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Austrian Generals

1792-1815

G

Dates of Life
Born: Tyrnau / Hungary, 26.09.1760(61?)¹
Died: Graz / Styria, 23.05.1824²

Promotions
Major: 06.08.1805
Oberstleutnant: 13.02.1809
Oberst: 22.07.1809
Generalmajor: 03.01.1815
Retired: 03.01.1815

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain: 1810

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem | Pickl, p.276 | Wengen, DR13, p.585, 602, 642, 679f.

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Wengen, DR13, p.679: 1762 (?)
²) Schmidt-Brentano: 23.03.1824 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 03.(30.?).10.1763
Died: Vienna, 26.11.1829

Promotions
Major: 1799
Oberstleutnant: 1809
Oberst: 02.09.1809
Generalmajor: 02.09.1813
Retired: 1814

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain: 1808

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Kreipner, IR34, pp.423, 437, 482, 484, 785 (wrong: b. 1760) | MilSchem | Pickl, p.276 | Rupprecht, IR60, pp.25, 55 | Wurzbach 5, p.46 | WZ, 09.09.1813

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Vienna, 08.12.1834

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.09.1807 (w.r.f. 28.07.1805)
Retired: 1809

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Carinthia (Klagenfurt): 1808 – 03.1809

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 18.11.1807, 02.12.1809 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.75

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Crema / Lombardy, 03.12.1768
Died: Verona / Venetia, 29.06.1832

Name Variants
(Italian) Livio Cavaliere di Galimberti

Promotions
Italy (France):
General of Brigade: 1812
Into Austrian service: 01.04.1815
Generalmajor: 01.04.1815
Retired: 01.04.1815

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – OC
Italy (France):
Order of the Iron Crown – CC

Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wurzbach 5, p.62f. | WZ, 15.04.1815

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: 06.11.1765
Died: Vienna, 03.09.1832

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 27.04.1813
Retired: 07.10.1815

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain: 1802

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem | Nahlik, IR55, p.24 | Pickl, p.275 | Strobl, IR17, I, p.139 / II, p.3 | WZ, 11.05.1813, 08.06.1813

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Bonn / Cologne (electorate), 1762
Died: Klagenfurt / Carinthia, 28.11.1834¹

Promotions
Major: 09.1793
Oberstleutnant: 01.04.1796
Oberst: 04.12.1796
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 29.03.1800)
Quit: 1806
Reactivated: 18??
Retired: 10.12.1809

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Carniola (Laibach): 1801-1805

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
After Alois Graf Gavasini was promoted to GM on 6 March 1800 he commanded a brigade in Schwarzenberg's division of the Right Wing in the battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December. In 1805 he commanded an infantry brigade in Rosenberg's division of Davidovich's left wing in Italy. In June 1809, he commanded a brigade in Gyulai's corps at Graz. He died 1834 in Klagenfurt.

Printed Sources
Buschek, IR23, I, p.621, 635 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.324ff. | MD 2, p.112 | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.414 | ÖMKL 2, p.623f. | Wurzbach 5, p.112f. | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.75

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) ÖBL: 29.11.1834 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: 11.05.1764
Died: The Hague (Den Haag) / Netherlands, 17.09.1823

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 25.05.1800
Generalmajor: 16.04.1802 (w.r.f. 11.04.1802)
Retired: 30.04.1802
Quit: 1805

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Amon, DR9, pp.207, 221, 387, 390 | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Namur (Namen) / Austrian Netherlands, 14.09.1731
Died: Vienna, 07.03.1797¹

Name Variants
(French) François-Joseph Prince de Gavre, Marquis d’Aiseau

Promotions
Major: –
Oberstleutnant: 29.12.1758
Oberst: 1760
Generalmajor: 18.09.1770 (w.r.f. 11.04.1765)
Quit: 1790 (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 1775

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Guillaume, p.114 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.625

Internet Sources
Boettger
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Schmidt-Brentano: also 11.04.1797 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: around 1723
Died: Laibach (Ljubljana) / Carniola, 09.03.1795

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 31.07.1788 (w.r.f. 23.07.1788)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation: 1791

