich
Schmitt. Ein Soldatenleben, Ph.D. thesis, Vienna 1926, p.138 | MD 3, p.158 | MD
8, p.3 (with corrections) | MilSchem | NDB 15, p.614f. | Nekrolog
1828/2, N°297 (p.755ff.) | Regele, p.28 | Wrede, DR6, pp.292,
297 (wrong: b. Neußlingen), 404, 927 | Wrede 3, p.159 | Wrede
(6), p.41 | Wurzbach 16, p.211ff. | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
pp.108-110
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/mack.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M3
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Maelcamp,
Johann Baptist Seraphim Freiherr von
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Personal Information
Born: 14.11.1730 (baptism)
Died: 04.1797
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 09.09.1786 (w.r.f. 03.09.1786)
Retired: 09.09.1786
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.380 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M4
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Magdeburg,
Karl Friedrich von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna-Döbling, 31.07.1803
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 15.05.1784 (w.r.f. 01.05.1784)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.07.1801 (w.r.f. 17.07.1801)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Director-General of the River-Navigation and Commander of the Oberst-Schiffamt (=
Chief of the Pontooneers): 08.1773 – 07.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | (Wurzbach 16, p.261) | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.21
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M5
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Maillard,
(Nikolaus) Sebastian von
|
Personal Information
Born: Lunéville
/ Lorraine / France, 30.10.17461
Died: Vienna, 19.12.18222
Name Variants
(French) Nicolas-Sébastien
de Maillard
Family Status
Married: 1779 Elisabeth Turner
Promotions
Major: 17893
Oberstleutnant: 1794
Oberst: 1797
Generalmajor: 13.07.1801 (w.r.f. 02.07.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 17.02.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 20, p.105ff. (wrong: FML in 1811) | Blasek/Rieger
1/I, p.389 | Gatti, IngAk, p.282 (wrong: Mjr in 1790) | MD 3, p.162 | MilSchem | ÖMZ,
year 1824, vol.4, p.98ff.: Nekrolog des kaiserlich-östreichischen Feldmarschall-Lieutenants
Sebastian von Maillard | Petiot, p.350f. | Ritter, p.355ff. | Wurzbach
16, p.307f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Petiot:
30.10.1747 (?)
2)
ÖMZ / Petiot: 22.12.1822 (?)
3) Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.389:
1790 (?)
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 22.10.1810
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 18.12.1800)
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M7
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Malowetz
von Malowitz und Kosorz, Johann Joseph
Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Miltschin (Milicin) / Bohemia, 23.11.1737
Died: 09.10.1816
Name Variants
also: Malowez / also: Malowiz / also:
Kosorž
Family Status
Married: Josepha Freiin von Forgatsch (17??-1826)
Promotions
Major: 1789
Oberstleutnant: 1793
Oberst: 1794
Generalmajor: 16.02.1799 (w.r.f. 09.02.1799)
Retired: 1799
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 14.02.1781 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Doerr, p.260 | Kneschke 6, p.95f. | Leitner 2, p.53f. | MD
3, p.166 | MilSchem (year 1817, p.586 "Sterbefälle 1816": mentioned
as member of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation ?) | Svoboda
1, col.13 (Member of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation ?) | Wurzbach
16, p.339
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M8
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Mancini,
Salvator Emil von
|
Personal Information
Born: Ascoli / Papal State, 1752
Died: 12.11.1818
Promotions
Major: 1793
Oberstleutnant: 1797
Oberst: 18001
Generalmajor: 10.1807 (w.r.f. 16.06.1805)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Theresienstadt:
11.1807 – 12.11.1818
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.392 | Gatti,
IngAk, p.231f. | MilSchem | WZ, 19.12.1807
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Blasek/Rieger
1/I, p.392: 1801 (?)
M9
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Mandell,
Johann Michael Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Fort-Louis / Alsace / France, 25.12.1749
Died: Jarmeritz (Jaromerice nad Rokytnou) / Moravia,
12.03.1799
Name Variants
(French) Jean-Michel Baron de
Mandell
Family Status
Married: 1781 Marie-Elisabeth de Ficquelmont
Promotions
France:
Colonel:
Left French service: 09.05.1792
Army Condé: 09.05.1792
Into Austrian service: 16.01.1793
Oberst: 16.01.1793
Generalmajor: 25.04.1798 (w.r.f. 21.04.1798)
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (Freiherr ?) (by elevation
of a family member): 14.04.1767
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Petiot, p.355
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M10
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Manfredini,
Friedrich Marchese
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Personal Information
Born: Rovigo / Venetia, 24.08.1743
Died: Campo Verardo near Padua / Venetia, 19.09.1829
Name Variants
(Italian) Federigo Marchese di
Manfredini
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 25.09.1789 (w.r.f. 17.09.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.01.1802
Quit: 1809
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Grandduke
Ferdinand III. of Tuscany
State Minister in Salzburg (electorate): 02.1804 – 01.03.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of St. Stephen – GC: 1792
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°12:
1792-1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Tuscany:
Order of St. Stephen – GC
Würzburg / Tuscany
Order of St. Joseph – GC
Printed Sources
Emmer, Johannes: Erzherzog Ferdinand
III., Großherzog von Toscana, als Kurfürst von Salzburg, Salzburg
1878 | MD 3, p.168 (wrong: d. 02.09.1829) | Megerle, p.185 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.199 | Wurzbach 16, p.371f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Szentváry-Lukács
M11
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Marcant
von Blankenschwert, Michael Joseph
Ritter
Marcant von Blankenschwert, Michael Joseph
Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Frauenmarkt (Bát, Bátovce)
/ Com. Hont / Hungary, 1752
Died: Sepsi-Szent-György (Sfintu Gheorghe) /
Transylvania, 25.03.1831
Family Status
Married: 1782 Josepha Peller von Ehrenberg
Promotions
Second-Major: 16.03.1799
Premier-Major: 02.02.1800
Oberstleutnant: 01.09.1800
Oberst: 01.1806
Generalmajor: 22.07.1809
Retired: 1809
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 23.01.18051
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
05.05.1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.191 | Frank-Döfering,
2567 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.711ff. | MD 3, p.171 | MilSchem | Petiot,
p.359 | Wurzbach 16, p.415ff. | WZ, 25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Petiot:
30.08.1805 (?)
M12
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Marchal
de Perclat, (Ignaz) Peter
Marchal de Perclat, (Ignaz) Peter Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Blâmont / Lorraine, 16.12.1764
Died: Vienna, 27.01.1823
Name Variants
(French) Ignace-Pierre Baron Marchal
de Perclat
also: Marschal (German) / wrong: Perelat
Promotions
Major: 1797
Oberstleutnant: 1800
Oberst: 1st H. 1804
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
Elevation of Social Status:
Freiherr: 27.12.1819
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 01.06.1814
Order of the Iron Crown 3rd cl.: 12.02.1816
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°41:
1817 – 27.01.1823
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 1818 / CC:
1819
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Peter Ignaz Marchal de Perclat was born
on 16 December 1764. On 15 August 1808, he was promoted to Generalmajor and
on 26 July 1813 to Feldmarschalleutnant. At the beginningo the 1813 campaign
he commanded a division in the Army of Inner Austria, operating in Italy. On
7 October 1813, he was in Frimont's corps, which took Tarvis from GdD Baron Pierre-Guillaume
Gratien's 2nd Division of GdD Comte Paul Grenier's Corps de Gauche. On 3 December,
he took the villages of Rovigo and Boara from GdB Baron Vincent-Martel De Conchy's
brigade. In 1814 he was in the blockading force at Venice. He died on 27 January
1823.
Printed Sources
Frank-Döfering, 2607 | Granichstädten-Czerva,
Rudolf von: Andreas Hofers alte Garde, Innsbruck 1932, p.213 | Leitner
2, p.128f. | MD 3, p.172 | MilSchem | Petiot, p.362 | Svoboda
1, col.110f. | Wrede 1, p.409 | Wurzbach 16, p.417 | WZ,
03.09.1808, 31.07.1813, 14.10.1813, 27.06.1814, 20.02.1816
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M13
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Mariássy
de Marcusfalva, Andreas
Mariássy de Márkus- et Batiszfálva,
Andreas Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Botzdorf (Batizfalva, Batizovce)
/ Com. Zips (Szepes) / Hungary, 1759
Died: Kaschau (Košice, Kassa) / Com. Abaúj-Torna
/ Hungary, 17.06.1846
Promotions
Major: 07.1799
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 01.09.1805
Generalmajor: 30.05.18091
Feldmarschalleutnant: 22.09.1813
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 09.05.1832
Retired: 09.05.1832
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 1811 (with additional predicate: "et
Batiszfálva")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
13.07.1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°37:
1813 – 17.06.1846
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1832
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.
Printed Sources
Borus, p.39f. | Hirtenfeld 2,
p.1038ff. | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | MD 3, p.178 | MilSchem | Rupprecht,
IR60, p.44f., 84 and appendix, p.11 | Wrede 1, p.384 | Wurzbach
16, p.442f. | WZ, 20.03.1811 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.41
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Rupprecht,
IR60, appendix, p.11: 23.05.1809 (?)
M14
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Marquette,
Stephan von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Zara (Zadar) / Dalmatia, 25.02.1833
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 17.04.1801 (w.r.f. 13.04.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant (title a.h.): 25.04.1828
Retired: 25.04.1828
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Commandant of Zara:
1800/01-1806
Fortress Commandant of Karlstadt: 1806-1809
Fortress Commandant of Arad: 1811/12 – 03./04.1814
Fortress Commandant of Zara: 03./04.1814 – 25.04.1828
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff ad
interim of the Army of Italy: 03.-04.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – KC:
before 1796
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Regele, p.29 | WZ,
29.06.1814 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.109
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M15
|
Martini,
Joseph
Martini, Joseph von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: (Temesvár / Com. Temes / Hungary ?), 28.01.1808
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 21.08.1796 (w.r.f. 06.08.1794)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Temesvár: 1801
– 28.01.1808
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 16.07.1804
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Böhm 1, p. 415 | Frank 3, p.200 | Kneschke 6, p.153 | MilSchem | Preyer,
p.115 | WZ, 20.02.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M16
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Martonitz,
Andreas von
Martonitz, Andreas Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Raab (Györ) / Hungary, 1768
Died: Vienna, 07.03.1855
Promotions
Major: 31.12.1799
Oberstleutnant: 09.10.1805
Oberst: 24.07.1808
Generalmajor: 30.03.18131
Feldmarschalleutnant: 03.07.1824
Feldzeugmeister: 11.06.1841
Retired: 08.01.18502
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 27.07.1808
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Lieutenant Captain of the Hungarian Noble
Life Guard: 01.01.1836 –
16.(08.?)01.1850
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC
19.12.1790
Order of St. Stephen – CC: 12.1840
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°52:
07.1825
– 07.03.1855
I.R. Privy Councillor: 12.1836
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 20, p.527ff. | Blasek/Rieger
1/I, pp.399, 486 | Doerr, p.277 | Frank 3, p.200 | Frank-Döfering,
2641 | Gatti, IngAk, p.326 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.332ff. | MilSchem | MZ,
year 1855, N°29 (from 08.03.1855), p.176 and N°33 (from 17.03.1855),
p.199f. | Wurzbach 17, p.62ff. | Wrede 1, p.478 | Wrede
(6), p.62 | WZ, 03.08.1808, 08.06.1813 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.42
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Szentváry-Lukács
Notes
1) MZ N°33:
05.04.1813 (?)
