
By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
Austrian
Generals
1792-1815
S
Part 2
Sobietitzky to Sztáray
S81 |
Sobietitzky
von Sobietitz, Anton |
Personal Information
Born: around 1733
Died: Schichovitz (Žichovice)
/ Bohemia, 18.05.18051
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.10.1795 (w.r.f.
21.05.1794)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments
(Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian
Military Foundation: 1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments
(Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°292 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
MilSchem, year 1806, p.395: 18.04.1805 (?)
S82 |
Solaroli,
Joseph Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1739
Died: Bologna / Papal State,
19.05.1805
Name Variants
also: Salaroli, Salarolli
Promotions
Major: 18.03.1790
Oberstleutnant: 28.07.1794
Oberst: 22.03.1797
Generalmajor: 22.07.1799 (w.r.f.
16.07.1799)
Retired: 07.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments
(Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments
(Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, p.291, 327, 371,
396 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_generali_italiani_(1800-1815)
].- Download: 19.08.2008
S83 |
Sommariva,
Hannibal Marchese |
Personal Information
Born: Lodi / Lombardy, 10.03.1755
Died: Vienna, 10.07.1829
Name Variants
(Italian) Annibale Marchese di Sommariva
Promotions
Major: 11.1780
Oberstleutnant: 01.1793
Oberst: 04.1796
Generalmajor: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 10.11.1799)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.01.1807
General der Kavallerie: 21.01.1817
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Governor-General of the Tuscan Provinces: 1800-1801
Military Commander in Silesia (Troppau): 1807 – 01.1811
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Upper and Lower
Austria: 2nd H. 1814 –
05.1816
Deputy Commanding General in Upper and Lower Austria:
05.1816 – 10.1820
Commanding General in Upper and Lower Austria and
in Salzburg: 10.1820 –
10.07.1829
Captain of the Trabanten Life Guard and the Hofburgwache:
01.1825 – 10.07.1829
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the 1st Army Corps: 09.-11.1809
Commander of the Left Wing Corps of the Army of Italy:
09.-10.1813
Commander of the Right Wing Corps of the Army of
Italy: 10.1813 – 04.1814
Elevation of Social Status
Imperial approval of the Italian title of count:
21.11.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 17.04.1799
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 12.02.1816
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°5:
2nd H. 1806 –
10.07.1829
I.R. Privy Councillor: 10.1816
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij: 1818
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Hannibal Marchese Sommariva was born on 10 March
1755 in Lodi, Lombardy and entered Austrian military service in 1771 as an Unterleutnant in
the Dragoon Regiment "Bettoni" N°28. In 1773 he was promoted 2nd Rittmeister and
he distinguished himself both in the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778 and
in the wars against the Turks in 1788/89. Promoted to 1st Rittmeister in
1778, Major in 1780 and to Oberstleutnant in 1793 when he was posted
to the Netherlands. He was distinguished in the 1st battle of Fleurus on 16 June
1794, and in 1796 was promoted Oberst and made CO of his regiment. He
was again distinguished in the clash at Amberg on 24 August of that year.
In the 1799 campaign Sommariva's regiment served
in Italy where, on 26 March, they took 14 guns from the French at the clash of
Legnano. Four days later, his regiment again contributed greatly to the French
defeat at Perona. At the battle of Magnano on 5 April 1799, his regiment saved
the day at one critical point and this led to the Austrian victory over French
General Scherer. For this, Sommariva was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military
Maria Theresian Order. His conduct in the subsequent campaign led to his promotion
to Generalmajor on 2 October of that year.
In 1800 GM Sommariva took over command of the Tuscan
army and was appointed GOC the state. The French invasion brought his rule to
an end and he was forced to flee his headquarters at midnight 14/15 October.
He rejoined the Austrian army's main body on 6 January 1801 and was given command
of a brigade in the rearguard. He fought minor actions at Montebello and other
points.
In 1805 he again served in Italy as brigade commander
in FML Vukassovich's division of General Bellegarde's right wing. In 1806 he
was appointed Proprietor of Cuirassier Regiment N°5 and on 1 January 1807
Sommariva received his promotion to Feldmarschalleutnant and appointed
Military Commander in Silesia (Troppau).
During the beginning of the campaign of 1809 Sommariva
commanded a division in Orsini-Rosenberg's IV Corps, and on 19 April, at Dünzling,
he charged and overthrew Pajol's brigade. He fought again at Eggmühl on
22 April, where he commanded the rearguard of the right wing. He was then transferred
to FZM Kolowrat's III Corps and fought at Linz-Urfahr on 17 May, but did not
serve in the later actions of this campaign or in 1812.
In 1813 he commanded a division in the Army of Innerösterreich.
On 21 January 1817 he was promoted General der Kavallerie. He died on
10 July 1829 in Vienna.
Printed Sources
ADB 34, p.592ff. | Frank 5, p.20 | Frank-Döfering,
4093 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.537ff. (wrong: Mjr in 1789) | MilSchem | Nekrolog
1829, N°1044 (p.947) | ÖBL 12, p.410 | Pizzighelli, DR5,
pp.88, 113, 249 | Wrede 3, p.153 | Wrede (6), p.66 | Wurzbach
35, p.271ff. | WZ, 20.02.1816, 11.10.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität,
p.40 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.44, 49, 74, 130, 133
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_ministri_della_guerra_e_marina_italiani_(1800-1815)
].- Download: 19.08.2008
S84 |
Sonntag
von Sonnenstein, Prokop |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Budweis (České Budějovice)
/ Bohemia, 27.01.1819
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.02.1809
Retired: 01.02.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military
Foundation: 03./-/06.1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Auer, N°293 | MilSchem | WZ,
28.06.1814
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Petrinja / Croatia, 09.09.1810
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ,
17.03.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S86 |
Soro,
Johann Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Ofen (Buda) / Hungary, 1730
Died: Lugosch (Lugos, Lugoj) / Banat / Hungary, 18.02.18091
Family Status
Married: [N.] von Hübner (~1746-1818)
Promotions
Major: 25.10.1756
Oberstleutnant: 18.06.17572
Oberst: 09.02.1759
Generalmajor: 12.11.1768 (12.01.1760)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 07.10.1788 (01.10.1788)
Feldzeugmeister: 24.04.1805
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Temesvár: 1767-1791
Commanding General in the Banat: 09.1790 – 24.04.1805
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 04.12.1758
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, pp.112, 125, 140f. | Böhm
1, p.414 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.67 | MilSchem | Petri, Anton
Peter: Die Festung Temeschwar im 18. Jahrhundert. Beiträge zur Erinnerung
an die Befreiung der Banater Hauptstadt vor 250 Jahren, Munich 1966, pp.82, 83
(wrong: GdK instead of FZM) | Preyer, p.115 | Wettel, Franz: Biographische
Skizzen. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Banats.- 3rd ed., Temesvár 1932,
p.102ff. | Wurzbach 36, p.29 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.69
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Amon IR4, p.141 / Hirtenfeld / MilSchem, year 1810, p.396: 15.02.1809 (?)
2)
Amon IR4, p.125: 24.08.1757 (?)
S87 |
Sorriot
de l’Hoste, Andreas Chevalier
Sorriot de l’Hoste,
Andreas Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 1767
Died: Guntramsdorf / Lower Austria, 03.08.1831
Name Variants
also: Soriot
Family Status
Married: 1810 [N.] Freiin von Moser
Promotions
Major: 1800
Oberstleutnant: 1803
Oberst: 1806
Generalmajor: 26.09.1809
Retired: 1809
Field Service (1792-1815)
Adjutant-General of the Army of the Tyrol:
11.1805
Adjutant-General of the Army of Italy: 12.1805 – 01.1806
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 21.07.1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Doerr, p.281 | Frank
5, p.23 | Frank-Döfering, 4140 | Gatti,
IngAk, p.322f. | MilSchem | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.119
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S88 |
Soudain,
Karl Joseph
Soudain von Niederwerth,
Karl Joseph |
Personal Information
Born: Hyon near Mons (Bergen)1 /
Austrian Netherlands, 06.06.1743
Died: Mons (Bergen) / Austrian Netherlands, 03.02.1831
Name Variants
(French) Charles-Joseph Soudain de Niederwerth
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 01.11.17991
Generalmajor: 01.09.18052 (w.r.f.
06.02.1804)
Retired: 09.02.1806
Removed from the army lists: 1812
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 24.10.1819 (with predicate: "von
Niederwerth")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Beran IR55, p.3f. (wrong: b. 1746) | Frank
5, p.24 | Frank-Döfering, 4143 | Guillaume, p.205f. (wrong:
b. in Brussels) | MilSchem | Nahlik, IR55, pp.1f., 25
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Beran, IR55, p.4: 03.11.1799 (?)
2)
Nahlik, IR55, p.25: 27.08.1805
S89 |
Spangen
von Uyternesse, Karl Joseph Graf |
Personal Information
Born: Bergen (n.l.), 05.08.1763
Died: Vienna, 01.04.1824
Name Variants
(French) Charles-Joseph Comte de Spangen et
d’Uyternesse
Family Status
Nephew of C26 (Clerfayt)
Married (1): 1803 Anne Marie de La Fons (17??-18??)
Married (2): 1808 Hortense de La Fons (1775-1847)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 12.02.1804)
Retired: 1806
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian garrison of Memmingen:
14.10.1805 (–)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.364 | Guillaume,
p.214 | (MD 8, p.226) | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Van den Pas, Leo: Spangen [= http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/plantagenet/philipsvanspangendesc.htm].-
Download: 06.08.2007
S90 |
Spannocchi,
Lelio Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Siena / Tuscany, 11.01.1739
Died: Olmütz (Olomouc) / Moravia, 28.07.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 21.10.1799)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 13.04.1806
Retired: 1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Tuscany:
Order of St. Stephen (?) – ?C: before 1796
Printed Sources
MilSchem | ÖBL 13, p.1
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_generali_italiani_(1800-1815)
].- Download: 19.08.2008
Personal Information
Born: around 1736
Died: 04.07.1804
Promotions
Major: 1783
Oberstleutnant: 1788
Oberst: 1789
Generalmajor: 22.02.1794 (w.r.f. 10.02.1794)
Retired: 1796
Field Service (1790-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of
the Main Army: 01.1790 –
10.1791
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.202 | MilSchem | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.108
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S92 |
Speth
von Zwiefalthen, Sebastian Franz Solanius Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Obermarchtal / Württemberg, 1754
Died: 03.04.1812
Promotions
France:
Lieutenant Colonel: 03.1791
Into
Austrian service: 01.02.1793
Oberstleutnant: 01.02.1793
Oberst: 31.05.1800
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 15.11.1803)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.08.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, DR9, pp.229, 231, 387 | Hirtenfeld 1,
p.434f. | MilSchem | Strobl, DR12, p.112 | Wengen, DR13,
p.580f. | Wurzbach 36, p.144f. (wrong: Oberst in 05.1799) | WZ,
25.11.1809, 03.06.1812
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S93 |
Spiegel,
Leberecht Konrad Karl Ritter von |
Personal Information
Born: 26.11.1731
Died: Kirchberg (Kostelni) / Bohemia, 12.02.1805
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 26.05.1794)
Retired: 28.05.1798
Elevation of Social Status
Ritter: 12.06.1783 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Doerr, p.262 (?) | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S94 |
Spiegel,
(Friedrich Ernst) Raban Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 09.01.1836
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: (30.05.?)1809
Generalmajor: 30.10.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.06.1829
Retired: 06.04.1831
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment
N°4: 1831-1835
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°4:
1835 – 09.01.1836
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – CC: 1817
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Pizzighelli, DR10, pp.262, 268,
422 | Wrede 3, p.145 | WZ, 10.11.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale ("Spiegel von Pickelsheim
zum Desenberg" ?)
S95 |
Spiegelberg,
Joseph von |
Personal Information
Born: Westum / Münster, 1743
Died: 10.04.1799
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 03.1790
Oberst: 1790
Generalmajor: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 15.09.1794)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC:
11.05.1796
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.486ff. (wrong: GM on 01.03.1796) | MilSchem | Wurzbach
36, p.148f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S96 |
Splény
de Miháldy, Franz Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Casalmaggiore / Lombardy, 17.11.1774
Died: Klausenburg (Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca)
/ Transylvania, 09.01.18291
Family Status
Son of S97
Nephew of S99
Brother of S98
Married: Anna Macskásy (?-1843)
Promotions
Major: 01.04.1800
Oberstleutnant: 08.1800
Oberst: 26.08.1806
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.04.1815
Retired: 23.02.1828
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°31:
08.05.1823 –
13.12.1825
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°31:
13.12.1825 – 09.01.1829
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Blažekovič,
IR31, I, pp.263, 288, 356, 361f. (wrong: b. 1768) | Hoen,
1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | MilSchem | ÖBL 13, p.44 | Wrede
1, p.338 | (Wurzbach 36 p.202: genealogical table) | WZ, 08.05.1815
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Blažekovič, IR31, I, p.362:
07.01.1829 (?)
S97 |
Splény
de Miháldy, Gabriel Anton Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Ternye (Terňa)
/ Com. Sáros / Hungary, 02.10.1734
Died: Szilvás-Újfalu (Slivník)
/ Com. Semlin (Zemplén) / Hungary, 01.04.1818
Family Status
Brother of S99
Father of S96 and S98
Married (1): Susanna Brnin von Orczy (1744-1783)
Married (2): Juliana Brnin von Ghillányi (17??-1814)
Promotions
Major: 1760
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1768
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 25.08.1770)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 28.03.1785 (w.r.f. 26.03.1785)
Retired: 17951
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Province Administrator (Landes-Administrator)
(i.e. Civil and Military Governor) in the Bukovina: 01.09.1774 – 06.04.1778
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Galicia: 10.1787 – 04.1788
Fortress Commandant ad interim of Olmütz:
1794-1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1789
/ CC: 19.12.1790
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°51:
1788 – 01.04.1818
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
ADB 35, p.232ff. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.291ff. | MilSchem | ÖBL
13, p.43f. | Ritter, p.46(bis)ff. | Wrede 1, p.471 | Wurzbach
36, p.199ff. | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.63
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 1794 (?)
S98 |
Splény
de Miháldy, Ignaz Pankraz Galeaz Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 30.04.17721
Died: Miskoltz (Miskolcz) / Com. Borsod / Hungary,
20.03.1840
Family Status
Son of S97
Nephew of S99
Brother of S96
Married: 1807 Maria Szily de Nagy-Szigeth (?-1852)
Promotions
Major: 1797
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1804
Generalmajor: 12.02.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 26.07.1813
General der Kavallerie: 21.10.1830
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Hungary: 1831-1833
Captain of the Hungarian Noble Life Guard: 11.1833 – 20.03.1840
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°2:
1825 – 20.03.1840
I.R. Privy Councillor: 18322
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Bavaria:
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – KC: 1814
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 2nd cl.: 1814 / 1st cl.
Printed Sources
MilSchem | ÖBL 13, p.44 | Wrede
3, p.238 | Wrede (6), p.62 | Wurzbach 36, p.204f. (wrong: d. 10.03.1840) | WZ,
14.10.1813 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.40 | Zivkovic, Heerführer,
p.43
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1) ÖBL:
... or Szilvás-Újfalu (Slivník) / Com. Semlin (Zemplén)
/ Hungary, 1768 (?)
2) ÖBL:
1830 (?)
S99 |
Splény
de Miháldy, Michael Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 1740
Died: Gyöngyös (n.l.) / Hungary,
17.08.1809
Family Status
Brother of S97
Uncle of S96 and S98
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 09.08.1779 (w.r.f. 03.10.1779)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 13.05.1796 (w.r.f. 15.01.1794)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Captain Lieutenant of the Hungarian Noble Life
Guard: 1784 – 17.08.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment
N°17 / (since 1798:) N°2: 1784
– 17.08.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wrede
3, p.238 | Wrede (6), p.62 | Wurzbach
36, p.205f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S100 |
Sporck,
Johann Rudolf Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 27.11.1755
Died: Vienna, 10.02.1806
Promotions
Major: 27.11.1787
Oberstleutnant: 09.03.1789
Oberst: 09.06.1789
Generalmajor: 01.01.17941 (w.r.f.
17.12.1793)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 28.02.1797)
Retired: 1800
Reactivated: 1801
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke Anton of
Austria: 1802 –
10.02.1806
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the autonomous Corps in the Tyrol: 03.1798 – 01.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°25:
1801 – 10.02.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Rudolf Graf von Sporck, born on 27 November
1755 in Prague, entered military service at a young age and by 1789 was 2nd Oberst in
the 2nd Banat Grenz Infantry Regiment N°11. In the wars against the Turks,
he was distinguished in combat. At the end of that war, he transferred to Infantry
Regiment N°25 "Brechainville" and at the beginning of 1792, he transferred
again to become commander of Infantry Regiment "Toskana" N°23, in Flanders.
On 1 January 1794, Count Sporck was promoted to Generalmajor.