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Auer, N°92 | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Hornberg / Württemberg, 26.03.1724
Died: Raab (Györ) / Hungary, 17.12.1806

Family Status
Married (1): 1750 Eberhardine Johanna G. (?) von Gemmingen (17??-1755)
Married (2): 1766 Maria Michaela Gräfin von Althann (1739-1811)

Promotions
Major: 1743
Oberstleutnant: 12.1754
Oberst: 10.1758
Generalmajor: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 30.07.1759)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 16.08.1772)
Feldzeugmeister: 31.05.1788 (w.r.f. 27.09.1787)
Retired: 04.1790

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.01.1760
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°21: 1778 – 17.12.1806
I.R. Chamberlain: 1765

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.105f. | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.670 | Pickl, p.273 | Schmedes, IR28, pp.58, 74, 293 (wrong: GM in 1773), 296 | Stocker, Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig: Chronik der Familie von Gemmingen und ihrer Besitzungen, vol.2, issue N°2, Heilbronn 1874, p.152f. | Wrede 1, p.265 | Wurzbach 5, p.131 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.35

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/althann/althann1.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: 1723
Died: Raab (Györ) / Hungary, 13.04.1810

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 03.04.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 22.01.1790)
Feldzeugmeister: 28.05.1807¹

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Slavonia and Syrmia: 03.1791 – 07.1806²

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 29.08.1797

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of St. Stephen – KC: 1797
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation: 1789
I.R. Privy Councillor

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Auer, N°93 | Frank 2, p.80 | Megerle, p.184 | MilSchem | Rothenberg, Military Border, p.105 (= Rothenberg, Militärgrenze, p.160) | WZ, 04.07.1807, 15.08.1810 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.68

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Schmidt-Brentano: FZM and retired: 22.04.1805 (?)
²) Rothenberg, Military Border, p.105: 06.1807 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Leibnitz / Styria, 1768¹
Died: Vienna, 07.04.1855

Promotions
Major: 15.04.1804
Oberstleutnant: 03.08.1807
Oberst: 27.04.1809
Generalmajor: 26.07.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 21.03.1827
Feldzeugmeister (title a.h.): 16.06.1836
Retired: 16.06.1836

Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Observation Army in Galicia: 05.-06.1813
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Army of the Danube: 07.-10.1813
Commander of the Austrian forces during the siege of Ancona: 05.-30.05.1815 (+)

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 19.01.1819

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 18.08.1801
Order of Leopold – CC: 1815
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°43: 1821 – 07.04.1855
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1836

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Bavaria:
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – KC: 1813
Naples-Siciliy:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – CC
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – GC: 1821
Papal State:
Order of St. Gregor – GC 2nd cl.: 1831
Order of Christ
Parma:
Constantinian Order of St. George – GC: 1831
Prussia:
Order of the Red Eagle 2nd cl.: 1821
Russia:
Order of St. George 4th cl.: 15.[03.]08.1814
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1813

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Menrad von Geppert was born in 1768. On 27 July 1813, he was promoted to Generalmajor. On 28 April 1815, he took the town of Pesaro from Neapolitan GdD Carrascosa and scattered his division. A few days later he (1 May), he was in FML Neipperg's force, which defeated Carrascosa at Scapezzano. He also commanded the blockading force at Ancona, which place surrendered on 30 May that year. On 21 March 1827, he was promoted to FML. Geppert died in Vienna on 7 April 1855.

Printed Sources
Bodart, p.485 | Frank 2, p.82 | Frank-Döfering, 1659 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.670ff. (wrong: d. 05.04.1855) | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.425 | ÖMKL 2, p.701f. | Wrede 1, p.426 | Wurzbach 5, p.144f. | WZ, 26.09.1807, 31.07.1813, 14.10.1813, 21.11.1813, 20.02.1814, 21.02.1814, 23.06.1815 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.41 (wrong: FZM on 29.05.1836) | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.111

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Vederman

Notes
¹) ÖBL: 1770 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Schemnitz (Selmecbánya, Banská Štiavnica) / Com. Hont / Hungary, 12.02.1774
Died: Meran / Tyrol, 03.12.1845

Promotions
Major: 12.1805
Oberstleutnant: 02.1809
Oberst: 06.1809
Generalmajor: 18.02.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 11.01.1830
General der Kavallerie (title a.h.): 09.10.1840
Retired: 09.10.1840

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in the Banal-Warasdin-Karlstadt Military Border: before 1837 – 1839 (09.10.1840 ?)