2) MZ N°33: 16.01.1850
(?)
M17
|
Marziani,
Franz
Marziani von Sacile, Franz
Marziani von Sacile, Franz Ritter
|
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 12.04.1763
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 08.10.1840
Family Status
Married: Karoline List (1783-1842)
Promotions
Major: 1797
Oberstleutnant: 1799
Oberst: 1800
Generalmajor: 01.09.1807 (w.r.f. 01.08.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 15.07.1812
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 12.06.1835
Retired: 12.06.1835
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Commandant of Prague:
1825 – 12.06.1835
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 09.07.1812 (with predicate: "von
Sacile")
Ritter: 02.08.1818
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
before 1796
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.200 | Frank-Döfering,
2645, 2646 | Gatti, IngAk, p.326f. | Kneschke 6, p.159 | MD
8, p.21 | MilSchem | WZ, 18.11.1807, 05.09.1812 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.41
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M18
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Mathesen,
(Johann) Andreas von
Mathesen, (Johann) Andreas Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: around 1718
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 27.05.1793
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 13.02.1767 (w.r.f. 10.01.1759)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 12.02.1767)
Feldzeugmeister: 03.04.1784 (w.r.f. 23.03.1784)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Slavonia and Syrmia: 07.1773
– 04.1784
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 27.10.1770
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantery Regiment N°42: 1775 – 27.05.1793
I.R. Privy Councillor
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.202 | Megerle, p.300 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.417 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.35 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.68
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M19
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Matthyasovszky de
Alsó-Matthásfalva, Ezechiel
|
Personal Information
Born: 06.02.1730
Died: Winschendorf (Windischdorf, Tótfalu, Slovenska Ves) / Com. Zips
(Szepes) / Hungary, 11.12.1806
Name Variants
also: Matthiasovsky
Promotions
Major: 07.07.1789
Oberstleutnant: 1790
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 04.08.1798 (w.r.f. 03.08.1798)
Retired: 04.08.1798
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, HR1, pp.90, 106, 494, 496 (wrong first name:
"Emil") | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M20
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Mauroy
de Merville, Franz Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Löwen (Leuven) / Austrian
Netherlands, 1759
Died: 03.04.1816
Name Variants
also: Mouroy
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1800
Oberst: 1805
Generalmajor: 18.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.09.1813
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the
battle of Caldiero: 15.11.1813 (–)
Commander of the Reserve Corps of the Army of Italy:
06.-07.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
18.08.1801 / CC: 08.03.1814
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°23:
06.01.1815 –
03.04.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born in 1759 Mauroy de Merville received
his promotion to Generalmajor on 18 May 1809. At Wagram and Znaim, he
commanded a brigade in D'Aspre's grenadier division, VI Corps.
On 2 September 1813, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
On 15 November 1813, he was in FML Radivojovich's corps, that was defeated by
Prince Eugene at Caldiero. On 6 July 1815, he clashed successfully with the French
at Nantua and again at Fort L'Ecluse over the next two days. He died on 3 April
1816.
Printed Sources
ADB 20, p.710f. | Bodart, p.465 | Buschek,
IR23, II, p.513 | Gatti, IngAk, p.289f. | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1169ff. | Hoen,
1809/IV, p.765, note 3 | MD 8, p.24 | MilSchem | Wrede 1,
p.278 | Wurzbach 17, p.153f. | WZ, 09.09.1813 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.134
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M21
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Mayer,
Georg Joseph von
|
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 30.05.17741
Died: (Vienna ?), 19.02.1818
Promotions
Major: 1800
Oberstleutnant: 1805
Oberst: 1806
Generalmajor: 30.05.1809
Retired: 07.10.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | MilSchem | Pizzighelli,
DR10, p.234, 241, 262, 422 | Svoboda 1, col.204f. (wrong: GM on 25.05.1809) | WZ
11.01.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Svoboda
1, col.204: 30.05.1773 (?)
M22
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Mayer,
Joseph Georg Ritter von
|
Personal Information
Born: Moschotz (Mosóc, Mošovce)
/ Com. Neutra (Nyitra) / Hungary, 1767
Died: Valenti (n.l.) / Galicia, 09.02.1813
Promotions
Major: 04.1800
Oberstleutnant: ~ 1801
Oberst: 04.1804
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
1810
Order of Leopold – KC: 07.01.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 2, p.1031ff. | Leitner
2, p.457 (partly mixed up with M21; wrong: Oberst in 1806 / GM in 1809) | MilSchem | Wurzbach
18, p.147ff. | WZ 03.09.1808, 01.04.1813
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M23
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Mayer,
Karl Ferdinand von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 24.02.1798
Name Variants
also: Mayr, Meyer
Family Status
Married: 1780 Maria Anna von Bender (17?? – nach
1798)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (a.h.): 31.01.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Roschach, Julius: Die
Genealogie der Patrizierfamilie Bender in Gengenbach. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen
des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, year 1992, Offenburg 1992, p.174
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M24
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Mayer,
Anton
Mayer von Heldensfeld, Anton
Mayer von Heldensfeld, Anton Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 09.12.1764
Died: Verona / Venetia, 02.06.1842
Family Status
Brother of M25
Promotions
Major: 1795
Oberstleutnant: 1796
Oberst: 1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (30.01.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 10.09.1809
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 08.02.1836
Retired: 08.02.1836
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff:
01.1806 – 19.02.1809
Fortress Commandant of Brod (Brody ?): 19.02.1809 – 1813
Fortress Commandant of Mantua: 28.04.1814 – 08.02.1836
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff
of the Army of Italy: 03.-04.1797
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army
of Germany: 09.1805
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army
of the Tyrol: 11.1805
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (by elevation of his father):
23.05.1777 (with predicate: "von Heldensfeld")
Freiherr: 21.05.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
18.08.1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°45:
05.11.1816 – 02.06.1842
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1831
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Anton Mayer von Heldensfeld was born
on 9 December 1764, in Prague. In 1793 he was a captain.
By 1796, he was chief of staff of the Army of the
Lower Rhine under Archduke Carl. He fought at Wetzlar (15 June), Malsch (9 July),
Neresheim (11 August), Amberg (24 August), Würzburg (2 September), Schliengen
(24 October) and at the siege of Kehl (10 November 1796
– 9 January 1797). In 1797, he was again chief-of-staff to Archduke Carl,
this time in Italy. In March 1799, he was again with Archduke Carl, this time
as chief-of-staff to FML Sztaray's corps on the River Neckar. In March 1800,
he was posted to Lemberg, Galicia. On 1 September 1805, he was promoted to Generalmajor and
appointed chief-of-staff to Archduke Johann's corps, in Innsbruck, defending
the Strub, Scharnitz and Leutasch passes. On 19 February 1809, he fell out with
Archduke Carl and was posted to Brod, Croatia as fortress commander. On 10 September
1809, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant. Upon his retirement on
8 February 1836, he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister. He died on 2 June
1842.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.130ff. (wrong: FML in 1810) | Angeli,
Carl 4, p.12 | Dragoni, IR45, p.244ff. | Frank 3, pp.211, 235 | Frank-Döfering,
2678 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.606ff. | Hollins, p.48f. (wrong: b. 1765) | Kneschke
6, p.189 | Leitner 2, p.126ff. | MilSchem | Regele, p.30 | Svoboda
1, col.111f. (wrong: GM in 1801) | Wrede 1, p.435 | Wrede (6),
p.41 | Wurzbach 18, p.83ff. | WZ, 25.11.1809 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.109, 110
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/mayer.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Leitner
2: 1794 (?)
M25
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Mayer
von Heldensfeld, Johann
|
Personal Information
Born: Planitz (Plánice) / Bohemia,
25.05.1768
Died: Vienna, 23.02.1839
Family Status
Brother of M24
Promotions
Major: 04.06.1801
Oberstleutnant: 12.03.1805
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 26.07.1813
Retired: 1832
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Arad: 1826-1832
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (by elevation of his father):
23.05.1777 (with predicate: "von Heldensfeld")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Kneschke 6, p.189 | Leitner 2,
p.146 | MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.145 | (Wurzbach, 18, p.85) | WZ,
31.07.1813, 14.10.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M26
|
Mayersheim
von Ehrenreich, Honorius Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Peterwardein (Petrovaradin, Pétervarád)
/ Slavonia, 14.09.17991
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 27.05.1789 (w.r.f. 15.04.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 21.08.1796 (w.r.f. 14.02.1794)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Peterwardein:
1st H. 1799 – 14.09.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Schmidt-Brentano:
13.09.1799 (?)
M27
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Mazzuchelli,
Alois Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Brescia / Lombardy, 17.09.17761
Died: 05.08.1868
Name Variants
also: Mazzucchelli
Family Status
Married: 1800 Pauline d’Eydery
de St. Laurent (1784-1859)
Promotions
Italy (France):
General of Brigade: 1808
General of Division: 1814
Into Austrian service: 1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.07.1814
Feldzeugmeister: 15.09.1834
Retired: 01.04.1844
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia:
06.1834 – 08.1839
Fortress Governor of Mantua: 1839 – 01.04.1844
Elevation of Social Status
(österreichischer) Graf (Austrian
count): 07.04.1831
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 23.07.1815
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.: 12.02.1816
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°10:
1817 – 05.08.1868
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1834
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Baden:
Order of Military Merit of Charles Frederick – CC
Italy (France):
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.
Papal State:
Order of St. Gregor – GC/2nd cl.: 1834
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.150f. | Frank 3, p.218 | Kneschke
6, p.197 | MD 3, p.192 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.182 | Wurzbach
17, p.216 | WZ, 07.08.1814, 01.09.1815, 20.02.1816 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.53
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Schmidt-Brentano:
17.06.1776 (?)
M28
|
Mécsery
de Tsoor, Daniel
Mécsery de Tsoor, Daniel Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Güns (Köszeg) / Com.
Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 29.09.1759
Died: Vienna, 30.12.1823
Promotions
Major: 17.12.1796
Oberstleutnant: 31.08.1797
Oberst: 08.05.1798
Generalmajor: 29.10.18001 (w.r.f.
