By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
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Austrian
Generals
1792-1815
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Labbé de
Vouillèrs to Luxem
L1
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Labbé de
Vouillèrs,
Franz Karl
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Dates of Life
Born: Vitry-le-François
/ France, 08.08.1737
Died: Eclaron / France, 02.09.1821
Name Variants
(French) Françoise-Charles
Labbé de Vouillers
Promotions
France:
Marechal-de-Camp: 22.07.1792
Quit French service: 05.04.1793
Into the Legion Bourbon: 01.09.1793
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 03.1804 (w.r.f. 14.03.1804)
Retired: 03.1804
Return to France: 1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 03.06.1779
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Six 2, p.563
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L2
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Lacy,
Franz Moritz Graf von
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Dates of Life
Born: St. Petersburg / Russia, 21.10.1725
Died: Vienna-Neuwaldegg, 24.11.1801
Family Status
Uncle of S134 (Stuart)
Promotions
Major: 2nd H. 1746
Oberstleutnant: 03.1749
Oberst: 14.01.1753
Generalmajor: 13.10.1756
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.02.1758
Feldzeugmeister: 17.11.1759
Feldmarschall: 15.02.17661
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff:
20.02.1758 – 02.1760
President of the Aulic War Council: 02.1766 – 05.1774
State and Conference Minister: 05.1774
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 1770
Military Maria Theresian Order – GC: 04.12.1758
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°22:
03.10.17582 – 24.11.1801
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the 2nd Carabinier Regiment
N°15 / (since 1798:) Cuirassier Regiment N°1: 1774 – 24.11.1801
I.R. Chamberlain: 1741
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
ADB 17, p.487ff | Amon, IR20,
pp.146f., 150ff. | Duffy, p.375 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.60ff. | HKR-Präs,
N°19 (p.30ff.) | Hubka, IR22, pp.93, 185f., 543f. | Kotasek,
Edith: Feldmarschall Graf Lacy. Ein Leben für Österreichs Heer, Horn
1956 | MD 3, p.89 | MilSchem | NDB 13, p.382 | Regele,
p.24f. | Reilly, Feldherren, p.410ff. | Schmidhofer, Ernst: Das
irische, schottische und englische Element im kaiserlichen Heer, Ph.D. thesis,
Vienna 1971, p.145ff. | Wrede 1, p.271 | Wrede 3, p.127 | Wrede
(6), p.41 | Wurzbach 13, p.464ff. | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.31 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.126
Internet Sources
Boettger
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Hubka, IR22,
p.544: 19.02.1766 (?)
2) Kotasek, p.33: 04.10.1758
(?)
L3
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Lagler,
Joseph Emanuel (von)
|
Dates of Life
Born: 1740
Died: Theresienstadt (Terezín) / Bohemia, 08.03.1801
Promotions
Major: 1782
Oberstleutnant: 1787
Oberst: 1789
Generalmajor: 05.03.1801 (w.r.f. 01.03.1801)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.384 (wrong: GM in 1800) | Gatti, IngAk, p.209 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L4
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Lambertie,
Camille Joseph Graf von
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Dates of Life
Born: Pont d’Oye Castle / Luxemburg, 13.07.1746
Died: Vienna, 03.06.1826
Name Variants
(French) Camille-Joseph-Eléonor du Bost de Pont d’Oye,
Marquis de Lambertie
also: Lambertye
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.03.1792
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.05.1796 (w.r.f. 21.11.1795)
General der Kavallerie: 12.1805 (w.r.f. 27.01.1806)
Feldmarschall (title): 09.01.1826
Retired: 09.01.1826
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adjutant-General to the Archduke Franz (the later emperor): 1784 – 03.1792
Adjutant-General to the Emperor Franz II./I. of Austria: 03.1792 – 09.1805
Lieutenant Captain of the First Arcièren Life Guard: 2nd H. 1796 – 12.(09.?)01.1826
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – GC: 26.05.1815
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1811
I.R. Chamberlain: 1770
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | ÖBL 4, p.412f. | Petiot, p.293f. (wrong: b.
1747) | Wrede (6), p.18 | WZ, 31.05.1815 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.39
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L5
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Lamezan-Salins,
Anton Graf von
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Dates of Life
Born: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 29.08.1759
Died: Graz / Styria, 21.02.1814
Name Variants
(French) Antoine Comte de Lamezan de Salins
Family Status
Brother of L6
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 20.02.1809
Generalmajor: 06.06.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Petiot, p.295 | Svoboda 1, col.102 | WZ,
22.07.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L6
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Lamezan-Salins,
Joseph Maria Graf von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava)
/ Hungary, 03.04.1763
Died: Vienna, 27.07.1831
Name Variants
(French) Joseph Comte de Lamezan
de Salins
Family Status
Brother of L5
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 22.09.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°54: 1823 – 27.07.1831
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Parma:
Constantinian Order of St. George – KC: 1822
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Petiot, p.295 | Svoboda
1, col.106 | Wrede 1, p.493
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L7
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Lanfrey,
Anton
Lanfrey, Anton Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Straßburg / Alsace / France, 1752
Died: Peschiera / Venetia, 05.05.1826
Promotions
Major: 06.1798
Oberstleutnant: 1802
Oberst: 1807
Generalmajor: 29.11.1812
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Peschiera: E. 1813 –
05.05.1826
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 06.02.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, pp.397, 467 (wrong: Major in 1797) | Frank, N°4913 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.309f. | MD 3, p.95 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 14, p.82f. | WZ,
23.01.1808, 29.12.1812
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L8
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Lang,
Johann Andreas
Lang Edler von Langenau, Johann Andreas
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Graz / Styria, 13.01.1822
Promotions
Major: 28.06.1800
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 20.03.1813
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 04.11.1799 (with predicate "Edler von Langenau")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, p.368, 379 | Frank 3, p.109 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L9
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Langen,
Johann Baptist
Langen, Johann Baptist Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: (Theresienstadt [Terezín] / Bohemia ?), 28.10.1807
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 01.10.1782
Generalmajor: 06.02.1789 (w.r.f. 05.02.1789)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant ad interim of Brod: 10.03.1788 – 05./06.02.1789
Fortress Vice-Commandant of Theresienstadt: 05./06.02.1789 – 1800
Fortress Commandant of Theresienstadt: 1800 –
28.10.1807
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 23.03.1791
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR18, pp.239, 241 | Frank 3, p.109 | MilSchem | WZ,
18.11.1807
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L10
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Langenau,
Friedrich Karl Gustav
Langenau, Friedrich Karl Gustav Freiherr
von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Dresden / Saxony, 07.11.1782
Died: Graz / Styria, 04.07.1840
Family Status
Married: Sarah von Sturtz (?-1851)
Promotions
Saxony:
Generalmajor: 1811
Quit Saxonian
service: 14.05.1813
Into Austrian service: 06.1813
Generalmajor: 02.06.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.11.1827
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Austrian Plenipotentiary with the Military
Central Commission at the German Diet in Frankfurt: 11.1818 – 1829
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Galicia: 1832 – 06.1835
Commanding General in Galicia: 06.1835 – 08.1839
Commanding General in Illyria, Inner Austria and
the Tyrol: 08.1839 –
04.07.1840
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 06.12.1827
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
1815
Order of Leopold – CC: 10.1813
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°49:
1824 – 04.07.1840
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1833
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of Military Merit – CC: 1816
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – KC:
1812
Hessen-Darmstadt:
Order of Ludwig – GC: 1829
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 1824
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1813
Saxony:
Military Order of St. Henry – CC: before 1829
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born 7 November 1782 in Dresden of an
old Rhenish noble family Friedrich Karl Gustav von Langenau entered Saxon military
service in 1795 as Unterleutnant, Infantry Regiment "Kurfürst". His
father was Gottlob Bernhard, a Saxon Lieutenant General and Inspector-General
of Infantry. In 1796 Langenau fought on the Rhine at Wetzlar, in 1806 he fought
in Saxony, 1809 in Austria.
In 1811 he was promoted to Generalmajor and
appointed Adjutant-General to the Saxon king. In 1812 he served in Russia as
Chief fof Staff of the VII (Saxon) Corps which operated on the southern flank
together with the Austrians. In 1813 he was sent to Vienna to negotiate a treaty
for mutual defence; he succeeded but when the allies lost the battle of Lützen,
the Saxon king left Prague and returned to the French fold in Dresden. Langenau
requested permission to resign and to take Austrian service; this was agreed
to. In June 1813 langenau entered Austrian service as Major General and - on
27 July 1813 - he was GQM to FM Fürst Schwarzenberg. At Dresden the Austrian
artillery commander - GM von Frierenberger - was wounded at the start of the
battle and French artillery fire held up the Austrian advance. Langenau volunteered
to set up a battery to break the deadlock; all French guns in two redoubts were
soon silenced and both were taken.
On 16 October, at Leipzig, the Austrian artillery
commander - FML Reisner - was unable to oversee the placing of all the batteries.
Langenau again volunteered to place the batteries for the columns of the Austrian
centre and left wing. Initially, these had all been sited by the individual column
commanders and were scattered, giving no overall plan of action and incurring
heavy losses from the large French batteries. Langenau concentrated them into
two locations and directed their fire so that the French guns on the left wing
were almost silenced. On 18 October, before dawn, Langenau went up to the enemy
lines at Wachau and found them empty; he at once reported this to FZM Colloredo
and the Austrian assault went in 90 minutes earlier than originally planned.
For his actions in this battle, Langenau was awarded
the Commander's Cross of the Leopold Order. On 9 November, at Hochheim, Langenau
again volunteered to place the 13 batteries for the assault of the village. The
allied artillery fire was most effective. He also forsaw, that the III and IV
Austrian Corps were going to run into one another as they advanced to assault
the enemy lines; he galloped forward under fire and averted the disaster.