Elevation of Social Status
Ritter (by elevation of his father): 29.07.1770

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 24.10.1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°4: 04.1829 – 1839
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°4: 1839 – 03.12.1845
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1836

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Bavaria:
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – KC: 1813
Naples-Siciliy:
Military Order of St. George and of the Reunion – GC: 1821
Russia:
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1815
Order of St. Anne 2nd cl.: 1813
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC: 1823

Printed Sources
Frank 2, p.82 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.954ff. | MD 2, p.117 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.702f. | Wrede 3, p.250 | Wurzbach 5, p.149 | WZ, 20.02.1814, 06.03.1814, 29.06.1814, 18.10.1815 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.42

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Petrinja / Croatia, 15.01.1758
Died: Vienna, 15.10.1825

Family Status
Married: 1805 [N.] Freiin von Bruckenthal

Promotions
Major: 26.05.1794
Oberstleutnant: 13.04.1797
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.01.1808 (w.r.f. 20.06.1805)
Retired: 27.04.1813

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 26.04.1802

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Amon, HR10, p.143f. | Frank 2, p.84 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.424ff. | MilSchem | Nekrolog 1825/2, p.1637 | ÖBL 1, p.426 | ÖMKL 2, p.703ff. | Wurzbach 5, p.153f. | WZ, 20.02.1808, 08.06.1813 (wrong: retired as FML)

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Promotions
Major: 03.12.1788
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1797
Generalmajor: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 21.11.1800)
Feldmarschalleutnant (title): 05./06.1808

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Temesvár: 06./07.1808 – 25.01.1821

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Amon, IR18, pp.241, 244f. | Böhm 1, p.415 | Leitner 2, p.56 | MilSchem | Preyer, p.115 | Svoboda I, col.8 | WZ, 09.07.1808 and 03.08.1808

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (retired: 05./06.1808 ?)

Dates of Life
Born: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 1760
Died: KIA Leipzig / Saxony, 18.10.1813

Promotions
Major: 01.1801
Oberstleutnant: 1805
Oberst: 11.1807
Generalmajor: 02.09.1809

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Allmayer-Beck, p.79 | MD 2, p.122 | MilSchem (wrong: d. 17.10.1813) | ÖMKL 2, p.733 | Wurzbach 5, p.182 | WZ, 18.11.1807, 25.11.1809

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Commercy / Lorraine / France, 23.11.1747
Died: Lemberg (Lwów, L’viv) / Galicia, 08.11.1811

Promotions
Major: 15.03.1797
Oberstleutnant: 1802 (1806 ?)
Oberst: 22.02.1808
Generalmajor: 22.07.1809

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 06.02.1810

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 13.10.1799

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Doerr, p.279 | Frank 2, p.91 | Frank-Döfering, 1707 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.557 | MD 2, p.123 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.733f. | Petiot, p.219 | Wurzbach 5, p.186 | WZ, 09.03.1808, 25.11.1809

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: 14.11.1729
Died: Vienna, 27.10.1806

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.01.1804 (w.r.f. 19.12.1802)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale 

Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: 17.05.1817

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 02.09.1813

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC

Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 09.09.1813

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 01.03.1811

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 25.04.1798 (w.r.f. 17.04.1798)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 03.01.1801 (w.r.f. 14.01.1801)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Schmidt-Brentano: "Freiherr" (?)

