Conrad von Mederer

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Conrad von Mederer , full name Conrad Mederer von Mederer Edler von Wuthwehr , (born November 21, 1781 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † August 18, 1840 in Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn ) was an Austrian general sergeant .

Conrad von Mederer with the Max Joseph Order

origin

The Mederer family came from the Bavarian Upper Palatinate . Grandfather Conrad Johann Mederer (1685–1760) went to Vienna as a confectioner . His son, the military doctor Matthäus Mederer (1739–1805) worked a. a. intensively with the fight against rabies , which is why Emperor Joseph II raised him to hereditary nobility in 1789, with the predicate "Noble von Wuthwehr" .

Conrad von Mederer was the son of the aforementioned military doctor Matthäus von Mederer and his wife Maria Franziska nee. Strobel (1752–1803), daughter of the Freiburg medical professor Philipp Joseph Strobel (1705–1769). The place of birth Freiburg / Breisgau belonged to Upper Austria at that time .

Life

Coat of arms of the noble family Mederer von Mederer, noble von Wuthwehr

In 1795 Mederer joined the Austrian army as an ensign . In the First Coalition War he took part in the battle of Hüningen in 1796 , in the Second Coalition War in the battles of Stockach (1799), Meßkirch (1800) and Hohenlinden . Promoted to captain in 1803 , Conrad von Mederer fought in the battle of Austerlitz in 1805, and in 1809 near Regensburg , Aspern and Wagram . For the battles at the Kinzigbrücke , during the Battle of Hanau , on October 31, 1813, Mederer received the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order , the highest Bavarian honor. The Commander-in-Chief and later Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede said the following:

“When the attack on the Kinziger Bridge on October 31, 1813, which the intended Herr Hauptmann supported with so much effort, the enemy was thrown back on the road to Frankfurt, but the whole left flank remained uncovered in the heat of the pursuit, so he used his position in the same by an attack to coup our troops, which were already far out. At this critical moment, Captain Conrad von Mederer tore his company away from the column, without having been commissioned to do so, and attacked the superior enemy, who had penetrated almost to the rear, with such violence that he was completely repulsed from the flank. Since it cannot be denied that this saved the troops on the road from captivity, but that the deed itself required a quick military survey and decision, and could only be carried out with the most strenuous bravery, these circumstances put them into this Series of the most beautiful military awards before the enemy. "

In 1820 Mederer advanced to major and in 1821 took part in the campaign against Naples . In 1830 he became a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander, on July 26, 1832, he became a colonel and commander of the 29th Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment “Duke Wilhelm von Nassau” in Austrian Silesia . On August 13, 1839 he was promoted to Sergeant General (Major General) and Brigadier in Cluj-Napoca , in 1840 he moved to Zagreb in the same capacity . In the same year Conrad von Mederer died unexpectedly of a stroke in the Slovenian spa town of Sauerbrunn. He had served his fatherland Austria in more than 40 battles and skirmishes for 24 years.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Joseph Strobl in the German biography
  2. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 18 (1840), Part Two. Weimar, 1842, p. 891
  3. ↑ Death report in the magazine Der Adler , No. 206, from August 29, 1840
personal data
SURNAME Mederer, Conrad von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mederer von Mederer Edler von Wuthwehr, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian major general
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1840
Place of death Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn