|
By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
Austrian
Generals
1792-1815
N
Nádasdy to Nugent
N1
|
Nádasdy-Fogáras,
Thomas Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 13.08.1749
Died: Vienna, 20.03.18001
Family Status
Married (1): Maria Vincentia
Freiin von Kaltschmidt (1768-1789)
Married (2): 1791 Josepha Gräfin von Lichtenberg
(1765[1768?]-1832)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 14.03.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 16.01.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°39: 1787 – 20.03.1800
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Kneschke 6, p.437 | MD 4, p.50 | MilSchem | (Wurzbach,
20, p.11, genealogical table) | Wrede 1, p.394
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/nadasdy3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) MilSchem,
year 1800, p.260: 12.03.1800 (?)
N2
|
Nadlinger,
Christian von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Graz / Styria, 30.08.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.04.1808
Retired: 16.04.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 04.05.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N3
|
Nagy,
Franz
Nagy de Felsö-Eör, Franz
Freiherr
|
Personal Information
Born: Sechshard ("Sexard", Szekszárd)
/ Com. Tolna / Hungary, 1738
Died:
"Palis" (?), 14.03.1815
Promotions
Major: 17.11.1777
Oberstleutnant: 03.09.17891
Oberst: 31.05.1794
Generalmajor: 22.03.17982 (w.r.f.
19.03.1798)
Retired: 22.03.1798
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 14.03.1804 (with predicate: "von
Felsö-Eör")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
11.05.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Amon, HR1, pp.59, 90, 137, 166f., 492,
494, 496 | Frank 3, p.283 | Frank-Döfering, 2939 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.473f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach 20, p.48ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Amon, HR1,
p.90 (contrary to p.167: 09.09.1789 ?)
2) Amon, HR1, p.166: 18.03.1798
(?)
N4
|
Nassau-Usingen,
Friedrich August Fürst von
Nassau-Usingen, Friedrich August
Herzog von
|
Personal Information
Born: Usingen / Nassau, 23.04.1738
Died: Biebrich Castle / Wiesbaden / Nassau, 24.03.1816
Family Status
Married: 1775 Louise Prinzessin von Waldeck
(1751-1816)
Promotions
Major: 1757
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1759
Generalmajor: 25.04.1764 (w.r.f. 01.01.1760)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 10.11.1767)
General der Kavallerie: 08.09.1787 (w.r.f. 15.02.1785)
Feldmarschall: (24.10.?)1790 (w.r.f. 22.10.1790)
Dismissed: 1806
Feldmarschall (reconfirmation of rank): 29.03.1815
Holy Roman Empire:
Reichs-Generalfeldmarschalleutnant: 08.07.17851
Reichs-General der Kavallerie: 26.08.17931 /
18.03.17942
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Director(-General) of Imperial Recruitment3:
~1780-1800
Elevation of Social Status
Nassau:
Regierender Fürst (sovereign prince): 17.05.1803
Regierender Herzog (sovereign duke): 30.08.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
21.11.1763
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°14
/ (since 1798:) N°9 / (since 1802:) N°5: 1781 – 2nd H. 1806
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°22:
12.04.1815 – 24.03.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
?
Printed Sources
ADB 7, p.567ff. | Hausner, DR5,
pp.30, 154 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.187f. | Hubka, IR22, pp.228, 547 | MilSchem | Neuhaus,
pp.341, 344 | Pizzighelli, DR5, pp.52, 88, 249 | Wrede 1, p.271 | Wrede
3, p.153 | Wurzbach 20, p.89ff. | Zivkovic, Generalität, pp.13,
35
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/nassau/nassau5.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Date of
the Reichsgutachten
2) Date of the Imperial
decree of ratification (Ratifikationsdekret)
3)
"Oberdirektor der österreichischen Reichswerbung"
N5
|
Nauendorf, Friedrich
August Joseph von
Nauendorf, Friedrich August
Joseph Graf von
|
Personal Information
Born:
"Heilsdorf im sächsischen Vogtland" (n.l.), 03.08.1749
Died: Troppau (Opava) / Austrian Silesia, 30.12.1801
Name Variants
also: Nauendorff
Promotions
Major: 07.07.1778
Oberstleutnant: 1784
Oberst: 1789
Generalmajor: 16.03.1793 (w.r.f. 04.12.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 22.01.1797)
Retired: 1800
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 12.03.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
19.05.1779 / CC: 18.12.1795
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°8:
1799 – 30.12.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born on 3 August 1749 Friedrich August
von Nauendorf joined the Austrian hussars in 1763. He fought in the War of the
Bavarian Succession, as a Rittmeister in Hussar Regiment N°30. On
5 July 1778, the Prussian GL von Wunsch opened the war by crossing the border
into Bohemia and occupying the town of Nachod. Here they met with Nauendorf,
who had 50 hussars with him. There followed a brisk clash and Nauendorf was promoted
to major on 7 July of that year. On 6 August, with two squadrons of his regiment,
he raided a Prussian convoy at Gerbersdorf, in Silesia. His plan worked so well,
that the escort had no chance to defend itself. Three officers and 110 men were
captured, as well as 476 horses, 240 wagons of flour and 13 Marketender wagons.
The wagons were burnt. On 3 March 1779, he raided Gerbersdorf again with a force
of infantry and 40 hussars, surprised and took the Prussian garrison prisoner.
Kaiser Joseph II. presented him with the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria
Theresian Order on 19 May 1779.
In the Turkish campaigns of 1788/89, Nauendorf was
again active. On 23 October 1788, with 6 squadrons of his hussars, he attacked
the Turkish rearguard in the village of Panscowa and took it. The Turkish commander,
Mehmisch Pasha, was mortally wounded. A few days before this, he had clashed
with 1,200 Spahis and routed them with only two squadrons. In 1789, he was promoted
to Oberst. On 16 September 1789, he led the raid on the island of Borecs;
again, a complete success. On 9 November of that year, he led four squadrons
of his regiment to capture Gladowa. For this, he was given command of Hussar
Regiment "Wurmser" N°30.
In 1792, his regiment served on the lower Rhein and
around Trier on the Moselle in the Revolutionary wars. In December of that year,
they were involved in the successful defence of that area (Pellingen, Merzkirchen
and Oberleuken) from the attacks of GdD La Baroliére, of the Armée
de la Moselle. On 16 March 1793, he was promoted to Generalmajor. In 1795
Nauendorf served in FM Graf von Clairfayt's Army of the Lower Rhine. On 10 October,
the Austrians effected the relief of Mainz. Nauendorf swam his cavalry across
the River Main, from the south bank, had the infantry carried across in boats
and chased the retreating French through Hochheim, taking numerous prisoners
and several guns. On 13 October, he fell upon the French rearguard at Niedernhausen,
scattered them and took 5 guns, 31 wagons and 80 ammunition caissons. On 29 October,
when the French were driven away from Mainz, Nauendorf pursued them, taking much
of their siege train and many wagons of supplies. On 6 November, his victory
at Rochenhausen prevented the unification of the French armies of the Rhine and
the Sambre-Maas. On 18 December, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the
MMTO.
In 1796 nauendorf frustrated General Jean-Victor
Moreau's attempted Danube crossing at Neuburg and his next attempted thrust through
Ulm at Stuttgart. On 1 March 1797, the count was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1799 he was made Proprietor of Hussar Regiment N°8. He fought at Ostrach
(21 March) and Stockach (25 March), before being sent down south, to cross the
Rhein at Constance into Switzerland. On 4 June, at the 1st battle of Zürich,
he commanded the allied right wing (the divisions of Kienmayer and Baillet de
Merlemont) on the lower Glatt. In 1800, he fought at Engen (3 May), Mösskirch
(5 May) and Biberach on 9 May. Nauendorf retired at the end of this campaign,
due to reasons of health and died in Troppau (today Opava, in the Czech Republic)
in 1801.
Printed Sources
ADB 23, p.299ff. | Frank 3, p.285 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.458ff. | MD 8, p.71 | MilSchem | Wenzlik-Ebert p.21ff. | Wrede
3, p.271 | Wurzbach 20, p.103ff.
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/nauendorf.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N6
|
Neipperg,
Adam Albert Graf von
|
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 08.04.1775
Died: Parma, 22.02.1829
Family Status
Married (1): 1806 Therese Josephine Gräfin
Thurn-Valsassina, div. Remondini (1778-1815)
Married (2): 1821 Marie Louise Herzogin von Parma,
Piacenza und Guastella, Erzherzogin von Österreich, the widowed Empress
of the French (1791-1847)
Promotions
Major: 15.05.1799
Oberstleutnant: 31.07.1805
Oberst: 16.01.1806
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.10.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary
in Stockholm (Sweden)1: 10.09.1811 – 18.05.18132
Envoy plenipotentiary (Bevollmächtigter Sondergesandter)
in Naples (Naples-Sicily): 07.12.1813 – 11.01.1814
Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary
in Turin (Sardinia-Piedmont): 10.12.1814 – 03.06.1815
Cavalier d'Honneur ("Ehrenkavalier") to Marie Louise
Duchess of Parma, Archduchess of Austria: 28.02.1816 – 22.02.1829
Field Command (1792-1815)
Adjutant-General of the Army of Inner
Austria: 07.-12.1809
Commander ad interim of
the 1st Army Corps of the Army of Italy: 09.04.1815
– mid 1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
18.08.1801 / CC: 09.05.1815
Order of Leopold – GC: 08.08.1825
Tyrolian Silver Medal of Honor: 22.06.1798
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°3:
31.05.1814
– 22.02.1829
I.R. Privy Councillor: 04.11.1817
I.R. Chamberlain: 04.1803
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – OC:
07./08.18103
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – GC (w.d.):
1815
Parma:
Constantinian Order of St. George – GC: 22.04.1816
Russia:
Order of St. George 4th cl.: 07.10.18134
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 10.1813
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
17.06.1814
Sweden:
Military Order of the Sword – CC: 13.04.1812
/ GC: 21.11.18145
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Adam Albert Graf von Neipperg was born
on 8 April 1775 in Vienna. He entered Austrian military service in the hussars
in 1791 and was attached to the general staff in 1793. In 1795 he took part in
the assault on Mainz. For the 1796/97 campaigns he was in northern Italy and
took part in the relief attempts on Mantua and in the fighting in the Tyrol.
In 1799 he was appointed Chief-of-Staff to General
Vukassovich and prepared the plans for the successful Austro-Russian assault
on Verderio on 28 April. In 1800 he planned the capture of Monte Cenis (on the
Franco-Italian border, west of Turin) on 7/8 April. He also fought at Marengo
and the Mincio River on 25/26 December of that year. End of July 1805 Neipperg
was promoted Oberstleutnant in the hussars and only after five months
he received his promotion to Oberst (16 January 1806). The same year he
married Therese Josephine Countess Thurn-Valsassina, who died in 1815. 1809 he
was appointed ADC to Erzherzog Ferdinand.
On 24 May 1809 he was promoted Generalmajor.
From 1811 to 1813 GM Count Neipperg was Austrian ambassador in Stockholm. At
the moment Sweden joined the coalition against Napoleon, he went to Schwarzenberg's
headquarter in Bohemia and was appointed interim commander of the 2nd Light Division
(early in August). With this force GM Neipperg was ordered to watch the Silesian/Bohemian
border with Saxony, where he had to get in touch with the army of Blücher
and to secure the flanks of all troops joining the main army under Schwarzenberg's
command. He fought many minor combats against the French in north-western Bohemia.
On 28 August, FML Count Bubna was appointed commander of the 2nd Light Division
and GM Count Neipperg took over the command of one of its brigades, in the continuing
clashes against the French in northwestern Bohemia and southeastern Saxony.
With his brigade, Count Neipperg fought in the battle
of Leipzig. After the victory he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant (20 October),
awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order for his actions
and was given the honour of taking the news of Napoleon's defeat to the Emperor
Francis I. in Vienna.
In November 1813 Neipperg went back to the main army
under Schwarzenberg. Only one month later (in December) Francis I. ordered him
to go to Naples to persuade Murat to join the coalition. On the 8th of January
1814 he signed the Capitulation of Carascosa with him, which ended hostilities.
Neipperg remained with his army until the first treaty
of Paris.
On 21 April 1815, he defeated Murat at Ronco. On
1 May, he defeated Neapolitan GdD Carrascosa at Scapezzano. In 1821 he married
Marie Louise Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastella, Archduchess of Austria,
widowed Empress of the French. She appointed Neipperg to command her troops.
Their sons received the title of "Grafen von Montenuovo" and – in 1824 – the
title of "Prince". FML Neipperg died in Parma on 22 February 1829.
Printed Sources
ADB 23, p.408ff. | Amon, HR1,
p.223, 229ff., 492 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1123ff. | Matsch, p.124 | MD
4, p.55 | MilSchem | Nekrolog 1829/2, N°624 (p.918) | ÖMZ,
year 1830, vol.3, p.254ff.: Johann Baptist Schels: Biographie des k.k. Feldmarschall-Lieutenants
Adam Albert Grafen v. Neipperg | Repertorium 3, pp.279, 281f. | Wrede
3, p.243 | Wurzbach 20, p.146ff. | WZ, 19.09.1810, 27.10.1813,
19.02.1814, 27.04.1814, 22.07.1814, 22.12.1814, 22.07.1817 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, pp.119, 134
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/neipperg.html)
Vederman
Notes
1) On leave:
30.04.1812 – 11.02.1813
2) Matsch: 12.07.1811 – 16.03.1813
(?)
3) Not mentioned in the
MilSchem (!)
4) Vederman: 21.09.[09.09.]1813
(?)
5)
ÖMZ: 07.04.1814 (?)
N7
|
Nemes
de Hidvég, Georg Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 1748
Died: Klausenburg (Kolozsvár, Cluj) / Transylvania,
27.02.1808
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 11.09.1793 (w.r.f. 06.12.1791)
Retired: 1800
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 04.05.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N8
|
Neu,
Andreas
Neu, Andreas Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 20.06.1734
Died: Burgstall / Lower Austria, 21.12.1803
Family Status
Married: Franziska Hagl von Donnersfeld
Promotions
Major: 1769
Oberstleutnant: 1778
Oberst: 1786
Generalmajor: 13.09.1789 (w.r.f. 04.09.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 01.08.1794)
Retired: 1800
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff:
09.1790 – 05.1793
Fortress Governor of Mainz: 11.1794 – 29.12.1797
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff
of the Army of the Rhine: 02.1793
– 07.1794
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 04.01.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
11.11.1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
ADB 23, p.467f. | Frank 3, p.291 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.450f. | Lautzas, Peter: Die Festung Mainz im Zeitalter des Ancien
Regime, der Französischen Revolution und des Empire (1736-1814). Ein Beitrag
zur Militärstruktur des Mittelrhein-Gebietes, Wiesbaden 1973, pp.104, 121f. | MD
8, p.74 | MilSchem | Regele, p.28 (wrong: b. 1736) | Wrede
(6), p.41 | Wurzbach 20, p.236f. | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.108
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N9
|
Neugebauer,
Franz Ludwig von
Neugebauer, Franz Ludwig Freiherr
von
|
Personal Information
Born: Wartenberg (Syców) / Silesia,
1731
Died: Graz / Styria, 24.06.1808
Family Status
Married: Maria Walburga von Stabenberg
zu Oberkapfenberg, the widowed Gräfin Sieger von Hirschberg
Promotions
Major: 1759
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1768
Generalmajor: 25.04.1775 (w.r.f. 29.05.1771)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.09.1786 (w.r.f. 03.09.1786)
Retired: 12.1799
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in
Inner Austria and the Tyrol: 01.1793 – 06.1796
Military Commander in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg (Innsbruck):
05.1797 –
12.1799
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 14.01.1764
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
21.11.1763
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°46:
1786 – 24.06.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.292 | Gatti, IngAk,
p.103 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.182f. | Kneschke 6, p.484 | MD 8,
p.74 | MilSchem | Wrede 2, p.251 | Wurzbach 20, p.249f.
(b. in
"Warttemberg") | WZ, 09.07.1808 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.54,
72
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N10
|
Neustädter,
Johann Gottlieb von
Neustädter, Johann Gottlieb
Freiherr von
|
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Eperjes (Prešov) / Com. Saros / Hungary,
29.03.1822
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.01.1807
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.09.1809
Retired: 07.10.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 01.05.1819
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank 3, p.296 | Frank-Döfering,
2976 | Kneschke 6, p.498 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Triest / Coastal Land, 24.08.1808
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 09.12.1795 (w.r.f. 23.05.1794)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Brescia: ~1799-1801
Commandant of the Bocca di Cattaro: 1801- ~1804
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 21.09.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N12
|
Nimptsch
von Fürst und Kupferberg, Christoph
Ferdinand Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: 1751
Died: 18.12.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1797 (w.r.f. 11.06.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 03.1805 (w.r.f. 25.03.1805)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Vice-Commandant of Krakau: ~1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale ("Nimptsch Freiherr von
Oels" ?)