In 1815 he served as GQM of the army on the upper
Rhine and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
In 1817 he commanded a brigade in Linz. From 1818 to 1829 Langenau was the Austrian
representative at the Assembly of German States in Frankfurt on Main. He wrote
the German Federal War Policy Constitution and the fortification construction
programme as well as a history of the wars of liberation. In 1827 Langenau was
promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant and received the baronage. In 1832 he
was appointed Adlatus to Erzherzog Ferdinand d'Este, the Governor General in
Galicia. This post Langenau hold until 1835 in which year he was made himself
Commanding General in Galicia. In 1833 he was awarded the status of Privy Councillor.
Only eleven months before his death he was appointed Commanding General of Inner
Austria. He died on 4 July 1840 in Graz.
Printed Sources
ADB 17, p.660ff. | Hirtenfeld
2, p.1180ff. (wrong: GM on 27.07.1813) | Langenau, Wolzogen und die Schlacht
bei Leipzig. In: Soldatenfreund, year 1851, N°126 (from 21.10.1851), p.505 | MD
3, p.96 | MilSchem | MZ, year 1858, N°112 (from 11.12.1858),
p.637ff. and N°113 (from 14.12.1858), p.645ff.: Aus dem Leben des FML Freiherrn
von Langenau | NDB 13, p.580 | ÖBL 5, p.2 | Regele,
p.31 | Wrede 1, p.459 | Wurzbach 14, p.101ff. | WZ, 08.06.1813,
14.10.1813, 27.10.1813, 20.02.1814, 12.09.1816 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.55, 64
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Dates of Life
Born: around 1723
Died: Vienna, 21.02.1798
Promotions
Major: 01.11.1758
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 03.07.1787 (w.r.f. 30.06.1787)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation: 1784
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, DR9, p.141 | Auer, N°156 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L12
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Lassgallner,
Johann Karl von
Lassgallner, Johann Karl Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Hungary, 1714
Died: Oedenburg (Sopron) / Hungary, 20.08.1798
Name Variants
also: Lasgallner, Laßgallner
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1757
Generalmajor: 13.04.1764 (w.r.f. 15.08.1758)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.04.1775 (w.r.f. 28.11.1766)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 11.02.1764
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.11.1763
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°4: 03.1767 – 1775
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
ADB 17, p.792f. | Frank 3, p.113 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.188f. | MD
3, p.101 | MilSchem | Tomaschek, DR8, pp.241, 244 (wrong: d. 1775),
683 | Wurzbach 14, p.179
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L13
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Lattermann,
Christoph von
Lattermann, Christoph Ritter von
Lattermann, Christoph Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Olmütz (Olomouc) / Moravia,
14.07.1753
Died: Vienna, 05.10.1835
Family Status
Son of L14 (Mother: 1)
Married: Maria Anna Gräfin von Welsersheimb
Promotions
Major: 10.01.1786
Oberstleutnant: 31.12.1789
Oberst: 06.06.1794
Generalmajor: 01.03.17971 (w.r.f.
06.04.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.09.18002 (w.r.f.
08.09.1800)
Retired: 1st H. 1806
Reactivated: 28.07.1807
Feldzeugmeister: 26.07.1813
Feldmarschall: 02.07.1833
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in
Bohemia: 08.12.1805
– 1st H. 1806
Fortress Commandant of Peterwardein: 28.07.1807 – (01./02.1809
?)
Commanding General ad interim in the Karlstadt-Warasdin
Military Border and in the Banal Military Border: 04.03.1809
– 01.12.1809
Vice-President of the political and economical regulations
("Normalien") commission (of the Aulic War Council ?): 15.09.1810 – 2.H.1813
Provisional Civil and Military Governor in Illyria:
03.09.1813 –
19.08.1814
President of the Military Appellate Court: 19.08.1814 – 31.12.1814
Commanding General in Venetia: 01.01.1815 – 10.1818
President of the Military Appellate Court: 26.10.1818 – 02.07.1833
Lieutenant Captain of the First Arcièren Life
Guard: 09.(10.?)01.18263 – 05.10.1835
Elevation of Social Status
Ritter (by elevation of L14): 04.10.1782
Freiherr (by elevation of L14): 30.07.1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
07.04.17994
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 12.02.18165
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
Silver Civil Honor Cross 1813/14: 26.05.18156
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°23:
01.06.1802
– 18.11.1809 (08.03.1810) (disbanded)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°7:
18.11.1809 (08.03.1810) – 17.08.1824
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°7:
17.08.18247 – 05.10.1835
I.R. Privy Councillor: 10.03.1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.17ff. | Buschek, IR23,
I, pp.706, 783, 802ff. | Frank 3, p.114 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.533ff. | MD
3, p.102 | MilSchem | ÖBL 5, p.42 | ÖMZ, year
1837, vol.1, p.168ff.: Henner, [N.] von: Nekrolog des k.k. Feldmarschalls Freiherrn
von Lattermann | Stolzer-Steeb, 32.1 u. 24.2 | Wrede 1, p.156 | Wrede
2, p.233 | Wurzbach 14, p.185ff. | WZ, 10.03.1810, 31.07.1813,
14.10.1813, 13.06.1814, 28.05.1815, 20.02.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
pp.14, 39 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.34, 60
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Buschek,
IR23, I, p.803: 28.02.1797 (?)
2) Buschek, IR23, I, p.804:
30.01.1801 (?)
3) Buschek, IR23, I, p.804:
06.1826 (?)
4)
ÖMZ: 10.04.1799 ("by supreme imperial handbill ") (?)
5)
ÖMZ: 16.02.1816 (?)
6)
ÖMZ: 15.06.1815 (?)
7)
ÖMZ: 17.07.1824 (?)
L14
|
Lattermann,
Franz von
Lattermann, Franz Ritter von
Lattermann, Franz Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 06.10.1716
Died: Graz / Styria, 04.04.1806
Family Status
Father of L13
Married (1): Maria Anna Freiin von Wittorf zu Lüdersburg und Horndorf (17??-1763)
Married (2): Christina Freiin von Pichl (17??-1772)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1760
Generalmajor: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 02.10.1761)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.04.1775
Elevation of Social Status
Ritter: 04.10.1782
Freiherr: 30.07.1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°45: 30.06.1776 – 04.04.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Dragoni, IR45, pp.173, 224 | Frank
3, p.114 | MilSchem | Wrede 2, p.246 | (Wurzbach 14, p.188f.)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L15
|
Latuillerie,
Karl Ritter von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 1758
Died: 1832/33
Name Variants
(French): Charles Chevalier de Latuillerie
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 06./07.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title): 21.02.1815
Retired: 21.02.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 03.08.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L16
|
Lauer,
Franz
Lauer, Franz Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 11.05.1736
Died: Krems / Lower Austria, 11.09.1803
Family Status
Father of L17
Married: Maria d’Allio
Promotions
Major: 1773
Oberstleutnant: 1779
Oberst: 1783
Generalmajor: 09.10.1789 (w.r.f. 27.09.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 02.05.1795)
Feldzeugmeister: 05.09.1800 (w.r.f. 03.09.1800)
Retired: 02.1801
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Director-General of Engineers and Fortification: 02.04.1797 – 02.1801
Director of the Academy of Engineers: 02.04.1797
– 02.1801
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces during the siege of Fort-Louis: 14.10. – 14.11.1793
(+)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of Italy: 09.1796 – 03.1797
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 19.06.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1789 / CC: 27.11.1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 11 May 1736, Lauer joined the Austrian army in 1755, entered the
Engineers and fought in the Seven Years War and rose to the rank of captain.
He was later active in the construction of defensive works. In 1783 he was promoted Oberst.
In the wars against the Turks in 1788/89 he was distinguished at the siege of
Belgrade, was promoted Generalmajor on 9 October 1789 and awarded the
Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
Lauer fought on the upper Rhine under Graf Wurmser in 1793 and 1794 and was again
distinguished at the storming of the Neckarauer redoubts at Mannheim on 30 October
1795. For this, he won the Commander's Cross of the MMTO. After his promotion
to Feldmarschalleutnant on 4 March 1796, he was appointed Chief of Staff
to FM Wurmser in late August of that year, in place of Oberst Weyrother. With
him he brought the plan of campaign that the Hofkriegsrat had worked out for
Wurmser to execute. On 8 September 1796, he fought in the battle of Bassano,
then went into Mantua until it fell on 2 February 1797. After the Peace of Campoformio,
he was appointed Generalgeniedirektor. On 5 September 1800, he was promoted
to Feldzeugmeister and appointed Adlatus to the 18 year-old Erzherzog
Johann in Germany. Lauer lacked the tactical experience for this role and did
not enjoy the confidence of the troop commanders.
In 1801, following the disaster at Hohenlinden, for which he was blamed, he was
retired. He died on 11 September 1803 in Krems.
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.36f. | Blasek/Rieger 1, pp.75, 78, 381 | Bodart,
p.283 | Frank 3, p.115 | Gatti, IngAk, p.194 (wrong: d. 11.04.1803),
p.353 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.451ff. | MD 3, p.103 | MilSchem | Regele,
p.29 | Wurzbach 14, p.214ff. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, pp.13, 35, 109
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/lauer.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L17
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Lauer,
Joseph
Lauer, Joseph Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Graz / Styria, 18.05.1769
Died: Vienna, 26.02.1848
Family Status
Son of L16
Married: 1825 Maria Susanna von Haberecker (1805-18??)
