By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
Austrian
Generals
1792-1815
R
Radetzky to Rziczan
| R1 |
Radetzky
von Radetz, Joseph
Wenzel Graf |
Personal
Information
Born: Trzebnitz Castle (Třebenice)
/ Bohemia, 02.11.1766
Died: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 05.01.1858
Family Status
Married: 1798 Franziska Gräfin Strassoldo-Grafenberg
(1779-1854)
Promotions
Major: 19.05.17961
Oberstleutnant: 01.05.1799
Oberst: 05.11.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 24.02.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.06.1809 (w.r.f. 27.05.1809)
General der Kavallerie: 18.02.1829
Feldmarschall: 17.09.1836
Retired: 28.02.1857
Russia:
General Field Marshal: 07.04.1849
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff: 08.1809 – 02.1813
/ 05.1813 –
06.1814 / 03.1815 – 10.1815
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Hungary: 1818 – 18??
Fortress Commandant of Olmütz: 11.1829 – 11.1831
Commanding General in Lombardo-Venetia: 23.11.1831 – 05.1853
Governor-General in Lombardo-Venetia: 1850-1856
Commanding General in Lombardo-Venetia: 02.1856 – 28.02.1857
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the main
army: 08.-12.1809
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Bohemian
Observation Army: 05.-06.1813
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the main
army: 06.1813 –
06.1814
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army
of the Upper Rhine: 04.-10.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 03.04.1849
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
/ CC: 08.04.1810 / GC: 30.07.1848
Order of St. Stephen – GC: 1851 / w.d.: 1853/54
Order of Leopold – GC: 22.10.1813
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 14.09.1838
Military Merit Cross
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
Officers Military Service Cross 2nd cl.: 1849
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment
N°4: 1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°5:
06.09.1809 – 1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°5:
1814-1830
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°5:
1830-1831
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°5:
1831-1848
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°5:
1848 – 05.01.1858
I.R. Privy Councillor: 22.06.1815 (w.r.f.: 22.10.1813)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Baden:
Order of the Lion of Zähringen – GC: 1816/17
Bayern:
Order of St. Hubert: 1850
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – GC: 1814
Denmark:
Order of the Elephant: 1850
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – GC: 05.04.1816
Greece:
Order of the Redeemer – GC: 1853
Hannover:
Order of St. George: 1850
Guelphic Order – GC: 1817
Hessen-Darmstadt:
Order of Ludwig – GC: 1850
Hessen-Kassel:
Order of the Golden Lion – GC: 1850
Lucca
(Parma):
Military Order of St. George 1st cl.: 08.1846
Modena:
Order of the Eagle of Este – GC: 1855
Naples-Sicily:
Military Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – GC
Papal
State:
Order of St. Gregor – GC: 01.1839 / w.d.: 1850
Order of St. Pius: 1850 / w.d.
Parma:
Constantinian Order of St. George – GC: 1833
Order of St. Ludwigs – GC: 1850 / w.d.
Poland
(Russia):
Order of the White Eagle: 1839
Prussia:
Order of the Black Eagle 1847/48 / w.d.: 1850
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 1814 / w. swords.:
185?
Russia:
Order of St. Andrew: 04.1839 / w.d.: 12.1845 / w.
swords
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij: 1814 / w. swords
Order of St. George 3rd cl.: 10.10.[28.10.]1813 /
1st cl. 08.09.[27.08.]1848
Order of St. Vladimir – GC: 1814
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 08./09.1813 / w. swords
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°?
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of the Annunziata: 1838
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
02.1832
Saxony:
Order of the Rue Crown: 1850
Tuscany:
Order of St. Joseph – GC
Order of Military Merit 1st cl.: 1854
Württemberg:
Order of the Crown of Wuerttemberg – GC: 07.1851
Order of Military Merit – GC: 07.1851
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 2 November 1766 in Trzebnitz in Bohemia as
a member of an old Bohemian family and son of Graf Peter Eusebius, he entered
military service on 1 August 1784 as cadet in Cuirassier Regiment "Caramelli" N°2.
On 3 February 1786 he was promoted to Unterleutnant and on 11 November
1787 to Oberleutnant.
He fought in the Turkish wars 1788-1791, mostly as
ADC to FM Graf Lacy. Radetzky was at the sieges of Berbir and Belgrade; distinguished
on the retreat to Illowa against a superior force of Spahis. He fought in the
Netherlands 1792 as ADC to FML Baron Beaulieu. On 25 June 1794 he swam the River
Sambre to establish that the French had already captured Charleroi; this caused
the intended relief attempt to be cancelled. In June 1794 he was promoted to Rittmeister and
on 28 October 1795 he led a storming column at the siege of Mainz.
In February 1796, Radetzky joined FZM Baron Beaulieu's
GHQ in Pavia; he led an assault column at Voltri on 10 April. On 30 May, after
the Austrian defeat at Borghetto, Radetzky escaped by swimming the Mincio and
saved the sick FZM Beaulieu. On 19 (29?) May, he was promoted to Major in
the Pionierkorps. Radetzky took part in Wurmser's operations around Mantua and
on 15 October, was forced to take refuge in the fortress. When the place fell
on 4 February 1797, Radetzky was in the 500-strong force that marched out with
their weapons, colours flying and drums beating in recognition of the brave defence
of the citadel.
In 1799, he was again in Italy on the staff of the
GQM, Oberst Baron Zach. On 1 May Graf Radetzky was promoted to Oberstleutnant and
appointed Adjutant General to GdK Melas. From 17-19 June, he fought in the battle
of the Trebbia River. Radetzky led some grenadier battalions around the French
flank into their rear and caused the collapse of their position. He was also
distinguished at Novi on 15 August. The following year he fought at Marengo (14
June 1800) and in November of that year, Radetzky was given command of Cuirassier
Regiment "Herzog Albrecht" N°3 and fought at Hohenlinden on 3 December.
On 18 August 1801 Radetzky was awarded the Knight's
Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. From 1801 to 1805 he worked to make
his regiment so efficient that it was chosen to be the model for all heavy cavalry
regiments in the army. Additionally the count was appointed to be a member of
the Cavalry Commission in 1802 to develop new tactics.
In September 1805 Radetzky received his promotion
to Generalmajor together with the commandership of a cavalry brigade in
Italy, where he again could distinguish himself. After the war (1806) he conducted
a review of the military train and veterinary services.
In 1809 he commanded a light cavalry brigade in the
V Corps and saved Schusteck's belated column at Ebelsberg on 3 May. Three days
later (6 May) he fought at Blindenmarkt and – after the battle of Aspern – was
promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant. At Wagram Radetzky commanded a division
in IV Corps and was again distinguished. He was then appointed 2nd Colonel-Proprietor
of Cuirassier-Regiment "Kronprinz Rudolf" N°4 which post he hold only for
a little while. On 6 September 1809, he became Proprietor of Hussar Regiment
N°5. The following year FML Radetzky was created Commander of the MMTO and
involved in the army reform programme following the defeat of 1809.
In May 1813 Radetzky was appointed to Chief of the
Austrian General Staff and chief of staff of the main army (under FM Prince Schwarzenberg).
For the defeat of Napoleon at Leipzig the two Emperors, Francis I. and Alexander
I. awarded him the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order (Austria) and the Order of
St. George 3rd cl. (Russia). In 1829 he was promoted to General of Cavalry. In
1831 Radetzky was appointed Commanding General in Lombardo-venetia; five years
later, he was promoted to Feldmarschall. From 1848-1849 he fought against
the Italian rebels and won decisive victories at Custozza (25 / 25 June 1848)
and Novara (23 March 1849). With the high age of 91 Radetzky died in Milan in
1858 as one of the very vew Austrian general officers, who had served under five
emperors (Joseph II., Leopold II., Francis II./I., Ferdinand I., Francis Joseph).
Printed Sources
ADB 27, p.122ff. | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1363ff. | Hollins,
p.50f. (wrong: "Radetsky") | MilSchem | MZ, year 1858, N°3
(from 09.01.1858), p.17ff. / N°4 (from 13.01.1858), p.25ff. / N°6 (from
20.01.1858), pp.41ff., 47f. / N°19 (from 06.03.1858), p.143ff. | Pizzighelli,
DR3, pp.113, 127f. | Regele, p.30f. | NDB 21, p.87f. | ÖBL
8, p.370f. | Vlies-Orden, p.189, N°938 | Wrede 3, pp.145, 256 | Wrede
(6), pp.33, 41 | Wurzbach 24, p.177ff. | WZ, 25.11.1809, 07.09.1813,
27.10.1813, 19.02.1814, 20.02.1814, 29.07.1815, 12.09.1816 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, pp.14, 40 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.60, 110, 111
Internet Sources
Boettger
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/radetzky.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Saint-Louis (wrong: "Radetsky")
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Vederman
Notes
1)
MZ N°3: 29.05.1796 (?)
| R2 |
Radivojevich,
Paul
Radivojevich,
Paul Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Szent-Endre / Com. Pest / Hungary, 1759
Died: Verona / Venetia, 15.07.1829
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.04.1807 (w.r.f. 08.06.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.08.1809
Feldzeugmeister: 18.02.1829
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in the Banat:
1810-1811
Commanding General in the Warasdin-Karlstadt / (since
02.1823) Banal-Warasdin-Karlstadt Military Border: 01.06.1814 (10.1814?) – 03.1829
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Lombardo-Venetia:
03.1829 –
15.07.1829
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Left Wing Corps of the Army of Italy:
10.1813 – 06.1814
Commander of the 1st Army Corps of the Army of Italy:
04.-07.1815
Commander of the Reserve Corps of the Army of Italy:
07.-10.1815
Commander ad interim of the Army of Italy:
10.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 13.04.1826
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 10.1813
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°14:
1811-1815
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°48:
11.1815 – 15.07.1829
I.R. Privy Councillor: 02.12.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1815
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC
Printed Sources
Amon, IR18, pp.341, 343 | Böhm 1, p.414 | Frank
N°7390 | Hold, IR48, p.133f. | MD 8, p.133 (wrong: d. 13.07.1829) | MilSchem | Nekrolog
1829, N°1053 (p.948) (wrong: d. 13.07.1829) | ÖBL 8, p.377 | Preyer,
p.115 | Wrede 1, pp.210, 453 | Wrede (6), p.33 | Wurzbach
24, p.201 | WZ, 25.11.1809, 27.10.1813, 20.02.1816 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.40 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.60, 65, 67, 133,
134
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R3 |
Radossevich,
Demeter
Radossevich
von Rados, Demeter
Radossevich
von Rados, Demeter Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1749
Died: Vienna, 04.06.18351
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1st H. 1807
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.08.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 17.12.1829
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics,
Court)
Commanding General ad interim in the Banal-Warasdin-Karlstadt
Military Border: 09.1831- 02.1832
Commanding General in Slavonia and Syrmia: 02.1832 – 06.1834
Vice President of the Aulic War Council: 06.1834 – 04.06.1835
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 15.05.1773 (with predicate: "von
Rados")
Freiherr: 1823
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC: 04.05.1816
Silver Civil Merit Cross 1813/14: 26.05.1815
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°53:
1825 – 04.06.1835
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1832
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – CC: 05.04.1816
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1815
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.134 | MilSchem | Wrede 1,
p.485 | WZ, 14.10.1813, 28.05.1815, 18.10.1815, 31.05.1816, 12.09.1816 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.67, 68
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Saint-Louis (wrong: "Radossevisch")
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 06.06.(04.08.?)1835 (?)
| R4 |
Raigecourt,
Karl Ludwig Graf |
Personal Information
Born: Nancy / Lorraine / France, 16.04.1766
Died: Vienna, 19.04.1841
Name Variants
(French) Charles-Louis-Plaikard Comte de Raigecourt
Promotions
Major: 14.01.1801
Oberstleutnant: 07.10.1805
Oberst: 23.03.1808
Generalmajor: 15.07.1812
Feldmarschalleutnant: 08.10.1823
Retired: 09.05.1832
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – CC:
~ 1814
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 05.11.1814
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – CC: 1821
Printed Sources
MD 4, p.150 | MilSchem | Petiot, p.427f. | WZ,
09.03.1808, 05.09.1812
Internet Sources
Saint-Louis
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: d. 1770)
| R5 |
Rakitievich,
Maximilian
Rakitievich von Topplitza, Maximilian |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Neusatz (Újvidék, Novi Sad) /
Banat, 04.08.18101
Name Variants
also: Toplicza
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 12.03.1802 (w.r.f. 27.02.1802)
Retired: 1807
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 11.05.1771 (with predicate: "von
Topplitza")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 15.08.1807
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale: 03.08.1810 (?)
| R6 |
Rakovszky
de Nagy-Rákó et Kelemenfalva,
Martin
Rakovszky de Nagy-Rákó et Kelemenfalva,
Martin Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Nagy-Rákó / Com. Turócz
/ Hungary, 17.12.1754
Died: Burglos (Dés, Dej) / Transylvania, 25.04.1828
Promotions
Major: 27.12.1800 (w.r.f. 02.10.1801)
Oberstleutnant: 29.11.1804 (w.r.f. 01.12.1804)
Oberst: 22.02.1808 (w.r.f. 14.02.1808)
Generalmajor: 15.07.1812 (w.r.f. 28.03.1810)
Retired: 10.03.18161
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 17.09.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.138 | Frank-Döfering, 3573 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.649ff. (wrong: b. 1755) | MD 8, p.135 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
24, p.302ff. | WZ, 09.03.1808, 05.09.1812
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Rakovszky, Stephan de: Rakovszky de Nagyrákó (=
http://www.rakovszky.eu/?Biographies/Short/R-Marton1754-baro.shtml).- Download:
06.08.2008
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 07.10.1815 (?)
| R7 |
Rauch
von Nyék, Paul Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 19.10.1815
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 04.05.1765)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R8 |
Rebrovich,
Matthias
Rebrovich von Razboj, Matthias Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Thurn (Toranj) / Croatia, 1756
Died: Graz / Styria, 26.12.1830
Promotions
Major: 02.01.1806
Oberstleutnant: 14.09.1808
Oberst: 08.1810
Generalmajor: 06.08.1810
Retired: 11.05.1820
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 19.04.1821 (with predicate: "von
Razboj")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
25.09.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.148 | Frank-Döfering,
3599 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1202ff. | MD
8, p.139 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
25, p.84ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R9 |
Rechbach
auf Mederndorf, Joseph Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1728
Died: Vienna, 24.12.1813
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 26.11.1789)
Retired: 1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R10 |
Regenthal,
Victor Edler von
Regenthal, Victor Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Wels / Upper Austria, 22.09.1800
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 11.05.1783)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 01.12.1780
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.151 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R11 |
Reichlin
von Meldegg, Benedikt Joseph Christoph
Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Offenburg (free imperial city), 29.08.1752
Died: Karlsburg (Alba-Iulia, Gyulafehérvár)
/ Transylvania, 24.12.18231
Family Status
Married: 1803 Maria Johanna Roessler (17??-1844)
Promotions
Major: 07.1799
Oberstleutnant: 02/03.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 26.07.1813
Retired: 08.10.1823
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Karlsburg: 18?? – 24.12.1823
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Kreipner, IR34, p.349 | MD 4, p.161 (wrong:
d. 29.08.1762) | MilSchem | NDB 21, p.317 | Reichlin-Meldegg,
Hermann von: Geschichte der Familie Reichlin von Meldegg, Regensburg 1881, p.118,
genealogical table XI | WZ, 09.03.1808, 31.07.1813, 14.10.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
MD / Schmidt-Brentano: 24.10.1823 (?)
| R12 |
Reinhardt,
Ferdinand von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Neuhaus (n.l.), 18.10.18421
Name Variants
also: Reinhard
Promotions
Major: 22.03.1797
Oberstleutnant: 12.10.1800
Oberst: 31.08.1805
Generalmajor: 26.04.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 12.09.1813
Retired: 1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC: 1817
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, p.371, 422 (wrong: "Karl v. Reinhardt"),
434 | MilSchem | WZ, 25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 17.10.1842 (?)
| R13 |
Reinwaldt
von Waldegg, (Adrian) Joseph Ritter |
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 1749
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 25.03.1825
Promotions
Major: 1797
Oberstleutnant: 1799
Oberst: 02.1804
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Commandant of Prague: ? – 25.03.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
17.04.1799
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°52: 1818 – 25.03.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.540f. | MilSchem | Schmedes,
IR28, p.299 | Wrede 1, p.478 | Wurzbach
25, p.238f. | WZ, 03.09.1808, 31.07.1813,
14.10.1813
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R14 |
Reischach,
Franz Joseph Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 13.05.1730
Died: Hietzing near Vienna, 12.09.1807
Family Status
Uncle of R15
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: ~ 1759
Generalmajor: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 03.07.1761)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.04.1775 (w.r.f. 28.04.1774)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary
in Den Haag (Netherlands)1: 28.01.1783 – 02.11.1784
(departure) / 06.02.1786 –
04.04.17872
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Teutonic Order: 1754
Governor (Statthalter) of the Bailiwick Altenbiesen:
1784-1785
Province Commander (Landkomtur) of the Bailiwick
Altenbiesen: 1785 –
12.09.1807
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Matsch, p.117 | MilSchem | Oldenhage,
p.84 | Repertorium 3, p.82f. | Täubl, p.190 | Tomaschek,
DR8, p.686 | Wurzbach 25, p.242 | WZ, 26.09.1807
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
on leave: 11.03.1784 – 30.04.1784 / 14.07.1786 – 23.07.1786 / 24.08.1786 – 18.09.1786
2)
Matsch: 28.11.1782 – 28.11.1786 (?)
| R15 |
Reischach,
Thaddäus Anton Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 08.12.1776
Died: Vienna, 12.05.1839
Family Status
Nephew of R14
Married: 1800 Maria Karolina Gräfin
Kollonitz (1769-1826)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 06./07.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.04.1815
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.11.1830
Posts
and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke
Ludwig of Austria: 1835 –
12.05.1839
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1835
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MD 4, p.163 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
25, p.243 | WZ, 03.08.1808, 08.05.1815
Internet Sources
Marek (http://www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/zay1.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R16 |
Reisinger,
Maximilian von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: (Mährisch-Schönberg [Šumperk]
/ Moravia ?), 01.04.1818
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title a.h.): 29.03.1800 (w.r.f.
02.05.1800)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R17 |
Reisky
von Dubnitz, Franz Wenzel Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 30.12.1816
Name Variants
wrong: Reysky von Dubenitz
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 26.11.1777 (w.r.f. 09.05.1777)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.10.1787 (w.r.f. 07.10.1787)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°13: 1786 – 1809 (disbanded)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°10: 1809 – 30.12.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.182 | Wrede 2, p.226
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R18 |
Reisner,
Anton von
Reisner,
Anton Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Neu-Bistritz (Nová Bystřice)
/ Bohemia, 14.10.1749
Died: Vienna, 22.10.1822
Family Status
Married: 1802 Franziska Maresch von Marsfeld, widowed
Modrai (17??-1820)
Promotions
Major: 11.03.1793
Oberstleutnant: 12.08.1797 (12.03.1797
?)
Oberst: 11.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 26.01.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 1809
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 21.06.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 15.12.1799
/ CC: 30.10.1813
Colonel-Proprietor of the Artillery Regiment N°3:
1818 – 22.10.1822
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 2nd cl.: 1813
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1813
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 14 October 1749 in Neubistritz in Bohemia
to a major in the Austrian artillery Reisner entered military service in 1768
as a cadet in the 1st Artillery Brigade. In 1771 he became a Feuerwerker (officer
cadet of artillery) and in 1776 he was commissioned Leutnant in the 2nd
Field Artillery Regiment. From 1778-1779 he took part in the war with Prussia
and distinguished himself under FML Loudon with the regimental artillery of Infantry
Regiment
"Oliver Wallis" in the clash at Brüx. In 1784 Reisner was promoted to Oberleutnant;
in 1787 to Hauptmann.
From 1788-1790 Reisner fought with distinction in
the war with Turkey in FML Graf Wartensleben's corps. With the regimental guns
of Infantry Regiment "Terzi"
he distinguished himself in the actions at Schupanek, Mehadia, Karansebes and
Slatina. He also took part in the siege of Orsova fortress, where he was wounded.
In 1790 he fought in Walachia under Clerfayt.
On 11
March 1793 Reisner was promoted to Major;
he served on the upper Rhine until 1797 at Mannheim, Kehl and Hüningen,
where he was distinguished. On 12
March 1797 he was promoted to Oberstleutnant and
appointed commandant of the Bombardier Corps. In 1799 Reisner was appointed commander
of the siege artillery around Mantua fortress, which place he left to fight at
the Trebbia River (17-20 June). After the battle he returned to conduct the bombardment.
Fire was opened on 10 July and Mantua capitulated on the 28th.
On 2 December, he was appointed commander of the
artillery at the siege of the fortress of Cuneo (Coni); the place surrendered
on 4 December. For these actions, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military
Maria Theresian Order on 15 December 1799. Shortly before he received his promotion
to Oberst and was made commander of the 2nd Artillery Regiment.
In 1800 Colonel Reisner was made commander of the
Artillery in Italy; he was wounded at Marengo and fought at Valeggio, Villafranca
and Verona.
After his promotion to Generalmajor in 1805
he served again as commander of the artillery in Italy during the campaigns of
1805 and 1809. In the battle of the Piave River on 8 May 1809 Reisner was wounded
and captured. The same year the emperor promoted him to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1810 he transferred to the Artillery Directorate in Vienna.
During the campaign of 1813 he commanded the Extra
Corps of the Army of Bohemia. He reorganised the Austrian artillery after the
heavy losses at Dresden (40 guns) and fought at Kulm and Leipzig. After the latter
battle Reisner was awarded the Commander's Cross of the MMTO, the Russian
Order of St. Anne 1st cl. and the Prussian Red Eagle Order 1st cl. In 1815 he
again commanded the artillery of the main army under Schwarzenberg. In 1818 FML
Reisner was appointed commandant of the Artillery Arsenal in Vienna.
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.159 | Frank-Döfering, 3616 | Gatti,
ArtAk, p.82f. | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1158ff. | MilSchem | ÖMZ,
year 1823, vol.3, p.156ff.: Herrmann, [N.]: Nekrolog des k.k. östreichischen
Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Freiherrn von Reisner (= Ritter, p.223ff.) | Ritter,
p.223ff. (= ÖMZ, year 1823, vol.3, p.156ff.) | Wurzbach 25, p.250ff. | WZ,
20.02.1814 | (Wrede) 4, p.477
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R19 |
Reitzenstein,
Johann Georg Heinrich Philipp Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 12.07.1723
Died: Froschgrün / Bavaria, 23.02.17951
Name Variants
also: Reizenstein
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 08.04.1772 (w.r.f. 08.09.1761)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 02.02.1795 (?)
| R20 |
Renner,
Sigmund
Renner, Sigmund Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Nidau / Cantone Berne / Switzerland,
1727
Died: Neuwaldegg near Vienna, 28.08.1800
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1768
Oberst: 1776
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 26.03.1783)
Retired: 1784
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 1774
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wurzbach
25, p.295
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R21 |
Resch,
Johann Felix
Resch von
Lewald, Johann Felix |
Personal Information
Born: around 1722
Died: 22.07.1802
Name Variants
also: Reesch
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 31.05.1800
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 13.10.1777 (with predicate: "von
Lewald")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank, 4, p.151 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: (Chrudim / Bohemia ?), 12.06.1802
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 07.05.1800 (w.r.f. 22.05.1800)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R23 |
Reuss-Plauen,
Heinrich XIII. Fürst zu |
Personal Information
Born: Greiz Castle / Reuss, 16.02.1747
Died: Greiz Castle / Reuss, 29.01.1817
Change of Name
Reuss zu Greiz: 1800
Family Status
Brother of R24 and R25
Brother-in-law of H60 (Hohenlohe-Kirchberg)
Married: 1786 Luise Prinzessin von Nassau-Weilburg
(1765-1837)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 28.06.1788
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.01.1797 (w.r.f. 02.03.1794)
Feldzeugmeister: 02.04.1801 (w.r.f. 28.03.1801)
Retired: 08.07.1816
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Director-General of Imperial Recruitment: 1800-1805/06
Governor-General of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
and the Principality of Isenburg: 1813/14
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of St. Stephen – GC: 1800
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°55: 1803-1809 (disbanded)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°18: 18.11.1809 – 29.01.1817
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR18, p.392, 447 (wrong: d. 19.01.1817) | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.241 | Wrede 2, p.261 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.37
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/reuss/reuss4.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/reuss.html)
| R24 |
Reuss-Plauen,
Heinrich XIV. Fürst zu |
Personal Information
Born: Greiz Castle / Reuss, 06.11.1749
Died: Berlin / Prussia, 12.02.17991
Family Status
Brother of R23 and R25
Brother-in-law H60 (Hohenlohe-Kirchberg)
Married 1797 (morganatic): Maria Anna Meyer, the
ennobled "von Eybenberg"
(1775/76-1812)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.09.1790
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.03.1797 (w.r.f. 28.08.1795)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary
in Berlin (Prussia): 12.08.1785 – 12.02.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Matsch, p.120 | MilSchem | Repertorium
3, p.86
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/reuss/reuss4.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Marek: 12.12.1799 (?)
| R25 |
Reuss-Plauen,
Heinrich XV. Fürst zu |
Personal Information
Born: Greiz Castle / Reuss, 22.02.1751
Died: Greiz Castle / Reuss, 30.08.1825
Family Status
Brother of R23 and R24
Brother-in-law of H60 (Hohenlohe-Kirchberg)
Unmarried
Promotions
Major: 24.07.1784
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1788
Generalmajor: 29.05.17931
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 24.02.1797)
Feldzeugmeister: 18.05.1809
Feldmarschall (title): 10.09.1824
Retired: 10.09.1824
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Galicia: 04.1810 – 07.1813
Military-Governor of the conquered Italian provinces:
25.10.1813 –
05.1814
Governor-General in Venetia: 20.04.1814 – 01.1815
Commanding General in Galicia: 06.08.1819 – 10.09.1824
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps in Vorarlberg
/ in the Tyrol: 03.-09.1800
Commander of the 5th Army Corps: 05.-11.1809
Commander of the Observation Corps in Galicia: 03.-05.1812
Commander of the Galician Observation Army: 05.1813 – 06.1813
Commander of the 1st Reserve Corps: 06.-07.1813
Commander of the Army of the Danube: 07.1813 – 10.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.1809
Order of Leopold – GC: ~ 1814
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 12.02.1816
Golden Civil Honor Cross 1813/14: 26.05.1815
Silver (Golden ?) Tyrolean Defence Medal: 1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°17:
21.05.1801 – 30.08.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
(Palatinate-)Bavaria:
Order of St. Hubertus
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – GC: 1813
Russia:
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij
Saxony-Weimar:
Order of the White Eagle – GC: 1818
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Heinrich XV Fürst zu Reuss-Plauen was born on
22 February 1751 in Greiz castle in Thuringia. In March 1766 he joined the Austrian
Infantry Regiment
"Macquire" N°35. After the death of the Empress Maria Theresia in 1780, Kaiser
Joseph II took the Austrian Throne; he was to be a great patron of the young
prince. In 1787, at the outbreak of the wars against the Turks, Joseph II appointed
the prince to be one of his general adjutants. At the storm of the fortress of
Schabatz on the River Save (today Sabac, Serbia), in 1788, the prince was distinguished
and promoted to Oberst and given command of Infantry Regiment "Wenzel
Colloredo" N°56. He was again distinguished at the siege of Belgrade in the
autumn of 1789.