In 1795 and 1796 he was in the Army of the Upper Rhine, and then served in Italy,
in Davidovich's Corps of the Tyrol. GM Spork fought at Rovereto on 4 September
and was then forced up the Etsch to Neumarkt while Wurmser made his dash to Mantua.
As part of Alvinczy's attempt to relieve Mantua, he fought at Trient on 4 November,
but not at Bassano two days later. On 1 March 1797, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1800 Sporck commanded a division under FZM Baron von Kray. He fought at Engen
on 3 May and at Mösskirch two days later. After the Austrian withdrawal
to Ulm, he was involved in several clashes around that city, such as that at
Erolzheim on 5 June. Here, he went ahead of his troops to scout the country and
was taken prisoner by a French patrol.
In 1805, he was appointed Proprietor of Infantry
Regiment N°25. The following year he died on 10 February in Vienna.
Printed Sources
Buschek, IR23, I, pp.554, 573, 816f. | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.292 | Wurzbach 36, p.238 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.128
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/spork.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Buschek, IR23, I, p.573 and 817: 28.12.1793 (?)
S101 |
Staader
von Adelsheim, Joseph Heinrich Edler
Staader von Adelsheim,
Joseph Heinrich Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Königseggswald / Württemberg, 1738
Died: Vienna, 12.11.1808
Promotions
Major: 04.1768
Oberstleutnant: 1769
Oberst: 1777
Generalmajor: 15.05.1784 (w.r.f. 11.05.1784)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 24.03.1790
Feldzeugmeister: 01.03.1801 (w.r.f. 26.02.1801)
Retired: 03.1801
Holy
Roman Empire:
Reichs-Generalfeldmarschalleutnant: 08.04.17931
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg (Innsbruck):
12.1799 –
03.1801
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the autonomous Corps at the Upper Rhine:
02.1793 – 01.1794
Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Imperial Contingents:
01.1798 –
11.1798
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 01.12.1780
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 15.02.1779
/ CC: 11.11.1795
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°3:
1791 – 12.11.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Joseph Heinrich Staader Edler (later: Freiherr) von
Adelsheim was born in 1738 in Königseggwald, near Sigmaringen, in southwest
Germany. In 1753, he joined the Austrian army and fought as an officer in the
Seven Years War. In 1769 he was promoted to Oberstleutnant and to Oberst in
1777. On 15 February 1779, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military
Maria Theresian Order for his conduct in the War of the Bavarian Succession.
He also fought in the wars against the Turks. On 15 May 1784, Staader was promoted
to Generalmajor. He was then promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant on
24 March 1790 and made 2nd Proprietor of Infantry Regiment "Erzherzog Carl" N°3.
Staader also was appointed GFML of the Imperial Contingents and commanded them
against the French. In 1795, he fought at the siege of Mannheim under Wurmser
and was distinguished at the storming of the redoubts there on 29 October. On
11 November of that year, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the MMTO. The
following year he fought at the battle of Würzburg on 2 September as commander
of this mixed force of 20 battalions and 31 squadrons. He also fought at Schliengen
on 24 October, where Moreau's beaten army was again tumbled back. FML Staader
then commanded a division at the siege of Kehl from 22 November to 9 January
1797. In 1799 he commanded a division in Swabia and fought at Ostrach (21 March)
and Stockach on 25 March. Staader received his promotion to Feldzeugmeister on
01 March 1801, retiring that year. He died on 12 November 1808 in Vienna.
Printed Sources
ADB 35, p.331f. | Frank 5, p.36 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.449f. | MilSchem | Neuhaus, p.344 | Wurzbach 36, p.304f. | Wrede
1, p.131 | (Wrede) 6, p.30 | WZ, 03.12.1808 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.72, 128
Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/staader.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Date of the Imperial decree of commission
S102 |
Stadler
von Gestirn, Ignaz |
Personal Information
Born: around 1738
Died: Wiener Neustadt / Lower Austria, 13.04.1813
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 11.12.1799 (w.r.f. 24.12.1799)
Retired: 11.12.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem (w/o date of death) | WZ,
08.06.1813
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S103 |
Stäel
von Holstein, Joseph Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Mons (Bergen) / Austrian Netherlands, 02.10.17631
Died: Josephstadt (Josefov u Jaromere) / Bohemia,
11.12.1827
Name Variants
also: Hollstein
Promotions
Major: 01.11.1804
Oberstleutnant: 28.07.1807
Oberst: 23.07.1809
Generalmajor: 29.09.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.123f.
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 02.10.1783 (?)
S104 |
Stahel,
Albert
Stahel,
Albert von |
Personal Information
Born: Würzburg / Würzburg (prince-bishopric),
1753
Died: Währing near Vienna, 31.07.1805
Family Status
Married: 1786 Maria Martha Eveline Ley (1766-1807)
Promotions
Major: 1794
Oberstleutnant: 1794/95
Oberst: 02./03.1797
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 28.10.1800)
Retired: 1803
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 06.10.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 5, p.38 | MilSchem | ÖFA
3, p.120 | Pizzighelli, DR10, pp.209,
227, 237, 421
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S105 |
Stain,
(Karl) Leopold Freiherr von
Stain,
(Karl) Leopold Freiherr Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Brussels (Bruxelles) / Austrian Netherlands,
24.12.17291
Died: Nieder-Stotzingen / Württemberg, 05.03.1809
Family Status
Married: 1773 Charlotte Philippine Prinzessin d’Ursel
(1741-1776)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1758
Generalmajor: 28.02.1763 (w.r.f. 19.11.1758)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 04.02.1767)
Feldzeugmeister: 03.04.1784 (w.r.f. 20.03.1784)
Retired: 1796
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in the Lombardy: 03.1781 – 05.1796
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Imperial forces at the combat of
Kehl: 24.06.1796 (–)
Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 05.07.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 22.12.1761
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°50:
1773 – 05.03.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.309 | Frank 5, p.39 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.135f. | MilSchem | Wrede 2, p.255 | Wurzbach 37, p.92ff. | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.35 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.59
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale ("Stein zum Rechtenstein" ?)
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/ursel/ursel2.html)
Notes
1)
Marek: 27.12.1729 (?)
S106 |
Stangel,
(Johann) Karl von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 03.12.1817
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 20.03.1790 (w.r.f. 13.03.1790)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.12.1800
Retired: 12.1802
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Inspector of Military Clothing: before 1793 – 12.18021
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.17
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Zivkovic: 03.1801 – 12.1802 (?)
S107 |
Stanisavlevics,
Aron
Stanisavlevics
von Wellenstreit, Aron Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Morovice (n.l.) / Syrmia, 1753
Died: Peterwardein (Petrovaradin, Pétervarád)
/ Slavonia, 18.08.1833
Name Variants
also: Stanissavlevics
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 01./02.1809
Generalmajor: 27.04.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 15.05.1825
Retired: 11.03.1833
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in the Banal-Warasdin-Karlstadt
Military Border: 03.-07.1829
Fortress Commandant of Königgrätz:
1830-1831
Fortress Commandant of Peterwardein: 1831 – 11.03.1833
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 15.05.1828 (with predicate: "von
Wellenstreit")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 01.06.1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment
N°42: 1830 – 18.08.1833
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Frank, N°8993 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.417 | Wurzbach 37, p.136ff. (wrong:
d. Neusatz in the Banat on 19.08.1833) | WZ,
11.02.1809, 11.05.1813, 08.06.1813, 27.06.1814 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.67
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S108 |
Starczinsky
von Pittkau, Karl Ritter |
Personal Information
Born: Domaslawitz (Domaslawice) / Austrian
Silesia, 03.09.1753
Died: "Schewosowitsch" or "Schewis(ch)owitz" (n.l.)
/ Moravia, 29.05.1816
Promotions
Major: 1795
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1801
Generalmajor: 12.02.1809
Retired: 1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.98 | MilSchem | Rupprecht,
IR60, p.38f., 40, appendix p.8 | Svoboda
1, col.72 | Wurzbach 37, p.156
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S109 |
Starhemberg,
Anton Gundaker Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Brünn (Brno) / Moravia, 26.03.1776
Died: Bergheim Castle / Upper Austria, 12.10.1842
Family Status
Married (1): 1802 Julia Gräfin Esterházy
de Galántha (1784-1829)
Married (2): 1831 Karoline Leopoldine Gräfin
Kaunitz-Rietberg (1801-1875)
Promotions
Major: 31.12.1804
Oberstleutnant: 22.02.1808
Oberst: 27.05.1809
Generalmajor: 06.10.18131
Retired: 25.07.18172
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Parma: 02.03.1814 (–)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 27.12.1813
Order of Leopold – CC: 1815
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – CC
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1815
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Anton Gundacker Graf von Starhemberg was born on
26 March 1776 in Moravia. After his promotion to Generalmajor (6 October
1813), he served in FML Radivojevich's corps, which was defeated by Prince Eugene
at Caldiero on 15 November 1813. On 8 December, Starhemberg defeated GdD Pierre-Louis
Binet de Marcognet's 4th Division at Boara. On 2 March 1814 he was defeated by
GdD Count Paul Grenier at Parma, but triumphed at Ponte Nuri on the Taro River,
against GdD Baron Antoine-Louis-Popon de Maucune on 13 April, in the last field
action of that campaign. In 1815, he fought in the victory over the Neapolitans
at Tolentino on 3 May. He died on 12 October 1842.