Promotions
Major: 09.1800
Oberstleutnant: 1807
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 27.02.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.12.1826
Feldzeugmeister (title): 06.04.1847
Retired: 06.04.1847
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Königgrätz:
1831-1832
Fortress Commandant of Olmütz: 1832 – 06.04.1847
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces during
the siege of Gaëta: 28.05.-08.08.1815 (+)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of L16): 19.06.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
27.11.1795
Order of Leopold – CC: 07.09.1815
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°44:
1830
– 26.02.1848
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1841
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – CC: 1815
Papal State:
Order of Christ
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.39 | Bodart, p.490 | Gatti,
IngAk, p.312f. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.456f. | MD 3, p.103 | MilSchem | ÖBL
5, p.48 | Wrede 1, p.429 | Wurzbach 14, p.216f. | WZ, 29.06.1814,
17.10.1815 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.43
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L18
|
Laurencin
d’Armond, Ferdinand Graf
|
Dates of Life
Born: 02.02.1751
Died: Olmütz (Olomouc) / Moravia, 15.02.1825
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.01.1808 (w.r.f. 24.06.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.04.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke Rudolph: 1811
– 15.02.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 1820
I.R. Privy Councillor
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 20.02.1808, 11.05.1813, 08.06.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L19
|
Le
Bailly d’Osthove, Anton Chevalier
de
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 1795
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Retired: 1790
Generalmajor: 09.02.1791
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L20
|
Lebzeltern,
(Ludwig) Leopold Ritter von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Temesvár1 /
Com. Temes / Hungary, 12.09.1737
Died: Temesvár / Com. Temes / Hungary, 23.12.1799
Family Status
Married: Anna von Unrein
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1784
Generalmajor: 27.02.1791
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Temesvár:
1791 – 23.12.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Böhm 1, p.415 | Leitner 2,
p.52f. | MD 3, p.108 | MilSchem | Petri, Anton Peter:  Die
Festung Temeschwar im 18. Jahrhundert. Beiträge zur Erinnerung an die Befreiung
der Banater Hauptstadt vor 250 Jahren, Munich 1966, p.82 | Preyer, p.115 | Svoboda
1, col.11f. | Wurzbach 14, p.278
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Svoboda:
Vienna (?)
L21
|
Lederer,
Ignaz Ludwig Paul
Lederer, Ignaz Ludwig Paul von
Lederer, Ignaz Ludwig Paul Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 25.08.1769
Died: Vienna-Hütteldorf, 10.09.1849
Family Status
Married: 1805 Franziska Xaveria von Trattnern
(1785-1856)
Promotions
Major: 1799
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 09.1804
Generalmajor: 12.02.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
General der Kavallerie: 21.10.1830
Feldmarschall: 16.06.1848
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in
Lombardo-Venetia: 07.-12.1829
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 12.1829 – 12.1831
Commanding General in Galicia: 12.1831 – 08.1832
Commanding General in Hungary: 08.1832 – 05.1848
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (by elevation of his father):
03.04.1763
Freiherr (by elevation of his father): 21.02.1778
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
28.03.1814
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 1827
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°2:
1815
– 10.09.1849
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1827
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Bavaria:
Order of St. Michael – GC: 1843
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – CC:
1819
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – GC: 1827
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – GC:
1821
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1815
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 25 August 1769 in Vienna to a
senior official at the Imperial Court Lederer entered military service in December
1784 as Oberleutnant, Dragoon Refiment "D'Arberg" N°31. By September
1804 he was Oberst and commander of the regiment (now N°11). He fought
in all major actions of the Revolutionary Wars. At the battle of Stockach on
25-26 March 1799 he was promoted Major on the field.
On 12 February 1809 Lederer was promoted to Generalmajor and
commanded a cavalry brigade in the I Reserve Corps in the Danube valley. On 23
April at Regensburg he charged Nansouty's six cavalry regiments with the Cuirassier
Regiment "Hohenzollern" N°8 and pushed them back.
At Aspern on 22 May when the Austrian infantry of
the 4th and 5th Columns fell back from Esslingen, Lederer took his brigade and
blocked the road from Esslingen to Enzersdorf and held fast until their artillery
fought down that of the French. He was also distinguished at Wagram (5-6 July
1809), in Hessen-Homburg's division.
On 26 July 1813, Lederer was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant and
given command of an infantry division in the 1st Column on the left bank of the
Pleisse; he repeatedly assaulted Dölitz manor.
After the Rhine crossing in January 1814, he commanded
the advanced guard in the Army of the South in that campaign. He fought around
Lyon and on 18 March at St. Georges, where he took 4 guns. On 28 March, he was
awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. On 20 March
he fought again at Limonest followed by the storm on St. Romans on 2 April.
In 1815, he was in FZM Colloredo's I Corps as commander
of the advance guard. On 27 June he clashed successfully at Dannemarie with GdD
Claude-Jacques Lecourbe and threw him back. On 1 July he saved the 2nd Jäger
Battalion from Lecourbe's corps at Besancourt. That year Lederer was appointed
2nd Proprietor of Dragoon Regiment N°2 and received the Order of St. Anne
1st cl. from the Czar. From 1816 to 1828 he was commander of a division in Italy.
During this time, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor (1827) and awarded
the Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl. From 1829 to 1831 he was Commanding General
in Moravia and Silesia. On 21 October 1830 Lauer received his promotion to General
der Kavallerie followed by the appointment to GOC in Galicia (1831), then
GOC in Hungary (1832) for 16 years. In June 1848 Lederer retired as a Feldmarschall.
He died on 10 September 1849 in Hütteldorf near Vienna.
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.115f. | Frank 3, p.121 | Guillaume,
p.299 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1299ff. | MD 3, p.109 | MilSchem | Soldatenfreund,
year 1849, N°110 (from 13.09.1849), p.513 | Wrede 3, p.305 | Wurzbach
14, p.292ff. | WZ, 31.07.1813, 14.10.1813, 18.10.1815 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, pp.14, 41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.53, 56, 60,
64
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L22
|
Legisfeld,
Ignaz Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: around 1749
Died: Vienna, 03.07.1827
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 1806 (w.r.f. 26.02.1804)
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Nekrolog 1827/2, p.1127, N°874
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L23
|
Leibinger,
Karl
Leibinger Edler von Bundenthal, Karl
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Hermannstadt (Sibiu, Nagyszeben) / Transylvania, 30.11.1829
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.04.1815
Retired: 27.03.1828
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 27.08.1818 (with predicate "Edler von Bundenthal")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.123 | Frank-Döfering, 2325 | MilSchem | WZ,
08.05.1815
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L24
|
Le
Louchier, Rudolf Franz Michael
|
Dates of Life
Born: 29.09.1728
Died: Belgium (Batavian Republic), 14.12.1805
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 26.07.1789 (w.r.f. 20.07.1789)
Retired: 26.07.1789
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L25
|
Le
Loup, Johann Baptist von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 08.03.1736 (baptism)
Died: Wels / Upper Austria, 01.02.1810
Name Variants
also: Leloup
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 1806 (w.r.f. 14.04.1805)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 17.03.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L26
|
Lenk,
Ignaz
Lenk von Treuenfeld, Ignaz
|
Dates of Life
Born: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 04.07.1766
Died: Vienna, 12.04.1842
Family Status
Married (1): 1792 Katharina Walburg-Sonntag
Married (2): 1817 Maria Martha Korbuly
Promotions
Major: 15.01.1801
Oberstleutnant: 13.11.1805
Oberst: 23.07.1809
Generalmajor: 29.09.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 24.06.1834
Retired: 24.06.1834
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in the Bukowina (Czernowitz): 04.1814
– 11.1817
Fortress Commandant of Karlsburg: 08.10.1823 –
16.07.(24.06.?)1834
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (by elevation of his father): 10.10.1774 (with predicate: "von
Treuenfeld")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.258ff. | Frank 3, p.126 | Leitner 2, p.150f. | MilSchem | ÖBL
5, p.135f. | Svoboda 1, col.138f. | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.77
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Dates of Life
Born: around 1726
Died: Vienna, 15.03.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 19.12.1776
Oberst: 23.11.1781
Generalmajor: 18.06.17891 (w.r.f.
12.06.1789)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Tomaschek, DR8, pp.244,
692 | Wengen, DR13, pp.508, 537
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Wengen,
DR13, p.537: 17.06.1789 (?)
L28
|
L’Espine,
Joseph Ritter von
L’Espine, Joseph Graf von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Avignon / France, 25.12.1761
Died: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 31.12.1826
Name Variants
(French) Joseph Chevalier / Comte
de L’Espine
Family Status
Unmarried
Promotions
Into Austrian service: 31.10.1797
Major: 01.04.1799
Oberstleutnant: 16.12.1801
Oberst (Linienschiffskapitän): 13.01.1802
Generalmajor: 14.08.1808
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
Retired: 12.08.1814
Reactivated: 11.12.1814
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Chief of Staff of the Austrian Navy:
16.12.1801 – 13.01.1802
Commander of the Austrian Navy: 13.01.18021 –
10.1809
Head of the Navy Department of the Aulic War Council:
30.08.1805 –
10.1809
Head of Navy Affairs2:
10.1813 – 06.1814
Provisional Commander of the Austrian Navy: 25.04.1814 – 16.07.18143
Military Commander in the Lombardy (Milan): 11.11.1825 – 31.12.1826
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: ?
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta: 1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross
1813/14): ~ 1814
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°58:
06.03.1822 – 31.12.1826
I.R. Chamberlain: 30.09.1802 (w.r.f. 07.09.1802)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 1814 (?)
