Alois von Hornberger

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Alois Hornberger , since 1810 Knight von Hornberger (born April 7, 1779 in Freinsheim , † February 1, 1845 in Würzburg ) was a Bavarian colonel .

Life

He was the son of the Palatinate customs officer Heinrich Hornberger and his wife Elisabeth, née Grosch. Her brother Alois Grosch was the electoral court coach in Munich , to whom the boy traveled at the age of 14 in order to obtain admission to the local military academy. This was achieved on January 2, 1799, after Elector Karl Theodor had personally convinced himself of the suitability of Alois Hornberger.

1804 Hornberger left school, became effective on September 1, 1805 as a volunteer in the Jägertruppe the Bavarian Army and participated in the Battle of the Year in December Jihlava part. On September 22nd, 1806 Hornberger became a second lieutenant in the artillery and took part in the campaign against Prussia in 1806/07 . He also fought in 1809 in the battles of Abensberg and Eggmühl , and on August 5, 1809 at the Sachsenklemme (also called the battle near Oberau). For his personal bravery in that Tyrolean battle, he received the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order on October 22, 1810 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Hornberger after his entry in the nobility register . On March 25, 1820, she was also enrolled in the Bavarian knight class (Lit. H. Fol. 38. Act. No. 150).

On March 10, 1811 he was promoted to first lieutenant and on January 20, 1814 to captain of the artillery. Hornberger took part in the war of liberation against France, where he distinguished himself in the siege of Hüningen fortress in 1814 . He then left active military service because he had broken both arms in the Tyrolean campaign and was still physically damaged.

On July 25, 1815, Hornberger was transferred to the Landwehr (third class citizen military ) and in 1817 he took command of the Ingolstadt battalion as a major . In 1832 he was promoted to Colonel and Chief of the Würzburg Landwehr Regiment, and in 1834 to Landwehr District Inspector of the Lower Main District . At the same time he acted first as a salt official in Ingolstadt, then as the Würzburg senior salt official.

According to the obituary, Hornberger died on February 1, 1845 as a result of paralysis and was buried on February 4 of that year according to the Catholic rite. The Requiem took place in the Neumünster Church in Würzburg .

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004. ISBN 3-9804668-5-X . P. 386.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His Churfurstlichen Durchleucht zu Pfalz etc. Court and State Calendar. Munich 1790, p. 138. to Heinrich Hornberger, customs officer of the Electoral Palatinate sub-office of Freinsheim
  2. ↑ Objects of the public examination of the students in the electoral military academy, August 27, 28 and 29, 1804. Munich 1804. P. 12. Scan from the source
  3. ↑ a b Karl Gemminger: Bavarian Thatenbuch. Druck und Verlag Pustet, Passau 1830, p. 130 (1809), p. 329 (1815) - Google Books
  4. ↑ Joseph von Mussinan : History of the French Wars in Germany. Volume 4, Sulzbach 1829. p. 331. Scan from the source
  5. ^ General intelligence sheet for the Kingdom of Baiern , Munich, 1820, page 880 - Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Hornberger, Alois von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornberger, Alois Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian officer, knight of the Max Joseph Order and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Freinsheim
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1845
Place of death Wurzburg