15.01.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 12.02.18092
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in
the Banal Military Border: 1808/09
Adlatus of the Commanding General in the Karlstadt-Warasdin
Military Border: 02.-11.1809
Commanding General ad interim in the Banat:
1811 –
07.1813
Commanding General ad interim in Moravia and
Silesia: 12.1813
– 07.1814
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the
combat of Lambach: 19.12.1800 (–)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 29.10.1806 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
11.05.1796 / CC: 01.03.1808
Golden Civil Honor Cross 1813/14: 16.09.1815
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°2:
1809 –
30.12.1823
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1819
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Daniel Mécsery de Tsoor was born
on 29 September 1759, in Güns (Köszeg), in Hungary, just south of the
Neusiedler See. In 1792, he was an adjutant to Oberst Graf von Keglevich,
commander of Infantry Regiment N°33 "Graf von Sztáray". In 1793/94,
he was adjutant to GM Freiherr Ott von Bartokéz. On 11 May 1796, he was
awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. In this year
he fought as an officer in Hussar Regiment "Barco" N°35 and was distinguished
in the battle of Biberach on 1 October. In 1798, he was promoted to Oberst and
given command of his regiment. In the battle of Stockach (25 March 1799) he rescued
the mortally wounded GM Karl Christoph von Piaczeck from a mob of French soldiers.
On 29 October 1800, he was promoted to Generalmajor and commanded the
Avantgarde in the battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December. For the 1805 campaign
Mécsery commanded an infantry brigade in Hessen-Homburg's division and
was distinguished in the battle of Elchingen on 14 October. For this he was awarded
the Commander's Cross of the MMTO on 1 March 1808. In 1809, he commanded an Insurrections
cavalry brigade in the left wing at the battle of Raab on 14 June. On 12 February
1809, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant. He died on 30 December
1823.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.163ff. | Amon, HR10,
pp.169, 179, 216ff. (wrong: b. 1760) | Bodart, p.358 | Böhm
1, p.414 | Borus, p.40f. | Hirtenfeld 2, p.813ff. (wrong: b. 1760) | MD
8, p.27 | MilSchem | ÖBL 6, p.180 | Preyer, p.115 | Wrede
3, p.238 | Wurzbach 17, p.231 | WZ, 30.09.1815 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, pp.53, 65, 69
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/mecsery.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Amon, HR10,
p.216f.: 28.10.1800 (?)
2) Amon, HR10, p.220: 16.02.1809
(?)
M29
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Mécsery
de Tsoor, (Karl) Johann
Mécsery de Tsoor, (Karl) Johann Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Raab (Györ) / Hungary, 24.06.17701
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 26.12.1832
Family Status
Married: Anna von Zalka (?-1836)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 12.05.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 15.05.1825
Retired: 31.07.1832
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Upper Austria (Linz): 11.1830 – 31.07.1832
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 29.10.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 14.09.1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°51:
02.1822 – 26.12.1832
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1818
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 2, p.985ff. | MD 8, p.27 | MilSchem | Schmedes,
IR28, pp.293, 308 | Wrede 1, p.471 | Wurzbach 17, p.235f. | WZ,
01.07.1813 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.73
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) MD / Schmidt-Brentano:
25.06.1770 (?)
M30
|
Melas,
Michael Friedrich Benedikt Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Radeln bei Schäßburg (Rados, Roadas)
/ Transylvania, 12.05.1729
Died: Elbeteinitz (Týnec nad Labem) / Bohemia,
31.05.1806
Family Status
Married: 1769 Josepha Lok von Netzky
Promotions
Major: 04.1772
Oberstleutnant: 11.1777
Oberst: 11.1781
Generalmajor: 18.06.1789 (w.r.f. 15.06.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 11.06.1794 (w.r.f. 01.05.1794)
General der Kavallerie: 03.02.1799 (w.r.f. 02.02.1799)
Retired: 10.01.1803
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Venetia: 04.1799 – 09.1800
Commanding General in Inner Austria and the Tyrol:
09.1800 – 04.1801
Commanding General in Bohemia: 04.1801 – 01.01.1803
Field Command (1792-1815)
Commander of the Army of Italy: 04.1799 – 15.09.1800
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Savigliano: 18.09.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Centallo: 31.10.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Genola: 04.11.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Mondovi: 13.11.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Cadibuona: 06.04.1800 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Sassello: 10.04.1800 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Voltri: 18.04.1800 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Marengo: 14.06.1800 (–)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – CC: 15.05.1799
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°6
/ (since 1802:) Dragoon Regiment N°6: 21.06.1799 – 31.05.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 12 May 1720 in radeln near Schässburg
(now Sigishoara) in Transylvania Melas joined the Austrian army in 1752, went
into the Infantry Regiment "Arenberg" N°21 and fought in the Seven Years
War as ADC to FM Leopold Graf von Daun. In 1771 he transferred to Infantry Regiment "Batthyány" N°34,
as major; six years later, he was Oberstleutnant, commanding a grenadier
battalion. In 1778, he transferred to Carabinier Regiment N°15; in November
1781, he was promoted to Oberst in Cürassier Regiment " Trauttmannsdorff" N°21.
He transferred again, in 1788 to Chevauxleger Regiment "Lobkowitz"
N°28. From 1787-92 he fought with this regiment against the Turks in Syrmia
and in the Banat. He was also in action at Belgrade on 22 July 1788 and in the
withdrawal from Karanzebes, later that year.
On 18 June 1789, Melas was promoted to Generalmajor and
commanded a brigade in the corps of GdK Graf von Kinsky. He fought in the campaigns
of 1793 on the Sambre and 1794 on the Rhine (in Blankenstein's corps), was at
the siege of Mainz in 1793, and at that of Mannheim in 1794. In September 1794,
he was fighting at Spangen and Oberkail, some 38 km north of Trier. Melas was
promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant on 11 June of that year. On 1 December
1794, he defeated an attack by a superior French force under GdD Kleber at Zahlbach.
In the 1795 campaign, he was effective in the victory at Mainz, the capture of
Mannheim and the occupation of the west bank of the River Rhine from the River
Nahe to Speyerbach.
In 1796 Melas commanded a division in Italy under
FZM Beaulieu. After the battle of Lodi (10 May), he commanded the Reserve of
4,500 men at Olioso. When the Mincio line was broken at Borghetto on 30 May,
he withdrew up into the Tyrol. After Beaulieu resigned his command in June Melas
took over until Wurmser arrived in mid-July. Melas then commanded Wurmser's left
hand column on the east side of Lake Garda in the advance down to Rivoli. On
29 July the Austrians attacked Massena who fell back to Pievetano after losing
2,800 men and 9 guns. Melas was in the second attempt to relieve Mantua in September
1796 and was shut up in the place until its capitulation in early 1797.
On 3 February 1799, he was promoted Feldzeugmeister,
made Proprietor of Cuirassier Regiment N°6 and commanded the Austrian army
in Italy. In the early part of the campaign he enjoyed much success together
with Suvorov against the French at Cassano, on the Trebbia River and at Novi.
Following the withdrawal of the Russians he continued to be successful at Savigliano
and Fossano against GdD Jean-Etienne Championet. In 1800 he attacked Massena
at Voltri and won again. He forced Massena's surrender in the siege of Genoa
on 4 June but was then decisively beaten by Napoleon at Marengo ten days later.
He had been wounded early in this battle, and when it seemed that the action
had been won, he handed over command to General Zach, his Chief-of-Staff, and
left the field. Unfortunately, his departure coincided with the arrival of General
Dessaix's column on the field. The resultant French counter-attack captured Zach,
and the leaderless Austrian army was routed.
Melas knew that he had not the resources to continue
the campaign and was forced to conclude an armistice next day. He then signed
the Convention of Alessandria giving the French control of Italy up to the Mincio
River. As a token of his respect for his conduct, Napoleon presented Melas with
a sabre which he had brought as a trophy from Egypt. Melas resigned and handed
over his command to Bellegarde. This crushing victory enabled Napoleon to return
to Paris and confim his position as political leader of the French. Austria's
will to continue the war was broken. Melas retired on 10 January 1803 and died
in on 31 May 1806 in Elbeteinitz in Bohemia.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.280ff. | Bodart, pp.342, 346-351,
355 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.541ff. | Hollins, p.26ff. | Kreipner,
IR34, pp.166, 171, 177 | MilSchem | NDB 17, p.1f. | Strobl,
DR12, pp.99, 115 | Victorin, DR7, pp.193 (wrong: b. 1735), 403 | Wrede
3, p.209 | Wrede (6), p.31 | Wurzbach 17, p.322ff. (wrong: b. 1735) | MD
4, p.5 (wrong: b. in Moravia, 1730) | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, pp.51, 54, 60
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/melas.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M31
|
Mensdorff-Pouilly,
Emanuel Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Pouilly-sur-Meuse / Lorraine / France, 24.01.1777
Died: Vienna, 28.06.1852
Name Variants
(French) Emmanuel Comte de Mensdorff-Pouilly
Family Status
Married: 1804 Sophie Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld
(1778-1835)
Brother-in-law of S3 (Ernst I. von Sachsen-Coburg)
and S4 (Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg-Koháry)
Promotions
Major: 22.02.1808
Oberstleutnant: 17.06.1809
Oberst: 17.08.1810
Quit: 1812
Re-Entry: 1813
Generalmajor: 15.05.18151
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.08.1829
General der Kavallerie: 23.12.1845
Retired: 16.05.1848
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Mainz: 1824-1829
Fortress Vice-Governor of Mainz: 1829-1833
Commanding General in Transylvania: 23.03.1833 – 06.1834
Commanding General in Bohemia: 08.05.1834 – 02.1840
Second Vice-President of the Aulic War Council: 1840 – 16.05.1848
Elevation of Social Status
österreichischer Graf (Austrian count): 29.11.1818
("Mensdorff-Pouilly")
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC. 1810
Order of Leopold – GC: 1843
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°1:
26.06.1825
– 28.06.1852
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1834
I.R. Chamberlain: 1804 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Belgium:
Order of Leopold – CC: 13.03.1845
Great Britain:
Order of Bath – GC: 1842
Hessen-Darmstadt:
Order of Ludwig – GC: 1831
Poland (Russia):
Order of the White Eagle: 1835
Prussia:
Order of the Black Eagle: 1847
Order of the Red Eagle 2nd cl.: 1825 / 1st cl.: 1829
/ w.d.: 1834
Order Pour-le-Mérite
Russia:
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij: 1838
Order of St. George 4th cl.: 24.[12.]05.1814
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1813
Order of St. Anne 2nd cl.
Saxony:
Military Order of St. Henry – CC
Combined Saxonian Duchies:
Ernestine House Order – GC: 1834
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Emanuel Graf Mensdorff-Pouilly was born on 24 January
1777 in Poilly-sur-Meuse in Lorraine; in 1792 he joined the Émigré
movement and in the next year joined the Austrian army, in the cavalry. On 21
July 1796 he was badly wounded in the clash at Cannstadt on the River Neckar.
In 1805 he was Rittmeister and active in leading the breakout of Jellachich's
cavalry at Dornbirn on 13 November.
In the 1809 campaign Mensdorff was major in the Uhlan
Regiment Merveldt N°1; he was distinguished and wounded in the victorious
skirmish at Amberg on 13 April and again in the Austrian defeat at Regensburg
on 23 April. For Amberg the Emperor awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Military
Maria Theresian Order. He now became Oberstleutnant in the Fränkische
Legion and raided French lines of communication in Franconia.