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
1822
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Schmidt-Brentano, Admirale,
p.1ff. | Wrede 1, p.524 | WZ, 03.09.1808, 31.07.1813, 14.10.1813 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.78
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) with supreme
imperial decision from 21.12.1801
2)
"Leiter der Marinegeschäfte"
3) removed with supreme
imperial decision from 21.06.1814
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Thurn (Toranj) / Croatia, 26.05.1819
Name Variants
also: Leuthner
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 15.07.1812
Retired: 12.10.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 05.09.1812
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L30
|
Leuven,
Ernst Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Mantua / Lombardy, 21.04.1751
Died: Pest / Hungary, 26.10.1819
Name Variants
also: Leuwen
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1797
Oberst: 01.05.1798
Generalmajor: 27.10.1800
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Blažekovič, IR31, I, p.216 | Leitner
2, p.94 | MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.67
Internet Sources
Not in: Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (!)
L31
|
Levasseur
de Neuilly, Joachim Joseph
|
Dates of Life
Born: Maisnières / France, 17.03.1743
Died: Banat, 06.04.1808
Name Variants
(French) Jacques-Joseph Levasseur
de Neuilly
also: Le Vasseur
Promotions
France:
Marechal-de-Camp: 30.09.1792
Into Austrian service: 05.04.1793
Oberst: ?
Generalmajor: 03.1804 (mR.v. 17.03.1804)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Six 2, p.252 (wrong:
"général de cavalerie") | WZ, 04.05.1808, 21.12.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L32
|
Levenehr
von Grünwall, Franz Joseph Freiherr
|
Dates of Life
Born: Studenitz (Studenice) / Styria, 15.07.1734
Died:
"Hollowau"1 (n.l.) / Bohemia, 06.06.1812
Name Variants
also: Löwenehr, Leveneur
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1773
Generalmajor: 20.01.1779 (w.r.f. 17.01.1779)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.05.1789 (w.r.f. 26.04.1789)
Retired: 01.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 15.02.1779
Colonel-Proprietor of the Chevauxleger-Regiment N°19
/ (since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment N°14 / (since 1802:) N°4: 1783 –
06.06.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.217ff. | MD 7, p.165 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
15, p.27ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Wurzbach: "Hollowest" (?)
/ Hirtenfeld: "Holluwast" (?)
L33
|
Lezzeny,
Karl Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Rakovac / Slavonia, 24.02.1805
Name Variants
also: Lezzeni
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: ~ 1794
Oberst: ~ 1798
Generalmajor: 03.12.1800
Retired: 1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L34
|
Lichtenberg,
(Adam Siegfried) Cajetan Graf von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Laibach (Lubljana) / Carniola, 10.12.1732
Died (murdered): Vienna-Döbling, 12.07.1801
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 05.1784
Generalmajor: 09.10.1789 (w.r.f. 21.09.1789)
Retired: 1804
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.312f. | MD 7, p.167 (w/o date
of birth) | MilSchem | Wurzbach 15, p.105f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L35
|
Liechtenstein,
Alois Gonzaga Joseph Fürst von und zu
|
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 01.04.1780
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 04.11.1833
Family Status
Brother of L37
Cousin of L36
Promotions
Major: E. 1799
Oberstleutnant: 01.1800
Oberst: 1805
Generalmajor: 12.02.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
Feldzeugmeister: 21.10.1830
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 12.1826 – 07.1829
Commanding General in Bohemia: 07.1829 – 04.11.1833
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the 2nd Army Detachment: 10.1813 – 05.1814
Commander of the Austrian forces during the Blockade
of Besançon: 08.01.-20.04.1814 (–)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta (GC)
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the Order of Malta in Austria (Vienna)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 1830
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
/ CC: 1809
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°12:
1809 – 04.11.1833
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 1813
Russia:
Order of St. George 3rd cl.: 19.[07.]10.1813
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 1 April 1780 in Vienna as youngest son of
the later FM Fürst Karl Joseph he entered military service in 1798 as Unterleutnant
in Infantry Regiment "Lacy" N°22 in Germany. The following year he fought
at Ostrach (21 March) and at Pfungen (Switzerland) on 28 May 1799, where he had
the rank of Captain, commanding two companies of his regiment.
End of 1799 he was promoted to Major, in the
Infantry Regiment "Manfredini" N°12, which unit was part of the division
of FML Fürst Reuss. During the fighting on the River Lech (11 and 14 June),
he was twice wounded but held his post, being then captured by the French. For
this he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order
on 18 August 1801.
In 1805 Alois Fürst Liechtenstein was Oberst and
commander of his regiment (N°12) in GM Weidenfeld's brigade of Gottesheim's
division in the Danube valley. He fought at Haslach on 11 October, then fell
into French hands again at the capitulation of Ulm on 20 October.
On 12 February 1809, he was promoted to Generalmajor and
commanded a brigade in FML Prinz zu Hohenzollern's III Corps. He fought at Hausen,
where he was wounded and distinguished in action. The prince was sent back to
Vienna and captured there. On 6 May 1810 (?) he was awarded the Commander's Cross
of the MMTO and appointed Proprietor of Infantry Regiment N°12.
In 1812 prince Alois served in the Austrian corps
in Russia, commanding a brigade in FML Bianchi's 1st Division. He was wounded
(for the 40th time) at Ploska on 8 October.
On 26 July 1813 he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant and
commanded a division in FZM Merveldt's II Corps. He fought on the left wing at
Dresden, where he led Infantry Regiment "Wenzel Colloredo"
N°57 in a bayonet charge, which threw the French out of Rosstal, but was
pushed out again by a heavy counter attack. On 17 September he fought and was
distinguished at Arbesau (Teplitz), where he won a sword of honour from the Czar.
On 16 October he took over command of II Corps after Merveldt was captured; his
outstanding behavior on this day brought him the Russian Order of St. George
III. cl.
On 9 November, Alois prince Liechtenstein threw GdD
Comte Charles-Antoine-Louis-Alexis Morand's 12th Division out of the redoubts
near Hochheim. He crossed the Rhine at Basle in December and advanced to the
River Doubs. On 1 January 1814, he commanded the brigades of Coburg, Beck and
Weigl and the Cuirassier Regiment "Erzherzog Franz"
N°2. He left a blockade corps at Fort Joux and pushed on to Besançon.
On 23 January, he repelled several attacks by GdD Claude-Ignace-François
Michaud on the road from Marre and inflicted heavy loss on him. For this, he
received the Order of the Red Eagle I cl. from the king of Prussia. He beat back
several sorties from Besançon in March and April; the siege was lifted
on 20 April.
After 1815 the prince was used on diplomatic missions
and was representative of the Order of St John to the court in Vienna. Later,
he was GOC in Moravia and then Bohemia. He was finally Feldzeugmeister and
awarded the the Order of the Golden Fleece. On 4 November 1833 the prince died
in Prague.
Printed Sources
ADB 18 p.606ff. | Bodart, p.482 | Falke,
Jacob von: Geschichte des fürstlichen Hauses Liechtenstein, vol.3, Vienna
1882, p.361ff. | Hirtenfeld, p.850ff. | Hubka, IR22, p.172 | MD
3, p.128 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.199 | Wurzbach 15, p.109ff. | WZ,
31.07.1813, 14.10.1813, 19.02.1814, 21.02.1814 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.40 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.51, 53, 132
Internet Sources
Boettger
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/liechtenstein.html#Junior2)
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/liecht/liecht3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/liechtenstein.html)
Vederman
L36
|
Liechtenstein,
Johann Joseph Fürst von und zu
|
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 26.06.1760
Died: Vienna, 20.04.1836
Family Status
Cousin of L35 and L37
Married 1792: Josephine Sophie Landgräfin von
Fürstenberg-Weitra (1776-1848)
Promotions
Major: 29.06.1787
Oberstleutnant: 30.05.1788
Oberst: 03.02.1790
Generalmajor: 11.06.1794 (w.r.f. 20.04.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 05.08.1799 (w.r.f. 04.08.1799)
General der Kavallerie: 06.09.1808
Feldmarschall: 12.09.1809
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Upper and Lower Austria and
(until 1809) in Salzburg: 18.12.1806 – 15.09.1810
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Avesnes-le-Sec: 12.09.1793 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces during the siege
of Cuneo: 16.11. –
03.12.1799 (+)
Commander of the (autonomous) Reserve Corps: 14.11.1805 – 12.1805
Commander of the 1st Reserve Corps: 02.-07.1809
Commander of the main army (= Army of Germany): 30.07.1809 – 12.1809
Change of Social Status
Liechtenstein:
Regierender Fürst (sovereign prince): 24.03.1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 12.02.1806
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790
/ CC: 26.09.1796 / GC: 18.08.1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°9:
15.12.1799 – 1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°7:
02.03.1801 – 20.04.1836
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Josef Fürst von und zu Liechtenstein
was born on 26 June 1760 in Vienna. He joined the Austrian army in 1782 as a
lieutenant in Cuirassier Regiment "Anspach" N°33. He fought in the wars against
the Turks in 1788/89 and proved to be a daring and able cavalry commander. On
19 December 1790 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian
Order. Shortly afterwards, he was promoted Oberst and given command of
Chevauxleger Regiment Kinsky N°7.
In April 1792, he joined the army of Fürst von
Hohenlohe-Kirchberg on the Rhine and took part in the operations in Champagne.
On 9 June 1793, he fought in the Austrian defeat at Arlon in Luxemburg. He then
took part in the stunning success of Avesnes-le-Sec on 12 September of that year,
where his 2,000 cavalry crushed a force of 7,000 infantry, 4 squadrons of cavalry
and 20 guns under GdB Nicholas Declaye. In 1794, he took part in the successful
siege of Landrecies (21-30 April), the battle of Le Cateau (26 April) and many
other clashes. On 3 June, he fought in the battle of Charleroi-Gosselies and
on 11 June 1794, he was promoted to Generalmajor. He then went on to fight
at Fleurus on 26 June.
