Alexander Pollack from Klumberg

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Alexander Pollack Ritter von Klumberg 1877

Alexander Pollack Ritter von Klumberg , also Pollak , (born November 23, 1821 in Pest , † February 27, 1889 in Vienna ) came from a German-Hungarian bourgeois family and was an Austrian officer ( field marshal lieutenant ) as well as an imperial and royal general transport and general remounting inspector .

Life

Alexander entered the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt on October 23, 1833 and was retired on September 1, 1840 as a lieutenant to Friedrich Anton Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Chevauxlegers Regiment No. 2. He was promoted to first lieutenant on December 17, 1847 and second captain on October 10, 1849 . He participated in the campaign of 1846 in Galicia , in the fighting in Italy in 1848/49, then in 1849 in Raab , Ily-Szöny, Komorn , Szöreg, Szegedin , Timisoara . Orczidorf and Pikris participated in the Hungarian campaign in 1849 and on October 1, 1852 became the first cavalry master. From April 10, 1858 to November 10, 1863, Pollack served as a major in the 4th Cuirassier Regiment and took part in the fighting in Italy in 1859. He advanced to lieutenant colonel on November 11, 1863 .

On February 18, 1866 he became colonel and regimental commander of the Bukowina Dragoon Regiment "Prinz Solms-Braunfels" No. 9 . As such he took part in the campaign in Bohemia and fought at Vysokova and Skalitz. In the battle of Königgrätz he threw himself with his regiment - on which occasion he himself fought on the front line - when the enemy cavalry burst down from the heights in pursuit of the Austrian infantry, and forced the 3rd division into a brilliant attack The Prussian Dragoon Regiment took hold and threw back the 11th Uhlan Regiment, which had rushed to support the Prussians to flee. This made it possible for the infantry, who were retreating in this direction, to cross the Elbe without being disturbed. After taking part in a successful attack against opposing cavalry and deterring the enemy from continuing the pursuit, he rifled his regiment in the fiercest fire and later marched back slowly and orderly. In recognition of his bravery and these services, which are expressly mentioned in the nobility diploma, he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class with War Decoration (KD.) On October 3, 1866 . Likewise, on January 22, 1867, with a diploma in Vienna on March 22, 1867, he was raised to the Austrian knighthood with the title of Klumberg.

Family tomb in Tahitótfalu

On July 16, 1870 he was appointed brigadier in the 13th Infantry Troop Division in Stuhlweissenburg , and on April 28, 1872 (rank of May 5 of the year) he was promoted to major general on this post. Pollack became General Haulage Inspector (July 7, 1872 to September 6, 1877), on April 14, 1874, while maintaining this sphere of activity, he became the Military Inspector of the Imperial and Royal State Stallion Depot, and on October 14 of the same year he was also General Disassembly Inspector, which unites the entire clothing system in his hand and from him was reformed. In these varied uses he was on May 1, 1877 (ranked from April 26 of the year) to field marshal lieutenant. Finally, knight Pollack von Klumberg was assigned to the general command in Prague on September 6, 1877 , and on this occasion he was given the expression of the utmost satisfaction for the excellent services rendered by Emperor Franz Joseph I. He retired on December 1, 1877.

After his death in Vienna, the officer was buried in the family's hereditary funeral in Tahitótfalu (Hungary), where his gravestone has also been preserved.

family

Alexander was the son of the well-known architect Mihály (Michael) Pollack (1773–1855) and his second wife, Magdalena Eger (1789–1880). The officer married Auguste Unger (1837–1902) and had a son, Michael Alois Josef Leo (1859–1929), 1898 lieutenant colonel and regiment commander of the Lower Austrian - Moravian Dragoon Regiment No. 15.

Of Alexander's two daughters, Alexandrine (1858–1935) was the grandmother of Elisabeth König Baroness von Aradvár (1904–1981), who was the court advisor and technical director of the then Austrian salt works in Vienna, Eberhard Karl (1902–1978), a son of renowned military writer Eberhard Mayerhoffer von Vedropolje and the Katharina Freiin Putz von Rolsberg , married.

coat of arms

1867: Quartered shield. 1 A brown horse running in a golden field; 2 two arms in armor with crossed swords in a red field; 3 A green mountain in a red field; 4 A black lion in a field of gold. Two crowned tournament helmets rest on the shield. From the crown of the right helmet grows a leaping brown horse, on that of the left rests an armored arm with a swung sword. The helmet covers of the left helmet are underlaid red with silver, those of the right black with gold.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Ritter Amon von Treuenfest: "History of the kuk Bukowinasch Dragoon Regiment General of the Cavalry Baron Piret de Bihain No. 9 - from its establishment 1682 to 1892", Verlag des Regiment, 1918, p. 342
  2. ↑ Imperial and Royal Military Schematism for 1869–1870, Part 1, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, January 1870, p. 573
  3. ^ A b Johann Svoboda: "The Theresian Military Academy in Wiener-Neustadt and its pupils 1838-1893", Volume 2, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei., Vienna 1894, pp. 50f.
  4. ^ A b Constant von Wurzbach: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", 23rd part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 70f.
  5. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for the History of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1848–1918), Studies on the History of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Volumes 10–11, H. Böhlaus Successor, Graz 1971, p. 266
  6. ^ P. Broucek:  Pollack von Klumberg Alexander. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 174.
  7. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 142
  8. ^ V. Silberer: "The Generality of the Imperial and Royal Army", Volume 1, Vienna 1877, p. 309
  9. ↑ http://www.markus-roehling.eu/?p=274
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuk-wehrmacht.de
  11. ↑ Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family tree and evidence of nobility of the Putz von Rolsberg family, Tannheim 1951
personal data
SURNAME Pollack von Klumberg, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollak Ritter vom Klumberg, Alexander; Alexander Pollak Ritter vom Klumberg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1889
Place of death Vienna