Printed Sources
Amon, HR10, p.257, 268ff. | Bodart, p.475 | Hirtenfeld
2, p.1267 | MD 8, p.231 | MilSchem | ÖBL 13, p.102 | ÖMZ,
year 1843, vol.4, p.187ff.: Leopold Messenhauser: Nekrolog des k.k.
östreichischen Generalmajors Anton Gundacker Grafen von Starhemberg | Wurzbach
37, p.157ff. | WZ, 09.03.1808, 23.12.1809, 26.05.1815, 23.06.1815
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/austria/starhemb4.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Amon, HR10, p.269: 05.10.1813 (?)
2) ÖMZ:
19.07.1817 (?)
S110 |
Steffanini
de Monte Airone, Joseph |
Personal Information
Born: Tione / Tyrol, 1761
Died: Verona / Venetia, 25.01.1821
Name Variants
(Italian) Giuseppe Steffanini di Monte Airone
Promotions
Major: 07.1800
Oberstleutnant: 01.1807
Oberst: 09.1808
Generalmajor: 17.09.1813
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 1810
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.: 12.02.1816
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Papal
State:
Order of Christ – KC
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 2, p.898ff. | Kandelsdorfer, FJB7,
p.377f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach 37, p.311ff. | WZ, 05.10.1808,
20.02.1816
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_generali_italiani_(1800-1815)
].- Download: 19.08.2008 (wrong: b. 1774 / d. 1826 / GM in 1814)
S111 |
Steigentesch,
August
Steigentesch,
August von
Steigentesch,
August Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Hildesheim / Hildesheim (prince-bishopric),
12.01.1774
Died: Vienna, 30.12.1826
Family Status
Married: 1799 Christine von Zwierlein (17??- ~1816)
Promotions
Major: 15.04.1800
Oberstleutnant: 15.10.1805
Oberst: 01.06.1809
Quit: 01.01.1810
Again
into Austrian service: 1813
Generalmajor: 02.05.1814
Retired: 16.04.1826
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Envoy extraordinary in Copenhagen (Denmark): 05.02.1815 – 05.03.1825
Provisional Envoy in St. Petersburg (Russia): 10.12.1815 –
11.09.18161
Austrian Plenipotentiary with the Military Central
Commission at the German Diet in Frankfurt: 11.1816 – 11.1818
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility (Fam.): 11.01.1788
Freiherr (Fam.): 29.03.1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – CC: 18.09.18152
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 05.06.18173
I.R. Privy Councillor: 26.11.1817
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Bavaria:
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – KC: 1814
Denmark:
Order of the Dannebrog – GC: 05.09.18144
Russia:
Order of St. Vladmir 2nd cl.: 1815/16
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.
Printed Sources
ADB 35, p.577ff. | Matsch, p.112 | MD
5, p.85 | MilSchem | Nekrolog 1826/2, N°LXXI, p.737ff. | ÖBL
13, p.144 | Pfau, Gudrun: August Freiherr von Steigentesch. Ein General
als Poet oder ein Poet als General, dipl. thesis, Vienna 1992 | Repertorium
3, p.281 (wrong: Envoy in St. Petersburg until 1818) | Stern, Alfred:
Die Mission des Obersten Steigentesch nach Königsberg 1809. In: Geschichte
der preußischen Reformzeit, Leipzig 1885, p.69ff. | Wurzbach 38,
p.7ff. | WZ, 02.06.1814, 25.07.1814, 07.10.1815
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Repertorium: 20.11.1815 (date of the instruction) / 09.01.1816 (date of the first
report to Vienna)
2)
Pfau's note (p.80, note 115) regarding Steigentesch's investiture to that order
is "cryptical": "H[aus]H[of und]St[aats]A[rchiv], - Wien, Hauptbuch L.[eopolds]Ord[den]
48 N°630 – 18.10.1815 Notifikationsschreiben 29.09.1815, Prot.[okolierungs]Zahl
N°156" (?)
3)
Date of the supreme Imperial note to FM Graf Bellegarde.
4)
Date of the Imperial permission to wear the order.
S112 |
Stein,
Rudolf Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1717
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 1st H. 1799
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 1761
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Not in Schmidt-Brentano
S113 |
Steinbacher,
[N.] von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: (Brod / Slavonia ?), 28.05.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 13.09.1789 (w.r.f. 31.08.1789)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Brod: 17?? – 28.05.1792
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S114 |
Steininger,
Karl von |
Personal Information
Born: Netschetin (Nectiny) / Bohemia, 17.08.1772
Died: Orlath (Orlát, Orlat) / Transylvania,
05.10.1841
Promotions
Major: 1800
Oberstleutnant: 1805
Oberst: 1806
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 21.01.1817
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Carinthia (Klagenfurt): 08.1826 – 02.1836
City and Fortress Commandant of Venice: 1836 – 05.10.1841
Field Service (1792-1815)
Adjutant-General of the Main Army: 07.-12.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1835
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1815
Printed Sources
Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | Leitner 2,
p.164 | MilSchem | ÖBL 13, p.190 | Wurzbach 38, p.99 | WZ,
18.10.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.76, 119
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S115 |
Steinmann,
Johann Martin |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 21.05.1826
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 27.02.1814
Retired: 07.10.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ,
29.06.1814
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S116 |
Steinmetz,
Karl Nikolaus Johann Nepomuk von
Steinmetz,
Karl Nikolaus Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Netherlands, 23.08.1719 (baptism)
Died: Theresienstadt (Terezín) / Bohemia,
08.11.1798
Promotions
Major: 1760
Oberstleutnant: 17611
Oberst: 1773
Generalmajor: 06.10.1781 (w.r.f. 29.09.1781)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.02.1789 (w.r.f. 05.02.1789)
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Theresienstadt: 1789 – 08.11.1798
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 30.07.1763
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.10.1762
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, pp.361, 379 | Frank 5,
p.51 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.162f. (wrong: b. 1723) | MilSchem | Wurzbach
38, p.146ff. |
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.361: 1762 (?)
S117 |
Steinmetzen,
Wilhelm Theodor Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 19.11.1834
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 08./09.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title): 06.05.1815
Retired: 06.05.1815
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Hessen-Kassel:
Order of Military Merit
Order of the Golden Lion – KC
Rußland:
Order of St. Anne 2nd cl. (w.d.)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 05.10.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S118 |
Stephaicš,
Franz
Stephaicš von
Némes-Déd, Franz Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Némes-Déd / Com. Somogy / Hungary,
1739
Died: 09.04.1811
Promotions
Major: 1790
Oberstleutnant: 1793
Oberst: 1797
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 03.12.1800)
Retired: 1805
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 24.08.1795 (with predicate: "von Nemes-Déd")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 5, p.53 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.414f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach
38, p.211ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S119 |
Sterndahl,
Ferdinand Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 1772
Died: Vienna, 20.07.1846
Promotions
Major: 24.03.1799
Oberstleutnant: 30.08.(01.09.)1800
Oberst: 27.08.(01.09.)1805
Retired: 10.04.1809
Reactivated: 27.03.18101
Generalmajor: 27.03.1810
Retired: 27.03.18102
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Buschek, IR23, I, pp.653, 695, 711, 819, 946 | MilSchem | WZ,
15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
According to Buschek (IR23, I, p.819) (?)
2)
According to Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (?)
S120 |
Sterndahl,
Karl Joseph von
Sterndahl,
Karl Joseph Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 05.1735
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 13.10.1816
Promotions
Major: 25.05.1767
Oberstleutnant: 25.09.1777
Oberst: 25.06.1779
Generalmajor: 21.02.1789 (w.r.f. 18.02.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 12.05.1796 (w.r.f. 31.01.1794)
Retired: 1814
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Bohemia: 11.1798 – 03.1800
Commanding General ad interim in Bohemia:
12.1800 – 04.1801
Fortress and City Commandant of Prague: 1802/03-1814
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 16.09.1774
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.10.1762
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Buschek, IR23, I, pp.517, 537, 815f. (wrong: d. 16.10.1816),
946 | Doerr, p.256 | Frank 5, p.54 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.169f.