In 1796 prince Johann served in Germany, in Baillet
de Latour's Right Wing of FM Wurmser's Army of the Upper Rhine and was at the
battle of Würzburg as a brigade commander, where his charge broke the French
line. For this, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the MMTO on 26
July 1796.
In the campaign of 1799 the prince fought in Italy.
During the victorious battle at the Trebbia River (17-20 June 1799) he commanded
the Reserve, which decided the day. On 5 August of that year he was promoted
to Feldmarschalleutnant followed by his appointment to proprietor of the
Dragoon Regiment N°9 (disbanded 1801) at the end of that year.
In 1800, prince Johann fought in southern Germany
and covered the Austrian withdrawal after the disastrous defeat of Hohenlinden
on 3 December, where he again commanded the Austro-Bavarian Cavalry Reserve.
After the disbandment of his Regiment (Dragoon N°9) in 1801 he was made proprietor
of Hussar Regiment N°7, and on 18 August, he was awarded the Grand Cross
of the MMTO.
In 1805 he commanded the 5th Column at Austerlitz
and covered the allied retreat. Following this defeat, he negotiated the Peace
of Pressburg for the emperor.
In 1806, Napoleon incorporated his principality to
the Confederation of the Rhine. Rather than serve the French, Liechtenstein abdicated
in favour of his three-year-old son, Alois, and remained in Austrian military
service.
In the 1809 campaign he took Regensburg on 20 April,
fought at Eggmühl two days later in command of the Reserve Corps and commanded
the Reserve again at Aspern, Wagram and Znaim. He was promoted Feldmarschall on
12 September 1809 and signed the Peace of Vienna on behalf of the emperor. In
1815 he retired and dedicated himself to ruling his principality. He died in
Vienna in 1836.
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.610ff. | Angeli, Carl 4, p.558 | Bodart,
p.278, 348 | Criste, Oskar: Feldmarschall Johann Fürst von Liechtenstein.
Eine Biographie, Vienna 1905 | Falke, Jacob von: Geschichte des fürstlichen
Hauses Liechtenstein, vol.3, Vienna 1882, p.283ff. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.570ff. | Hollins,
p.10f. | MD 3, p.128 (wrong: b. 26.01.1760) | MilSchem | NDB
14, p.519f. (wrong: b. 27.06.1760) | Pizzighelli, DR10, pp.187, 190 (wrong:
Oberst on 06.02.1790), 209, 421 | Victorin, DR7, pp.204, 406 | Wanger,
Harald: Die Regierenden Fürsten von Liechtenstein, Triesen 1995, p.121ff. | Wrede
3, pp.266, 693 | Wrede (6), p.32 | Wurzbach 15, p.148ff. | WZ,
21.09.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität, pp.14 (wrong: FM on 10.09.1809),
38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.129, 131
Internet Sources
Boettger
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/liechtenstein.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/liecht/liecht4.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/liechtenstein.html)
L37
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Liechtenstein,
Moritz Joseph Johann Baptist Fürst von und zu
|
Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 21.07.1775
Died: Vienna, 24.03.1819
Family Status
Brother of L35
Cousin of L36
Married 1806: Leopoldine Prinzessin Esterházy
de Galántha (1788-1846)
Promotions
Major: 1796
Oberstleutnant: 1798
Oberst: 1800
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 06.04.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.05.1809
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the allied forces at the battle of Troyes
(Fontvannes): 23./24.02.1814 (–)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°6:
17.04.1809 –
24.03.1819
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 1813
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Liechtenstein, Moritz Joseph Johann Baptist Viktor,
Fürst von, FML. Commander, 1st Light Division, Army of Bohemia in 1813.
Born on 21 July 1775 as the second son of the later
FM Karl Joseph von Liechtenstein the young prince entered military service in
1772 as Unterleutnant in the 1st Carabinier Regiment "Sachsen-Teschen" N°5.
In July 1796 he was Major and Flügel-Adjutant to Erzherzog Carl.
Two years later (1798) he was Oberstleutnant in Uhlan Regiment "Schwarzenberg" N°2.
On 25-26 March 1799 he fought at Stockach; here, the Austrian advance guard was
cut off by the French in a wood at Orsingen; Liechtenstein gathered the remnants
of the Austrian cavalry, charged in the face of two French batteries firing canister
and cut his comrades out. On 16 October, Ney's division assaulted the Neckar
bridge near Wienheim nine times, but Liechtenstein's rearguard repelled all assaults
thus saving the Austrian field hospital, the magazines and the army artillery
reserve. Liechtenstein was wounded in this action. At Mösskirch on 5 May
1800, Liechtenstein commanded the advance guard; by a decisive charge against
superior enemy cavalry, he saved many of the Austrians from captivity.
On 19 December 1800 he saved the Austrian train from
capture after the defeat at Hohenlinden, by holding up the French until it crossed
the River Traun. Unfortunately, the train was captured later anyway. On 18 August
1801, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
On 1 September 1805 the prince recieved his promotion
to Generalmajor but unfortunately was captured in the capitulation of
Ulm. He negotiated with Napoleon, who was impressed with him. He then fought
at Austerlitz in the Avantgarde under Kienmayer, commanding the 4th Brigade,
1st Column.
Moritz Liechtenstein was very distinguished in the
1809 campaign at Hausen on 19 April as a brigade commander in FML Prinz von Hohenzollern's
III Corps. He was again wounded, promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant on the
field on 27 May. That year he also was made proprietor of Cuirassier Regiment
N°6.
In 1813, he commanded the 1st Light Division; after
the battle of Dresden, he fought a successful rearguard action at Pretschendorf
on 28 August and at Pretsch on 10 October, where he stopped Marshal Augereau's
advance, causing him 1,500 casualties for 500 of his own. He also fought at Kösen
on 21 October and at Hochheim on 9 December.
On 14 February 1814, the prince took Auxerre and
advanced along the Rhone on Paris to fight there. On 23-24 February, he was defeated
by GdB Baron Auguste-Jean-Joseph-Gilbert Ameil's 12th Light Cavalry Brigade at
Troyes. He fought in the allied victory at La Ferté-sur-Aube on 28 February.
After the war of 1815 he commanded a division in Austria until his death on 24
March 1819.
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.473 | Falke, Jacob von: Geschichte
des fürstlichen Hauses Liechtenstein, vol.3, Vienna 1882, p.347ff. | Hirtenfeld
1, p.686ff. | MD 3, p.128 | MilSchem | Wrede, DR6, p.404,
412, 927 | Wrede 3, p.159 | Wurzbach 15, p.168ff. | WZ,
25.11.1809, 21.02.1814
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/liechtenstein.html#Junior1)
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/liecht/liecht3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/liechtenstein.html)
L38
|
Lilien,
Friedrich Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 30.08.1745
Died: Vienna, 26.08.1831
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 13.11.1775
Generalmajor: 31.05.1788 (w.r.f. 19.05.1788)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.12.1793 (w.r.f. 11.12.1793)
Retired: 01.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, p.193, 214 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L39
|
Lilien,
(Joseph) Karl Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Nürnberg (free imperial city), 14.07.1743
Died: Vienna, 27.02.1810
Family Status
Married: 1770 Antonia von Overy
Promotions
Major: 28.02.17671
Oberstleutnant: 20.04.17712
Oberst: 01.05.1773
Generalmajor: 10.04.17833 (w.r.f.
25.04.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 13.02.1790)
General der Kavallerie: 01.03.1801 (w.r.f. 22.02.1801)
Retired: 01.02.1806
Field Service (1792-1815)
Inspector of Military Provisions of the Army of the
Rhine: 1796
Austrian and Imperial War Commissar: 1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°26
/ (since 1798:) N°3 / (since 1802:) N°1: 25.05.1785 –
27.02.1810
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Amon, DR9, pp.160f., 251f., 386 | Megerle,
p.149 | MilSchem | Wengen, DR13, pp.487, 492, 496 | Wrede
3, p.183 | WZ, 17.03.1810 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Amon, DR9, p.251: 01.03.1767
(?)
2) Amon, DR9, p.251: 01.05.1771
(?)
3) Amon, DR9, p.252: 09.04.1783
(?)
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 20.07.1822
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.01.1807
Retired: 01.01.1807
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Auer, N°164 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L41
|
Linde,
Joseph Ritter von
Linde von Linden, Joseph Freiherr
|
Dates of Life
Born: Münster / Münster (prince-bishopric),
1728
Died: Vienna, 16.11.1804
Promotions
Major: 19.09.1778
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 29.12.1793 (w.r.f. 18.12.1791)
Retired: 01.1794
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 07.02.1791 (with predicate "von Linden")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1789
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.207, 240, 246 | Frank 3, p.144 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.267f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach 15, p.197f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L42
|
Lindenau,
Karl Friedrich von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Leipzig / Saxony, 1746
Died: Vienna, 21.02.1817
Promotions
Prussia:
[rank ?]
Into Austrian service: 1786 (1789?)
Major: 1789
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1790
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 19.07.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 05.03.1800 (w.r.f. 01.09.1799)
Feldzeugmeister: 27.05.1809
Retired: 27.05.1809
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army
of the Netherlands: 04.1792
– 02.1793
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 24.11.1801
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°29:
07.10.1803 – 21.02.1817
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Karl Friedrich von Lindenau was born in 1746, in
Leipzig, Saxony. He first served in the Prussian army, but, having enraged the
old FM von Möllendorf, he had to resign in 1789. In August that same year,
he entered Austrian service, as a major in the general staff of Herzog Albert
von Sachsen-Teschen in the Austrian Netherlands. Here, he was employed to teach
the young Erzherzog Carl tactics and military history. In 1790, he was promoted
to Oberst. After the Austrian defeat at Jemappes (6 November 1792) he
returned to Vienna.