In 1793, Prince Heinrich was in action in Flanders
on 21 April, when he advanced to the walls of the fortress of Maubeuge; nine
days later, his outpost was assailed by superior French forces, but he beat them
off. On 29 May 1793, he was promoted to Generalmajor and FM Prinz von
Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld appointed him to be one of his general adjutants. The
prince was present at the stunning Austrian victory of Avesnes-le-Sec on 12 September
1793.
In 1796 Prince Heinrich commanded an infantry brigade
in the Army of the Upper Rhine and was then transferred to the Corps of the Tyrol
under FML Davidovich. Here he was involved in the first attempted relief of Mantua.
On 3 August he restored Austrian fortunes at Lonato with a timely counter-attack
with his Reserve. On 4 August, Quosdanovich's column was pushed further away
from Wurmser by the French General Guieu and Prinz Reuss' Reserve division was
separated from him at Rocco d'Anfo on Lake Idro to the northwest. By the end
of August Wurmser was ready for another assault into Italy to relieve the fortress
of Mantua. By some mischance, Napoleon came to know the Austrian plan and mounted
a pre-emptive strike at Davidovich. On 4 September Massena and Vaubois attacked
Reuss and Vukassovich and drove them onto Davidovich and out of Roveredo with
the loss of 3,000 men and 25 Guns. On 5 September Massena entered Trient and
Davidovich was pushed from behind the River Lava to Neumarkt up the Etsch.
GM Prince Reuss fought at Trient on 4 November, but
not at Bassano two days later. He fought in the Austrian defeat at Rivoli on
14-15 January 1797. On 1 March 1797, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In the retreat out of Italy in March 1797, Archduke Charles, with the divisions
of Hohenzollern and Reuss, took the eastern route via Gradiska and Görz
to Laibach. The right wing (with FMLs Bajalich and Gontroeul) went via Udine,
Cividale and Caporetto, up the valley of the Isonzo to Tarvis.
In 1799, FML Reuss was in Swabia and fought at Stockach
(25 March), Winterthur (27 May) and Zürich, on 4 June, where he commanded
the Austrian centre, repelling repeated assaults by GdD Oudinot. In 1800, he
was sent into the Tyrol. Despite Austrian defeats in southern Germany and northern
Italy, he managed to keep the enemy out of his province.
In 1801, the Emperor appointed him Colonel Proprietor
of the Infantry Regiment N°17. In the 1805 campaign, Prince Reuss commanded
a division in Italy and fought at Caldiero. In 1809, he commanded a division
in Archduke Ludwig's V Corps. He was in a successful action at Kirchdorf on 20
April, four days later, he commanded the 1st Assault Column at Neumarkt/St. Veith,
where the Bavarians were defeated. He also fought at Ebelsberg on 3 May, but
not at Aspern, rejoining the main army only after that battle. The Prince was
now promoted to Feldzeugmeister. He did not fight at Wagram, being sent
to the Bisamberg northeast of Vienna. His V Corps formed the rearguard of the
army in the withdrawal to Znaim. On 10 July, he held the French pursuit up at
Schöngraben in a well-fought action. Next day, he held the town of Znaim,
the Thaya bridge, the heights behind Klosterbruck and Klein-Tesswitz despite
all the efforts of the enemy. In July 1809, he was awarded the Knight's Cross
of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
From this point until August 1813, he spent the time
in his castle at Greiz; he then was appointed to command the Corps of Observation
on the borders with Bavaria. On 8 October, Prince Reuss signed the Treaty of
Ried with GdK Fürst von Wrede, which brought Bavaria onto the allied side
against Napoleon. For this, he was awarded the Order of Leopold (Grand Cross).
On 20 April 1814, he was appointed Governor-General of Venice. Here, he was awarded
the Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl. and the Gold Medal for civilian service.
After Hiller's death, Reuss-Plauen became Governor of Galicia. On 10 September
1824, he was promoted to Feldmarschall upon retirement. He died on 30
August 1825 in Greiz.
Printed Sources
Amon, IR18, p.240 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1045ff. | Janota,
IR56, pp.106, 115 | Katalog der Erzherzog Carl-Ausstellung. Zur Jahrhundertfeier
der Schlacht bei Aspern, Vienna 1909, p.133, N°124 | MilSchem | Nekrolog
1825/2, p.1510f. | Rath, p.17 | Strobl, IR17, vol.I, pp.121, 154
(wrong: FM on 10.04.1824), table VI / vol.II, p.1 | Wrede 1, p.234 | Wrede
(6), p.32 | Wurzbach 25, p.358ff. | WZ, 25.11.1809, 17.03.1810,
21.11.1813, 28.05.1815, 20.02.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität, pp.14,
38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.60, 63, 64, 129-132
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/reuss.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/reuss/reuss4.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Strobl, IR17, I, p.122: 27.05.1793 (?) / Janota, IR56, p.115: 16.06.1793 (?)
| R26 |
Révay,
Anton Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Stiavnicka (n.l.) / Hungary, 1753
Died: 24.02.1806
Family Status
Married: [N.] Gräfin Sedlnitzky
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1797
Oberst: 1798
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 12.01.1801)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
18.08.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.612f. | MD
8, p.147 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
25, p.368f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/revay4.html)
(w/o personal info)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: around 1735
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 21.02.1803
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 08.06.1794 (w.r.f. 15.12.1794)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.383 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R28 |
Rheinbach,
Thomas
Rheinbach,
Thomas Edler von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: after 1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1807
Generalmajor: 20.06.1809
Retired: 20.06.1809
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 06.09.1804 (with predicate: "Edler
von")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank, 4, p.168 | MilSchem | WZ,
18.11.1807
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Budweis (České Budějovice)
/ Bohemia, 21.01.1832
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1796
Oberst: 12.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 23.03.1805)
Retired: 07.10.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military
Foundation: 1818
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.294, 297, 317 | Auer,
N°247 | May, IR35, p.127 | MilSchem | WZ,
18.11.1807
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R30 |
Richter,
Franz Xaver
Richter von
Binnenthal, Franz Xaver |
Personal
Information
Born: Vienna, 10.07.1759
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 11.08.1840
Family Status
Married: 1802 Maria Angelika Wilhelmine Freiin
von Zach (1784-1855)
Son-in-law of Z1 (Zach)
Promotions
Major: 26.01.1797
Oberstleutnant: 17.10.1799
Oberst: 02.06.1805
Generalmajor: 18.05.18091
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.09.1813
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 08.02.1836
Retired: 08.02.1836
Posts and Offices (Army,
Politics, Court)
Head of the topographical Institute of the
Quartermaster General Staff: 1806-1816
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff: 09.02.1813 – 03.1815
Military Commander in the Coastal Lands (Triest):
04.03.1815 – 11.1828
City and Fortress Commandant of Venice: 25.11.1828 – 08.02.1836
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Lombardo-Venetia:
17.12.1829 – 08.1830
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of
the Army of Inner Austria: 07.-11.1813
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of
the Army of Italy: 11.1813 – 03.1815
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 26.05.1808 (with predicate: "von
Binnenthal")
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Austria)
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°14: 07.10.1815 – 14.02.1832
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°14: 15.02.1832 – 12.08.1840
I.R. Privy Councillor: 17.12.1829
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Albrecht
Zimburg)
Richter was not a general of great fame, but
an interesting character whose life can be easily traced, because he wrote an
autobiography describing his personal views of his military career. Born in Vienna
as son of a lawyer, a military career was not the obvious choice. After graduating
at the Latin Jesuit School in Temesvar he went back to Vienna to study Philosophy
and higher Mathematics, again supported by Jesuits. His father, strongly opposed
to early plans of a military career, had died already in 1773, but also his guardians
prevented any steps towards a military life. In Vienna he graduated with outstanding
success and got a job at the Civilian Mapping Corps and was sent to the Banat,
where he got in contact with the Military Mapping Corps. He managed to swap places
and started as a military “Mappierungskadett” on 06.07.1784. Supported
by GM Wegeler and FZM Count Soro, he was soon promoted to Fähnrich in the
Deutschbanater Grenzregiment (22.01.1785). He continued with his various mapping
jobs until the outbreak of the war against Turkey. In between, he was nominally
in the Broder Grenzregiment (1786), Warasdiner Grenzregiment (1786) and at the
General Staff in Großwardein (1787-88).
