Arthur Heinrich spokesman for Bernegg

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Arthur Heinrich spokesman von Bernegg (born August 22, 1852 in Chur , † October 2, 1912 in Pressburg ) was a Swiss infantry general in the Austro-Hungarian service. He was the commanding general in Pressburg, the Austro-Hungarian Privy Councilor , chamberlain and colonel of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 48.

Life

origin

Arthur Heinrich was born in 1852 as the third son of the Swiss National Council and Colonel Johann Andreas Sprecher von Bernegg and his wife Barbara, née von Albertini, in the Graubünden bishopric of Chur. An ancestor, Johann Andreas von Sprecher entered the Dutch service and died as a lieutenant colonel in the Graubünden Schmid regiment in Maastricht . His son Jakob (1756–1822) became general and owner of the Dutch infantry regiment No. 31 in 1812 , which from then on bore the name " von Sprecher ". In 1807 he married Dorothea Sprecher (1772–1835), the daughter of Landammann Anton Herkules Sprecher. The older son Anton Hercules Baron spokesman Bernegg (* 1809) was Landammann the high court Maienfeld and married in 1839 Clara Emilia (1815-1852), daughter of Podestàs Lucius Bazzigher of Vicosoprano and his wife Catherine of Stampa. The future Swiss Chief of Staff Theophil (1850–1927) came from this marriage . The younger son Johann Andreas Sprecher von Bernegg (1811–1862) became the commandant of the 2nd Federal Battalion. He married Barbara († 1856), the daughter of the mayor Christoph von Albertini and his wife Ursula Elisabeth Gugelberg von Moos. Johann Andreas and Barbara had six children, including Hermann (1843–1902), Arthur Heinrich (1852–1912) and Anton Adolf Christoph (1849–1915), the latter studied law in Göttingen and Leipzig from 1869 and then entered the Prussian civil service .

youth

Arthur Heinrich only lost his mother Barbara at the age of 4 in 1856, his father then dissolved the household. Arthur and his brother Anton Adolf came into the care of their uncle and Landammann Anton Hercules Sprecher in Maienfeld , where they attended primary school. When his uncle moved to Lausanne in 1862 , Arthur was sent to the youth institution in Schiers until 1865 . He then attended the Ecole moyenne high school in Lausanne, where his strong military interest was already evident. The respect for the imperial army, as well as the fact that his maternal uncle, Ulysses von Albertini, already served in the Austrian army, also prompted Arthur to join.

Military career

On November 22nd, 1868, Arthur volunteered to enroll in Infantry Regiment No. 4 Hoch- und Deutschmeister , and on October 1st, 1868, his request was approved. As an Austrian soldier, he retained his Evangelical-Helvetic denomination and his home responsibility for Chur throughout his life. On November 23, 1868, he entered the garrison in Ragusa , where his uncle Albertini was already serving as lieutenant colonel . For basic military training he went to the cadet schools in Zara and the following year in Graz. Returned to the Hoch- und Deutschmeister regiment on November 1, 1870, he was transferred to the cavalry and was transferred to the Uhlan regiment No. 10 Count Clam-Gallas in Maria Theresiopel on February 1, 1871 . From November 1, 1871 he became a lieutenant , from 1874 to 1875 he graduated from the brigade officers' school with excellent results and was promoted to first lieutenant on November 1, 1876 . Spokesman spent this time in various Hungarian garrisons, such as Debreczin , Nyiregyhaza and Eperies . The war school in Vienna , which he attended from October 1, 1877 to October 30, 1879, he graduated with good success, whereupon he was accepted into the general staff .

As a general staff officer, he served with cavalry brigades 14 and 18 in Agram and Fünfkirchen . In 1881 he was appointed captain 1st class in the General Staff Corps and later to the 20th Infantry Troop Division after Esseg to the General Command of the XV. Corps commanded to Sarajevo . In May 1883 he returned to Vienna, where he served for three years in the telegraph office of the General Staff. After that he served as squadron commander in the Hussar Regiment No. 2 Grand Duke of Russia, whose garrison was in Heldsdorf near Kronstadt , while retaining his function in the General Staff Corps . The examination for major in the general staff was passed, after two more years of service he left Transylvania . In 1891 he was assigned to His Majesty's Military Chancellery. In the close entourage of the board of directors of the imperial military chancellery, General of the Infantry Arthur Freiherr von Bolfras , the emperor was accompanied on trips to the Berlin court and on the German maneuvers in Stettin . Speaker was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 1, 1892, and to colonel in 1895 .

In 1896, Sprecher resigned from court service and took over command of the 4th Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 71 in Vienna. There was only a short period of recovery in the drill service, because on June 3, 1897, he took over command of Infantry Regiment No. 99, which was garrisoned in the Moravian Klosterbruck near Znojmo , and thus spokesman finally resigned from the General Staff Corps. In 1901, Sprecher was granted the dignity of chamberlain by His Majesty, and on May 1, 1901, he was appointed major general and command of the 28th Infantry Brigade in Sopron . In June 1905, Sprecher took up his new post as commander of the 2nd Infantry Troop Division in Jaroslau . On November 1, 1905, he rose to Lieutenant Field Marshal , which rank was associated with the title of His Excellency. When the German Emperor Wilhelm II came to Vienna in 1908 to mark the jubilee of the sixty-year government of Emperor Franz Josef , Spokesman commanded the troops that were deployed for his arrival. In May 1910 he was appointed Commanding General of the 5th Army Corps in Pressburg ( Pozsony ). On November 1, 1910, he was promoted to general of the infantry and appointed privy councilor .

In recognition of his services, he was awarded the title of 48th Infantry Regiment in 1911. As soon as he took up his post in Pressburg, fears about his poor health were voiced. Severe fainting spells announced the near end, cures in Marienbad and Bad Sulz only brought improvement in the meantime. In September 1912 he was able to take part in strenuous maneuvers in Ragusa without showing signs of weakness, where he received special recognition from the Army Inspector General of the Infantry Archduke Friedrich for the leadership of his corps . On October 2, 1912, while taking an evening walk, he suffered a heart attack, which resulted in a mild death after a few hours.

On October 4th a memorial service took place in Pressburg, under the military escort of the Hungarian Landwehr (Honved) under Field Marshal Lieutenant von Tersztyansky his coffin was brought to the train station. The coffin arrived in Chur on October 6th, accompanied by the eldest son and the personal adjutant, First Lieutenant Seutter von Lötzen. On October 7th, 1912, the burial took place at 3 p.m.

family

On October 3, 1885, in Chur, Sprecher married a distant relative Helene, the youngest daughter of Mayor Fortunat Ambrosius Sprecher von Bernegg and his wife Amalia, née von Marchion. The eldest son Fortunat (1893-1917), who completed his one-year volunteer year with the Bosnian mountain artillery in Trebinje , was already killed at the age of twenty-four during the First World War in the breakthrough battle near Flitsch-Tolmein .

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personal data
SURNAME Speaker for Bernegg, Arthur Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss infantry general in Austro-Hungarian service
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1912
Place of death Bratislava