On 1 March 1797, he was promoted to Generalmajor.
In the campaign of 1799, Lindenau commanded a brigade
in Swabia under Erzherzog Carl; he was distinguished at the storming of Mannheim
on 18 September. On 5 March 1800, Lindenau received his promotion to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1803, he was appointed proprietor of Infantry Regiment N°29.
He commanded a division of grenadiers in 1805, initially
in Mercy d'Argenteau's corps in Italy and was distinguished in the victory at
Caldiero on 29-31 October.
Four years later he fought in the Reserve Corps at
Aspern, commanding a grenadier division, but was not at Wagram. On 27 May 1809,
he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister and retired at the end of the campaign.
He died on 21 February 1817, in Vienna.
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.687f. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.707ff. (wrong:
d. 14.02.1817) | Hödl, IR29, pp.232, 304, 561 | MD 7, p.172
(wrong: d. 14.02.1817) | MilSchem | ÖBL 5, p.219 | Regele,
p.28 | Wrede 1, p.324 | Wurzbach 15, p.204ff. (wrong: d. 14.02.1817) | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.108
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/lindenau.html)
(wrong: d. 14.02.1817)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L43
|
Linken,
Friedrich Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Steindorf / Upper Austria, 21.03.1743
Died: Dornbirn1 / Vorarlberg,
07.09.1800
Promotions
Major: 06.04.1786
Oberstleutnant: 27.07.1788
Oberst: 06.08.1789
Generalmajor: 24.02.1794 (w.r.f. 18.02.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 17.04.1797 (w.r.f. 22.04.1797)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adjutant-General to the Emperor Franz II.: 03.1796 – 06.1797
Military Commander in Carniola (Laibach): 1797-?
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°166 | Leitner 2, p.64 | MilSchem | Svoboda
1, col.30 (first name:
"Nikolaus" ? / wrong: GM on 22.02.1794) | Wrede (6), p.18 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.39
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Svoboda: Schwaz / Tyrol
(?)
L44
|
Lippa
von Duba und Kosarczow, Guido Ferdinand
Lippa von Duba und Kosarczow, Guido Ferdinand
Ritter
|
Dates of Life
Born: Radoschau (Radoszowy) / Silesia, 12.04.1746
Died: Troppau (Opava) / Austrian Silesia, 21.07.18181
Promotions
Major: 07.1794
Oberstleutnant: 07.1795
Oberst: 03.1799
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 21.[24.]01.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 24.10.1808
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.644f. | Hubka, IR22, pp.140,
160, 181 | MD 7, p.173 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 15, p.224f. | WZ,
03.09.1808
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Hirtenfeld / MD / Wurzbach:
11.01.1818 (?) / Schmid-Brentano: 11.07.1818 (?)
L45
|
Lippe,
Georg Clemens Freiherr von der
|
Dates of Life
Born: Kronstadt (Brassó, Braşov) / Transylvania,
19.05.1748
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary,
29.10.1829
Promotions
Major: 04.04.1790
Oberstleutnant: 11.06.1799
Oberst: 19.12.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.18051 (w.r.f.
25.03.1805)
Retired: 1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.87f. (wrong: Mjr in 1789 / Obstlt in
1798) | MilSchem | Rupprecht, IR60, pp.24f., 44, appendix p.7 | Svoboda
1, col.48f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Rupprecht, IR60, appendix,
p.7: 31.08.1805 (?)
L46
|
Lipthay
de Kisfalud, Anton Freiherr
|
Dates of Life
Born: Szécseny / Com. Neograd (Nógrád)
/ Hungary 1745
Died: WIA Verona / Venetia, 26.03.1799 à Padua
/ Venetia, 17.02.1800
Promotions
Major: 1788
Oberstleutnant: 1789
Oberst: 1793
Generalmajor: 01.05.1795 (w.r.f. 05.04.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 06.09.1799)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 15.11.1788
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Anton Lipthay de Kisfalud was born in 1745 in Hungary.
With age of 50 he reached the rank of Generalmajor (1 May 1795).
1796 he served in Italy, initially as brigade commander
in Mercy d'Argenteau's division. He fought at Voltri on 10 April and Montenotti
on the next two days. After the disaster of Mondovi, Piedmont was evacuated by
the Austrians and on 2 May they fell back over the Po at Valenza. Napoleon crossed
the river – unopposed, but observed by two squadrons of Lipthay's cavalry – at
Piacenza on 7 May. The French advance caught Beaulieu's unconcentrated forces
by surprise; on 8 May Lipthay was attacked and thrown back at Fombio, loosing
600 men. His corps dissolved in the following chase.
Lipthay's next task was to bring the Venetian fortress
of Peschiera, at the southern end of Lake Garda, under his control, which he
did by a surprise raid. He then took post there with 4,500 men. When the Mincio
River line was broken at Borghetto on 30 May, he withdrew up into the Tyrol.
He took part in Wurmser's main column in the first attempt to relieve Mantua
and was defeated by general Augereau's division at Castiglione on 3 August. Two
days later he was wounded fighting in the battle of Castiglione. Wurmser withdrew
up the Etsch to Ala.
In the autumn Lipthay was part of the Corps of the
Friaul. He fought in Wurmser's second relief attempt at Mantua (at Castiglioni)
on 5 August, but did not go with the army's main body into the fortress. He also
took part in Alvinczy's third attempt to relieve Mantua, and fought at the victory
at Bassano over the French under Napoleon on 6 November. He also fought in the
victory at Caldiero on 12 November and in the defeat at Arcole of 15-17 November.
Lipthay commanded an assault column at Rivoli on 14-15 January 1797 in Alvinczy's
final attempt to relieve Mantua. On 14, his column threw the French back at Monte
Baldo, but at 10 a.m., Napoleon led Massena's division in a counter attack which
stabilised the French line.
Serving again on the Italian theatre-of-war in 1799
Lipthay received his promotion to Feldmarschalleutnant on 2 October that
year. In the clash at Verona on 26 March 1799 he was mortally wounded and died
on 17 February 1800 in Padua.
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.243f. | MD 7, p.174 | Megerle,
p.297 | MilSchem | Wurzbach, 15, p.235f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L47
|
Lobkowitz,
Joseph Maria Karl Fürst von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 08.01.1725
Died: Vienna, 05.03.18021
Family Status
Married: 1752 Maria Josepha Gräfin von Harrach,
the widowed Fürstin von und zu Liechtenstein (1727-1788)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 14.02.1748
Oberst: 01.11.1752
Generalmajor: 22.02.17582
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.10.1768
General der Kavallerie: 16.03.1771 (w.r.f. 04.08.1770)
Feldmarschall: 28.03.1785 (w.r.f. 06.03.1785)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Minister plenipotentiary in St. Petersburg (Russia)3:
06.01.1764 – 25.05.17774
Captain of the First Arcièren Life
Guard: 11.04.1785 – 06.03.1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 11.10.1772
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.01.1760
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°28
/ (since 1779:) Chevauxleger Regiment N°28 / (since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment
N°10 à (since 1802:) Chevauxleger Regiment
N°3: 1773 – 05.03.1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
ADB 19, p.50ff. | Amon, Hauptleute, p.53ff. | Hirtenfeld
1, p.103f. | Matsch, p.122 | MD 3, p.135 | MilSchem | NDB
14, p.733f. | Repertorium 3, p.88 | Wrede 3, p.353 | Wrede
(6), p.72 | Wurzbach 15, p.347ff. | Zivkovic, Generalität,
pp.12, 34 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.43
Internet Sources
Boettger
Ebert (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/lobkowicz.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/lobkow/lobkow2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Hirtenfeld / Amon, Hauptleute,
p.55 / Schmidt-Brentano: 06.03.1802 (?)
2) Amon, Hauptleute, p.54:
01.01.1758 (?)
3) on leave: 04.03.1770 – 10.04.1771
/ 10.01.1775 –
22.02.1776
4) Matsch: 03.11.1763 – 22.01.1777
(?)
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: (Vienna ?), 20.08.1818
Name Variants
also: Lederer
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 02./03.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 27.02.1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 09.03.1808, 29.06.1814
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L49
|
Loën
von Enschede, Ignaz Freiherr
|
Dates of Life
Born: around 1735
Died: Vienna, 27.09.1813
Name Variants
also: Loen d’Enschede
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 15.11.1800)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L50
|
Löpper,
Franz Ritter von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Freiburg im Breisgau / Anterior Austria, 1741
Died: St. Pölten / Lower Austria, 12.02.1801
Promotions
Major: 08.1793
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1797
Generalmajor: 29.10.1801 (w.r.f. 27.12.1800)
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Neumarkt: 16.12.1800 (–)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 11.05.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born in 1741 in Freiburg, in Breisgau (south west
Germany), Franz von Löpper joined the Austrian Infantry Regiment "Colloredo"
N°40, as a volunteer in 1756. He fought with this regiment in 1757 and 1758.
In 1759, when the "Loudon grenadier battalions" were raised, Löpper was
appointed Unterleutnant in one of them and fought at Kunersdorf (12 August)
where he was wounded. In 1760 he fought at Landeshut (23 June) and Liegnitz (15
August). When the Loudon grenadier battalions were disbanded, Löpper was
posted to Infantry Regiment N°51 "Franz von Gyulai". In 1771, he was promoted
to captain in Hussar Regiment
"Esterházy" N°32. He fought in the war of the Bavarian Succession
(1778/79) and in August 1793, was promoted to major, commanding two squadrons
in Flanders. He took part in many reconnaissance raids. On 17 April 1794, he
fought in the resounding allied victory at Catillon, where he was repeatedly
distinguished, taking eight cannon, a howitzer and 6 ammuntion wagons. For this,
he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order on 11
May 1796. Next year, he was promoted to Oberst.