N13
|
Nimptsch
von Fürst und Kupferberg, Joseph
Graf
|
Personal Information
Born:
"Malecz" (n.l.) / (Austrian ?) Silesia, 1755
Died: Vienna, 03.01.1838
Family Status
Married (1): 1802 Maria Elisabeth Gräfin
Khevenhüller-Frankenburg (1776-1803)
Married (2): Augusta Gräfin Marcolini
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 09.03.1800)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 22.01.1808
General der Kavallerie: 02.11.1827
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke
Johann of Austria: ~ 1801
– 03.01.1838
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
18.08.1801
I.R. Privy Councillor
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.645ff. | Kneschke
6, p.515 (wrong: b. 1763) | Leitner 2, p.81f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach
20, p.360ff. (b. in "Malecz") | WZ, 20.02.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.40
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale ("Nimptsch Freiherr von
Oels" ?)
N14
|
Nobili,
Johann Benedikt Graf
|
Personal Information
Born: Brussels (Bruxelles) / Austrian
Netherlands, 1758
Died: Padua / Venetia, 10.10.1823
Namensvarianten
(French) Jean-Bénédicte
Comte de Nobili
Family Status
Married: Marianne Gräfin von Wilczek
(1792 – after 1860)
Promotions
Major: 17941
Oberstleutnant: 1797
Oberst: 04.1801
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.05.1815
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Local Director of the Acadamy of Engineers:
27.01.1811 - 21.04.1820
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
07.07.1794
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.394 | Englebert
N°37b | Gatti, IngAk, p.305f., 488 | Guillaume, p.120 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.430 | MD 4, p.64 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 20, p.377f. | WZ,
03.09.1808, 20.07.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.37
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Blasek/Rieger
1/I, p.394: 1793 (?)
N15
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Nobili
von Loptay, Johann Baptist Graf
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Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 21.03.1801
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 06.09.1796 (w.r.f. 20.07.1794)
Retired: 1800
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N16
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Nordmann,
(Joseph) Armand von
Nordmann, (Joseph) Armand Ritter
von
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Personal Information
Born: Molsheim / Alsace / France, 31.08.1759
Died: KIA Wagram
/ Lower Austria, 06.07.1809
Promotions
France:
Colonel:
Into Austrian service: 06.04.1793
Oberstleutnant: 1798
Oberst: 17.03.1800
Generalmajor: 01.09.1804 (w.r.f. 25.12.1802)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 24.05.1809
Elevation of Social Status
Ritter: 1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
28.05.1806 (04.1806 ?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Joseph-Armand von Nordmann was born in
Molsheim, west of Strassburg in 1759. He served originally in the French army
and from 1792/93 was commander of the 1er Hussars "Berczeny". He was present
at Valmy and Anderlecht. In spring 1793, he emigrated with two squadrons of his
regiment and fought alongside the Austrians from 1 February 1793. From then until
1797, he commanded the cavalry of the Bourbon Legion. Nordmann was taken into
the Austrian army in 1798 and in 1799, he fought at Stockach on 25 March and
Andelfingen on 25 May, which brought him promotion to Oberst. In 1800,
he was given command of Dragoon Regiment "Latour"
N°11. On 3 May of that year, the regiment suffered heavy loss in the battle
of Engen. They fought again, three days later, at Mösskirch and was very
distinguished at Neuburg on 27 June. On 1 December 1800, they fought at Ampfing,
then later in the retreat, at Schwanstadt, on 18 December, where they saved the
artillery train. They were in action again, at Salzburg-Viehhausen (12-14 December).
On 1 September 1804, he was promoted to Generalmajor.
In 1805, Nordmann commanded his brigade and the division
in the centre of the army in Italy and fought at Caldiero on 29-31 October, defending
the redoubts of Chiavicca del Cristo. Here, on 31 October, he beat off assaults
by GdD Jean-Antoine Verdier's division. Both Nordmann and Verdier were wounded
in this hard-fought action. On 28 May 1806, he was awarded the Knight's Cross
of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
In 1809 he commanded the Avantgarde brigade in Hiller's
VI Corps at Landshut and Ebelsberg on 2 May. On 24 May, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
He was in action again at Aspern, and at Wagram, commanding the Avantgarde. On
the second day of that battle Nordmann was involved in heavy fighting at Markgrafneusiedel,
against Marshal Davout's III Corps, where he was killed on 6 July.
