Eugen Wratislaw von Mitrowitz

Count Eugen Wratislaw von Mitrowitz, miniature portrait by Carl Hummel (1816)

Count Eugen Wratislaw, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber (1850)

Count Eugen Wratislaw von Mitrowitz-Nettolitzky (born July 8, 1786 in Wischopol [ Vlčí Pole ], Bohemia ; † February 14, 1867 in Vienna ) was an Imperial Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and 1804-1867 Field Marshal General .

biography

family

Count Eugen Wralislaw-Netolitzky von Mitrowitz, Schönfeld and Netolice , Colonel Hereditary Kitchen Master in the Kingdom of Bohemia, on Milicziowes (district of Neubydzow) was the son of Count Anton Wenzel Wratislaw-Netolitzky at Kost Castle (* April 6, 1756, † February 17, 1791 ), married in Vienna on October 17, 1827 to Countess Eleonore Wrbna von Freudenthal († July 20, 1827). His sisters 1) Elisabeth (* 1783), married in 1838 Joachim Heinrich Count Woracziczky , Baron von Pabienicz († 1838); and 2) Apollonia (* 1785), married Baron Karl Wilhelm von Scheibler (1772–1843) in 1803 , kk field marshal lieutenant and fortress commander of Josefsstadt (her daughter Helene Eleonore called herself "Freiin von Scheibler-Wratislaw" and married Johann Baptist Franz Marchese Saibante , Kk captain in Prague.

Eugen is the grandson of Count Franz Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (from the house of Kost), on Wsseradicz and Swinarz, died on July 10, 1779; married in 1754 to Theresia, daughter of Wenzel Kasimir Graf Netolitzky von Eisenberg (Br. 1741 and Gf. 1759) on Lochowitz and Kost, district chief of the Bechiner district and burgrave of Königgrätz, then until 1759 (last) royal. Bohemian court chamber president , Oberstlandhofrichter and general war commissioner (1700–1760), married to Regina de Saint-Martin in 1729 , died after 1759.

Eugen joined the Merveldt Uhlans in the imperial army on August 1, 1804 at the age of 18 . In 1805 he became a first lieutenant and received his baptism of fire at the meeting near Günzburg . Promoted to Rittmeister in the 3rd Uhlan Regiment in 1809, he proved himself under his brigade commander Josef Wenzel Radetzky von Radetz in the meeting of Landshut and Siegburg. After participating in the Battle of Wagram (1809) and Leipzig , he was promoted to major in December 1813 . In the campaign of 1814 he distinguished himself as the cavalry leader of the Archduke Ferdinand Hussars, especially in the battle of Fère-Champenoise .

career

In 1816 Wratislaw von Mitrowitz-Netolitzky was promoted to lieutenant colonel and commander of the 4th Uhlan Regiment in 1816 . In January 1820 he was promoted to colonel and on May 23, 1830 to major general. In 1835 he was appointed to the Court War Council, promoted to field marshal lieutenant on July 15, 1836 , and appointed second owner of Cuirassier Regiment No. 1. In 1840 he became First Adjutant General of the Emperor and King Ferdinand I (Austria) , Privy Councilor and in 1847 he was awarded a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

In March 1848, during the revolution in Milan , he became commandant of the 1st Corps in Lombardy under Field Marshal Radetzky . After retreating to the Mincio , his Brigade Wohlgemuth led the battle of retreat near Goito on April 8th. On May 6th his troops stormed the village of Santa Lucia , on May 29th he stood in front of Curtatone and Montanara, on May 30th he was defeated in the Battle of Goito against a Sardinian superiority. Already on June 10th his troops were victorious in the Battle of Vicenza , in the battles of Sona and Sommacampagna on July 23rd and 24th, and on July 25th in the Battle of Custozza . The return to Milan was reached on August 6th. In November 1848 he received the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order , shortly afterwards the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold.

On March 13, 1849 Wratislaw-Netonitzky was promoted to general of the cavalry , his corps proved itself on March 21 and 22 in the battles at Borgo, Gambolo and Vigevano , but could no longer intervene in the battle of Novara . After the army reorganization, he became the commander of the newly formed 1st Army with its headquarters in Vienna. On September 10, 1854, he became Imperial Field Marshal and Captain of the Arcièren Life Guard and hereditary Imperial Councilor. In 1855 he became Chancellor of the Military Maria Theresa Order .

He died unmarried in 1867 as the last bearer of the name of the first branch of the Kost line of the Bohemian nobility family Wratislaw von Mitrowitz .

literature

• Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , there at: Netolitzky von Eisenberg (Netoliczky z Eysenberka, Nettolitzky von Eysenberg), p. 208 Note 1)
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wratislaw von Mitrowicz, Eugen Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, pp. 149–152 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Johann von Meraviglia-Crivelli : Siebmacher's book of arms. Volume IV, Section 9, Nuremberg 1886; reprographic reprint: Siebmacher's large book of arms. Volume 30: The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3-87947-030-8 , p. 182: Vratislav, coat of arms 78; and Netolicky von Eisenberg, Grafen p. 290. Heraldic panel 140.