On 29.05.1789, Richter finally got his promotion
to Oberleutnant within the General Staff. That year he saw his first action near
Belgrade and took part in the siege of that city. After the war he remained a
General Staff officer. In 1792 he was sent to Milano to join the Army of Italy
in a country, which became his
“home” for nearly the whole years of war to come. Soon was he promoted
to Hauptmann (30.06.1793), although he had to wait longer than he had anticipated.
A main characteristic of his was that he did not actively pursue promotions and
medals, because he detested asking favors of any kind. He tried to get recognition
simply by doing a good job. But that was obviously not enough as one had to actively
pursue recognition like the Military Order of Maria Theresia. The latter he thought
he had earned for his conduct at the action at Cairo and Dego in 1794, where
he saved the incompetent FML Colloredo-Mels from being completely destroyed and
humiliated by the enemy. It was his conduct which saved the day. Only in 1802
he tried to get the necessary letters from his superior officers, but by then
it was too late! He now would have needed the pension dearly which came together
with the order as he wanted to get married. In 1795 he distinguished himself
at Vado. In the course of Wurmser's attack to relieve Mantua he planned as Chief
of Staff of FML Melas the taking of the Monte Baldo on 29.07.1796. He saw the
Battle of Castiglione on 05.08.1776 and followed the retreat through Trento and
the Bassano Valley, where he nearly got captured during a defensive action. Richter
ended this campaign in Mantua where he stayed until the fall of the fortress.
Promoted to Major on 26.01.1797, he became CoS of FML Hadik v. Futak who resided
with his staff near Ljubljana (Laibach) at the castle of Hassenberg.
1798 he was part of the Army of the Southern
Tyrol and during the spring campaign of 1799 part of Bellegarde’s Army
of the Tyrol. He commanded a detachment and led a successful attack over the
Schlappiner Joch on Klosters (CH). Bellegarde distinguished him for his good
conduct. He took part in some fighting in Switzerland under FML Hadik, who commended
him for the action at Airolo on 27.05.1799. During the French offensive on 13.
and 14.08.1799 in Switzerland, Richter – as CoS of Oberst Strauch who commanded
a brigade in Wallis (CH) – together with the main force got separated from
the latter. He escaped with his men and guided about 2500 troops through the
Binn(en)tal and over several mountain passes and valleys to safety all the way
to Bellinzona, where he reunited with an overjoyed Oberst Strauch.
One of the most interesting parts he played
in the famous march of FM Suvorov through the Alps end of September / beginning
of October 1799. He acted as CoS of the Russian General Rosenberg, who part of
the time led a detached corps. Only a few Austrian staff officers were detached
to the Russian forces and to his dismay – he would rather have been sent
with the other Austrian troops to sunny and warm Italy – Richter was one
of the few. He fought at the Devil’s Bridge (25.09.1799), took part in
the battle at the Muottatal (27./28.09.1799), saw there Cossacks butchering fleeing
French, crossed with the whole Army the Panixer Pass (05./06.10.1799) in deep
snow and witnessed the moral and physical degradation of the proud forces of
Suvorov during that long march to safety.
After the Russians left the theatre of war,
Richter finally got sent back to Italy where he arrived in Febuary 1800. Only
there he discovered that he had been promoted to Oberstleutnant already on 17.10.1799.
After various staff jobs he finally became CoS of FML Hohenzollern who was sent
to take Genoa. He commanded a separate column at the action at Voltri on 17.04.1800
– with distinction. The siege and fall of Genoa was rendered useless as
the Battle of Marengo on 14.07.1800 was lost. This year he also took part in
the Battle on the Mincio on 25.12. where he felt a little lost after spending
most of the wars until then in mountainous regions and never before took part
in a big battle on a plain field. In 1801 he was kept in the General Staff in
Italy. He took part in the mapping project of the Venetian Province led by GM
Anton Freiherr von Zach where he was responsible for the mathematical aspects.
Zach brought his family along to headquarters at Padua, where Richter fell in
love with one of his daughters, Maria Angelika, and married her in Padua in 1802.
Promoted to Oberst in 1805, Richter was at
the Army Headquarter of Archduke Charles. At the Battle of Caldiero he lost a
horse. After the war he stayed again in active duty, this time in charge of the
Topographical Office of the General Staff. In 1809 he was again in Archduke Charles’ staff
and accompanied the ill-fated Brigade Thierry and took part in the action
of Abensberg. Separated from his headquarters in the turbulent aftermath of this
fight and of the Battles of Regensburg and Eggmühl, it took him some time
to meet up again with Archduke Charles in Bohemia. He was soon sent to explore
defensive positions in southern Moravia and thus missed the victorious Battle
of Aspern. Already as GM and as CoS of Bellegarde’s 1st Army Corps
he took then part in the Battle of Wagram and at the action at Znaim. After this
campaign he returned to his topographical works.
At the outset of the next war he was put in
charge of the General Staff (ad interim). His predecessor Radetzky had to leave
this post and became Schwarzenberg’s CoS instead. Because of that, Radetzky
apparently held a grudge against Richter who held this position nominally from
09.02.1813 – March 1815. From July 1813 on, he was also the CoS of the
Army of Inner Austria (FZM Hiller and later FM Bellegarde). As such he participated
in all major events of the Italian Campaign. Disappointed of the General Staff
and the perceived maltreatment he received through the years but particularily
during the last campaign he asked for a transfer and to leave the General Staff.
Schwarzenberg liked and supported him. Finally he was appointed Military Commander
in Trieste by 04.03.1815. A little later he was also appointed Military Commander
of the Coastal Lands. Having not received any decorations (he did not ask for
any) he finally got recognition for his career on 07.10.1815, when he was appointed
Colonel Proprietor of IR 14 (2nd; full proprietor 15.02.1832).
He loved Trieste, but due to his large family
(in 1822 his 9th child was born) he was space-wise and financially squeezed.
His colleague FML Vetter v. Lilienberg who was then Military Commander of Venice,
seized the opportunity and talked him into a switch of posts. Thus by 25.11.1828
he was appointed
“Stadt- und Festungskommandant” of Venice. The switch as it turned
out was not to Richter’s advantage. For a short period from 17.12.1829
until August 1830 he was acting commanding General of Lombardo-Venetia (ad interim).
The French Revolution of 1830 ended this post quickly, as the commanding General
Frimont had to take over and Richter was sent back to Venice.
Richter thought that he would stay in Venice
until his end, but after the death of Emperor Francis I quite a few old Generals
were sent into retirement. He could not escape this fate either and was retired
on 08.02.1836 and promoted ad honores to Feldzeugmeister at the same time. Richter
went to live in Linz, Upper Austria, where his Regiment (IR 14) was stationed
and died there in 1840.
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.171 | Frank-Döfering,
3652 | MilSchem (year 1841, p.532: wrong
d. 12.08.1840 = burial date) | NDB 21,
p.541f. (wrong: b. on 18.07.1759) | Nischer,
Ernst: Österreichische Kartographen. Ihr Leben, Lehren und Wirken, Vienna
1925, p.149f. | Regele, p.31 | Regele,
Oskar: Beiträge zur Geschichte der staatlichen Landesaufnahme und Kartographie
in Österreich bis zum Jahre 1918, Vienna 1955, pp.35, 67, 73 | Wrede
1, p.210 | Wrede (6), p.41 | WZ,
25.11.1809, 09.09.1813 | Zimburg, Albrecht:
FZM Richter von Binnenthal und seine Nachfahren. In: Adler, Bd.25 (XXXIX), 1st
issue (January/March), 2009 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
pp.60, 76, 111
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Patent from 31.03.1809
| R31 |
Ried,
Wilhelm Georg von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Ödenburg (Sopron) / Hungary, 13.01.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 19.11.1783 (w.r.f. 08.11.1783)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1785
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°251 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R32 |
Riedesel
zu Eisenbach, (Johann) Wilhelm Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 17351
Died: Vienna, 20.08.17982
Name Variants
also: Eysenbach
Family Status
Unmarried
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.09.1786 (w.r.f. 30.09.1786)
Retired: 1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Galéra, Karl Siegmar von: Die Riedesel zu
Eisenbach. Vom Reich zum Rheinbund. 1713-1806 (= Geschichte des Geschlechts der
Riedesel zu Eisenbach, Erbmarschälle zu Hessen, vol.5), Neustadt/Aisch 1961,
pp.163 (genealogical table), 377ff. | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 1736 (?)
