Adolph von Leddihn

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Adolph von Leddihn (born December 20, 1830 in Vienna , † April 25, 1903 there ) was an Austrian general .

Military career

He was born in Vienna on December 20, 1830 . In 1849 Adolph Leddihn, as he was still called at the time, joined the Imperial Austrian Army with the 3rd Dragoon Regiment as a commoner . He then took part in the campaign against the insurgent Hungarian insurgents who were fighting against the Habsburg regime in Hungary and was promoted to lieutenant .

From 1867 to 1868 he attended war school and was immediately promoted to major and assigned to the general staff for further military use . There he was entrusted with drafting new service regulations, which were deemed necessary after the defeat of the Austrian army in the German War of 1866. In 1871, after completing this work, about which he published a two-volume work, he was finally transferred to the General Staff. In 1872, however, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel with the same area of ​​responsibility in the kuk war ministry . In 1876 he returned to the General Staff. He then became head of the Registry Office of the General Staff. In 1878/1879 he worked in the newly established command office for affairs for the Turkish territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina occupied by the Danube monarchy . From 1879 he commanded the 6th Dragoon Regime and after his promotion to major general in 1881 he was commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in Sarajevo . With this unit he was involved in the suppression of the uprising against the Austro-Hungarian occupation in Bosnia in 1882. Also in 1882 he became chief of the 14th Infantry Brigade, then in 1883 commander of the 64th Infantry Brigade. In 1889 he retired while being promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal (ad honores).

As early as 1881 he was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility because of his services and was called Adolph von Leddihn from then on.

publication

  • Composition, marching order and expansion of the troops and train sections of larger armies according to the organization of the year 1870 , 2 volumes, 1872

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Broucek:  Leddihn, Adolph von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Leddihn, Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1903
Place of death Vienna