In March 1799, Löpper was in the army of Erzherzog
Carl in Swabia, in Kienmayer's brigade. He fought at Ostrach (21 March), Stockach
(25 March) and the 1st battle of Zürich on 4 June.
On 29 October 1801, he was promoted to Generalmajor,
having successfully commanded a small mixed force in Bavaria that year. In the
defeat of Hohenlinden on 3 December 1800, he commanded the Avantgarde of the
Austro-Bavarian army. Following that disaster, he commanded the rearguard. On
18 December, he was captured by GdD Antoine Richepanse's troops at Vöcklabruck.
Two months later he died in St Pölten on 12 February 1801.
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.358 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.471f. | MD
7, p.178 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 15, p.397f.
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/loepper.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L51
|
Löwenberg,
(Johann Baptist) Wunibald Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Hermannstadt (Sibiu, Nagyszeben) / Transylvania,
16.12.1822
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 26.04.1800)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 22.01.1808
Retired: 1811
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 20.02.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L52
|
Longueville,
Johann Baptist Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 09.07.1753
Died: Vienna, 05.11.1831
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 03./04.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 26.07.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant (title a.h.): 03.07.1824
Retired: 03.07.1824
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Legnago: 1814 – 03.07.1824
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 04.05.1808, 31.07.1813, 14.10.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L53
|
Lothringen-Lambesc, Karl
Eugen Prinz von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Versailles / France, 25.09.17511
Died: Vienna, 21.11.1825
Name Variants
(French) Charles Eugéne de Lorraine,
Prince de Lambesc, Duc d’Elboeuf, Comte de Brionne
Family Status
Brother of L54
Married (1): 1803 Anne Gräfin Potocka-Zetzner
(1764-1818)
Married (2): 1816 Marie Victoire Folliot de Crenneville
(1766-1845), divorced: 1817
Promotions
France:
Marechal-de-Camp: 09.03.1788
Into Austrian service: 1791
Generalmajor: 18.06.17912
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 01.10.1795)
General der Kavallerie: 03.12.1806 (w.r.f. 27.01.1806)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in East Galicia / (since 1805:)
Galicia: 09.1800 –
31.12.1806
Captain of the First Arcièren Life
Guard: 31.12.1806 – 21.11.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 07.01.1808
Military Maria Theresian Order – CC: 11.05.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°21
/ (since 1798:) N°7: 22.06.1794 – 21.11.1825
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Holy Spirit: 01.01.1776
Military Order of St. Louis – CC: before 1792
Colonel-Proprietor of the Royal Allemand Dragoon
Regiment
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 25 September 1751 in Versailles Karl Eugen
Prinz von Lothringen, Fürst von Lambesc became became Chef of the Royal-Allemand-Dragoons
in 1778. On 9 March 1788 he was promoted to MdC in the French army. On 1 February
1793, his regiment was taken into Austrian service and in 1798, combined into
Cuirassier Regiment N°10. On 18 June 1791, the prince was appointed Generalmajor in
the Austrian army. In October 1791, he was given command of a brigade composed
of the Freikorps "Degelmann" and Dragoon Regiment N°37 in Flanders. In the
combats of 1792, he was distinguished several times. In the battle of Tournai
on 22 May 1794, he charged the French infantry on the heights of Templeuve with
four squadrons of Chevauxleger Regiment "Karaiczay" N°18, cutting down 500
men and taking 3 guns. On 22 June 1794, he was made Proprietor of Cuirassier
Regiment N°21 as a reward for his actions. In the battle of Fleurus, on 26
June 1794, he charged with 4 squadrons of
"Albert" Carabiniers N°5, to rescue part of FZM Graf von Kaunitz's infantry,
which was surrounded by three French cavalry regiments. He scattered the enemy
cavalry and secured an orderly withdrawal from the field.
On 4 March 1796, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1796 he served in Germany under FM Wurmser in the Army of the Upper Rhine;
on 11 May of that year, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Military
Maria Theresian Order. He fought with distinction at Amberg on 24 August and
in the battle of Würzburg (2 September) as a cavalry brigade commander.
In the wars of the 2nd Coalition Prince Lothringen
fought in Swabia, and on 3 May 1800, was distinguished in the battle of Engen.
After this campaign, the prince was posted to Galicia. On 3 December 1806, he
was promoted to General der Kavallerie and - a few weeks - later appointed
captain of the Erste Arcièren-Leibgarde in Vienna; he was also awarded
the Order of the Golden Fleece (1808).
After the restoration of Louis XVIII, he was created
again Peer of France, given the title Duc d'Elbeuf and made a marshal of France.
Popular hostility against him in France, meant that he never exercised these
privileges; he died in Vienna on 21 November 1825.
Printed Sources
ADB 17, p.557 | Amon, Hauptleute, p.59ff. | Hirtenfeld
1, p.464f. | MD 3, p.93 | MilSchem | Nekrolog 1825/2, p.1584
(wrong: d. 22.11.1825) | ÖBL 5, p.330 | Petiot, p.341 | Victorin,
DR7, pp.209f., 401 | Wenzlik-Ebert p.18ff. | Wrede 3, p.165 | Wrede
(6), p.72 | Wurzbach 14, p.48ff. | WZ, 09.01.1808 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.44, 63
Internet Sources
Boettger
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/lothringen.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Liste des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit appartenant à la
Saintonge (http://www.histoirepassion.eu/spip.php?article529).- Download: 21.05.2008
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/lorraine/lorraine6.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Petiot: 28.09.1751 (?)
/ Amon, Hauptleute (p.62): 23.11.1751 (according to the inscription of his monument
in St. Stephen Cathedral in Vienna) (?)
2) Amon, Hauptleute, p.60:
07.06.1791 (?)
L54
|
Lothringen-Vaudémont,
Joseph Maria Ludwig Prinz von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Paris / France, 23.06.1759
Died: Szegedin (Szeged) / Hungary, 29.03.1812
Name Variants
(French) Joseph-Marie-Louis de Lorraine, Prince de
Vaudémont
Family Status
Brother of L53
Married: 1778 Louise-Auguste de Montmorency-Logny
(1763-1832)
Promotions
France:
[rank ?]
Into Austrian service: ~ 1791
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 08.03.1793
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 20.02.1797)
General der Kavallerie: 22.01.1808
Retired: 22.01.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment
N°1: 07.10.1803
– 29.03.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Josef Maria Ludwig Prinz von Lothringen-Vaudémont
was born on 23 June 1759 in Paris. He joined the Austrian army around 1791. On
8 March 1793, he was promoted to Generalmajor. In early 1795, he commanded
a cavalry brigade in Schmertzing's division under Sachsen-Coburg in the Netherlands.
in 1796 he served under FZM Baillet de Latour as GM of cavalry in Wurmser's Army
of the Upper Rhine. On 1 March 1797, the prince was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1803 he received his appoinment to 2nd Proprietor of Cuirassier Regiment N°1.
In 1805 he commanded a cavalry division in Italy. On 22 January 1808, he retired
with the rank of Feldzeugmeister; he died on 23 March 1812 in Hungary.
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Petiot, p.343f. | Wenzlik-Ebert
p.20f. | Wrede 3, p.128 | WZ, 20.02.1808, 22.04.1812 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.38
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/lothringen2.html)
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/lorraine/lorraine6.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L55
|
Loudon,
(Johann Ludwig) Alexius Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: Riga / Livland / Russia, 10.01.1767 (1762 ?)
Died: Hadersdorf near Vienna / Lower Austria, 22.09.1822
Name Variants
also: Laudon
Family Status
Married: 1791 Amalie Gräfin von Fünfkirchen
(1770-1849)
Promotions
Major:
–
Oberstleutnant: 1789
Oberst: 16.07.1790
Generalmajor: 04.03.17961 (w.r.f.
03.09.1794)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.09.1800
Retired: 1806
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Tauffers: 25.03.1799 (–)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 08.07.1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Ludwig Alexius, Freiherr von Loudon was born
on 10 January 1767 in Riga, Latvia. He was a nephew to the great FM Loudon, famous
for his exploits in the Seven Years War. By January 1789, he was a captain in
the Russian army; then his uncle called upon him to enter Austrian service, which
he did, that same year, as an ADC to his uncle, who died in 1790.
In 1792 he had risen to Oberst and commanded
Infantry Regiment "Oliver Wallis" N°29, his uncle's old regiment. In 1793,
he was in Graf Wurmser's Army of the Upper Rhine and on 13 October, he was in
GM Mészáros' 4th Assault Column in the successful attack on the
Weissenburg Lines. Loudon received his promotion to Generalmajor in March
1796; he served in Italy as part of Davidovich's Corps of the Tyrol. As part
of Alvinczy's attempt to relieve Mantua, he fought at Trient, Cembra and Calliano
on 4 November, against GdD Charles-Henri Vaubois, but not at Bassano two days
later.
In January 1797, after the disasters of Rivoli and
Mantua, he took a position at Roveredo with 8,000 men, mostly Tyrolean Militia
("Landwehr"). On 24 January, he was pushed back by GdD Bartyhélemy-Catherine
Joubert to Lavis. He was again thrown back on 24 February. In late March, GdD
Joubert was sent into the Tyrol with 20,000 men in the divisions of Delmas, his
own and one other. On 20 March, he beat GM Kerpen on the Lavis and caused him
1,000 casualties. The next day (21 March) GM Loudon was also fended off he at
Neumarkt and Joubert entered Botzen. Leaving Delmas with 5,000 men in the town,
Joubert advanced to Klausen where, on 22 March, he again defeated Kerpen after
a hard fight. Kerpen fell back to Mittenwalde on the Eisach River, uncovering
the entrance to the Puster valley.