Dates of Life
Born: 26.05.1738
Died: (Graz / Styria ?), 25.12.1818

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 28.04.1804 (w.r.f. 30.04.1804)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 18.08.1728
Died: Klagenfurt / Carinthia, 04.05.1798

Family Status
Married: 1768 Maria Anna Gräfin Christalnigg von und zu Gilitzstein (1751-1809)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 09.02.1770)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wurzbach 5, p.243

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/goess.html)

Dates of Life
Born: Chateau-Chinon / Nivernais / France, 23.01.1746
Died: Paris / France, 03.02.1831¹

Name Variants
(French) François Baron de Goguelat
wrong: Goguelas

Promotions
France:
Lieutenant Colonel
Into Austrian service: 12.06.1793
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 12.01.1801 (w.r.f. 05.06.1801)
Retired: 1805
Quit: 30.09.1816
Into French service:
Marechal-de-Camp: 09.09.1814
Lieutenant General: 10.11.1819

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: ~ 1792 / CC: 01.05.1821
Hohenlohe:
Order of the Phoenix – CC (1st cl.): 1801

Printed Sources
BU 17, p.87f. | Courcelles 6, p.281ff. | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Schmidt-Brentano: 02.02.1831 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Fiume (Rijeka), 28.09.1770
Died: Vienna, 06.03.1845

Promotions
Major: 01.09.1805
Oberstleutnant: 08./09.1808
Oberst: 17.06.1809
Generalmajor: 26.12.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 17.12.1829

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Carniola (Laibach): 03.1815 – 02.1817

Field Service (1792-1815)
Adjutant General of the main army: 05.-09.1813

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 10.03.1810 (with predicate: "von Goldenfels")

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 24.10.1809
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°48: 1829 – 06.03.1845

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Frank 2, p.105 | Frank-Döfering, 1770 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.975f. (wrong: b. 1772 / d. 1844) | MilSchem | ÖBL 2, p.28 | ÖMKL 2, p.755f. (wrong: d. 1844) | Wrede 1, p.453 | Wurzbach 5, p.262 | WZ, 05.10.1808 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.75, 119

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Niewpoort (Nieuport) / Austrian Netherlands, 26.12.(14.10.?)1744
Died: Ofen (Buda) / Hungary, 10.01.1810¹

Promotions
Major: 1788
Oberstleutnant: 1790
Oberst: 1794
Generalmajor: 20.10.1800
Feldmarschalleutnant: 14.08.1808

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Vice-Commandant of Mainz: 1794-1795
Director of the War Archive: 03.1801 – 10.01.1810

Field Service (1792-1815)
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Army of the Rhine: 10.1794 – 04.1795
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Hungarian Insurrection Army: 04.-11.1797
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Hungarian Insurrection Army: 09.1800 – 03.1801
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Hungarian Insurrection Army: 10.1805 – 01.1806
Chief of the (Quartermaster) General Staff of the Hungarian Insurrection Army: 04.1809 – 08.09.1809

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of Leopold – KC: 07.01.1809

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
ADB 9, p.367 | Buschek, IR23, I, pp.554, 557 | Kisfaludy, Sándor: Freymüthige Geschichte der Insurrection des Adels von Ungarn im Jahre 1809 und 1810. In: Kisfaludy, Sándor: Hátrahagyott Munkái. Ed. by Gálos Rezsö, Györ 1931, p.225 | Leitner 2, p.75f. | MD 2, p.131 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.755 | Regele, p.29 | Svoboda 1, col.35f. | Wurzbach 5, p.265f. | WZ, 03.09.1808, 11.01.1809 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.32, 108-111 (wrong: Quartermaster General 1809: 04.1809 – 11.1809)

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) MilSchem: 23.01.1810 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: after 1793 ?

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 18.01.1760 (w.r.f. 07.12.1758)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem (last entry: year 1793)

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: "Bitlingen" (= Püttlingen / Puttelange ?) / Lorraine / France, 25.02.1749¹
Died: Klagenfurt / Carinthia, 17.02.1835

Family Status
Married (1): 1797 Agnes von Dominich (17??-1800)
Married (2): 1807 Ferdinande de Moitell

Promotions
Major: 17.01.1793
Oberstleutnant: 10.1793
Oberst: 28.02.1797
Generalmajor: 06.03.1800 (w.r.f. 10.04.1800)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 22.01.1808
General der Kavallerie: 04.07.1826
Retired: 04.07.1826

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Carinthia (Klagenfurt): 1806 – 01.1808
Deputy Commanding General in Inner Austria: 05.1812 – 05.1813
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Inner Austria: 1813-1815²
Military Commander in Carniola (Laibach): 02.1817 – 01.1820
Military Commander in Carinthia (Klagenfurt): 01.1820 – 01.08.(04.07.?)1826