2)
Galéra: 19.08.1798 (?)
| R33 |
Riera,
Karl
Riera von
Rittersheim, Karl |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 25.04.1816
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1793
Oberst: 12.12.1796
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 13.03.1800)
Retired: 06.03.1800
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 03.10.1801 (with predicate: "von
Rittersheim")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, p.367 | Frank 4, p.173 | MilSchem | Strobl,
IR17, vol.I, pp.109, 115, 117 / vol.II, p.3 (wrong: d. on 01.04.1818)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R34 |
Riesch,
Johann Sig(is)mund Freiherr von
Riesch,
Johann Sig(is)mund Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 02.08.1750
Died: Neschwitz / Saxony, 02.11.1821
Family Status
Married (1): 1792 Theresia Josephine Gräfin
Koháry (1767-1803)
Married (2): 1812 Amalie Adelheid von Schönberg
(1791 - after 1867)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1788
Generalmajor: 03.07.1793 (w.r.f. 23.09.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 10.01.1796)
General der Kavallerie: 06.09.1808
Retired: 09.1810
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Bohemia: 02.-11.1809
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Schwanstadt: 18.12.1800 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Elchingen: 14.10.1805 (–)
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 22.05.1793
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)1
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°6:
11.06.1806 – 02.11.1821
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Sigismund Freiherr (later Graf) von Riesch
was born in Vienna on 2 August 1750; initially in Saxon army service, he transferred
in 1773 to Austrian service as Oberleutnant in Chevauxleger Regiment N°1.
He came to attention in the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778-1779, as Rittmeister and
in the wars against the Turks (1787-91) he rose to be Oberst and commander
of Cuirassier Regiment N°14 "Nassau-Usingen". On 18 October 1788, he was
distinguished in action at Bohotsch on the River Temes, in the Banat, where,
with only three squadrons, he defeated a force of 800 Spahis. By this action,
he saved the Infantry Regiment "Michael Wallis" N°11 and a pontoon bridge.
In 1793, he was in action on 16 March at Tirlemont
where he was wounded. His charge decided the day. For this he was made Count
in May of that year and promoted to Generalmajor shortly afterwards. Count
Riesch was again distinguished in the clash at Maubeuge on 21 May 1794, when
he drove off a superior French cavalry force.
In 1796 he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant and
commanded a division in Baillet de Latour's Right Wing of FM Wurmser's Army of
the Upper Rhine. On 18 April 1797, Riesch again was distinguished in the clash
at Neuwied-Heddesdorf, where he saved the army's artillery and baggage train,
as well as Kray's beaten corps.
On 25 March 1799, in the battle of Stockach, his
division drove off d'Hautpoul's entire cavalry reserve from Liptingen, ensuring
the Austrian victory, for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Military
Maria Theresian Order, on 18 August 1801. At the 1st battle of Zürich,
on 4 June, his division was in the centre under FZM Graf Wallis. In 1800 he commanded
a cavalry division in southern Germany where he fought at Engen (3 May), Mösskirch
(5 May) and commanded the left wing at the defeat in the battle of Hohenlinden
on 3 December. FML Riesch was also involved in the combats of the withdrawal
to Salzburg. In the 1805 campaign, he commanded a corps, which was crushed by
Ney's VI Corps at Elchingen on 14 October.
The followoing year he was made Colonel Proprietor
of Dragoon Regiment N°6. In September 1808, he was promoted to General
der Kavallerie and in 1809, he commanded the Reserve (mostly Landwehr) which
did not come into action. Riesch retired in 1810 and died on 2 November 1821
in Neschwitz, Saxony.
Printed Sources
ADB 28, p.575f. | Bodart, p.358, 364 | Frank
4, p.173 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.631ff. | Hollins, p.22f. | MD
4, p.174 | MD 8, p.152 | MilSchem | Pizzighelli, DR5, pp.52,
59 (wrong: GM in 06.1793), 250, 252 | Strobl, DR12, pp.116, 189 | Wenzlik-Ebert,
p.28f. | Wrede 3, p.209 | Wurzbach 26, p.141ff. | WZ, 21.09.1808,
21.12.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.51
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/riesch.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Hirtenfeld: I.R. Privy Councillor and Chamberlain (?)
| R35 |
Riese,
Friedrich Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 17.09.1833
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 03.09.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R36 |
Riese,
Karl Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1730
Died: Auspitz (Hustopeče)
/ Moravia, 08.09.1806
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 27.02.1793
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 07.01.1796)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Verona: ~1798-1801/02
Fortress Commandant of Palma Nova: 1801/02-1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°15:
1801 – 08.09.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.215, 240 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.218
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R37 |
Rindsmaul,
Christian Heinrich Georg Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Graz / Styria, 23.04.17261
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary,
07.11.1799
Name Variants
also: Rindtsmaul
Family Status
Married: 1768 Marie Thérèse Alexandrine
de Lichtervelde (1737-1823)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 24.11.1768)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Bastin (http://www.nobily.be/GENEALOGIE/pafg4507.htm)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
also 13.04.1725 (Schmidt-Brentano) (?) or 23.04.1725 (Bastin) (?)
| R38 |
Ringelsheim,
Georg von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Mit(t)rowitz / (Bohemia or Syrmia ?), 22.08.1811
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.07.1809
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R39 |
Ripke,
Ludwig Rudolf von
Ripke,
Ludwig Rudolf Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Meinersen / Hannover, 1723
Died: Vienna, 04.02.1796
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1763
Oberst: 1771
Generalmajor: 26.06.1773
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 14.01.1764
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.01.1760
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.175 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.113f. (wrong:
GM in 1776) | MD 8, p.153 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 26, p.174f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R40 |
Rodizcky
von Sipp, Andreas |
Personal Information
Born: 20.11.1752
Died: Warasdin
(Varaždin, Varasd) / Croatia, 17.05.1835
Name Variants
also: Roditzky
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 15.07.1812
Feldmarschalleutnant: 1822
Retired: 04.11.1822
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC: 15.06.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 05.09.1812, 29.06.1816, 16.07.1816
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R41 |
Roë,
(named) Monroë, (Anton) Eugen von |
Personal Information
Born: Damblain / Lorraine / France, 21.01.1740
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 13.08.1816
Name Variants
(French) Antoine-Eugène de Roë (dit:)
Monroë
In Austria called: "Monroë"
Family Status
Brother of R42
Married: 1800 Antonia von Sterneck
Promotions
Major: 01.05.1784
Oberstleutnant: 1793
Oberst: 1795
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 05.03.1797)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Petiot, p.440f. | Wenke,
DR1, p.275
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R42 |
Roë,
(named) Monroë, Franz Joseph von |
Personal Information
Born: Damblain / Lorraine / France, 23.07.1738
Died: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 28.03.1801
Name Variants
(French) François-Joseph de Roë dit
Monroë
In Austria called: "De la Roë"
Family Status
Brother of R41
Promotions
Major: 1790
Oberstleutnant: 1791
Oberst: 23.03.1793
Generalmajor: 06.09.1796 (w.r.f. 31.05.1796)
Retired: 04.09.1800
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.385 | MilSchem | Petiot,
p.441
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R43 |
Rogoisky
von Rohoznik, Franz von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Graz / Styria, 07.05.1810
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 25.02.1795 (w.r.f. 01.06.1794)
Retired: 02.1800
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Peschiera: ~1799(-1800 ?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°238 (wrong: "Ragoisky") | MilSchem | WZ,
15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R44 |
Rohan-Guéméné,
Julius Armand Ludwig Fürst von |
Personal Information
Born: Versailles / France, 20.10.1768
Died: Sichrov (Sychrov) / Bohemia, 13.01.1836
Name Variants
(French) Jules-Armand-Louis de Rohan, Prince
de Guéméné
Family Status
Brother of R45 and R46
Married: 1800 Katharina Friederike Herzogin von Sagan,
Prinzessin Biron von Kurland (1781-1839), divorced: 1805
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.12.1801 (w.r.f. 10.02.1801)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 07.08.1816
Printed Sources
Aubert de La-Chenaye Desbois, Francois-Alexandre:
Genealogie des Hauses Rohan. Nach dem Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, pag.245 und
die folgenden, Prague 1857, p.43 | MilSchem | Pettenegg, Eduard
Gaston Graf von: Zur Genealogie des Hauses Rohan, Vienna 1883, p.13 | WZ,
17.03.1810
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/rohan/rohan5.html)
Saint-Louis
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R45 |
Rohan-Guéméné,
Karl Alois Gabriel Fürst von |
Personal Information
Born: Versailles / France, 18.01.1764
Died: Sichrov (Sychrov) / Bohemia, 24.04.1836
Name Variants
(French) Charles-Alain-Gabriel de Rohan, Prince
de Guéméné, Duc de Montbazon et Bouillon
Family Status
Brother of R44 and R46
Married: 1781 Louise-Aglaë Marquise de Conflans
(1763-1819)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 06.1798
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 18.01.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant (title a.h.): 02.09.1807
Quit: 1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 23.11.1823
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Aubert de La-Chenaye Desbois, Francois-Alexandre:
Genealogie des Hauses Rohan. Nach dem Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, pag.245 und
die folgenden, Prague, 1857, p.44 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.642ff. (wrong: d.
Prague / FML on 01.02.1836) | MD 4, p.183 | MilSchem | Pettenegg,
Eduard Gaston Graf von: Zur Genealogie des Hauses Rohan, Vienna 1883 | Vlies-Orden,
p.188, N°893 | Wurzbach 26, p.279ff. | WZ, 26.09.1807
Internet Sources
Boettger
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/rohan/rohan5.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R46 |
Rohan-Guéméné,
Ludwig Victor Fürst von |
Personal Information
Born: Versailles / France, 20.07.1766
Died: Sichrov (Sychrov) / Bohemia, 10.12.1846
Name Variants
(French) Louis-Victor-Meriadec de Rohan, Prince
de Guéméné, Duc de Montbazon et de Bouillon
Family Status
Brother of R44 and R45
Married: 1802 Bertha Prinzessin Rohan-Guéméné (1782-1841)
Promotions
France:
[rank]:
Great
Britain:
[rank]:
Into
Austrian service: 1794
Oberst: 10.1794
Generalmajor: 23.01.1801 (w.r.f. 13.02.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.05.1809
Quit: 1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 28.05.1806
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°21:
1808-1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Louis-Victor-Meriadec de Rohan, Prince de Guéméné,
Duc de Montbazon et de Bouillon was born on 20 July 1766 in Versailles. In 1789
he fled to Germany to fight against revolutionay France. In 1794 he entered Austrian
service as Oberst and on 23 January 1801, he was promoted to Generalmajor.
In 1805 he commanded a brigade in the Tyrol under Archduke John. He became cut
off from his main body and decided to go south, to join up with FML Freiherr
von Hiller's rearguard of Archduke Charles's army in Bozen, South Tyrol. On 10
November 1805, he set off from Landeck, southwards for Bozen via Nauders; on
the way, GM Prince Rohan heard that Hiller had already left Bozen, to withdraw
north over the Brenner Pass, into Austria. Rohan thus continued south for Glurns,
which he reached on 12 November. Next day he was at Schlanders; here (on 14 or
15 November) he heard that Archduke Charles had also decided to go north, through
the Puster valley, from Maren to Sterzing (Vipitino). He was thus isolated with
his 7 battalions, 10 squadrons and 5 guns (4,400 men in all) and decided to try
to fight his way through to Venice, through Marshal Massena's Army of Italy,
and GdD Gouvion St. Cyr's blockading force. On 18 November, Prince Rohan stormed
and took Bozen. He then marched south, down the River Etsch; on 20 November,
he reached Trient. Here, he turned east, into the Val Sugana; on 21 he passed
through Borgo, next day he reached Primolano, where he turned south for Venice.
On the night of 22/23 November, he overran the small garrison of Bassano, which
consisted of part of GdD Jean-Matthieu Séras' division. On the evening
of 23 November, Rohan reached Castelfranco, 40 km north-west of Venice. Next
morning, he was confronted with GdD Reynier's division; there was a sharp fight,
then St. Cyr's division also came up and Rohan (now wounded) had to surrender.
For his distinguished behavior during the campaign of 1805 the Emperor awarded
him the Military Maria Theresian Order (Knight's Cross) on 28 May 1806.
In 1808, the prince was appointed Proprietor of Infantry
Regiment N°21 and on 4 May 1809, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In this year, he commanded a division in FML Fürst von Orsini-Rosenberg's
IV Corps. He fought at Aspern and Wagram, being badly wounded on 6 July. The
following year Prince Rohan retired to his estate in Bohemia where he died on
10 December 1846.
Printed Sources
Aubert de La-Chenaye Desbois, Francois-Alexandre:
Genealogie des Hauses Rohan. Nach dem Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, pag.245 und
die folgenden, Prague, 1857, p.44 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.803ff. | MD
4, p.183 | MilSchem | Pettenegg, Eduard Gaston Graf von: Zur Genealogie
des Hauses Rohan, Vienna 1883 | Wrede 1, p.265 | Wurzbach 26, p.281f. | WZ,
23.01.1808
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/rohan.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/rohan/rohan5.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: around 1740
Died: Vienna, 07.01.1812
Promotions
Major: 16.10.1780
Oberstleutnant: 19.04.1784
Oberst: 04.01.1788
Generalmajor: 06.03.1792
Feldmarschalleutnant: 12.05.1796 (w.r.f. 18.11.1795)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adjutant-General to Emperor Francis II./I.: 03.1792 – 08.1796
/ 10.1798 –
1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, p.286 | MilSchem | Wrede
(6), p.18 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.39
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R48 |
Roos,
Andreas Nikolaus von
Roos,
Andreas Nikolaus Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Brussels (Bruxelles) / Austrian Netherlands,
30.04.1745 (baptism)
Died: Vienna (Prague?), 03.02.18141
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: ~1789
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 17.03.1797 (w.r.f. 04.05.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 10.09.1805)
Feldzeugmeister: 27.04.1813
Retired: 27.04.1813
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 27.10.1793
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.187 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.323f. (wrong:
b. 1739) | MD 8, p.161 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 26, p.334f. | WZ,
11.05.1813, 08.06.1813, 03.06.1814 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.39
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 04.02.1814 (?)
| R49 |
Rosenberg,
Wilhelm Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: (Esseg [Osjek, Eszék] / Slavonia ?),
20.11.1801
Promotions
Major: 17.08.1772
Oberstleutnant: 16.10.1785
Oberst: 19.05.1788
Generalmajor: 03.01.17921 (w.r.f.
21.10.1791)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Esseg: 1792 – 20.11.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, pp.186, 206, 213, 236 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Amon, IR4, p.236: 31.12.1791 ... "mit Generalmajors-Charakter pensioniert" (retired
with rank of major general) (?)
| R50 |
Ross,
Johann Karl von
Ross von
Rosenbach, Johann Karl Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: around 1727
Died: Vienna, 19.06.1800
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.10.1786 (w.r.f. 15.10.1786)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 24.08.1786 (with predicate: "von Rosenbach")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.191 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R51 |
Rosselmini,
Gerhard Ritter von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1742
Died: Vicenza / Venetia, 19.11.1796
Name Variants
also: Roszelmini
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: (24.02.?)1794 (w.r.f. 20.02.1794 ?)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R52 |
Rosty
de Barkócz, Ignaz |
Personal Information
Born: around 1737
Died: Vienna, 03.09.1803
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 12.02.1790
Feldmarschalleutnant: 03.1803 (w.r.f. 24.05.1803)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R53 |
Roszowski,
Karl Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Fünfkirchen (Pécs) / Hungary, 22.12.18081
Name Variants
also: Roschowsky, Rossowsky
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 27.11.1800)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 11.02.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 12.11.1808 (?)
Personal Information
Born: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas)
/ Hungary, 22.04.1741
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary,
26.02.1824
Promotions
Major: 1782 (1784?)
Oberstleutnant: 1786 (1787?)
Oberst: 1789
Generalmajor: 29.12.1793 (w.r.f. 20.12.1793)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.63 | MilSchem | Svoboda
1, col.25 (wrong: d. 26.02.1821) | Victorin, DR7, pp.210 (Major in 1784
? / Obstlt in 1787 ?), 403f. (Obstlt in 1786 ?), 406 (Major in 1782 ?), 438
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: after 1807
Promotions
Major: 20.12.1778
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, p.196 | MilSchem (mentioned only
until year 1807)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R56 |
Roth,
Johann Georg
Roth von
Pongyelkó, Johann Georg Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 1726
Died: St. Michael an der Raab (Rába Szent-Mihály)
/ Com. Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 26.08.1799
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 23.02.1788 (w.r.f. 17.02.1788)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 22.03.1790 (with predicate: "von Pongyelkó")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.195 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R57 |
Rothkirch
und Panthen, Leopold Freiherr von
Rothkirch
und Panthen, Leopold Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Pavia / Lombardy, 01.02.17691
Died: Vienna, 29.03.1839
Family Status
Married: 1802 Maria Anna Gräfin von Pötting
und Persing (1778-1820)
Promotions
Major: 01.05.1800
Oberstleutnant: 01.09.1805
Oberst: 1806
Generalmajor: 24.05.18092
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.04.18153
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Silesia (Troppau): 05.1826 – 07.1831
Commanding General in Transylvania: 07.1831 – 03.1833
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 22.01.1826
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°4:
1826 – 29.03.1839
I.R. Privy Councillor: 18324
I.R. Chamberlain: 1811
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: ~ 1813
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
1823
Tuscany:
Order of St. Joseph – GC: 1839
Printed Sources
Frank, 7847 | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | Leitner
2, p.145 | MD 4, p.190 | MilSchem | ÖMZ, year 1840,
vol.1, p.48ff.: Karl von Smola: Nekrolog des k.k. Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Leopold
Graf Rothkirch | Svoboda 1, col.146f. | Wurzbach 27, p.112f. | WZ,
08.05.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.58, 74
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) ÖMZ:
12.02.1768 (?) / Svoboda 1, col.146: 01.02.1768 (?)