(wrong: d. 16.10.1816) | MilSchem | Wurzbach 38, p.293ff. | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.51
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S121 |
Stetten,
Maximilian Sigmund Wilhelm Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 1717
Died: after 1796
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.04.1763
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem (last entry in year 1796 ?)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S122 |
Steyrer
von Edelberg, Karl Ritter |
Personal Information
Born: Budweis (České Budějovice)
/ Bohemia, 1761
Died: Kirchberg am Wagram / Lower Austria,
19.06.1819
Promotions
Major: 11.1800
Oberstleutnant: 02.1806
Oberst: 09.1808
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Retired: 01.1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 28.05.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 2, p.779ff. | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802,
note 1 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 38, p.326ff. | WZ, 05.10.1808
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S123 |
Sticker
von Haymingthal, Franz Seraph |
Personal Information
Born: Vienna, around 1750
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 18.07.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1795
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 19.10.1799)
Retired: 1805
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Brico del Cavallo: 12.04.1800 (+)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.351 | Gatti, IngAk, p.235 | MilSchem | WZ,
15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S124 |
Stipsics,
Joseph von
Stipsics zu Ternowa,
Joseph Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Ödenburg (Sopron) / Hungary, 15.08.1755
Died: Vienna, 16.09.1831
Promotions
Major: 29.09.1790
Oberstleutnant: 01.06.1793
Oberst: 10.06.1794
Generalmajor: 01.03.17971 (w.r.f.
10.04.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 03.11.1800)
General der Kavallerie: 26.07.1813
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adjutant-General of Emperor Francis II.: 03.-06.1794
Inspector of Military Provisions: 03.1801 – 03.1803
Military Commander in Upper Austria (Linz): 03.1807 – 01.1810
Commanding General in Transylvania: 01.1811 – 31.05.1814
Vice-President of the Aulic War Council: 01.06.1814 – 1830
Chief of the Military Section of the State Council:
1830 – 16.09.1831
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 18.03.1806 (with predicate: "zu Ternowa")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794
Order of St. Stephen – CC: 05./06.1813
Order of Leopold – GC: 1824
Golden Civil Merit Cross 1813/14: 26.05.1815
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°10:
01.01.1802 – 21.10.1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°10:
21.10.1814 –
16.09.1831
I.R. Privy Councillor: 03.1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Januarius: 1818
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 20.10.1814
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Joseph von Stipsics (later: Freiherr von Ternowa)
was born on 15 August 1755 in Ödenburg, Hungary. He entered Austrian military
service in 1774 as an Unterleutnant in the Chevauxleger Regiment "Kaiser" N°1.
In 1783 he was appointed ADC, and was distinguished in the war against the Turks
in 1789 at the siege of Belgrade. He made his career as ADC to various commanders,
including five field marshals, two archdukes and Emperor Franz himself. At the
battle of Neerwinden, on 18 March 1793, he saved the Austrian baggage train on
his own iniative and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian
Order and promoted Oberst. In June 1794 he was commanding a cavalry brigade
in the Prince of Orange's combined force in the Netherlands. On 1 March 1797,
he was promoted to Generalmajor.
In the campaign of 1800 Stipsics was distinguished
in the battle of Stockach on 25-26 March and was promoted Feldmarschalleutnant on
29 October of that year.
From then until 1803 he worked as Inspector-General
of Military Provisions and was on FML Mack's logistics staff at Ulm in 1805.
After the end of the campaign FML Stipsics was appointed to Director of the Remount
Depot and in 1806 he was created Baron. The following year he was appointed Military
Commander in Linz (Upper Austria). In the 1809 campaign, he was on Erzherzog
Carl's staff and thereafter appointed a member of the Aulic War Council.
In 1811 Stipsics was appointed Commanding General
in Transylvnia, and on 27 July 1813, he received his promotion to General
der Kavallerie and in 1814 was made Vice President of the Aulic War Council.
He died on 16 September 1831 in Vienna.
Printed Sources
Amon, DR10, pp.225, 285, 301ff. (wrong: GdK on 26.07.1814) | Frank
5, p.58 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.417f. | MilSchem | Pizzighelli,
DR10, pp.209, 227 (inexact: GM in 02.1797), 421 | Wrede 3, p.287 | Wrede
(6), p.18 | Wurzbach 39, p.53ff. | WZ, 10.03.1810, 08.06.1813,
31.07.1813, 14.10.1813, 24.10.1814, 13.06.1814, 28.05.1815 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.39 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.17, 58, 73
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Amon, HR10, p.302: 25.07.1797 (?)
Personal Information
Born: around 1722
Died: Vienna, 04.01.1793
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 09.06.1788 (w.r.f. 02.06.1788)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S126 |
Stoichevich,
Andreas von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Agram (Zagreb) / Croatia, 06.01.1810
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 18.02.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.09.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 17.03.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S127 |
Stojanich,
Ignaz
Stojanich von
Selin, Ignaz |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Agram (Zagreb) / Croatia, 23.12.18071
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.10.1799 (w.r.f. 08.12.1799)
Retired: 1807
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 17.07.1801 (with predicate: "von
Selin")
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 5, p.61 | MilSchem | WZ, 15.08.1807,
23.01.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: 28.12.1807 (?)
S128 |
Strachwitz,
Karl Wenzel Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1744
Died: Vienna, 20.03.1810
Family Status
Married: 1791 Maria Anna Aloisia Freiin von Mohr
(1769-1823)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 28.04.1804
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MD 5, p.93 | MilSchem | WZ, 15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S129 |
Strassoldo,
Leopold Lorenz Bartholomäus Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: Görz (Gorizia), 09.08.17311
Died: Vienna, 17.08.1809
Name Variants
(Italian) Leopoldo Lorenzo Conte e Signore
di Strassoldo
Family Status
Married: 1780 Maria Franziska Gräfin von Auersperg
(1759-1811)
Promotions
Major: 03.11.1760
Oberstleutnant: 13.05.1768 (w.r.f. 23.03.1768)2
Oberst: 18.06.17713
Generalmajor: 10.04.17834 (w.r.f.
10.03.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 18.06.1789 (w.r.f. 05.05.1789)
Retired: 17935
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta
Commander of the Commandery Pulst (Carinthia): 01.05.1763-1780
Commander of the Commandery Maidelberg (Moravia):
01.05.1771-17.08.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°27:
19.02.1791 – 17.08.1809
I.R. Chamberlain: 1765
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Dauber, pp.179ff. | Leitner 2, p.62f. | May,
IR35, pp.93, 96 | MilSchem | Rainer, IR53, pp.685, 720f. | Svoboda
1, col.22 (wrong: Obstlt in 1769) | Wrede 1, p.306
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Shamà
Notes
1)
Svoboda, Schmidt-Brentano: 09.08.1739 (?)
2)
Rainer, IR35, p.721: 13.05.1768 / contrary to p.800: 23.03.1768 (presumably:
Obstlt on 13.05.1768 w.r.f. 23.03.1768 ?)
3)
Svoboda: 1773 / Rainer, IR35, p.721: 18.06.1773 (?)
4)
May, IR35, p.96 / Rainer, IR35, p.720: 10.02.1783 (?)
5)
Dauber, p.181: 1796 (?)
S130 |
Strassoldo,
Rombaldo Peter Graf |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 02.07.1802
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 29.08.1801 (w.r.f. 20.08.1801)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1791
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°303 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S131 |
Strauch,
Gottfried von
Strauch,
Gottfried Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 18.03.1836
Family Status
Married: [N.N.] (?-1836)
Promotions
Major: 16.03.1794
Oberstleutnant: 01.10.1796
Oberst: 01.05.1797
Generalmajor: 10.07.1800 (w.r.f. 03.07.1800)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 14.08.1808
Feldzeugmeister: 02.11.1827
Retired: 30.08.1830
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Legnago: 1800/1801
Military Commander in Upper Austria (Linz): 01.1810 – 08.1814
Fortress Vice-Governor of Mainz: 06.1815 – 18??
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 06.08.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.: 12.02.1816 / 1st
cl.: 1818
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°24:
1808 – 18.03.1836
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1818
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Hessen-Darmstadt:
Order of Ludwig – GC: 11.1816
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 1819
Printed Sources
Buschek, IR23, I, pp.574, 607, 618, 633, 642, 947 | Doerr,
p.277 | Frank 5, p.66 | Frank-Döfering, 4224 | MilSchem | Wrede
1, p.282 | (Wurzbach 39, p.320f.) | WZ, 23.01.1808, 03.09.1808,
05.07.1815, 20.02.1816, 28.11.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.40 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, p.73
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 09.10.1847
Promotions
Major: 27.08.1805
Oberstleutnant: 28.02.1808
Oberst: 09.08.18091
Generalmajor: 30.04.1815
Retired: 19.06.1819
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Beran, IR55, pp.70, 134 | MilSchem | Nahlik,
IR55, pp.25, 30, 38, 67 | WZ, 08.05.1815
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Beran IR55, p.70: 06.08.1809 (?)
