Christian Götz (Major General)

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Christian Götz lithograph by August Prinzhofer , 1849.

Christian Götz (* 1783 in Lübben ; † April 10, 1849 in Waitzen ) was German major general in the service of the Austrian Imperial Army .

Life

origin

Christian Götz was the son of a wealthy businessman of the same name and the Dorotee Elisabeth Hartmann from Lübben. The family followed the Reformed Creed . His brother Wilhelm (1793–1875) was a pastor in Leuba, Saxony .

Career

Götz attended the renowned Pforta State School until he was 18 . Although his father was destined for a civilian career, he joined the imperial army on November 27, 1800 against his express will while taking some cash with him as a commoner . He began his career with the Coburg Dragoons, where he quickly advanced to corporal and sergeant , and finally became adjutant to Feldzeugmeister Baron Thiemeyer. After the dissolution of his regiment, he moved to the Kaiser-Chevauxlegers regiment, where he rose to the rank of officer in 1802. In 1804 he was one of Radetzky's most outstanding equitation students at the Neustadt Academy . Götz took part in the coalition wars , particularly in Italy from 1805 to 1809, the Russian campaign in 1812 and the war in Germany from 1813 to 1815. By 1815 he was promoted to Rittmeister . In 1821 he moved again to Naples .

Tired of the times of peace, he took his leave in 1828 and retired into private life while maintaining his character .

However, when the signs of a new war in Lombardy showed in 1831 , he asked for reuse, which was also complied with, but he was assigned to the infantry . He joined the rank of captain in the Line Infantry Regiment Nassau one, but was transferred in 1832 to the Bianchi Regiment. In 1835 he was promoted to major in the infantry regiment (No. 15) . There he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1838 . Finally in 1843 as Colonel and Regiment Commander of the Infantry Regiment (No. 27) , took a brief stopover at the Count Nugent Infantry Regiment (No. 30) and was promoted to Major General and Brigadier in the Hungarian Army on July 18, 1848 in Padua .

Meanwhile suffering from progressive gout , he nevertheless quickly made his way from Padua to Jablunka and there took over command of three battalions of infantry, a platoon of cavalry and 12 guns with which he penetrated into Upper Hungary at the beginning of January 1849 . He operated successfully in the Hungarian War of Independence . Götz succeeded in pushing the Hungarians back over the Waag at Budetin and defeating them again on January 16, 1849 in a battle near Tuczel. He followed Görgey with his troops as far as Kaschau and was then assigned to the division of Lieutenant Field Marshal Bamberg . On April 7, 1849, he took over the division command from the latter and formed the left wing of the main army at Waitzen . In the Battle of Waitzen on April 10th, he was fatally shot in the head, which he succumbed to after 30 hours of agony . The victorious Hungarians paid all honors to Götz and prepared a general burial for him in the cemetery in Waitzen.

family

All that is known is that he was married between 1828 and 1831 and that his wife survived him.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Lusatian Magazine. Volume 1, Görlitz 1822, p. 519
  2. ^ August room: Ramming's church-statistical manual for the Kingdom of Saxony. Verlag der Ramming'schen Buchdruckerei, Dresden 1859, p. 363
  3. ^ Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon Pastor's Book. Part 2, Division 1: A – L. Mauckisch, Freiberg i. Sa. 1940, p. 253
  4. ↑ Military schematism of the Austrian Empire. kais. Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerei, Vienna 1848, p. 53 (ranking list); P. 159 (Regiment)
  5. ^ Anatole Wacquant: The Hungarian Danube Army 1848–49. Silesian book printing, art a. Publishing house v. S. Schottlaender, Breslau 1900, pp. 161–162
personal data
SURNAME Götz, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general in the service of the Austrian Imperial Army
DATE OF BIRTH 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebben
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1849
Place of death Jokes