In 1813, as Oberst, he was appointed to command
a Streifkorps in the Army of Bohemia, once again raiding the French communications.
He harried the retreating French army after their defeat at the battle of Leipzig,
and crossed the Rhine into France at Gernsheim, between Mainz and Worms. After
the Napoleonic Wars Mensdorff reached the the rank of General der Kavallerie (1845)
and was appointed to highest positions of the Austrian army. He died in Vienna
on 28 June 1852.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.366ff. | Amon, HR1, p.383, 406ff.
(wrong: b. in Nancy), 490 | Frank 4, p.102 | Frank-Döfering,
3480 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.906ff. | MD 4, p.8 | Petiot, p.371f. | MilSchem | Riedl,
UR3, pp.290, 335 (wrong: d. in Prague, 1848) | Tassigny, Eddie de: Les
Mensdorff-Pouilly. Le destin d'une famille
émigrée en 1790, Bihorel 1998, pp.31ff., 36 (with several wrong
dates) | Wrede 3, p.232 | Wurzbach 17, p.368ff. | WZ, 23.12.1809 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.42 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.51, 58
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/mensdorff.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/mensdorff.html)
Vederman
Notes
1) Petiot: 25.05.1815 (?)
M32
|
Mercandin,
(Ignaz) Karl Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: WIA
Magnano / Venetia, 05.04.1799 à Verona /
Venetia, 13.04.1799
Name Variants
also: Mercantin
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 01.02.1777
Oberst: 20.07.1785
Generalmajor: 21.11.1792
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 12.10.1795)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Ignaz Karl Graf von Mercandin was promoted to Generalmajor on
21 November 1792. In 1795, he commanded a cavary brigade in the garrison of Mainz.
He was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant on 4 March 1796. In that year,
he served in Erzherzog Carl's Army of the Lower Rhine as a divisional commander.
Early in 1797, his division was sent down to reinforce the battered remnants
of Alvinczy's Italian army. They reached Klagenfurth on 29 March. Erzherzog Carl,
who had taken over from Alvinczy, now had about 30,000 troops left after the
disasters of Rivoli and Tarvis. Mercandin was driven out of the town by Napoleon
on 30 March and followed Erzherzog Carl to St Veith, east of Klagenfurt. In 1799
he was in Italy as commander of a division. At the outbreak of hostilities this
division was at Bevilaqua, southeast of Verona, east of the River Adige. Mercandin
was wounded at Magnano on 5 April 1799 and died on 13 April that same year.
Printed Sources
Allmayer-Beck, p.75 | MD 8, p.33 (w/o date
of birth) | MilSchem | Wurzbach 17, p.383
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/mercantin.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M33
|
Mercandin
de Ruffin, Johann Baptist Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 1748
Died: Vienna, 12.11.18131
Name Variants
also: Mercantin
Promotions
Major: 19.07.1788 (1789 ?)
Oberstleutnant: 1790
Oberst: 1796
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 01.03.1800)
Retired: 1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°179 | MD 8, p.33 | MilSchem | Victorin,
DR7, pp.204 (Mjr on 19.07.1788 ?), 403, 405f. (Mjr in 1789 ?), 431 | Wurzbach
17, p.382
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Schmidt-Brentano: 13.11.1813
(?)
M34
|
Mercy
d’Argenteau, Eugen Gillis Wilhelm
Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Huy (Hoei) / Austrian Netherlands, 30.12.1743
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 04.05.1819
Name Variants
(French) Eugéne-Guillaume-Alexis Comte
de Mercy d’Argenteau
Promotions
Major: 01.12.1773
Oberstleutnant: 1781
Oberst: 01.05.1784
Generalmajor: 09.10.17891 (w.r.f.
03.10.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 06.05.1795)
Feldzeugmeister: 06.09.1808
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Moravia and
Silesia: 1802/03 –
1809
City Commandant of Brünn: 1804-1808
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Montenotte: 11./12.04.1796 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Dego: 14./15.04.1796 (–)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 11.05.1796
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°35:
1804
– 01.05.1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°35:
01.05.1809 – 04.05.1819
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Eugen Gillis Wilhelm Graf Mercy d'Argenteau was born
in 1743 in Huy, southwest of Liege. In 1760 he joined Infantry Regiment "Mercy
d'Argentau" N°56. He was distinguished in the battle of Torgau on 3 November
1760 and at the storm of Schweidnitz in October 1761. In 1773 he transferred
to Infantry Regiment N°16, then moved to Infantry Regiment "Loudon" N°29
on promotion to Major. In the Turkish wars (1787-1789) he was an Oberst and
commanded his regiment. He was distinguished in the battle of Belgrade in the
autumn of 1789.
In 1794 Mercy d'Argenteau was Generalmajor under
FZM De Vins in the left wing of the army in Italy. On 24 March he was thrown
out of the Mont Cenis post by GdB Henry-Amamble Sarret. On 19 September 1795
D'Argenteau launched an assault on the heights of Sucarello near Borghetto, which
failed, and on 23 November he was pushed back by Massena and cut off from the
army of Savoy under Colli. He then fell back over the Bormida River. On 11 May
1796, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
Early this same year, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant. In
1796 he was Division Commander in the army in Italy under Beaulieu and commanded
the brigades of Lipthay, Rukavina, Pittoni and Sullich. He fought at Voltri on
10 April, but was beaten by Napoleon at Montenotte on the next two days. Due
to a misunderstanding of a confused order from Beaulieu's staff, he suffered
heavy losses at Dego on 14 April. In 1805 D'Argenteau commanded the centre of
the army (five divisions) in Italy and fought at Caldiero. On 6 September 1808
he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister upon
retirement. In 1809 he was appointed Full Proprietor of Infantry Regiment N°35.
He died on 4 May 1819 in Vienna.
Printed Sources
ADB 1, p.524 | Bodart, p.306, 307 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.490f. | Hödl, IR29, pp.157f., 170, 580 (wrong: b. 1745) | May,
IR35, pp.141, 146, 167 | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.28 | ÖMKL
1, p.125 | Sturm 1, p.25 (wrong: b. 1741) | Wrede 1, p.367 | Wurzbach
1, p.64 | WZ, 21.09.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.53
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/argenteau.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Hödl, IR29, p.170: "mit
Generalbefehl vom 14. Oktober [1789]"
M35
|
Mercy
d’Argenteau, Ludwig Oktavius
Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 13.10.1710
Died: Münster / Münster (prince-bishopric),
01.04.1802
Name Variants
(French) Louis-Octave-Denis Comte de Mercy
d’Argenteau
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.03.1756
Feldmarschalleutnant: 18.04.1758 (w.r.f. 31.12.1756)
General der Kavallerie: 03.04.1784 (w.r.f. 30.08.1770)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.34
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M36
|
Mersics,
Joseph (Franz) (Freiherr ?) von
|
Personal Information
Born: Dörgicse / Com. Zala / Hungary, 1721
Died: 30.03.18011
Promotions
Major: 01.09.1771
Oberstleutnant: 01.12.1780
Oberst: 01.05.1784
Generalmajor: 10.11.1788 (w.r.f. 21.11.1788)
Retired: 1788
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Blažekovič, IR31, I, p.112 / II, p.377f. | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Blažekovič, IR31, II, p.378: 20.03.1801 (?)
M37
|
Merveldt,
Maximilian Graf von
|
Personal Information
Born: (Münster / Münster [prince-bishopric]
?), 29.07.1764
Died: London / England, 05.07.1815
Name Variants
also: Me(e)rfeld(t), Me(e)rveld, Me(e)rvelt
Family Status
Married: 1807 Maria Theresia Gräfin von Dietrichstein,
the divorced Gräfin Kinsky (1768-1822) (see: K33)
Promotions
Major: 14.02.1790
Oberstleutnant: 03.04.1793
Oberst: 26.04.1794
Generalmajor: 08.09.1796 (w.r.f. 10.09.1796)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.09.1800 (w.r.f. 05.09.1800)
General der Kavallerie: 22.07.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Ambassador in St. Petersburg (Russia): 01.02.18061 – 19.06.1808 2
Fortress Governor of Theresienstadt: 22.07.- E.08.18133
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 11.1813 – 05.07.1815
Envoy extraordinary in London (Great Britain): 07.03.1814 –
05.07.1815
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the (autonomous) Reserve Corps of the
Army of Germany: 15.10.1805
– 12.1805
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff ad interim of
the allied army: 10.-11.1805
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Mariazell: 08.11.1805 (–)
Commander of the 2nd Army Detachment (= Army Corps):
09.-10.1813
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Teutonic Order (Bailiwick Franconia):
20.02.1792 –
18.03.1807 (resignation)
Commander of Mainz and Kloppenheim
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794
Order of Leopold – GC: 1814
Colonel-Proprietor of the Uhlan Regiment "Merveldt" /
(since 1798:) N°1: 05.11.1797 – 05.07.1815
I.R. Privy Councillor: 25.10.1806
I.R. Chamberlain: 1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij: 02.11.1813
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus: 06.01.18074
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 29 June 1764 into an old Westfalian family
which was ennobled in 1726 Count Merveldt entered Austrian military service in
1780 as a cadet and fought in the Turkish wars 1787-1789 as Captain and Flügel-Adjutant to
FM Graf Lacy. Merveldt fought in the second Turkish war in the Freicorps Grün-Loudon.
1790 – Major on the staff of FM Loudon in Moravia; 1791 – spent a
year as a novice in the Teutonic Order in Bonn.
In 1793 he fought at Neerwinden as major and Flügel
Adjutant to the Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg, and was distinguished when he led
two grenadier battalions to repel a French assault on the right wing. He was
sent to Vienna with the news of the victory and was then attached to the Duke
of York's staff. Merveldt distinguished himself at Famars and at Valenciennes
and – in 1794 – again at Landrecy on 22 April, where he commanded
the right wing. He was promoted on the field to Oberst; again distinguished
at Tournay, he then he went on sick leave.
In 1796 he transferred to Chevauxleger Regiment "Karaczay" N°18;
distinguished again at Wetzlar and Uckerath where he saved the Austrian artillery.
He was promoted Generalmajor on 8 September of that year and commanded
a cavalry brigade in Werneck's Reserve of the Army of the Lower Rhine.
In 1799 Merveldt was distinguished at Offenburg,
for which he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant on 4 September 1800.
He signed the armistice of Kremsmünster with Moreau. At the defeat in the
battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December Merveldt commanded a division in the left
wing.
In 1805 he was initally in Berlin, but then travelled
back to the Danube valley where he fought a series of rearguard actions with
his corps being scattered at Gross-Ramig (Mariazell) by Marshal Davout on 8 November.
After this war, he acted as ambassador to St. Petersburg
for over two years and was appointet Prive Councillor. In 1808 he was given command
of a cavalry division in Lemberg. In the 1809 campaign, Merveldt covered the
Bukowina and part of Galicia. He then spent three years in Moravia. On 22 July
1813 he was appointed governor of the fortress of Theresienstadt and shortly
after that Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia. He then became commander
of II Corps. He distinguished himself at Nollendorf (Kulm) on 29-30 August 1813.