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 04.03.1816

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1821

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – CC: 1814/1815

Printed Sources
Frank 2, p.109 | Frank-Döfering, 1783 | ÖMKL 2, p.764 | MD 2, p.133 | MilSchem | Wurzbach 5, p.274f. | WZ, 20.02.1808, 26.05.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.54, 75, 76

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) MD, Schmidt-Brentano: 25.09.1749 (?)
²) Zivkovic: 04.-10.1815 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Pest / Hungary, 05.09.1845

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 15.07.1809

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Kisfaludy, Sándor: Freymüthige Geschichte der Insurrection des Adels von Ungarn im Jahre 1809 und 1810. In: Kisfaludy, Sándor: Hátrahagyott Munkái. Ed. by Gálos Rezsö, Györ 1931, p.187 | MilSchem (year 1846, appendix: wrong: "G. v. Gostonyi und Kreutz")

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Geudertheim / Alsace / France, 1749
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 05.04.1808

Promotions
France:
Colonel
Into Austrian service: 01.02.1793
Oberst: 01.02.1793
Generalmajor: 25.04.1798
Feldmarschalleutnant: 17.04.1801 (w.r.f. 13.04.1801)

Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of Fossano: 16.09.1799 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat at the Monte Becco: 11.05.1800 (–)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 11.05.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°6: 07.01.1808 – 05.04.1808

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Gottesheim was born in 1749. On 25 April 1798, he received his promotion to Major General and served initially as brigade commander in Erzherzog Carl's Army of the Lower Rhine. Later he was transferred to Italy to support the efforts to relieve Mantua. In 1799 Gottesheim served in Italy in FML Kaim's infantry division of Kray's army. This division was detached to the upper Etsch and the brigades of Elsnitz and Gottesheim were used to work on the defences of Pastrengo from mid-March. In early 1800 he commanded a brigade in Hohenzollern's division under Ott in north-western Italy. Gottesheim took part in the siege of Genoa and commanded the Avantgarde of FML Ott's Left Column at Marengo on 14 June. On 17 April 1801, he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant. For the 1805 campaign he commanded a mixed division in Schwarzenberg's Avantgarde. In January 1808 he was appointed proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°6, but he died only three months later on 5 April.

Printed Sources
Bodart, p.342, 353 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.474f. | MD 2, p.133 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.766f. | Sturm 1, p.458 | Wrede, DR6, p.404, 408, 927 | Wrede 3, p.159 | Wurzbach 5, p.280f. | WZ, 23.01.1808 and 04.05.1808

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: Nancy / Lorraine, 1707
Died: Vienna, 12.10.1796¹

Name Variants
(French) Pierre-Joachim alias Pantaléon-Olive Comte de Gourcy-Villers (Comte d’Aulnoye)

Family Status
Brother of G31

Promotions
Major: 14.12.1745
Oberstleutnant: 30.08.1747
Oberst: 01.05.1756²
Generalmajor: 03.06.1758³ (w.r.f. 05.01.1758)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.01.1771 (w.r.f. 30.09.1766)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.760f. | Petiot, p.227 | Wengen DR13, pp.333, 343, 350, 382f. | Wurzbach 5, p.270

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) MilSchem: 10.10.1796 (?) / Petiot: 19.01.1796 (?)
²) Wengen, DR13, p.350: 24.04.1756 (w.r.f. 26.08.1755) (?)
³) Petiot: 13.06.1758 (?) / Wengen, DR13, p.382: 17.01.1758 (w.r.f. 05.01.1758) (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Maizeray / Lorraine, 21.12.1705
Died: Vienna, 21.12.1795¹

Name Variants
(French) Pierre-Paul Comte de Gourcy-Villers

Family Status
Brother of G30

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 24.06.1752
Generalmajor: 20.02.1758²
Feldmarschalleutnant: 13.05.1764
Into Prussian service:
Generalmajor: 1767
Retired: 1787

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Chamberlain: 24.04.1762

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.760 | Petiot, p.227 | Wurzbach 5, p.270f. (wrong: b. Nancy)