On 27 March, Loudon defeated GdB Emmanuel-Gervais
Serviez at Glanig, then recaptured Bozen, Lavis and Trient. For this he was awarded
the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order on 8 July of that year.
By this time all the Tyrol was in uproar against the French and Joubert dared
advance no further. He fell back with his two divisions and took post at Brixen.
Here he was assaulted on 31 March and 2 April, and on the latter day, Laudon
joined Kerpen and the insurgents here. They now had 12,000 men together. On 4
April Delmas evacuated Botzen, and next day, Joubert's whole corps set off east
for Villach, fighting their way to safety. They reached Villach on 8 April, just
after the Peace of Leoben had been signed. Joubert seems to have lost about 6
– 8,000 men in the Tyrol.
In 1799 Loudon was still in the Tyrol and fought
in the victorious battle of Novi on 15 August as a grenadier brigade commander
in Liechtenstein's division of FZM Melas' corps. On 4 November he fought at Genola
where Melas again beat the French. There followed the successful action at Mondovi
on 13 November.
On 6 September 1800, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant,
commanding a division in northwestern Italy. At the end of May he was in the
Locarno area. He was then posted to Galicia and took no part in the siege of
Genoa and did not serve at Marengo.
For the 1805 campaign he commanded an infantry brigade
in Schwarzenberg's Avantgarde, under FML Graf von Riesch and was distinguished
at Elchingen on 14 October against Marshal Ney. He was, however, captured at
the capitulation of Ulm next day. Loudon retired in 1806 but was reactivated
at the outbreak of the war of 1809, when he was with the Reserve Army in Moravia.
He retired again after the end of the campaign and died in Vienna on 22 September
1822.
Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.35f. | Bodart, p.329 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.524f. | Hödl, IR29, pp.173f., 193, 626 | MD 3, p.103 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
16, p.92ff.
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/laudon.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Hödl, IR29, p.193:
with supreme imperial decision from 15. März [1796]" (?)
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 1797
Promotions
Major: 1781
Oberstleutnant: 1787
Oberst: 1792 (1793?)
Generalmajor (a.h.): 15.01.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Schmedes, IR28, pp.293, 297
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L57
|
Ludwigsdorf,
Leopold Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 21.05.1835
Family Status
Married: 1813 Karoline Freiin von Walterskirchen
(1794-1861)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.11.1809
Retired: 18.11.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MD 3, p.151 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L58
|
Lützow, Sigmund
Franz Freiherr von
|
Dates of Life
Born: 1731
Died: 05.10.1795
Promotions
Major: 1774
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1783
Generalmajor: 27.02.1793
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Schmedes, IR28, pp.78, 293, 297
(wrong: Obstlt in 1784 / Oberst in 1787)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L59
|
Lützow
von drey Lützow und Seedorf,
Johann Nepomuk Gottfried Graf
|
Dates of Life
Born: 04.08.1742
Died: 07.02.1822
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title a.h.): 04.05.1806
Into Bavarian service:
Generalmajor: ?
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Dates of Life
Born: around 1706
Died: Fiume (Rijeka), 06.02.1798
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 23.03.1768 (w.r.f. 03.11.1761)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
L61
|
Lusignan,
Franz Joseph Marquis de
|
Dates of Life
Born: Jaca / Aragon / Spain, 23.06.1753
Died: Eiwanowitz (Ivanovice na Hané) / Moravia,
23.12.18321
Promotions
Major: 01.1789
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 06.1794
Generalmajor: 28.02.1797 (w.r.f. 24.05.1796)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.01.1801 (w.r.f. 07.09.1800)
Feldzeugmeister: 29.05.1809
Retired: 29.05.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°16:
1802-1806
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°16:
1806 – 29.12.1832
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Franz Joseph Marquis de Lusignan was born on 23 June
1753 in Jaca, Aragon, Spain as a member of an old Spanish family. He joined the
Austrian army 1771 as Fähnrich, Infantry Regiment Ferraris N°14.
In 1778, at the start of the War of the Bavarian Succession, he was stationed
in Galicia and was detached from his regiment to serve in the newly-raised Galician
Freikorps "Potocki". At the end of the war, he returned to his regiment. In 1781,
he transferred to Infantry Regiment "Bender" N°41. In January 1789, his regiment
was stationed in Flanders, when he was promoted to major. He saw action against
the Belgian rebels and was distinguished in action on 24 March 1790 at Rochefort,
near Liege, where, with 400 men, he overthrew 4,000 rebels. For this, he was
awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order on 19 December
of that year.
On 6 November 1792 he was Oberstleutnant and
attended the Austrian defeat at Jemappes. On 2 December, he was captured, together
with 200 of his regiment, at Bivier l'Ageau. After being exchanged, he was again
in action. On 6 May 1794, he defended the town of Merzig for a whole day against
heavy odds. For this, he was promoted to Oberst in the June of that year and
given command of his regiment, now "Klebeck". In 1795, Lusignan served in Wurmser's
Army of the Upper Rhine and on 18 October took part in the successful assault
on the Hartenburg, at Mainz. Later, he was again distinguished at the capture
of Neckarau, Mannheim, on 18 October and the defence of Edisheim, in December
1795.
On 28 February 1797, he was serving in northern Italy
under FZM Alvinczy; he led a column in the Austrian defeat at Rivoli on 14-15
January. On the first day he advanced to Affi, on the right wing and threatened
to cut the French line of retreat. At this point there were 12,000 Austrians
fighting 15,000 French (Clausewitz). Following the repulse of the columns of
Quosdanovich, Köblös and Ocskay, Lusignan
– who saw the event but was far too far forward to escape
– was now crushed by Napoleon with the divisions of Joubert and Massena.
His column of 5,000 infantry, but no artillery or cavalry, was scattered and
destroyed. Only Lusignan and one other escaped over Lake Garda. In early 1797
Lusignan was promoted to Generalmajor and again commanded a brigade during
the Austrian withdrawal. On 14 March, whilst commanding the rearguard, he was
surrounded by André Masséna's division and forced to surrender
with 500 men.
On 16 May 1799 he was in Italy as commander of a
brigade in FML Fröhlich's division; he was distinguished in the clash at
Marengo-Torre di Garofolgo. GM Lusignan was assaulted by GdD Moreau's main body,
but joined up with five Russian battalions under General Prince Bagration in
San Guiliano. Together, they threw the French back over the River Bormida to
Marengo. He also fought at Magnano on 5 April of that year, where he stormed
the heavily-defended heights of Monte Rotondo. He was wounded three times in
that action and fell into enemy hands, when his horse was shot dead. His men
freed him again.
In January 1801, the emperor promoted him to Feldmarschalleutnant and
next year, appointed him 2nd Colonel-Proprietor of Infantry Regiment N°16
(Colonel-Proprietor in 1806).
In 1805 he commanded a division in FML Freiherr von
Hiller's corps of South Tyrol. In 1809 he commanded a division in FML Prinz von
Hohenzollern-Hechingen's III Corps; on 19 April, at Teugn-Hausen, he again proved
his skills against Marshal Davout's III Corps, but received a severe head wound,
which forced him to retire. On 29 May 1809, he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister upon
retirement. He died on 23 December 1832, in his estate in Eiwanowitz, Moravia.
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.322f. | MD
7, p.189 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.226 | Wurzbach 16, p.167f. | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.38
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/lusignan.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) MilSchem: 29.12.1823
(?)
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Luszinsky
de Reglicze et Lusna, Joseph Freiherr
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Dates of Life
Born: Prague / Bohemia, 29.01.1745
Died: Moor (Mór) / Com. Stuhlweißenburg
(Székes-Fehérvár) / Hungary, 03.01.1822
Name Variants
also: Luzensky
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title a.h.): 03.1807
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of St. Stephen – KC: 14.12.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.77 | MilSchem | Svoboda
1, col.43 | Wurzbach 16, p.172 | WZ, 22.10.1812, 26.12.1812
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Dates of Life
Born: Heiligenberg / Fürstenberg (principality),
1754
Died: Oberleutensdorf (Litvínov) / Bohemia,
29.03.1820
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 07./08.1808
Oberst: 17.06.1809
Generalmajor: 09.11.18131
Retired: 1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem (wrong: d. in "Oberleitersdorf") | Sittig,
FJB1, pp.43, 87, appendix 5 | WZ, 03.09.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Sittig, FJB1, p.: 04.11.1813
(?)
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Lutz,
Peter Ritter von
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Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 1754
Died: Szent Györgyvár / Com. Zala / Hungary,
07.10.1809
Promotions
Major: 09.1793
Oberstleutnant: 01.1797
Oberst: 1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 20.01.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.08.(09.?)1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.236 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.605
(wrong: only GM) | MD 7, p.189 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 16,
p.173f. (wrong: only GM) | WZ, 25.11.1809, 17.03.1810
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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Luxem,
Jakob Ritter von
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Dates of Life
Born: 1768
Died: Graz / Styria, 14.02.1841
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 27.04.1809
Oberst: 25.06.1809
Generalmajor: 27.02.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 23.05.1830
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg (Innsbruck):
11.1819 –
05.1830
Commanding General ad interim in Transylvania:
1833-1834
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°27:
1826 – 14.02.1841
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1815
Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.351, 417f. | MD 3, p.154 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.306 | WZ, 29.06.1814, 13.08.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.72
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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