S133 |
Struppy,
Vincenz Georg
Struppy,
Vincenz Georg Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 1733
Died: Vienna, 03.06.1810
Name Variants
also: Struppi
Promotions
Major: 1772
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 23.07.1792 (w.r.f. 09.06.1791)
Retired: 12.1808
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Director-General of Aulic Building (General-Hofbau-Direktor):
before 1794 – 12.1808
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 22.05.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of St. Stephen – KC: 14.04.1779
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, pp.365, 381 (datas incorrect) | Frank
5, p.71 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 40, p.106f. | WZ, 24.12.1808,
15.08.1810
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S134 |
Stuart,
Patrick Graf |
Personal Information
Born: Riga / Livonia1,
around 1740
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 21.04.18082
Family Status
Nephew of L2 (Lacy)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 23.04.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°18:
27.12.1791 – 21.04.1808
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, IR18, p.245, 358 | Duffy, p.382 | Kotasek,
Edith: Feldmarschall Graf Lacy. Ein Leben für Österreichs Heer, Horn
1956, p.251 | MilSchem | Schmidhofer, p.204 (wrong: d. 12.11.1808) | Wrede
1, p.241 | WZ, 09.07.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidhofer, p.204: Ireland (?)
2)
Schmidt-Brentano: 21.08.1808 (?)
S135 |
Stubenberg,
Franz Graf von |
Personal Information
Born: 24.08.1732
Died: (Graz / Styria ?), 16.03.1796
Family Status
Married (1): 1766 Crescentia Anna von Berchtold (1745-1793)
Married (2): ~ 1794 [N.] Freiin von Loewen (17?? – nach
1822)
Only distantly related to S136
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1773
Generalmajor: 24.01.1776
Leave from service: 1795
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Loserth, Johann: Geschichte des Altsteirischen Herren-
und Grafenhauses Stubenberg, Graz-Leipzig 1911, genealogical table | MD
5, p.96 (wrong: b. 22.11.1722 / d. 16.03.1793) | MilSchem (w/o date of
death; last entry in year 1794) | Wurzbach 40, p.126 (wrong: b. 22.11.1722
/ d. 1795)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S136 |
Stubenberg,
Karl Borromäus Graf 1 von |
Personal Information
Born: 11.08.17352
Died: St. Pölten / Lower Austria, 10.07.1802
Family Status
Married: Therese
von Janson
Only distantly related to S135
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1778
Oberst: 1787
Generalmajor: 03.01.1792 (w.r.f. 11.09.1791)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Loserth, Johann: Geschichte des Altsteirischen Herren-
und Grafenhauses Stubenberg, Graz-Leipzig 1911, genealogical table | MilSchem | Wurzbach
40, p.134
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Schmidt-Brentano: "Freiherr" (?)
2)
Schmidt-Brentano: 11.08.1734 (?)
S137 |
Sturioni,
Joseph von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1741
Died: Vienna, 03.04.1803
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.05.1799 (w.r.f. 24.03.1794)
Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 01.10.1782 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Frank 5, p.75 (?) | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S138 |
Sturm,
Johann Christian von |
Personal Information
Born: around 1717
Died: Vienna, 01.08.1792
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 03.07.1787
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S139 |
Sturm,
Joseph von
Sturm,
Joseph Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Schemnitz (Selmecbánya, Banská Štiavnica)
/ Com. Hont / Hungary, 05.05.1802
Promotions
Major: 1772
Oberstleutnant: 1773
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 15.05.1784 (w.r.f. 23.06.1784)
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 24.03.1783 (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1789
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°306 | Frank 5, p.76 (?) | MilSchem | Wrede,
DR6, pp.645, 929
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S140 |
Stutterheim,
Joseph Xaver von
Stutterheim,
Joseph Xaver Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Mährisch-Neustadt
(Uničov) / Moravia, 19.06.1764
Died: Lemberg
(Lwów, L’viv) / Galicia, 21.07.1831
Family Status
Married: 1808 Josephine von Bolza (1783-1831)
Only distantly related to S141
Promotions
Major: 03.08.1799
Oberstleutnant: 01.09.1805
Oberst: 03.08.1807
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 30.04.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 18.06.1819
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in Galicia:
12.18291 –
1830
Commanding General in Galicia: 1830 – 21.07.1831
Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army
of Neutrality: 09.-11.1806
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 08.03.1814
Order of Leopold – CC: 1823
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14):
~ 1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°8:
30.04.1815 –
21.07.1831
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1829
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Naples-Sicily:
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – GC:
1821
Poland
(Russia):
Order of the White Eagle: 1831
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC:
1823
Printed Sources
ADB 37, p.76f. | Frank 5, p.76 | Frank-Döfering,
4237 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1285ff. | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | Leitner
2, p.129f. | MilSchem | Regele, p.31 | Stutterheim, Eckart
von: Die Herren und Freiherren von Stutterheim / Alt-Stutterheim. Lebensbilder
von Kurt v. Stutterheim (= Bibliothek familiengeschichtlicher Arbeiten 33), Neustadt
a.d. Aisch 1965, p.116ff., 244ff., 268 | Svoboda 1, col.115f. (with incorrect
dates of promotions) | Wurzbach 40, p.240f. (with incorrect dates of promotions) | WZ,
08.05.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.64, 110
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Stutterheim: 21.01.1828 (?)
S141 |
Stutterheim,
(Daniel Gottfried) Wilhelm (named "Karl") von
Stutterheim,
(Daniel Gottfried) Wilhelm (named "Karl") Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Berlin / Prussia, 06.08.1770
Died: Vienna, 13.12.1811
Family Status
Unmarried
Only distantly related to S140
Promotions
Saxony:
Major: 28.03.1798
Quit: 28.03.1798
Into
Austrian service: 10.01.1799
Major: 18.11.1799
Oberstleutnant: 1801
Oberst: 1803
Generalmajor: 24.10.1805 (w.r.f. 14.10.1805)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 13.12.1811
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 20.11.1784
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 24.10.1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Prussia:
Order Pour-le-Mérite: 02.10.1793
Printed Sources
ADB 37, p.77f. (wrong: b. Dresden, 1774) | Hirtenfeld
2, p.1030f. (wrong: b. 1774) | MD 5, p.98 | MilSchem | Stutterheim,
Eckart von: Die Herren und Freiherren von Stutterheim / Alt-Stutterheim. Lebensbilder
von Kurt v. Stutterheim (= Bibliothek familiengeschichtlicher Arbeiten 33), Neustadt
a.d. Aisch 1965, p.84f., p.249ff. | Wurzbach 40, p.241ff. (mentions two
persons: "Karl" and "Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig". Both are identical with Daniel
Gottfried Wilhelm / wrong: b. Dresden 02.08.1776) | WZ, 18.12.1811
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: b. 02.08.1776)
S142 |
Stwrtnik,
August von
Stwrtnik,
August Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Wittingau
(Třeboň) / Bohemia, 1755
Died: Ofen
(Buda) / Hungary, 24.10.1841
Family Status
Married: Katharina Freiin von Häring (1765-1819)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant (title a.h.): 29.09.1838
Retired: 29.09.1838
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Ofen: 1819 – 29.09.1838
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 04.08.1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 30.04.1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Bavaria:
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – KC: 1814
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.
Printed Sources
Frank 5, p.76 | Frank-Döfering, 4238 | Gatti,
ArtAk, p.83 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.719ff. | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note
1 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 40, p.248ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S143 |
Suden,
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm von
Suden,
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Arolsen / Waldeck, 08.1765
Died: Vienna, 22.12.18221
Promotions
Major: 1805
Oberstleutnant: 09.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 25.08.1812
Retired: 07.10.1815
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 29.08.1810
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 30.04.1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Doerr, p.282 | Frank 5, p.77 | Frank-Döfering,
4245 | Guillaume, p.214 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.713f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach
40, p.272ff. | WZ, 09.09.1812, 01.10.1812
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
MilSchem, year 1823, p.470: 02.12.1822 (?)