At Leipzig on 16 October Merveldt was wounded and captured, but released by Napoleon
after a meeting, to take peace proposals to the allied monarchs. These were rejected
out of hand. In January 1814 he was sent as extraordinary ambassador to London,
where he died on 5 July 1815.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.476ff. | Bodart, p.368 | Erneuerte
Vaterländische Blätter für den
österreichischen Kaiserstaat, year 1815, N°79, p.499ff. | Hirtenfeld
1, p.419f. | Matsch, pp.114, 122 | MD 8, p.35 (wrong: b. 29.06.1764) | MilSchem | Repertorium
3, pp.89, 276, 280 | Ritter, p.179 (wrong: b. 29.06.1764) | Sapper,
Christian: General der Kavallerie Maximilian Graf Merveldt 1764-1815, Ph.D. thesis,
Vienna 1974 | Wrede 3, p.319 | Wurzbach 17, p.413ff. (wrong: b.
29.06.1764) | WZ, 14.10.1813, 27.01.1814, 19.02.1814, 25.08.1815 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.39 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.53, 110, 129, 132
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/merveldt.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Until 24.08.1806 only
provisional ambassador
2) Matsch, p.122: 14.08.1806 – 02.05.1808
(?)
3) Assumption on 10.08.1813
4) Date of the imperial
permission to accept the order
M38
|
Mesko
de Felsö-Kubiny, Joseph Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Erdö-Tarcsá / Com. Neograd (Nógrád)
/ Hungary, 28.01.1762
Died: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas)
/ Hungary, 29.08.1815
Promotions
Major: 31.08.1797
Oberstleutnant: 15.09.1800
Oberst: 26.11.1800
Generalmajor: 23.06.1808 (w.r.f. 13.08.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 07.04.1813
Retired: 1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
/ CC: 25.08.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Joseph de Mesko Freiherr von Felsö-Kubiny was
born on 28 January 1762 in Erdö-Tarcsá, northeast of Budapest, Hungary.
In 1799, he fought as a Major in Italy and was distinguished at Verona,
the capture of Casale, the capture of Turin, the relief of Ceva fortress and
at Cuneo. In September 1800 he was promoted to Oberstleutnant and in the
next month to Oberst. The following year Mesko was awarded the Knight's
Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. In the war of 1805, he commanded
a garrison in upper Styria. He was promoted to Generalmajor in 1808 and
in 1809, Mesko commanded a brigade of the Hungarian Insurrection Army. After
the battle of Raab, on 14 June, he was completely cut off, with 5,000 men and
10 guns, in the redoubts between the Raab and the Raabnitz Rivers. In the following
two days, he repelled repeated French attacks and even managed to take 7 officers
and 300 men prisoner. On 16 June, he also managed to free a convoy of 36 Austrian
officers and 500 men, which he ambushed at Kis-Szél. On 25 August 1809,
he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the MMTO.
In 1813, as Feldmarschalleutnant, he commanded
a division in GdK Graf von Klenau's IV Corps on the Army of Bohemia. At the battle
of Dresden, 26 August, his division was cut off on the left wing, attacked by
Latour-Maubourg's entire cavalry corps and forced to surrender after a hard fight.
Mesko was wounded. He retired in September 1814 and died in Güns, in Hungary,
southwest of the Neusiedler See, on 29 August 1815.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.485ff. | Amon, HR10, pp.177, 180ff.
(wrong: b. 1757) | Erneuerte Vaterländische Blätter für
den österreichischen Kaiserstaat, year 1815, N°86, p.542 | Hirtenfeld
2, p.880ff. | MD 8, p.35 | MilSchem | Ridler, J.W.: Der
Rückzug des Generals Mesko nach der Schlacht bey Raab. In: Hormayer, Joseph
von (Ed.): Taschenbuch für die vaterländische Geschichte, year 1813,
Vienna 1813, p.247ff. | Wurzbach 17,
p.424ff. | WZ, 09.07.1808, 11.05.1813, 08.06.1813
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/mesko.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M39
|
Mészáros
de Szoboszló, Johann
|
Personal Information
Born: Kún-Hegyes / Com. Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok
/ Hungary, 1737
Died: Csomaköz / Com. Szatmár / Hungary,
17.11.18011
Family Status
Married: Maria Diószeghi
Promotions
Major: 10.01.1774
Oberstleutnant: 01.11.1778
Oberst: 01.05.1784
Generalmajor: 14.08.17892 (w.r.f.
10.08.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 02.06.1794)
Retired: 28.02.1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 25.10.1793
/ CC: 11.05.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Uhlan Regiment "Mészáros":
1792-1797
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°35
/ (since 1798:) N°10: 03.11.1797 – 17.11.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 28 January 1737 in Kún Hegyes (Hungary)
Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló joined Hussar Regiment N°30 "Desewffy" in
1756 as a cornet. He took part in the Seven Years War and the War of the Bavarian
Succession. In the latter conflict, on the night of 9 November 1778, he stormed
the Prussian-held post of Weissbach, with 100 hussars and Jägers and took
27 horses and 33 men prisoner. In 1784, now promoted to Oberst, he took
command of Hussar Regiment "Kaiser Joseph II." N°2. He fought with repeated
distinction in the wars against the Turks (1788/89), serving initially in the
corps of FM Prince Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld. On 17 July 1788,
he captured the village of Rumla; on 31 August of that year, he defeated a sortie
from Chotim (now Chocim, Poland). In the battle of Focsani (21 July 1789), Mészarós
charged Mohammed Pascha's left wing, with such energy, that he swept the enemy
away. For this, he was promoted to Generalmajor. On 1 November 1791, he
was given command of the 1st Uhlans, formed from the Uhlan divisions (two squadrons)
of the Chevauxleger Regiments "Kaiser", "Karaczay",
"Levenehr" and "Lobkowitz".
In 1792, he was made Proprietor of Uhlan Regiment "Meszaros" (later
N°1); he held this post until 1797.
On 13 October 1793, Mészarós commanded
the 4th Column of Wurmser's successful assault on the Weissenburg lines. For
this, on 25 October of that same year, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the
Military Maria Theresian Order. In 1794, his brigade of Hotze's corps defended
their front against the Armée de la Moselle. In 1796, as Feldmarschalleutnant,
he commanded a division in Baillet de Latour's Right Wing of Wurmser's Army of
the Upper Rhine. He accompanied Wurmser to Italy and fought at Castiglione della
Sivieri (5 August) and Bassano (8 September), then being shut up in Mantua until
2 February 1797.
In 1797 he was made Proprietor of Hussar Regiment
N°10 and appointed commander of the Hungarian Insurrection. He retired in
1798 and died on 17 November 1801 in Csomaköz, in Hungary.
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.506ff. | Amon, HR1, pp.69, 88f.,
492 | Amon, HR10, pp.177, 225f. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.465f. | MD
8, p.36 | MilSchem | Wrede 3, pp.287, 319 | Wurzbach 17,
p.457ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/meszaros.html)
Notes
1) Schmidt-Brentano: 24.11.1801
(?)
2) Amon, HR1, p.88: 13.08.1789
(?)
M40
|
Mignot
de Bussy, Anton Franz Armand Maria
Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Chatelard Castle / Beaujolais / France, 1755
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 21.03.1804
Name Variants
(French) Antoine-François-Armand Comte
de Mignon de Bussy
Family Status
Married: Charlotte Gräfin du Fenoyl
Promotions
France
Colonel:
Into Austrian service: 11.08.1792
Oberst: 11.08.1792
Generalmajor: 11.05.1799 (w.r.f. 05.05.1799)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the mounted Jäger Regiment:
01.06.1798
– 31.05.1801
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°5:
1801
– 31.01.1802
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°35:
01.01.1802
– 21.03.1804
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.703ff. (wrong: d. 10.04.1804) | Kneschke
2, p.176f. | May, IR35, pp.138 (wrong: "Bussy von Mognot"), 141 | MD
1, p.143 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.576ff. | Wrede 1, p.367 | Wrede
3, pp.686, 741 | Wurzbach 2, p.217f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M41
|
Mignot
de Bussy, Claudius Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: after 1820
Name Variants
(French) Claude Comte de Mignot de Bussy
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 12.06.1801 (w.r.f. 01.06.1801)
Quit: 05.05.1820
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 1794
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 01.01.1790)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M43
|
Mihaljevich,
Michael
Mihaljevich, Michael Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: St. Johann (St. Ivan) / Croatia, 01.01.1770
Died: Temesvár / Com. Temes / Hungary, 09.03.1845
Name Variants
also: Mihaljević, Mihalievits, Mihailovich
Promotions
Major: 01.05.1805
Oberstleutnant: 28.07.1807
Oberst: 1811 (w.r.f. 15.09.1809)
Generalmajor: 30.04.18151
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.01.18312
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 29.07.18423
Retired: 29.07.18423
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 05.07.1838
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 17.09.1836
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantery Regiment N°57:
18.12.1832 –
09.03.1845
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.719ff. | Leitner 2, p.157 (wrong: "Mihailovich") | MilSchem | ÖMZ,
year 1846, vol.1, p.282ff. | Svoboda 1, col.159ff. | Wrede 1, p.516 | Wurzbach
18, p.254 | WZ, 08.05.1815 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.42
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Svoboda 1, col.160:
01.05.1815
2)
ÖMZ / Svoboda 1, col.161: 21.01.1831 (?)
3)
ÖMZ: 02.08.1842 (?)
M44
|
Mihaljevich,
Stephan von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Agram (Zagreb) / Croatia, 01.02.1806
Name Variants
also: Mihaljević,
Mihalievits, Mihailovich
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 22.02.1804)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M45
|
Mihanovich,
Bonaventura Nikolaus
Mihanovich, Bonaventura Nikolaus von
|
Personal Information
Born: Kurjevac (n.l.) / Croatia, 1755
Died: 16.08.1817
Name Variants
also: Mihanović
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.07.1809
Retired: 1814
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.238 | MilSchem | WZ,
25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M46
|
Mikovényi
de Breznobánya, Ludwig
|
Personal Information
Born: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary,
1735
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 06.12.1792
Promotions
Major: 1769
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 03.1778
Generalmajor: 29.08.1787
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commander of the Mineur Corps: 17?? – 06.12.1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, pp.381 (wrong: GM in 1790), 486 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.311 | MD 8, p.42 (wrong: d. 06.11.1792) | MilSchem | Wurzbach
18, p.287
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M47
|
Mikovényi
de Breznobánya, Stanislaus
|
Personal Information
Born: around 1728
Died: Lachaczowitz (n.l.) / Moravia, 11.08.1802
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 04.01.1790)
Retired: 1801
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Condé: before 1793
- ?
