Emmerich von Babarczy

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Emmerich Freiherr von Babarczy

Emmerich Freiherr von Babarczy , also Emerich Baron de Babárczy (* 1818 ; † December 24, 1881 in Vienna ) was an imperial and royal chamberlain and field marshal lieutenant , sub-lieutenant and house commander of the 1st Arcièren bodyguard , but also a writer of Hungarian descent.

biography

Military background

After visiting the kk Theresianum in Vienna (1828–1835), Babarczy began his career as an officer.

During the Hungarian uprising of 1848/49, the First Rittmeister showed great courage. Already at the beginning of the hostilities, which had not yet been openly expressed, and the emergence of the Magyar desire for separation, he put on the imperial flags and colors together with the then colonel of the regiment (at that time still the Galician Chevaulegers regiment Archduke Ferdinand No. 3 ) Adam von Waldstein . He worked with patriotic appeals and rallies, especially in the Saxon and Romanian villages, with all his energy against the revolutionary party, before the commanding general Freiherr von Puchner proclaimed a state of war in Transylvania . For his behavior he was honored with the kk Military Merit Cross with the war decoration and promoted to major .

Arcièren Life Guard 1868

Subsequently, he served as adjutant to Archduke Joseph and wrote his three books during this time. “Confessions of a Soldier” (1850), “Explanatory Notes on Confessions of a Soldier” (1851) and “Carlsbad and its Surroundings” (1851).

The major, in the regiment now called Archduke Maximilian No. 8 , was a wing adjutant to Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1851 and already holder of the Imperial Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus II. Class, the Commander of the Saxon Order of Merit and Grand Cross of the Order of King Franz I. In 1852 the officer was assigned to the Imperial Military Central Chancellery in the Army High Command under Field Marshal Lieutenant Karl Ludwig von Grünne .

As a lieutenant colonel (1853) he was prime sergeant in the first Arcièren bodyguard of the emperor. Surprisingly, on February 18, 1855 in Vienna, with the reservation of his subsequent super-arbitration (declaration of unfit for service), he was temporarily taken over into the temporary retirement status.

Already back in active service in 1856, the emperor appointed Babarczy with rank from September 19, 1861 to colonel with retention of the post at that time.

With his appointment and rank on January 13, 1869, the officer, who was then sub-lieutenant and house commander of the 1st Arcièren Life Guard, was promoted to major general and in 1870 served as a member of the employed generals. He was one of the first to receive the war medal in 1873 .

The baron was finally promoted to field marshal lieutenant on May 1, 1879 (rank of April 20 of that year).

Carlsbad and its environs 1851, cover sheet

To his main work

In his book “Confessions of a Soldier” (Vienna), published in 1850, the language and content from all sides focused the attention on this text, in which, with military frankness, the necessity of the preponderance of military rule in order to combat the machinations of the revolution, and that The attempt was made to prove untenable constitutional reforms, especially for Austria, or, as Richard Kralik succinctly summed up: "For military rule and against constitutional attempts". In journalism, the work was given a lighting that called into question its value from every point of view.

The book was one of the best-known statements for a strong state whose anti-constitutional and authoritarian theses irritated even the emperor.

The chosen motto based on an "old song" that he wrote at the beginning of his omissions was indicative of his thinking in this regard:

"The first king was a happy soldier,

The proletariat overthrows the last king.

This is followed by anarchy, which eats up its own limbs,

And after the last king the first comes back. "

Works

  • Confessions of a Soldier, Verlag Jasper, Hügel, Vienna 1850
  • Explanations on the confessions of a soldier, Verlag Jasper, Hügel, Vienna 1851
  • Carlsbad and its surroundings, Verlag AC Kronberger, Karlsbad u. Prague 1851
Coat of arms of the Barons of Babarczy 1681

coat of arms

1855: In a blue shield on a green three-mountain, two inward-looking, jumping, silver unicorns holding up a golden crown on two poles in their middle. On the gold-crowned helmet a silver unicorn with a golden horn and hooves. The blankets are blue-silver.

literature

  • Former cavalry officer: "The cavalry regiments of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army", Volume 3 - Die Uhlanen, FB Geitler's Verlagbuchhandlung, Vienna 1863
  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: "The Army in Austria - Military, State and Society 1848–1867", Volume 20 of Wehrwissenschaftliche Forschungen, Verlag Hans Boldt, Winsen / Luhe 1975, pp. 283 and 287 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Freiherr von Gemmell-Flischbach: "Album des Kaiserl. Royal Theresianums (1746–1880) - directory of all relatives from the foundation to November 1, 1912, with brief biographical data ”, self-published by the editor, Vienna 1913, p. 123
  2. ^ Count Andreas Thürheim: "Memorial sheets from the war history of the Austro-Hungarian Army", Volume 2, Verlag Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1880, pp. 332 and 333
  3. ↑ Former cavalry officer: “The cavalry regiments of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army”, Volume 3 - Die Uhlanen, FB Geitler's Verlagbuchhandlung, Vienna 1863, p. 203
  4. ↑ Pressburger Zeitung No. 251, from October 25, 1850, p. 1061
  5. ^ Oesterreichisch-Kaiserlicher Hof-Kalender for the year 1877. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, p. 40.
  6. ↑ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1853, p. 8
  7. ↑ Emil Paskovits: "The first Arcièren bodyguard of his majesty the emperor and king: a look back on its 150 years of history", self-published by the Imperial and Royal First Arcièrenleibgarde, Vienna 1914, p
  8. ↑ K. k. Army Ordinance Gazette, No. 9 of February 20, 1854, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1854, p. 24
  9. ↑ K. k. Army Ordinance Gazette, No. 38 of September 25, 1861, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, p. 126
  10. ↑ Imperial and Royal Military Schematism for 1869–1870, Part 1, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, January 1870, p. 140
  11. ↑ a b Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 7
  12. ↑ Richard Kralik (Ritter von Meyrswalden): "General history of the latest time: from 1815 to the present," Volume 2, Verlag der Verlagsbuchhandlung Styria, Graz and Vienna 1916, p. 633
  13. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", 1st part, printed and published by typogr.-literar.-artist. Establishment, Vienna 1856, p. 102 f.
  14. ↑ Helmut Rumpler: "Austrian history: 1804-1914: a chance for Central Europe: bourgeois emancipation and state decline in the Habsburg monarchy", Verlag Ueberreuter, Vienna 1997, p. 341
  15. ↑ Emmerich von Babarczy: "Confessions of a Soldier", Verlag Jasper, Hügel, Vienna 1850, on the cover sheet
  16. ^ Andrássy Gyula, gróf: "Magyarország címeres Königyve (Liber armorum Hungariae)", Verlag Grill K. Csepreghy, Budapest, 1913, p. 22 f.
personal data
SURNAME Babarczy, Emmerich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emerich, Baron de Babárczy; Babarczy, Emmerich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian field marshal lieutenant and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1818
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1881
Place of death Vienna