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Petiot / Schmidt-Brentano: 19.12.1795 (?)
²) Petiot: 08.02.1758 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Vienna, 1741
Died: Sankt Pölten / Lower Austria, 30.03.1807

Promotions
Major: 01.01.1779
Oberstleutnant: 15.11.1788
Oberst: 07.10.1789
Generalmajor: 04.03.1796 (w.r.f. 12.03.1794)
Retired: 21.10.1798

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 22.10.1763

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 21.10.1762

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Anton Freiherr von Graffen was promoted to Major General in March 1796. This year he served under FZM Baillet de Latour as commander of an infantry brigade in the Army of the Upper Rhine. He was then transferred to Italy. In September Graffen was in Vorarlberg. After Wurmser's defeat on 15 September at San Giorgio and Mantua, Graffen's command at Malborghetto, Pontafel and Tarvis numbered only 3,600 men. He took part in Alvincy's third attempt to relieve Mantua, and fought at the victory at Bassano over the French under Napoleon on 6 November. He retired on 21 October 1798 and died in 1807 in St. Pölten (Lower Austria).

Printed Sources
Amon, HR10, pp.82, 96, 110, 113f. | Frank 2, p.116 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.171f. | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.785 | Wurzbach 5, p.302f.

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: around 1722
Died: Vienna, 21.06.1804

Promotions
Major: 25.03.1758
Oberstleutnant: 04.09.1766
Oberst: 15.04.1772
Generalmajor: 07.07.1779¹ (w.r.f. 03.06.1779)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Amon, IR4, pp.133, 181, 185, 197 | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Amon, IR4, p.197: 07.06.1779 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: Mährisch-Budwitz (Moravské Budějovice) / Moravia, 22.02.1753¹
Died: Peterwardein (Petrovaradin, Pétervarád) / Slavonia, 04.02.1831

Family Status
Married: 1792 Karoline von Kovacsevich
Son-in-law of K70 (Blasius Kovacsevich)

Promotions
Major: 22.09.1796
Oberstleutnant: 15.01.1801
Oberst: 1805
Generalmajor: 17.06.1809²
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.10.1813³

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in Croatia: 1st H. 1815 – 2nd H. 1815
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Croatia: 2nd H. 1815 – 1818
Fortress Commandant of Peterwardein: 1818 – 04.02.1831

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 21.12.1817 (with predicate: "von Linthal")

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Frank 2, p.117 | Frank-Döfering, 1805 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 2, p.784ff. | ÖMZ, year 1847, vol.4, p.184ff.: Szenen aus dem Leben des k.k. Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Johann Baron Gramont von Linthal. Von dessen Familie mitgetheilt | WZ, 25.11.1809

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) ÖMZ: 01.11.1755 (?)
²) ÖMZ: 01.05.1809 (?)
³) ÖMZ: 23.10.1813 (?)

Dates of Life
Born: 17??
Died: Olmütz (Olomouc) / Moravia, 11.08.1822

Promotions
Major: 04.1800
Oberstleutnant: 01.1807
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 06.06.1813
Retired: 11.10.1821

Elevation of Social Status
plain nobility: 25.01.1809 (with predicate: "Edler von Hohenforst")

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Doerr, p.278 | Frank 2, p.123 | MilSchem | Tomaschek, DR8, pp.280, 291, 313, 687, 692, 710 | WZ, 22.07.1813

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Dates of Life
Born: around 1760
Died: (Temesvár / Com. Temes / Hungary ?), 15.10.1827

Promotions
Major: 31.01.1800
Oberstleutnant: 01.08.1800
Oberst: 27.08.1805
Generalmajor: 18.05.1809
Feldmarschalleutnant: 02.09.1813

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in the Banal Military Border: 05.1815 – 05.1816
Fortress Commandant of Temesvár: 1823 – 15.10.1827

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°23: 21.01.1817 – 15.10.1827
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14): ~ 1814

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Böhm 1, p.415 | Buschek, IR23, II, p.513 | MilSchem | Preyer, p.115 | Wrede 1, p.278 | WZ, 25.11.1809, 09.09.1813

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale