Alois von Ströhl

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Alois von Ströhl , full name Alois Johann Nepomuk Franz Xaver Joseph Max Freiherr von Ströhl (born June 10, 1760 in Straubing , † July 9, 1836 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general and city commander of Munich.

biography

The Lords of Ströhl are a long-established, Lower Bavarian noble family from the Straubing area. Alois von Ströhl was the son of the Bavarian treasurer and Straubing government chancellor Maximilian von Ströhl (* 1723) and his wife Agnes Felicitas born. Werner auf Grafenrieth (* 1725), from Waldmünchen . The father was born in 1769, by Elector Max III. Joseph , raised from knight to baron .

Alois von Ströhl visited the Bavarian Cadet Corps from 1771 , served as an officer in the French regiment of foreigners “Royal Baviere” from 1777 to 1790 , then joined the guard regiment of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and transferred from there to the Bavarian Army . In 1799 he was promoted to major . As a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in the then Leib-Regiment , he stormed the western entrenchments of the fortress Pass Strub during the Third Coalition War , on November 2nd and 3rd, 1805, at the head of his unit , which he conquered despite a bullet in the left thigh. With an army order of November 22, 1805, he received the Kurpfalz-Bavarian Military Medal of Honor . In 1806, when the Military Max Joseph Order was founded , he was automatically accepted as a knight of honor there. In 1807 he was promoted to colonel and commander of the body regiment. He then took part as major general in the Russian campaign of 1812 and commanded an infantry brigade near Polotsk . When on August 22, 1812, in the battle near Gamzelowo, the Bavarian commander, General Justus von Siebein, suffered fatal wounds, Ströhl took his place.

In 1813 Alois von Ströhl became military city commander of the capital and residence city of Munich, in 1824 Lieutenant General ; moreover, he was the royal chamberlain .

In addition to the Military Medal of Honor or the Military Max Joseph Order that replaced it, Ströhl also wore the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , the Cross of the Bavarian Order of Louis , and the Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor .

Alois von Ströhl died in 1836 without any descendants and was buried in the Old South Cemetery in Munich . With him, the noble family in the male line died out. His brother Johann Nepomuk von Ströhl (1749-1813) was a Catholic priest and cathedral dean of Freising .

When the news of General Ströhl's death was brought to King Ludwig I , he said: "So I have another friend from my childhood less."

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Heyberger: Bavaria: Landes- und Volkskunde des Kingdom of Bavaria , Volume 1 (Upper and Lower Bavaria), 1860, page 1094; Scan from the source
  2. ↑ Ludwig August Friedrich von Liebenstein: Napoleon's war against Russia in the years 1812 and 1813 , Volume 2, page 111, Frankfurt am Main, 1819; Scan from the source
  3. ↑ Hannelore Putz: Freising becomes Bavarian: Administrative history and biographical studies on the turn of 1802 , Schnell and Steiner, 2002, ISBN 3795415063 , excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Ströhl, Alois von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ströhl, Alois Johann Nepomuk Franz Xaver Joseph Max Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Lieutenant General, Knight of the Max Joseph Order
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1836
Place of death Munich