S144 |
Sulkowski,
Herzog von Bielitz, Franz de Paula Fürst von |
Personal Information
Born: 29.01.1733
Died: Vienna, 22.04.1812
Family Status
Married (1): 1759 Maria Gräfin Strzemeska (17??-1770)
Married (2): 1774 Judith Maria von Bazardi-Mombelli
(1756-1823)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 12.05.1758
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.08.1790 (w.r.f. 1767 ?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
Bavaria(-Palatinate):
Order of St. Hubert: before 1796
Poland:
Order of the White Eagle: before 1796
Order of St. Stanislas ? cl.: before 1796
Russia:
Order of St. Andrew: before 1796
Printed Sources
MD 5, p.99 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 40,
p.298 (genealogical table) | WZ, 03.06.1812
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/sulkowski.html)
S145 |
Suvorov,
Aleksander Vasil’evič
Suvorov-Rymnikskij, Aleksander
Vasil’evič Graf
Suvorov-Rymnikskij,
Fürst von Italien, Aleksander Vasil’evič Graf |
Personal Information
Born: Moscow / Russia, 24.[13.]11.1729
Died: St. Petersburg / Russia, 18.[06.]05.1800
Family Status
Married: 1774 Varvara Ivanovna Prosorovskaja (1750-1806)
Promotions
Russia:
General of Brigade: 03.10.[22.09.]1768
Major General: 12.01.[01.01.]1770
Lieutenant General: 28.03.[17.03.]1774
General en chef: 03.10.[22.09.]1786
General Field Marshal: 30.11.[19.10.]1794
Generalissimus: 08.(09.?)11.[28.(29.?)10.]1799
Austria:
Feldmarschall: 31.03.1799
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Field Marshal: 04.(06.?)07.1799
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Allied Army at the battle of Cassano:
27./28.04.1799 (+)
Commander of the Allied Army at the battle at the
Trebbia: 17.-20.06.1799 (+)
Commander of the Allied Army at the battle of Novi:
15.08.1799 (+)
Commander of the Allied Army at the combats of on
Sankt Gotthard (Oberalpsee, Hospital, Urseren, Teufelsbrücke): 23.-27.09.1799
(+)
Elevation of Social Status
Russia:
Count: 17.[06.]10.1789 (with predicate: "Rymnikskij")
Prince: 19.[08.]1799 (with predicate: "Italijskij")
Holy
Roman Empire:
Graf (Count): 06.10.1789
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Prince: 04.(06.?)07.1799
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – GC: 23.10.[12.10.]1799
Medaillon with portrait of Emperor Francis II.: 05.01.1795
[25.12.1794]
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Russia & Foreign
Countries)
Bavaria:
Order of St. Hubert: 29.[07.]02.1800
France
(Exile):
Combined Order of St. Lazarus and of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel: 25.[13.]02.1800
Prussia:
Order of the Black Eagle: 19.[07.]12.1794
Order of the Red Eagle 1st cl.: 19.[07.]12.1794
Poland(Russia):
Order of the White Eagle
Order of St. Stanislas – 1st cl. (?)
Russia:
Order of St. Andrew: 20.[09.]11.1788 / w.d.: 14.[03.]11.1789
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij: 31.[20.]12.1771 /
w.d.: 04.01.1781 [24.12.1780]
Order of St. George 3rd cl.: 30.[19.]08.1771 / 2nd
cl.: 10.08.[30.07.]1773 / 1st cl.: 29.[18.]10.1789
Order of St. Vladimir 1st cl.: 08.07.[27.06.]1783
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 11.10.[30.09.]1770
Order of St. John of Jerusalem – GC: 24.[13.]02.1799
Gold Medal for the Annexion of the Krim-Khanat
Izmail Cross: after 01.1795
Medaillon with Portrait of Emperor Paul I.: 24.[13.]06.1799
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of the Annunziata: 07.1799
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC (?):
04.07.[23.06.]1799
Printed Sources
Bodart, p.332, 337, 340, 343 | Frank 5, p.80 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.563 | Hoffmann, Peter: Alexander Suworow. Der unbesiegte Feldherr,
Berlin 1986 | Mikaberidze, p.387f. | MilSchem | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.13 | Suworow. Beiträge zu dessen Charakteristik,
nach bisher noch nicht edirten Schriftstücken des k.k. Kriegs-Archivs aus
dem Feldzuge 1799 in Italien. In: Mittheilungen des k.k. Kriegs-Archivs, year
1884, Vienna 1884, S.348-358
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Mosher, Robert A.: Suvorov – Russia’s
Eagle Over the Alps. In: The Napoleon Series. Biographies [= http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/c_suvorov.html].-
Download: 01.07.2004
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Vederman
S146 |
Swinburne,
Robert Thomas Ritter von
Swinburne,
Robert Thomas Freiherr von |
Personal Information
Born: Bordeaux / France or Chapel Allerton
/ Yorkshire County / Great Britain, 17.07.1763
Died: Innsbruck / Tyrol, 20.01.1849
Family Status
Married: 1808 Franziska Freiin Malowetz von Malowitz
und Kosorz (17??-1864)
Son-in-law of M7 (Malowetz) (?)
Promotions
Major: 01.09.1800
Oberstleutnant: 10.10.1804
Oberst: 25.05.1806
Generalmajor: 24.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant (title a.h.): 17.03.1837
Retired: 17.03.1837
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City Commandant of Milan: 1813/14 – 17.03.1837
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: ?
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 28.05.1806
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Duffy, p.382 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.797ff. (wrong:
b. 1766) | Hoen, 1809/IV, p.802, note 1 | Lodge, Edmund: The Peerage
and Baronetage of the British Empire, 28th (rev. and enl.) ed., London 1859,
p. 814 | MD 5, p.101 | MilSchem | Schmidhofer, p.205 | Wurzbach
41, p.55ff.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Lynskey, Marie: The Swinburn(e) Family History Site
[= http://www.geocities.com/swinburn.geo].- Download: 21.08.2008
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S147 |
Szápáry
de Muraszombat, Széchisziget et Szápár,
Peter Ignaz Graf |
Personal Information
Born: around 1711
Died: Graz / Styria, 12.07.1796
Family Status
Married (1): ~ 1750 Julia Gräfin Haller de Hallerkeö (1719-1759)
Married (2): after 1759 Maria Isabella Gräfin
Batthyány de Németújvár (1743-after 1782)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 23.07.1753
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wurzbach 41, p.172
Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/szapary1.html)
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/batth3.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S148 |
Szarvassy
de Riomfalva, Joseph |
Personal Information
Born: Eperjes (Prešov) / Com. Saros / Hungary,
1746
Died: Vienna, 29.11.1810
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1796
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 14.01.1804 (w.r.f. 15.12.1802)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.11.1790
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.279f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach
41, p.182f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S149 |
Szécsen
de Temerin, Ferdinand |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Kronstadt
(Brassó, Braşov) / Transylvania, 31.01.1827
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.07.1809
Retired: 1814
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 25.11.1809
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S150 |
Szénássy,
Johann von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 04.12.1813
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 12.11.1800)
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 03.06.1814
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S151 |
Szent-Iványi,
Johann von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Eperjes / Com. Saros / Hungary, 22.01.1820
Promotions
Major: 1789
Oberstleutnant: 31.05.1794
Oberst: 18.03.1798
Generalmajor: 01.05.1803 (w.r.f. 11.12.1802)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, HR1, pp.137, 167, 494, 496 | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S152 |
Szent-Kereszty
de Zagon, Andreas Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Langenthal (Hossznaszó, Valea Lunga)
/ Transylvania, 27.07.1821
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1802
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Auer, N°310 | MilSchem | Wurzbach
42, p.92f. (mixed up with dates of Ladislaus Sz.K.)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S153 |
Szent-Kereszty
de Zagon, Ladislaus Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 15.03.1804
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 09.07.1797 (w.r.f. 08.07.1797)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wurzbach 42, p.92f. (mixed up with
dates of Andreas Sz.-K.)
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S154 |
Szent-Kereszty
de Zagon, Sigmund Ladislaus Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Zagon / Transylvania, 1745
Died: Neumarkt (Maros-Vásárhely, Tirgu
Mures) / Transylvania, 24.12.1823
Family Status
Married: Susanna Gräfin Mikes
Promotions
Major: 01.06.1780
Oberstleutnant: 16.06.1790
Oberst: 06.05.1794
Generalmajor: 01.03.17971 (w.r.f.
13.03.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.12.18002 (w.r.f.
02.12.1800)
General der Kavallerie (Titel): 12.08.18143
Retired: 12.08.18143
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°1:
07.01.1808 –
24.12.1823
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Sigmund Ladislaus Freiherr Szent-Kereszty de Zagon,
born in Zagon (Transylvania) in 1746, joined the Hungarian Noble Life Guard when
it was raised in 1763 and left again as a Rittmeister in 1765, to enter
the Hussars.
