Anton von Gumppenberg

Anton von Gumppenberg, photograph from 1850

Anton von Gumppenberg

Anton von Gumppenberg in civilian clothes

Anton Joseph Freiherr von Gumppenberg zu Pöttmes and Brennberg (born January 10, 1787 in Breitenbrunn (Upper Palatinate) , district of Breitenegg; † April 5, 1855 in Munich ) was a Bavarian infantry general and minister of war .

Life

origin

He came from the Bavarian noble family von Gumppenberg and was the son of Maximilian von Gumppenberg (1756–1803) and his second wife Marianne, née von Werneck (1759–1800). She was the sister of General Reinhard von Werneck , chief of the cadet corps in Munich.

family

On December 11, 1815, he married Franziska von Perfall , a lady-in-waiting to the Crown Princess , in Salzburg . The marriage resulted in two sons and three daughters. The daughter-in-law Friederike (wife of son Ludwig) had King Ludwig I portrayed for his beauty gallery.

His younger brother Joseph von Gumppenberg (1798–1855) held the rank of major general and worked as the fortress commander of Landau (Palatinate) . Both nephews - the son of her eldest sister Therese Freiin von Gumppenberg (from the father's first marriage) - was Cardinal Karl August von Reisach (1800–1869).

Military career

Anton von Gumppenberg attended the forestry school in Freising and on February 23, 1805 joined the Bavarian Army's body regiment as a volunteer . He took part in the Third Coalition War against Austria and was promoted to lieutenant . In 1806/07 Gumppenberg fought as first lieutenant in the fourth coalition war against Prussia. On June 24, 1807, he stormed an entrenched camp near Glatz and, despite stubborn resistance, captured an enemy battery . For his determination and bravery, he received the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order by army order of April 15, 1808 .

In 1809 Gumppenberg took part in the Fifth Coalition War , during which he stormed the village of Offenstetten under the eyes of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria as part of the Battle of Abensberg and was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor . After the Battle of Eggmühl , in which he also distinguished himself, on June 11, 1809, in Linz , the nobles were assigned to the Crown Prince as Ordonnanzoffizier . He then fought in the Tyrolean campaign, u. a. on the Bergisel .

Franz Ludwig Catel : Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria with his friends in the Spanish tavern in Rome, 1823. Anton von Gumppenberg far right on the outside of the table, with a coat over the back of the chair, on his left Crown Prince Ludwig

Gumppenberg was promoted to captain in 1810 and in May of the same year became a wing adjutant to the Bavarian Crown Prince in Salzburg and Innsbruck . In 1812 he voluntarily took part in the campaign against Russia and was part of the General Staff of Carl Philipp von Wredes . Promoted to major on October 11, 1813 , he took part in the Battle of Polotsk . During the unfortunate winter retreat of the Great Army , Wrede sent him as a courier to Munich to report the defeat to the king in advance. He returned to his position as adjutant to Crown Prince Ludwig and accompanied him to Paris and London , as well as on the summer campaign of 1815 .

Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1817 , Gumppenberg took part in the Crown Prince's trips to Rome in 1820 and 1823 ; In 1821 he had taken over the office of court marshal . When Crown Prince Ludwig became king in 1825, he kept Gumppenberg as adjutant and court marshal. In 1828 he received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , in 1832 he was promoted to major general and in 1835 he accompanied the king on a trip to Greece .

Anton von Gumppenberg resigned active military service at his own request in 1838 and took over as commander of the 4th Army Division in Würzburg , and soon afterwards the 1st Division in Munich. In 1838 he became the owner of the 4th Infantry Regiment , which bore his name as an addition until his death. At the same time he belonged to the closest circle of the king on his trips to Rome, Naples , Sicily and Ischia .

On July 9, 1839, Gumppenberg became Minister of War, and in the same year a lifelong Imperial Councilor to the Crown of Bavaria . In 1841 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael and in 1845 the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown. Pope Gregory XVI honored him with the Order of Christ in 1839 , the highest honor of the Holy See .

In 1847 the baron resigned from the post of war minister and became commander of the 3rd division in Augsburg , and in autumn 1850 commander of the II Army Corps in Würzburg. Promoted to General of the Infantry on March 31, 1855, Gumppenberg died unexpectedly on April 5 of that year in Munich, just as he was about to return to Würzburg.

tomb

Grave of Anton Gumppenberg on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Anton Gumppenberg is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (Wall Links Course at 257/259 burial ground 11) location .

literature

• Ludwig Albert von Gumppenberg: History of the von Gumppenberg family. Würzburg 1856, from p. 413.Scan from the source (curriculum vitae)
• Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 7. Altenburg 1859. p. 777. Online view of the entry

Web links

Commons : Anton von Gumppenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard von Werneck in Munich Wiki ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Family website in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon
3. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria. No. 18 of June 14, 1839.