Napoleon referred to Nordmann as "the Alsatian traitor".
Printed Sources
Allmayer-Beck, p.78 | ADB 24,
p.14f. | Amon, HR10, pp.181, 199f. (wrong: b. 1754) | Hirtenfeld
2, p.789 (wrong: b. 1754) | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | MD 8,
p.80 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 20, p.383f.
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/nordmann.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N17
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Nostitz-Rieneck,
(Friedrich) Moritz Graf von
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Personal Information
Born: 04.10.17281
Died: Vienna, 19.11.1796
Family Status
Uncle of N18
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1759
Generalmajor: 19.02.1766
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 25.02.1767)
General der Kavallerie: 28.03.1785 (w.r.f. 26.03.1785)
Feldmarschall: 15.05.17962
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Captain of the Trabanten Life
Guard and the Hofburgwache: 04.1785 – 05.1796
President of the Aulic War Council: 05.1796 – 19.11.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 1790
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment
N°3 / (since 1775:) Dragoon Regiment N°3 / (since 1798:) N°2: 1767
– 19.11.1796
I.R. Privy Councillor
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
(?)
Printed Sources
HKR-Präs, N°22 (p.35) | MD
4, p.68 | Megerle, p.301f. | MilSchem | Wrede 3, p.682 | Wrede
(6), pp.20, 66 | Wurzbach 20, p.398f. | Zivkovic, Generalität,
pp.13, 35 (wrong year of death) | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.4, 44
Internet Sources
Boettger
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/nostitz/nostitz3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) Marek: 04.12.1728
(?)
2) Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.13: 12.05.1796 (?)
N18
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Nostitz-Rieneck,
Johann Nepomuk Graf
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Personal Information
Born: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 24.03.1768
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 22.10.1840
Family Status
Nephew of N17
Married (1): 1797 Sophie Gräfin Apraxina (1778-1802)
Married (2): 1803 Antonia Gräfin von Schlick
(1783-1830)
Promotions
Major: 12.02.1793
Oberstleutnant: 21.10.1795
Oberst: 01.04.1796
Quit: 12.1796
Reactivated: 1800
Generalmajor: 15.11.18001 (w.r.f.
27.01.1801)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 18.05.1809
Retired: 26.06.18212
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – CC:
20.10.1813
Colonel-Proprietor of the Chevauxleger Regiment N°7:
10.12.1814 –
22.10.1840
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1834
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: (20.10.)1813
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Born in 1768 in Prague of old Silesian
nobility Count Nostitz entered military service in 1784 as a cadet in the Wiener
Neustadt Military Academy. In 1785 he was a Cadet in the Dragoon Regiment "Großherzog
Leopold von Toskana" N°3. In 1786, he was promoted to Unterleutnant and
the next year to Oberleutnant. He fought in the Turkish wars 1788-1790.
In 1791 he was promoted to captain for bravery on the field, especially on the
retreat from Lugos to Karansebes in 1788 and at the siege of Belgrade.
In 1793 he was a major in the Netherlands under FZM
Latour, repeatedly distinguished himself during the campaign. On 18 May 1794
Count Nostitz was wounded at Lincelles (during the battle of Tourcoing). He then
fought at Hooglede on 13 June and was again distinguished at Liege on 27 July.
On 24 September 1795, he repelled Pichegru's cavalry assaults at Handschuhsheim
for which he was promoted Oberstleutnant.
In 1796 the count received his promotion to Oberst.
He was wounded three times in a skirmish at Eglingen. During September and October
he was again wounded and twice distinguished in other combats. At the end December
1796 he resigned to manage the family estates on the death of his uncle, FM Friedrich
Graf von Nostitz.
On 15 November 1800 he returned to serve in the Bohemian
Legion as Generalmajor and brigade commander. After the Peace of Luneville
he commanded a cavalry brigade in Prague.
In the 1805 campaign, he served in the Danube valley
under FMLs Kienmayer and Merveldt. On 25 October, he captured Fort Oberhaus,
near Passau. He later formed the rearguard of the Russian army with 4 battalions
and 6 squadrons. He then fought at Dürnstein on 11 November, where the divisions
of Marshal Mortier and GdD Comte Piere Dupont de L'Étang were defeated
and scattered. On 15 November, he fought at Schöngrabern where Murat and
40,000 thought to crush 7,000 Austrians and Russians under Prince Bagration;
the allies held on until nightfall and then broke through the enemy to escape.
At Austerlitz Nostitz commanded a brigade in Kienmayer's Avantgarde of the 1st
allied Column at Austerlitz; after the battle, he commanded the allied rearguard,
broke Davout's column and took 300 prisoners.
In 1809 Count Nostitz was commander of the Reserve
of I Corps (5 battalions, 2 squadrons); on 18 May he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
He commanded the 2nd Column (I Corps) in the centre at Aspern, where he was very
distinguished, wounded and had two horses shot from under him.
At Wagram Nostitz commanded four cavalry regiments
in support of IV Corps on the open left wing, behind Markgrafneusiedel. He was
again wounded and distinguished.
Subsequently, he was on sick leave until 1813, then
was given command of the 36 - squadron strong Cuirassier Corps in the Reserve.
He fought at Wachau and Liebertwolkwitz on 16 October, to prop up the battered
allied left wing. When he arrived on the southern battlefield at 2 pm from the
defile at the village of Gröbern, Wittgenstein's troops were in full retreat.
His two leading squadrons (Cuirassier Regiment "Albert Sachsen-Teschen" N°3)
were swept away by the fugitives. Nostitz formed the next two squadrons of the
regiment into line and led them at a walk against the advancing French to gain
time for his regiments to thread their way through Gröbern. He then led
the Cuirassier Regiments "Albert" and "Lothringen" into the front and flank of
GdB Baron Louis-Michel Letort's cavalry, broke them and threw much of the Guard
infantry of Marshals Mortier and Oudinot into chaos; they fell back to Wachau.
Nostitz withdrew in good order on Gröbern, pursued by Letort's cavalry.
On 18 October, Nostitz was wounded twice. For his extraordinary achievment during
the battle of Leipzig the Emperor of Austria awarded him the Commander's Cross
of the Military Maria Theresian Order and the Russian Czar the Order of St. Anne
1st cl. on 20 October. In 1814 Count Nostitz fought at Troyes, Arcis-sur-Aube,
Fère-Champenoise and Vitry. The same year he was appointed Proprietor
of the newly-raised Italian Chevauxleger Regiment N°7.
In 1815 he commanded the Reserve Division in the
south; fought at Dijon and at the capture of Fort St. André at Salins.
At the great parade at Dijon on 1 October 1815, Nostitz manouevered with six
Cuirassier regiments before the assembled allied monarchs. After the parade,
Czar Alexander presented him to the Duke of Wellington with the words: "Graf
Nostitz! One of the bravest generals in the Austrian army! He performed at Leipzig
just as he did here today. Who knows if we would be here today if he had not!"
Count Nostitz retired in 1821 and died on 22 October
1840 in Prague.
Printed Sources
ADB 24, p.30ff. | Hirtenfeld 2,
p.1154ff. | Leitner 2, p.138ff. | MD 4, p.68 | MilSchem | ÖMZ,
year 1843, vol.1, p.267ff. / vol.2, p.65ff.: Johann Baptist Schels: Biographie
des Grafen Johann Nepomuk von Nostitz-Rhienek, k.k. Feldmarschall-Lieutenants | Svoboda
1, col.196ff. | Wrede 3, p.360 | Wurzbach 20, p.401ff. | WZ,
25.11.1809, 20.02.1814
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/nostitz/nostitz3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
ÖMZ: 13.11.1800 (?)
2)
ÖMZ: 06.07.1821 (?)
N19
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Novack,
Ignaz
Novack, Ignaz Edler von
Novack, Ignaz Freiherr von
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Personal Information
Born: 12.11.1751
Died: (Prague [Praha] / Bohemia ?), 28.05.1820
Name Variants
also: Novak, Nowak
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.04.1807 (w.r.f. 04.06.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 13.12.1811
Retired: 18.11.1815
Reactivated: 1817 ?
