August Giacomo Jochmus
August Giacomo Jochmus (since 1859 :) Freiherr von Cotignola (born February 27, 1808 in Hamburg , † September 14, 1881 in Bamberg ) was an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and German Reich Minister . He spent his life in Greek , British , Spanish and Turkish services, was Foreign and Navy Minister of the German Empire in 1849 and ended his career as an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal.
Life
August Jochmus is the strange case of a soldier who turned gray in various foreign services in the 19th century, who was accepted into the Austrian army at the end of his career as a general, but was practically no longer serving there.
Jochmus first went to Paris to military science to study and set out in 1827, at age 19, according to Greece , where he served as adjutant of General Richard Church on Greek liberation struggle took part. He was already a captain at the age of 20 and then worked as a general staff officer in the Greek Ministry of War .
Annoyed by the intrigues of the National Party, he went to England in 1835 , from where he moved to Spain with the British-Spanish Foreign Legion . Here he was appointed chief of staff to the quartermaster general, promoted to brigadier general in 1837 and finally head of an army corps .
After the end of the civil war , he returned to England in 1838, from where Lord Palmerston soon sent him to Constantinople to prepare for war against Syria . In 1840 Jochmus was promoted from the Sublime Porte to division general. He was then involved in the capture of St. Jean d'Acre in November 1840 as chief of the general staff of the united Turkish-British-Austrian armies that fought against the insurgent Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt . The participating Austrian contingent was under the command of Vice Admiral Archduke Friedrich . In December 1840 he took over the supreme command of the Turkish army and was employed in the Turkish Ministry of War after the end of the campaign in February 1841 . Appointed Turkish division general and pasha with two horse tails, he served in the Turkish Ministry of War until 1848.
The March Revolution of 1848 finally called him back to Germany . Reichsverweser Archduke Johann of Austria appointed him foreign and naval minister . After the resignation of the Archduke and the dissolution of the Reich Ministry in December 1849, Jochmus retired into private life.
Finally he settled in Austria, where his son Carlos (1842–1914) attended the cadet school in Hainburg and the Theresian Military Academy . At first he tried in vain to be accepted into the Austrian army. In 1859 Jochmus was designated by the Austrian government for use in the war, but was no longer active. After the preliminary truce of Villafranca , the emperor raised him to the rank of baron with the title "von Cotignola" . In the war year 1866 he was successful as a field marshal lieutenant . Due to the rapid end of the war with Prussia , however, he was no longer able to serve in the war.
Works
- Georg Martin Thomas (Ed.): August von Jochmus' Gesammelte Schriften . 4 volumes. Cohn, Berlin 1883-84, Volume 1 , Volume 3-4
- The Syrian War and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire since 1840 , digitized version
literature
- Oscar Criste: August Freiherr Jochmus von Cotignola . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 745 f.
- Didaskalia: leaves for mind, spirit and publicity . February 27, 1856, vol. 34, no.50 (biography)
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| SURNAME | Jochmus, August Giacomo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jochmus Freiherr von Cotignola, August Giacomo; Jochmus, August Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and German Reich Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1881 |
| Place of death | Bamberg |