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M48
|
Miltitz,
(Dietrich) Alexander Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: 25.04.1726
Died: Vienna, 03.06.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 24.12.1765
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.05.1775 (w.r.f. 05.08.1775)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | (NDB 17, p.533)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M49
|
Milutinovich,
Axentius
Milutinovich von Millovsky, Axentius
|
Personal Information
Born: around 1740
Died: Alt-Gradisca (Gradiška stara) / Slavonia,
21.11.1798
Name Variants
also: Milutinović / also: Milovsky
Family Status
Father of M50
Promotions
Major: 22.02.1786
Oberstleutnant: 25.09.1789
Oberst: 08.02.1794
Generalmajor: 24.04.1797 (w.r.f. 28.05.1797)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Alt-Gradisca: 1797 – 21.11.1798
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 20.06.1796 (with predicate: "von
Millovsky")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
(ADB 21, p.762) | Frank 3, p.243 | MilSchem | ÖMZ,
year 1839, vol.1, p.36 | Wurzbach 18, p.337
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M50
|
Milutinovich,
Theodor
Milutinovich von Millovsky, Theodor
Milutinovich von Millovsky und Weichselburg, Theodor
Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Sarduk / Syrmia, 23.05.1766
Died: Temesvár / Com. Temes / Hungary, 07.11.1836
Name Variants
also: Milutinović / also: Milovsky
Family Status
Son of M49
Married: around 1800 Marie von Andreovich
Promotions
Major: 01.09.1805
Oberstleutnant: 10.18081
Oberst: 07.1809
Generalmajor: 29.09.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.09.1830
Retired: 08.02.1836
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (by elevation of M49): 20.06.1796
(with predicate: "von Millovsky")
Freiherr: 12.12.1815 (with predicate: "von Millovsky
und Weichselburg")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 28.09.1813
Order of Leopold – CC: 06./07.1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°54:
09.1831
– 07.11.1836
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 21, p.761ff. | Frank 3, p.243 | Frank-Döfering,
2748 | Gatti, IngAk, p.317f. (wrong: b. in Kupinova) | Hirtenfeld
2, p.1198ff. | MD 8, p.43 | MilSchem | ÖMZ, year 1839,
vol.1, p.36ff., 131ff.: Alexander von Milutinovich: Lebensbeschreibung des k.k.
Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Theodor Milutinovich von Milovsky, Freiherrn von Weichselburg | Wrede
1, p.493 | Wurzbach 18, p.333ff. | WZ, 05.10.1808, 08.07.1814
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
ÖMZ: 09.1808 (?)
M51
|
Minckwitz
von Minckwitzburg, Ferdinand Freiherr
von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 05.06.1815
Name Variants
also: Minckwicz, Minkwiz / also: Minckwiczburg, Minkwizburg
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 23.01.1795)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 18.09.1799)
Retired: 1801
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Mantua: ~1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°8:
1801
– 05.06.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.165
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M52
|
Minutillo,
Friedrich
Minutillo, Friedrich Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Turá Lúka (Turoluka)1 /
Com. Neutra (Nyitra, Nitra) / Hungary, 31.03.1766
Died: Vienna, 24.07.1843
Family Status
Son of M53
Married: 1801 Anna Maria Leth Edle von Lethenau (1781-1843)
Promotions
Major: 22.05.1800
Oberstleutnant: 16.01.1801
Oberst: 17.09.1805
Generalmajor: 22.07.(31.08.)1809
Retired: 01.01.18102
Reactivated: 01.03.18103
Feldmarschalleutnant: 28.03.1821
Retired: 25.06.1835
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Inspector of Military Clothing: 04.1814 – 25.06.1835
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the blockade forces of Neu-Breisach:
01.-02.1814
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 15.07.1820
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC: (1814 ?) / CC: (1835)
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°57:
31.01.1823 – 1832
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°3:
(17.)18.12.1832 –
24.07.1843
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Bavaria:
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – KC: 09.09.1814
Biographical Essay (by Albrecht Zimburg)
Friedrich Minutillo was born on 31 March 1766 in
Turoluka in Hungary, to his parents GM Hieronymus Minutillo who was a retired
commander the Cuirassier Regiment N°8 and Elisabeth Koretzka. Friedrich started
his military education on 11 May 1776 at the Military Academy at Wiener Neustadt.
He graduated on 3 January 1785 and was sent as Unterleutnant to "Zeschwitz" Cuirassier
Regiment N°5.
In the war of 1788-90 against Turkey Friedrich Minutillo
had the first chance to distinguish himself: On 18 June 1788 his regiment managed
to disrupt a landing attempt by the Turks at Semlin near the "Beschanierdamm".
The next day Minutillo was promoted to Oberleutnant for his outstanding bravery
by Emperor Joseph II., who personally witnessed the action while at the camp
of Semlin.
Twice wounded at the siege of Sabacz and Belgrade,
he was transferred on 31 April 1790 (1792?) to "Freiherr von Wallisch" Cuirassiers
N°7, while being promoted to Rittmeister 2nd Class. During the first
years of the revolutionary wars he saw no action, as his regiment was garrisoned
in other parts of the monarchy (1790 in Nagy-Patak, 1792 in Csaba, 1794-95 in
Vienna).
Finally in 1796 the regiment was sent to Germany
and joined the Corps Baillet de Latour. The regiment fought at Herbolzheim, with
distinction at Immenstadt, at Isny – where Minutillo's outstanding bravery
got mentioned in the battle report –, and at Memmingen. At Schliengen on
24 October 1796 he fought honorably. After that he took part at the siege of
Kehl until its fall on 9 January 1797. Shortly afterwards he got his promotion
to Rittmeister 1st Class on 15 May 1797.
1799 he took part at the battle of Stockach on 25
March 1799, stayed with the army at the Rhine and participated in the taking
of Mainz. The 1800 campaign saw him at the battles of Moskirch, Biberach, Ulm
and Neuburg, later also at the skirmish at Schwanenstadt. He also fought at Engen,
Urbach and Liptingen. As young Major (prom. 22.05.1800) he was put in
command of his regiment at the battle of Hohenlinden on 03.12.1800. At the end
of the war he was promoted to Oberstleutnant on 16 January 1801.
He used the short interval of peace and married Maria
Anna Leth von Lethenau, daughter of Johann Peter Leth von Lethenau – a
Viennese businessman – and Katharina Müller, in Vienna on 13 April
1801 – against surety of 9000 fl. Their first child, Caroline, was born
on 2 January 1802 – she married later FML Ferdinand Freiherr von Simbschen,
three sons followed, who all became officers later in life: Friedrich (21.12.1807 – 13.08.1831) Rittmeister,
Vinzenz (31.08.1810 – 12.11.1877) who became later FML and Carl (26.04.1815 – 28.01.1842,
father of Admiral Franz and GM Carl) Rittmeister.
In the war of 1805 Minutillo took part as colonel
and commander of the Cuirassier Regiment "Nassau-Ussingen" N°5. He fought
at the battle of Austerlitz and got mentioned as being a steadfast commander.
A description by his superior officers in 1808 speaks of an intelligent, educated,
reliable, sturdy and healthy regimental commander.
In 1809 his regiment took part in the campaign in
Poland where he fought at the battle of Raszyn on 19 April 1809. Unfortunately
the regiment suffered heavy casualties due to the successful cavalry attack and
could not play a major role in any of the other major engagements from that moment
on. Promoted to Generalmajor on 22.07.(or 31.08.)1809 he was retired on
01.01.1810, only to be reactivated two months later on 01.03.1810. He lived the
years after this war with his family in Vienna and was well embedded in the Viennese
Society of the time.
In the campaign of 1813 Minutillo was commanding
a brigade in the mixed Austro-Bavarian Corps under the Bavarian General Wrede
and the Austrian General Frimont. He took part in the battles of Hanau (30.-31.10.1813),
La Rothiere (30.01.1814), Valjouam/Mormant (17.02.1814), Bar sur Aube (27.02.1814)
and was commanding the blockade of Neu-Breisach (Neuf-Brisach).
The victorious end of the war brought recognition
in form of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold and the Knight's Coss of
the Bavarian Order of Maximilian Joseph. He got a new job, too: Inspector of
Military Clothing (General-Monturs-Inspektor).
It is not clear if he participated in the 1821 campaign
in Italy. His job and previous deeds still brought him more recognition: elevation
to Freiherr (1820), promotion to Feldmarschalleutnant (1821) and the proprietorship
of Infantry Regiment N°57 (31.01.1823) which he swapped with the Dragoon
Regiment N°3 on 17.12.1832.
Sent into retirement on 25.06.(07.?)18354 and
honored with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Leopold (tax free) he passed
away in Vienna on 24.07.1843.
Printed Sources
Dedekind, DR11, p.663 | Frank 3, p.244 | Frank-Döfering,
2764 | Leitner 2, p.137f. | MilSchem | Pizzighelli, DR5,
pp.86, 95, 249 | Svoboda, Bd.1, p.167f. | Victorin, DR7, p.405f.,
431 (wrong: b. 1764) | Wrede 1, p.516 | Wrede 3, p.202 | Wurzbach
18, p.344 | WZ, 25.11.1809 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.17
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Birth and Baptism Records
Dragoon Regiment N°8, Tom.1, Fol.31; according to other sources Berezó
(Brezova pod Bradlom, Birkenhain) or Holics
(Holíč, Weißkirchen)
2)
With supreme Imperial resolution from 28.12.1809
3) With supreme Imperial
resolution from 27.02.1810
4) With supreme Imperial
resolution from 23.6.1835
M53
|
Minutillo,
Hieronymus von
|
Personal Information
Born: Mailand (Milano) / Lombardy, 30.11.1715
Died: Holics (Holíč, Weißkirchen)
/ Com. Neutra (Nyitra, Nitra) / Hungary, 30.12.18041
Family Status
Married (1): before 1747/48 [N.N.] (17??-1751)
Married (2): 1761 Elisabeth Koretzka
Father of M52
Promotions
Major: 1751
Oberstleutnant: 19.01.1756
Oberst: 19.11.1757
Generalmajor: 27.06.1766 (w.r.f. 03.05.1759)
Retired: 27.06.1766 (1767)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Albrecht Zimburg)
Born as Carlo Girolamo Andrea Francesco Minutillo
and as son of Don Giuseppe Minutillo a medical doctor in Milano and Camilla Lampugniani,
he started his military career in the Austrian Army in 1735. Of his career and
life is very little known. Promoted to Major in 1751 in the Cuirassier
Regiment "Hohenems" (later Dragoon Regiment N°8) and later on in 1756 to Oberstleutnant he
took part in the campaign of 1756-57, particularly at the battle of Lowositz
(01.10.1756) where he fought with distinction. Of his regiment only the Carabinier
Detachment as advance guard with Minutillo saw action at this battle. At the
battle of Prague, Minutillo is mentioned as being caught within the forces retreating
into the city of Prague, as his regiment could not regroup after an attack on
the Prussian Cavalry. Later that year he got promoted to Oberst. At that
time he got a health problem which did not allow him to stay with his regiment.