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Commandant of Prag:
1817 – 28.05.1820
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 13.08.1806 (with predicate: "Edler
von")
Freiherr: 25.01.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Doerr, p.273 | Frank 3, p.305 | Frank-Döfering,
3008, 3009 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N20
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Novak,
Ignaz Ritter von
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Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Esseg (Osjek, Eszék) / Slavonia, 19.03.1826
Name Variants
also: Nowak, Novack
Promotions
Major: 1801
Oberstleutnant: 1808
Oberst: 1810
Generalmajor: 02.09.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Esseg: 1825 – 19.03.1826
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–
(?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.398 | MilSchem | WZ,
09.09.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
N21
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Nugent-Westmeath,
Laval Graf von
Nugent-Westmeath, Römischer
Fürst, Laval Graf von
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Personal Information
Born: Ballynacor (near Dublin) / Ireland,
03.11.1777
Died: Bosiljevo / Croatia, 22.08.1862
Family Status
Married: 1815 Johanna Herzogin von Sforza-Riario
(?-1855)
Promotions
Major: 01.06.1800
Oberstleutnant: 01.09.1805
Oberst: 17.06.1807
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.04.1815
Feldzeugmeister: 18.09.1838
Feldmarschall: 16.10.1849
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Captain General of Naples-Sicily: 1817 – 01.04.1820
Military Commander in Triest: 08.1829 – 09.1838
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Illyria, Inner
Austria and the Tyrol: 1838-1839
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 08.1839 – 06.1840
Commanding General in the Banal-Warasdin-Karlstadt
Military Border: 06.1840
– 07.1842
Commanding General in Illyria, Inner Austria and
the Tyrol: 07.1842 –
10.1849
Field Command (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff
of the Army of Inner Austria: 02.-09.1809
Commander of the Army Corps in Naples: 09.1815 – 08.1816
Elevation of Social Status
Papal State:
Römischer Fürst (Roman prince): 1816 (?)
Chivalric Order
Professed Knight of the Order of Malta:
around 1855
Titular Grand Prior of the Order of Malta of Ireland
(Prior of Kilmainham): 1860
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
18.08.1801 / CC: 01.02.1814
Order of Leopold – CC: 1815 / GC (with decoration
of war): ~ 1849
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: ~ 1815
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°30:
1815 – 22.08.1862
I.R. Privy Councillor
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Great Britain:
Order of Bath – CC: end 1814/1815
Hannover:
Guelphic Order – GC
Modena:
Order of the Eagle of Este – GC: 1855
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – GC
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – GC
Poland (Russia):
Order of the White Eagle: 1835
Russia:
Order of St. Andrew: 1850
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC
Tuscany:
Order of St. Joseph – GC
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Laval Graf Nugent von Westmeath was descendend
from an Irish noble family and born on 3 November 1777 near Dublin. Only at the
age of 31 (!) he received his promotion to Generalmajor on 24 May 1809
In 1813, he commanded the 5th Hussars in the Army
of Inner Austria. On 7 September, he took the village of Lippa, near Trieste,
from GdB Ruggieri, of Palombini's 5th Italian Division. On 13 September Count
Nugent held off GdD Count Pinot's 5th Italian Division until dark at Jelšane
and escaped with his rearguard. On 13 October, he forced the surrender of Trieste.
On 18 November he captured Ferrara, having crossed the Adriatic on Royal Navy
ships. He was cheated of victory at Reggio on 7 March 1814 by the traitor, Joachim
Murat, King of Naples, who had abandoned Napoleon and joined the allies. Nugent
was about to take the surrender of Italian GdB Severoli's brigade, which was
bottled up in the town, when Murat arrived and ordered that Nugent allow the
enemy to leave, with all their weapons, to rejoin Prince Eugene.
In 1815, Count Nugent fought in the victory over
the Neapolitans at Pontecorvo on 13 May. He also raided the village of Mignano
on 17 May and threw out Marshall Macdonald's Neapolitans.
He died on 21 August 1862 as Fieldmarshal and one
of the oldest Austrian veterans of the Napoleonic Wars.
Printed Sources
ADB 24, p.59ff. | Dauber, p.210f. | Duffy,
p.379 (wrong: d. 21.08.1862) | Gatti, IngAk, p.377ff. | Hirtenfeld
2, p.1131ff. | Hollins, p.32ff. | MD 4, p.69 | MD 8, p.81 | MilSchem | MZ,
year 1862, N°68 (from 30.08.1862), p.558f. | Regele, p.30 | Schmidhofer,
p.195 | Townsend, p.190 | Wrede 1, p.331 | Wurzbach 20,
p.430ff. | WZ, 04.07.1807, 30.01.1815, 08.05.1815, 26.05.1815, 23.06.1815 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, pp.14, 41 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.53, 55, 67,
76, 110, 134
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Partezettel Nugents (http://www.adler-wien.at/wDeutsch/img/parten_orig/nugent.jpg)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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