2) ÖMZ:
w.r.f. 18.05.1809 (?)
3) ÖMZ
/ Svoboda 1, col.146: 15.04.1815 (?)
4)
Svoboda 1, col.146: 1831 (?)
| R58 |
Rottenberg,
Franz Joseph Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Freiburg im Breisgau / Anterior Austria, 04.1732
Died: Vienna, 07.12.1812
Promotions
Major: 22.10.1774
Oberstleutnant: 01.07.1779
Oberst: 04.06.1789
Generalmajor: 31.12.1791
Retired: 31.12.1791
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Buschek, IR23, I, pp.504, 517, 537f., 554, 816, 940 | MilSchem | WZ,
02.02.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: GM on 03.01.1782 "[Char.]
und i.R.")
| R59 |
Rottermund,
Heinrich Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 05.01.1815
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 20.01.1804 (w.r.f. 17.12.1802)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 24.05.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | MilSchem | Paskovits,
p.77
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R60 |
Rousseau
d’Heriamont, Franz |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 15.02.18351
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.10.1799
Retired: 01.01.1806
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Vice-Commandant of Venice: 1801 – 01.01.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.194f. | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 17.02.1835 (?)
| R61 |
Rousseau
d’Happancourt, Franz Ludwig
Rousseau
d’Happancourt, Franz Ludwig Ritter |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 16.01.1853
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1805
Oberst: 1808
Generalmajor: 28.03.1813
Retired: 07.10.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Ritter: 30.06.1817
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.197 | Frank-Döfering, 3751 | MilSchem | Soldatenfreund,
year 1853, N°7 (from 22.01.1853), p.53 (wrong: GM in 1812)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R62 |
Roussel
d’Hurbal, Franz Nikolaus
Roussel d’Hurbal,
Franz Nikolaus Baron
Roussel d’Hurbal,
Franz Nikolaus Vicomte |
Personal Information
Born: Neufchâteau / Lorraine / France, 07.09.17631
Died: 25.03.1849
Name Variants
(French) Nicolas-François / Baron /
Vicomte Roussel d’Hurbal
Family Status
Unmarried
Promotions
Major: 01.03.1802
Oberstleutnant: 02.09.1804
Oberst: 01.01.1807
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Quit: E.05.1811
Into
French service: 31.07.1811
General of Brigade: 31.07.1811
General of Division: 04.12.1812
Elevation of Social Status
France:
Baron: 26.02.1814
Vicomte: 17.08.18222
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 28.05.1806
/ CC: 11.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 19.07.1814
/ CC: 07.09.1823
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – CC:
03.04.1814 / GOC: 26.04.1846
Spain:
Military Order of St. Ferdinand – GC: 04.11.18233
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 2, p.877ff. | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802,
note 1 | MilSchem | Petiot, p.444f. (wrong: Obstlt in 1805 / d.
04.1849) | Six 2, p.399f. | Wrede, DR6, p.655 (wrong: b. 1765),
670, 928 | Wurzbach 27, p.174f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Saint-Louis
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Petiot: 05.09.1763 (?)
2)
Petiot: 11.01.1823 (?)
3)
Date of the Imperial permission to wear the order
| R63 |
Rouvroy,
Johann Georg Karl Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Großenhain / Saxony, 11.01.1754
Died: 15.11.1816
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1789
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 01.02.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 28.10.1800)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794
Colonel-Proprietor of the Artillery Regiment N°3:
09.1804 – 15.11.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
(ADB 29, p.408) | Frank 4, p.198 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.415f. | MilSchem | (Wrede) 4, p.477 | Wurzbach 27,
p.177f. (wrong: b. around 1770)
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R64 |
Ruault
de la Bonnerie, Johann Baptist Graf |
Personal Information
Born: Paris / France, 04.02.1744
Died: (Graz / Styria ?), 14.05.1818
Name Variants
(French) Jean-Baptiste-André-Isidore
Comte Ruault de la Bonnerie
Promotions
France:
Marechal-de-Camp: 20.08.1792
Into
Austrian service: 05.04.1793
Oberst:
Retired: 08.1798
Reactivated: ?
Generalmajor: 22.03.1804 (w.r.f. 23.12.1802)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Six 2, p.404
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R65 |
Rüdt
von Collenberg und Schwangau, Karl
Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Bödigheim Castle / Mainz (electorate),
18.06.1756
Died: Occhiobello / Venetia, 24.09.1800
Promotions
Major: 22.03.1797
Oberstleutnant: 07.05.1797
Oberst: 25.04.17981
Generalmajor: 06.09.18002
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, pp.371, 373f. | Dragoni, IR45,
pp.212f., 218 | MilSchem | Rupprecht, IR60, pp.2, 4, appendix,
p.1
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Rupprecht, IR60, p.2: 26.04.1798 (?)
2)
Dragoni, IR45, p.218: 05.09.1800 (?)
Personal Information
Born: Sprendlingen near Frankfurt / Isenburg, 13.12.1753
Died: Vienna, 10.09.1811
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1800
Generalmajor: 1806 (w.r.f. 28.04.1805)
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.97 | MilSchem | Svoboda
1, col.92 | Wurzbach 27, p.236
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Svoboda: "Prenlingen bei Frankfurt" (presumably: Sprendlingen)
| R67 |
Ruggeri,
Camillo Gilberto Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: after 1848
Name Variants
also: Rougier
Promotions
Italy:
Brigade-General:
Into
Austrian service: 1814
Generalmajor: 02.07.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.09.1830
Retired: 01.04.1835
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°11
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – OC
Printed Sources
MilSchem (only mentioned until year 1848) | WZ,
07.08.1814
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale ("Rougier")
| R68 |
Ruiz
de Rojas, Joseph Nikolaus Ritter |
Personal Information
Born: around 1759
Died: Graz / Styria, 10.06.1844
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 17.06.1809
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1824
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Auer, N°261 | Buschek, IR23, I, pp.704,
706 | MilSchem | WZ, 25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R69 |
Rukavina,
Mathias
Rukavina
von Boynograd, Mathias Ritter
Rukavina
von Boynograd, Mathias Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Tarnovac (Trnovac) / Croatia, 1737
Died: Penzing near Vienna, 03.05.1817
Name Variants
wrong: Bonyograd (!)
Promotions
Major: 1778
Oberstleutnant: 1786
Oberst: 12.1789
Generalmajor: 01.05.1795 (w.r.f. 09.03.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 10.04.1801 (w.r.f. 08.04.1801)
Retired: 1804
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Dalmatia (Zara): 07.1797 – 10.1803
Elevation of Social Status
Ritter: 15.10.1779 (with predicate: "von Boynograd")
Freiherr: 16.10.1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 10.08.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°52:
1803-1804
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°52:
1804 – 03.05.1817
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.205 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.500f. | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.478 | Wurzbach 27, p.251f. | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.70
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: around 1757
Died: Vienna, 15.12.1806
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 1806 (w.r.f. 26.04.1805)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R71 |
Russo,
Joseph Anton von
Russo von
Aspernbrand, Joseph Anton Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Lüttich (Luik, Liège) / Austrian
Netherlands, 06.07.1751
Died: Verona / Venetia, 25.05.1840
Family Status
Married:
1790 Ernestine Freiin Wrazda (Vražda) von Kunwald
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 02./03.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 05.12.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 21.03.1827
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 13.06.1834
Retired: 13.06.1834
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 06.03.1812 (with predicate: "von Aspernbrand")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 24.10.1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Artillery Regiment N°5:
1822 – 25.05.1840
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 4, p.207 | Frank-Döfering, 3778 | Hirtenfeld
2, p.1035 | MD 8, p.170 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 27, p.297f. | WZ,
09.03.1808, 22.04.1812 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.41
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
| R72 |
Rutant,
Johann Edmund von
Rutant,
Johann Edmund Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Nancy / Lorraine, 26.02.1736
Died: Vienna, 19.07.1794
Name Variants
(French) Jean-Edme Comte de Rutant
wrong: Ruttant
Family Status
Married: ~ 1779 [N.] Gräfin Rodouan
Promotions
Major: 1766
Oberstleutnant: 1769
Oberst: 1773
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 16.03.1783)
Elevation of Social Status
France:
Comte: 03.05.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.10.1762
Orders, Awards, Honorary
Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.381 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.163f. (wrong:
b. 1737) | MilSchem | Petiot, p.449f. | Wurzbach 27, p.310f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: b. 1737)
| R73 |
Rziczan,
Ferdinand Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: "Wiebau" (n.l.) / Bohemia, 01.09.1738
Died: 29.03.1817
Promotions
Major: 01.05.1784
Oberstleutnant: 13.07.1785
Oberst: 13.08.1789
Generalmajor: 23.09.1796 (w.r.f. 25.02.1794)
Retired: 1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
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Printed Sources
Dedekind, DR11, pp.228, 664, 774 | Leitner
2, p.48 | MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.17
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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