He stayed with the reserve company at Hrochov-Teinitz. It is not clear when he
took command of the regiment, possibly on 30.04.1758. According to the regimental
history he was promoted to 2nd Oberst on that date and took command of
his regiment later, on 31.10.1758. With his promotion to Generalmajor on
27.06.1766 he was also sent into retirement with a yearly pension of 1500 fl
and an additional 1000 fl from the proprietor Archduke Maximilian. In 1767 he
formally handed over the command of the Regiment to Oberst Fürst Liechtenstein.
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Tomaschek, DR8, pp.241 (wrong:
GM on 18.10.1766), 685 (wrong: GM in 1765)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) also: Preßburg
/ Hungary (?)
M54
|
Mitterer,
Ignaz von
Mitterer, Ignaz Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: around 1731
Died: Vienna, 07.03.1806
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.04.1795 (w.r.f. 10.10.1791)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 28.04.1781
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.247 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M55
|
Mittrowský
von Mittrowitz und Nemyšl, Anton
Ernst Freiherr
Mittrowský
von Mittrowitz und Nemyšl, Anton Ernst Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Schemnitz (Selmecbánya, Banská
Štiavnica) / Com. Hont / Hungary, 16.06.1735
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 30.11.1813
Family Status
Brother of M57
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1773
Generalmajor: 16.12.1775 (w.r.f. 12.12.1775)
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 16.03.1767 (?) / 09.08.1769 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1790
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°182 | D’Elvert, Christian:
Die Grafen und Freiherren Mittrowsky von Mittrowitz und Nemischl. In: Schriften
der historisch-statistischen Sektion der k.k. mähr. schles. Gesellschaft
des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landeskunde, issue III, Brünn 1852, pp.14,
38 | Doerr, p.253 | Hubka, IR22, p.107 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
18, p.389
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/mitrovsky2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M56
|
Mittrowský
von Mittrowitz und Nemyšl, Anton
Ferdinand Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: around 1745
Died: Vienna, 30.09.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.04.1796 (w.r.f. 19.02.1795)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 17.09.1799)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Upper and Lower
Austria and Salzburg: 1806
– (30.09.?)1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°10:
1806 – 30.09.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
D’Elvert, Christian: Die Grafen und Freiherren
Mittrowsky von Mittrowitz und Nemischl. In: Schriften der historisch-statistischen
Sektion der k.k. mähr. schles. Gesellschaft des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und
Landeskunde, issue III, Brünn 1852, p.13f. ("starb mit 64 Jahren" / not
mentioned on the genealogical table, p.38 ?) | MilSchem (died "... 64
Jahre alt") | Wrede 1, p.182 | Wurzbach 18, p.389 | WZ,
07.10.1809 ("64 Jahre alt")
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: b. 1735 ?)
M57
|
Mittrowský
von Mittrowitz und Nemyšl, Joseph
Anton Franz Freiherr
Mittrowský
von Mittrowitz und Nemyšl, Joseph Anton Franz Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Kaschau (Košice, Kassa) / Com. Abaúj-Torna
/ Hungary, 28.12.1733
Died: Paskau (Paskov) / Moravia, 02.03.1808
Family Status
Brother of M55
Married: Karolina Gräfin Koháry de Csábrág
et Szitnya (17??-1801)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 01.07.1770)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 15.05.1784 (w.r.f. 13.05.1784)
Feldzeugmeister: 26.12.1789 (w.r.f. 25.12.1789)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Slavonia and Syrmia: 09.1786 – 09.1790
Commanding General in Transylvania (1791 – 09.09.1791:
and Wallachia): 11.1790 – 12.1806
Captain of the Trabanten Life Guard and Hofburgwache:
12.1806 – 06.1807
Field Service (1787-1815)
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps in Slavonia:
10.1787 – 05.1789
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps in Walachia:
02.-09.1791
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 16.03.1767
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°40:
1786 – 02.03.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
D’Elvert, Christian: Die Grafen und Freiherren
Mittrowsky von Mittrowitz und Nemischl. In: Schriften der historisch-statistischen
Sektion der k.k. mähr. schles. Gesellschaft des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und
Landeskunde, issue III, Brünn 1852, pp.12f., 38 (wrong: d. 03.03.1808) | Frank
3, p.246 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.402 | Wrede (6), p.66 | Wurzbach
18, p.396ff. | WZ, 04.07.1807 u. 04.05.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.36 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.44, 58, 68, 127
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/mitrovsky2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M58
|
Modena
und Reggio, Herkules Reinhold
d’Este, Erbprinz von
Modena und Reggio, Herkules III. Reinhold
d’Este, Herzog von
|
Personal Information
Born: Modena, 22.11.1727
Died: Treviso / Venetia, 14.10.1803
Name Variants
(Italian) Ercole III. Rinaldo d’Este,
Duca di Modena e Reggio
Family Status
Father-in-law of O9 (Archduke Ferdinand Carl)
Married (1): 1741 Maria Teresa Principessa Cybo Malaspina,
Duchessa Sovrana di Massa (1725-1790)
Married (2): 1795 (morganatic) Chiara Marini, created
Marchesa di Scandiano (17??-1800)
Promotions
Major:
–
Oberstleutnant:
–
Oberst:
–
Generalmajor: 13.03.1757
Feldmarschalleutnant:
–
Feldzeugmeister / General der Kavallerie: –
Feldmarschall: 24.05.1766
Elevation of Social Status
Modena:
Herzog (Duca): 22.04.1780 (deposed: 06.10.1796)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 17511
Order of St. Stephen – GC: 1775
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment "Modena" /
(since 1760:) Chevauxleger Regiment
"Modena" / (since 1763:) Dragoon Regiment "Modena" / (since 1769:) N°13 /
(since 1773:) Chevauxleger Regiment N°13 / (since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment
N°5: 1756-1801/02 (disbanded)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°35:
01.01.1802 – 14.10.1803
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Holy Spirit: 01.01.1781
Printed Sources
May, IR35, p.138 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.367 | Wrede 3, p.685 | (Wurzbach 4, p.85) | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.12
Internet Sources
Boettger
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/welf/welf10.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Shamà
Szentváry-Lukács
Notes
1) Shamà: 1753 (?)
M59
|
Mohr,
Johann Friedrich von
Mohr, Johann Friedrich Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Nagy-Mihály / Com. Semplin (Zemplén)
/ Hungary, 18.07.1765
Died: Claujano near Sevigliano / Venetia, 13.02.1847
Family Status
Married: 17981 Sophie Friederike
Freiin von Bibra-Schwebheim2 (1776-1861)
Promotions
Major: 1796
Oberstleutnant: 06.1800
Oberst: 03.1804
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
General der Kavallerie: 11.01.1830
Retired: 13.02.1836
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Venetia: 03.1824 – 06.1825
City and Fortress Commandant of Venice: 07.1825 – 1827
Commanding General in Transylvania: 06.1827 – 10.1830
Vice-President of the Aulic War Council: 1830-1831
Chief of the Military Section of the State Council:
1831 – 13.02.1836
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian army corps in Naples: 06.-09.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of his father): 11.08.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 22.01.1806
Order of Leopold – CC: 1815 / GC: 1836
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°5:
06.01.1815 – 13.02.1847
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1827
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of Military Merit – CC: 1819
Naples-Siciliy:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – GC: 1815
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – GC:
1821
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 18 Jul 1765 in Nagy-Mihály in Hungary
Johann Friedrich von Mohr entered military service in 1783 as Unterleutnant,
in the Hussar Regiment "Wurmser" N°30. In 1789 he was an Oberleutnant and
fought in the Turkish wars.
In 1795 he was distinguished at Mannheim; next year,
he was a Major and Flügel-Adjutant to FM Graf Wurmser. He accompanied Wurmser
into Mantua fortress on 15 September, when the second attempt to relieve the
place failed. Mantua capitulated on 2 February 1797. After the Peace of Campo
Formio, Mohr transferred to Hussra Regiment "Vecsey"
N°4.
In 1799 Mohr was wounded and distinguished at Stockach
and fought at Bruchsal on 8 November. The next he was promoted to Oberstleutnant
and distinguished himself at Hohenlinden in the advance guard, where he took
500 prisoners.
In March 1804 he was promoted to Oberst in Hussar
Regiment N°4. In 1805 he fought at Amstetten, Dürnstein and Schöngrabern.
He was also very distinguished at Austerlitz in FML Kienmayer's rearguard at
Aujezd. At Tellnitz during that battle, he led two squadrons of the 4th Hussars
against a column of French infantry some thousands strong and scattered it, killing
and wounding many and taking over 300 prisoners. For this, he was awarded the
Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. His regiment earned five
gold and 27 silver medals for bravery in this action.
On 15 August 1808, he was promoted to Generalmajor.
In the 1809 campaign, Mohr commanded the advance guard (5 battalions, 6 squadrons)
of the VII Corps in Poland. He fought at Raszyn on 19 April and his attempt to
rush the Praga bridgehead at Warsaw on 26 April failed with loss. He took Thorn
bridgehead on 15 May. In early June he was in the Radom area to suppress rebel
activity and was being hunted by General Zayonczeck with 8,000 Poles. Together
with FML Mondet he defeated the Poles at Jedlinsko on 11 June in a rearguard
action. On 14 July he capitulated in Krakau to Prince Poniatowski, after the
news of Napoleon's victory in the Danube Valley became known.
In 1812 he served in Russia with Schwarzenberg's
corps, as commander of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division.
On 26 July 1813 he received promotion to Feldmarschalleutnant and
appointment to commander of 4th Division, III Corps of the Army of Bohemia. At
Leipzig he fought in the assault on Penig and the defence of the Kolmberg where
he was wounded. Due to a sickness he couldn't take part on the 1814 campaign.
In 1815 he served in Italy against Murat. Mohr took
Occhiobello on 7 April, from Italian GdD Carascosa. On 12 April he won the clash
of Casaglia against the Neapolitans; he took Ferrara and commanded the centre
and left wing in the victorious battle at Tolentino on 3 May, which ended Murat's
campaign. On 21 May, Mohr signed the convention of Casalanza which ended hostilities;
he stayed in Naples with 14,000 Austrian troops to ensure the peaceful return
of King Ferdinand. The same year he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the
Leopold Order.
In 1825 FML Mohr was appointed city and fortress
commander of Venice. In 1827 he was made Commanding General in Transylvania.
In October 1830, he was appointed Vice President of the Aulic War Council and
the following year Chief of the Military Section of the Councel of State. He
retired in February 1836, and was awarded with the Grand Cross of the LO. General
Mohr died on 13 Februar 1847 in Claujano near Venice.
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.331 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.761ff. | Kneschke
6, p.327 | MD 4, p.24 | MilSchem | Wengen, DR13, p.679,
707ff. (erratum on p.714: d. 10.02.1747) | Wrede 3, p.213 | Wurzbach
18, p.437ff. | WZ, 03.09.1808, 14.10.1813, 23.06.1815 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.58, 60, 134
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Wengen, DR13, p.708:
1797 (?)
2) Wengen, DR13, p.708: "Bibra-Gleichenwiesen" (?)