As Oberstleutnant he could distinguish himself
at Condé (NE of Paris) on 18 September 1792. On 1 March 1793, his regiment
(Hussar Regiment "Esterhazy"
N°32) charged and broke two French battalion squares, capturing 126 men,
3 guns and 4 ammunition waggons. For this exploit he was promoted Oberst.
He was also distinguished in the battles of Neerwinden, Landrecy and Tournai.
On 13 October 1795, Ladislaus Szent-Kereszty conducted a raid across the River
Main at Höchst (west of Frankfurt), scattered the French rearguard, took
some guns and many prisoners. On 1 November of that year, he captured a large
French magazine in Alzey. In 1796 he served again in Germany, where he was repeatedly
distinguished in many actions, including the battle of Würzburg on 3 September,
for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order.
In the subsequent pursuit of the French he took Aschaffenburg and over 400 prisoners
on 6 September; this caused the French to evacuate Frankfurt. On 1 March 1797,
he was promoted to Generalmajor.
In 1800 Szent-Kereszty was promoted Feldmarschalleutnant and
in 1814 General der Kavallerie upon retirement. He died on 24 December
1823 in Neumarkt (Maros-Vásárhely) in Transylvania.
Printed Sources
Amon, HR1, p.228, 380ff. (wrong: b. 1745), 490 | Hirtenfeld
1, p.590ff. | MilSchem | Wenzlik-Ebert, p.29f. | Wrede 3,
p.232 | Wurzbach 42, p.89ff. | WZ, 23.01.1808 | Zivkovic,
Generalität, p.40
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Amon, HR1, p.381: 04.03.1797 (?)
2)
Amon, HR1, p.382: 20.01.1800 (?)
3)
Amon, HR1, p.382: 01.11.1814 (?)
S155 |
Szereday
de Szent-Háromság, Anton
Szereday de Szent-Háromság,
Anton Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: around 1743
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 29.10.1813
Promotions
Major: 1786
Oberstleutnant: 12.1789
Oberst: 1794
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 21.03.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.09.1805 (w.r.f. 07.09.1805)
Retired: 03.1809
Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 01.08.1800
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794
/ CC: 18.08.1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.385 | Frank 5, p.85 | Gatti,
IngAk, p.203 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.582f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach
42, p.136f.
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S156 |
Szerelem,
Joseph von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary,
18.05.1809
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 20.12.1789)
Retired: 1801
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S157 |
Szörényi
de Kis-Szörény, Andreas Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: Szölös (n.l.) / Hungary, 28.06.1756
Died: Neuhäusel (Érsek-Újvár,
Nové Zámky) / Com. Neutra (Nyitra) / Hungary, 22.09.1829
Promotions
Major: 1789
Oberstleutnant: 1798
Oberst: 1800
Generalmajor: 22.01.1808 (w.r.f. 30.06.1805)
Retired: 1809
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Gatti, IngAk, p.295f. | MilSchem | Wurzbach
42, p.236f. | WZ, 20.02.1808
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S158 |
Szörényi
de Kis-Szörény, Joseph Freiherr |
Personal Information
Born: 1724
Died: "Szaba" (n.l. = Szabar ?) / Hungary, 03.03.1799
Promotions
Major: (19.07.)1753
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 18.02.1783)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
Amon, DR10, p.34, appendix, p.IX | MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
S159 |
Szombathély,
Johann von |
Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Koltha (Kolta) / Com. Komorn (Kómarom)
/ Hungary, 01.12.1831
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 26.08.1805
Oberst: 13.02.18091
Generalmajor (title): 28.03.1812
Retired: 28.03.1812
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation:
1824
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
–
Printed Sources
Amon, DR9, pp.236, 253, 387 | Auer, N°313 | MilSchem | Wengen,
DR13, p.581, 586, 602 | WZ, 02.05.1812
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Notes
1)
Amon, DR9, p.236: 15.02.1809 (?)
S160 |
Sztáray
de Nagy-Mihály et Sztára, Anton Graf |
Personal Information
Born: Kaschau (Košice, Kassa) / Com. Abaúj-Torna
/ Hungary, 1740
Died: Graz / Styria, 23.01.1808
Family Status
Brother-in-law of B93 (Browne, Philipp Georg)
Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: ~1779
Generalmajor: 12.10.1788 (w.r.f. 04.10.1788)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.01.1794 [29.12.1793?] (w.r.f.
17.12.1793)
Feldzeugmeister: 06.03.1800
Retired: 02.1806
Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Inner Austria and (until 1805)
in the Tyrol: 04.1801 –
02.1806
Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Imperial forces at the combat of
Renchen: 28.06.1796 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of
Diersheim: 20./21.04.1797 (–)
Commander of the autonomous Corps Sztáray:
02.-09.1799
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of
Wiesloch: 03.12.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combats of
Höchstädt (Dillingen, Schwemmingen, Gundelfingen): 18./19.06.1800 (–)
Chivalric Order
Knight of the Order of Malta
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.12.1789
/ CC: 18.09.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°33:
1791 – 23.01.1808
I.R. Chamberlain
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign
Countries)
– (?)
Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Anton Graf Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly was born
in 1740 in Kaschau, now Kosice, Slovakia, into an old Hungarian noble family.
In 1759, he joined the Austrian Infantry Regiment "Pálffy" N°19, as
an officer cadet. In the Seven Years War, he fought in the battles of Kunersdorf
(12 August 1759), Landshut (23 June 1760) and Liegnitz (15 August 1760) and at
the capture of Schweidnitz fortress on 1 October 1761. For his actions, he was
promoted to Hauptmann in Infantry Regiment "Károlyi" N°52.
On 13 January 1779 (in the War of the Bavarian Succession), he successfully defended
the village of Hermannsdorf against Prussian General von Lossow's assaults. For
this, he was promoted to Oberst and commander of the 1st Szeckler Grenz
Infantry Regiment. On 17 February 1779, he successfully defended his position
at Pfaffenberg and Messnik, with only one battalion of his regiment, against
five battalions of Prussians. For this, he was made commander of Infantry Regiment "Esterházy" N°33.
In the wars against the Turks, Count Sztáray was again distinguished.
On 27 April 1788, he was ordered to storm the fortress of Schabatz (now Sabac)
with one battalion and three guns. He accomplished the task in grand style; the
garrison surrendered with 22 guns, 19 colours and a numerous garrison. Shortly
afterwards, in October 1788, he was promoted to Generalmajor.
On 21 December 1789, he was awarded the Knight's
Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order, for his bravery in the storming
of Belgrade, where he commanded the 4th Column, which he led over the palisades
before the Constantinopel gate and into the city.
In 1792, Count Sztáray served in the Austrian
Netherlands as a brigade commander; on 23 May he won the clash of Florennes,
against GdD Lafayette's (?) troops. On 1 January 1794, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant.
In 1796 he served in Germany in Latour's Right Wing of FM Wurmser's Army of the
Upper Rhine. On 14-15 June, he fought the French of GdD Desaix at Maudach, then
withdrew into the fortified camp at Mundenheim, to defend the bridge at Mannheim.
He also fought at Malsch (9 July) and Neresheim (11 August). He commanded the
Centre at the battle of Würzburg on 2 September and played a key role in
that victory. The day before the battle, Sztáray had crossed the Main,
from east to west, at Kitzingen and advanced on Würzburg. GdD Jourdan drew
up his entire army (over 27,000 men) to crush the Austrian's 10 battalions and
17 squadrons. Despite this numerical imbalance, Sztáray decided to attack
on the morning of 2 September, to hold the enemy until Erzherzog Carl could come
up with the main body of the army. For this amazing deed, he was awarded the
Commander's Cross of the MMTO on 18 September of that year. In 1797 he commanded
the left wing of the army on the upper Rhine, from the River Murg to Rheinfelden.
He was badly wounded while commanding in the battle of Diersheim on 20-21 April,
which ended in an Austrian defeat.
In 1799, FML Count Sztáray commanded the right
wing of the army in Swabia, guarding the Neckar valley. By his victory in the
clash of Wiesloch (3 December), he drove the French from the right bank of the
Rhine and relieved Philippsburg fortress. After the Austrian defeat at Hohenlinden
on 3 December 1800, Sztáray was given the task of raising the Bohemian-Moravian
Legion. In 1801 he was appointed Commanding General in Inner Austria. He retired
in February 1806 and died on 23 January 1808 in Graz.
Printed Sources
ADB 37, p.293ff. | Bodart, pp.309, 322, 349,
356 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.503ff. | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.353 | Wurzbach
42, p.258f. | WZ, 20.02.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic,
Heerführer, pp.54, 129
Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/sztaray.html)
(wrong: b. 1732)
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/sztaray2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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