M60
|
Moitelle,
(Dominik) Johann von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: after 1811
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 26.07.1789 (w.r.f. 24.07.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.11.1801 (w.r.f. 24.11.1801)
Cashired: 1811
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Vice-Commandant of Luxemburg: before 1794 – 1795
Military Commander in Triest: 04.1801 – 11.1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.380 | MilSchem | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.76
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M61
|
Mondet,
(Ferdinand) Ludwig von
|
Personal Information
Born: Ronse (Renaix) / Austrian Netherlands, 18.10.1718
(1748 ?)
Died: Graz / Styria, 13.12.1819
Family Status
Married: Annette de Haulleville
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 10.12.1799)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 22.01.1808
Retired: 1809
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the 7th Army Corps: 07.-08.1809
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Jedlinsko (Jankowice): 11.06.1809 (+)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.406 | Guillaume, p.134, 342, 385 | MilSchem | WZ,
20.02.1808 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.130
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M62
|
Montfrault,
Eugen Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Graz / Styria, 13.05.1808
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1787
Oberst: 1788
Generalmajor: 01.01.1794 (w.r.f. 02.11.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 06.01.1797)
Feldzeugmeister: 15.09.1805 (w.r.f. 06.09.1805)
Retired: 1805
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Commandant of Venice: ~1798-1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
After his promotion to Generalmajor on
1 January 1794 Eugen Freiherr von Montfrault commanded an infantry brigade during
the campaign of that year, operating with the Duke of York, under Sachsen-Coburg
in the Netherlands. In 1796 he served in Germany, commanding an infantry brigade
in Colloredo's division of the Army of the Lower Rhine. He fought under Erzherzog
Carl and took part at the battle of Würzburg. On 1 March 1797, he was promoted
to Feldmarschalleutnant and on 5 September
1805 to Feldzeugmeister. Montfrault retired the same year and died on
13 November 1808 in Graz.
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.103 | MilSchem | WZ,
09.07.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.38
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M63
|
Montgelas,
(Janus Maximilian) Joseph Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: 1741
Died: Vienna, 29.10.1802
Name Variants
also: Mongelas
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 23.12.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.04.1801 (w.r.f. 04.04.1801)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Inspector of the Remount Branche1:
03.1801 –
29.10.1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.18
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
"Remontierungs- und Gestüts-Inspektor"
M64
|
Montmartin,
Karl Freiherr (du Maz) de
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 30.09.1802
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 14.02.1760)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M65
|
Morzin,
Ferdinand Johann Graf von
|
Personal Information
Born: Ptenin / Bohemia, 1756
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 27.02.1805
Family Status
Brother of M66
Married: 1798 Louise Gräfin Hrzan von Harras
(17??-1847)
Promotions
Major: 07.1788
Oberstleutnant: 07.1789
Oberst: 16.07.1793
Generalmajor: 01.03.17971 (w.r.f.
21.05.1796)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 03.10.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 11.05.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°54:
1802 – 27.02.1805
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.479f. | Kneschke 6, p.359 | Kreipner,
IR34, pp.203, 214f., 246, 311f., 780 | MD 4, p.38 | MD 8, p.57 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.493 | Wurzbach 19, p.108f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/morzin.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Kreipner, IR34, p.311: "mit
A[ller]h.[öchster] E.[entschließung] vom 28. Februar [1797]" (?)
M66
|
Morzin,
Peter Prokop Graf von
|
Personal Information
Born: Lukawitz (Lukavice) / Bohemia, 1768
Died: Vienna, 13.11.1855
Family Status
Brother of M65
Married: 1803 Maria Anna Gräfin Berchtold (1780-1826)
Promotions
Major: 1805
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 19.11.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 24.08.1830
Feldzeugmeister: 30.05.1845
Retired: 05.09.1849
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke Johann
of Austria (O13): 1838
– 13.11.1855
Field Service (1792-1815)
Adjutant-General of the Army of Inner Austria: 02.-12.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 05.04.1855
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1838
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Württemberg:
Order of Military Merit – KC: 09.1815
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.327 | MilSchem | MD
8, p.57 | MZ, year 1855, N°117 (from 17.11.1855), p.218 | Wurzbach
19, p.112f. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.42 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.119
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/morzin.html)
(wrong: b. 1770)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M67
|
Mosa
de Sáros-Berkes, Ladislaus
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Diód (Diod) / Transylvania, 18.04.1811
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 06.01.1803)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M68
|
Mosel,
Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: around 1738
Died: Vienna, 14.06.1814
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 25.10.1799)
Feldmarschalleutnant (a.h.): 05.04.1802 (w.r.f. 30.03.1802)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M69
|
Moskopp,
Michael1 Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: 21.03.1742
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 15.04.1830
Name Variants
also: Moskop
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 11./12.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title): 04.12.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1826
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Auer, N°188 | MilSchem | WZ, 21.12.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Schmidt-Brentano: "Johann
Joseph Mathias" (?)
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 26.06.1816
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.04.1797 (w.r.f. 20.05.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 12.11.1800)
Retired: 1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 04.08.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 13.05.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | MilSchem | Wenke,
DR1, p.276 | WZ, 15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M72
|
Mumb,
Franz
Mumb von Mühlheim, Franz
|
Personal Information
Born: Chrudim1 / Bohemia,
30.03.1754
Died: Temesvár / Com. Temes / Hungary, 09.04.1832
Promotions
Major: 1799
Oberstleutnant: 1805
Oberst: 07.12.1805
Generalmajor: 02.09.18092
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.04.1824
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Temesvár: 16.11.1827 – 09.04.1832
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 02.05.1817 (with predicate: "von
Mühlheim")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°11:
1825
– 09.04.1832
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Naples-Sicily:
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – CC:
1822 / GC: 1827
Printed Sources
Böhm 1, p.415 | Frank 3, p.277 | Frank-Döfering,
2919 | MD 8, p.64 | MilSchem | ÖMZ, year 1834, vol.1,
p.315ff.: Chavanne, Franz: Nekrolog des k.k. Feldmarschall-Lieutenants von Mumb | Preyer,
p.115 | Wrede 1, p.189 | Wurzbach 19, p.452ff. | WZ, 25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
ÖMZ: Bogdanitz / Bohemia (?)
2)
ÖMZ: 31.08.1809 (?)
M73
|
Munkácsy,
Joseph Ritter von
|
Personal Information
Born: Galantha / Hungary, 1753
Died: Karlsburg (Gyulafehérvár, Alba-Iulia)
/ Transylvania, 18.12.18151
Promotions
Major: 1798
Oberstleutnant: 1800
Oberst: 1805
Generalmajor: 02.1809
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Karlsburg: 1810 – 18.12.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 20.01.1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wurzbach 19, p.458ff. | MD
8, p.64 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.511f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Wurzbach / Schmidt-Brentano
(both dates): 16.12.1815 (?)
M74
|
Murray
de Melgum, Albrecht Joseph Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Gent (Gand) / Austrian Netherlands, 26.08.1774
Died:
Ödenburg (Sopron) / Hungary, 06.02.1848
Name Variants
(French) Albert-Joseph Baron de Murray, Comte
de Melgum
Family Status
Son of M75
Married: 1815 Almeria Franziska Ursula Gräfin
Esterházy de Galantha (1789-1848)
Promotions
Major: 1797
Oberstleutnant: 1800
Oberst: 09.1805
Generalmajor: 26.04.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.09.1813
Retired: 31.10.1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14) or Silver
Civil Honor Cross 1813/14 ?: ~ 1814
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Great Britain:
Baronet's Badge of Nova Scotia
Netherlands:
Military Order of William – CC: 24.11.1816
Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.317, 351 | Duffy, p.379 | Englebert
N°28 | Guillaume, p.44f. | Kneschke 6, p.427 | MD 4,
p.47 | MilSchem | Schmidhofer, p.192 | Wurzbach 19, p.470 | WZ,
25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Uythoven
M75
|
Murray
de Melgum, Joseph Jacob
Murray de Melgum, Joseph Jacob Freiherr
Murray de Melgum, Joseph Jacob Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Tournai (Doornik) / Austrian Netherlands, 06.08.1718
Died: Vienna, 05.06.1802
Name Variants
(French) Joseph-Jacques Murray de Melgum /
Murray Baron de Melgum / Baron de Murray, Comte de Melgum
Family Status
Father of M74
Married (1): Christine de Maringh (?-1753)
Married (2): 1765 Marie-Anne-Françoise-Colette
Gräfin von Lichtervelde
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.06.1760 (w.r.f. 10.10.1758)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 30.01.1767)
Feldzeugmeister: 03.04.1784 (w.r.f. 17.03.1784)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Governor of Gent: 1768
Governor of Ostende: ?
Commanding General in the Austrian Netherlands: 07.1781 – 10.1787
Governor ad interim and General-Kapitänleutnant in
the Austrian Netherlands: 19.07.(23.06.?)1787 –
27.10.(05.10.?)1787
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 16.09.1760
Graf: 25.11.1761
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.01.1760
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°55:
1768 – 05.06.1802
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1780
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Duffy, p.379 | Englebert N°29 (wrong:
Governor ad interim in the Netherlands: 1789) | Guillaume, p.44, 379 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.92f. | Kneschke 6, p.427 | MD 8, p.66 | MilSchem | Schmidhofer,
p.192f. | Wrede 2, p.261 | Wurzbach 19, p.467ff. | Zedinger,
Renate: Die Verwaltung der Österreichischen Niederlande in Wien, Vienna
2000, p.160f. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.35 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.62
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M76
|
Mylius,
Anton Ulrich Joseph Ritter von
Mylius, Anton Ulrich Joseph Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Cologne / Cologne (electorate), 11.12.1742
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 02.02.1812
Family Status
Brother of M77
Married: 1781 Carolina Freiin von Raitz und Frentz
zu Schlenderhan (1759-1821)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1790
Generalmajor: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 04.08.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 13.09.1799)
Retired: 12.1805
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Ancona: ~1799-1800
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 09.12.1775
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 22.12.1761
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
ADB 23, p.136ff. | Frank 3, p.281 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.133f. | Kneschke 6, p.434 | MD 4, p.49 | MD 8, p.67
(corrected dates) | MilSchem | NDB 18, p.664 | Ritter, p.158ff. | Wurzbach
19, p.489ff. | WZ, 19.02.1812
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
M77
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Mylius,
Kaspar Joseph Karl Ritter von
Mylius, Kaspar Joseph Karl Freiherr von
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Personal Information
Born: Cologne / Cologne (electorate), 11.11.1749
Died: Rauschenberg / Hessen-Kassel, 04.07.1831
Family Status
Brother of M76
Married (1): 1781 Maria Anna von Groote (17??-1785)
Married (2): 1802 Henriette Freiin von Wyle (17??-1823)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title a.h.): 01.02.1807 (w.r.f. 17.11.1803)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 09.12.1775
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Silver Civil Honor Cross 1813/14: 16.09.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.281 | Kneschke 6, p.434f. | MilSchem | MD
4, p.50 | (NDB 18, p.664) | (Wurzbach 19, p.492) | WZ, 30.09.1815
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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