Ferdinand Tige

Ferdinand Graf Tige (born September 21, 1719 in Sibiu , † September 21, 1811 in Vienna ) was an Austrian general of the cavalry and from 1796 to 1801 President of the Court War Council .

Life

origin

Ferdinand Graf Tige came from the old Lorraine noble family Tige and was the son of the imperial general of the cavalry and commander of Transylvania Carl Tige, who was elevated to the rank of count on October 6, 1726.

Military background

Tige joined the St. Ignon cuirassier regiment in 1743 as a cornet and was promoted to lieutenant colonel there in 1758 . In 1766 he became colonel and commander of a cuirassier regiment, in 1773 major general and in 1781 owner of the dragoon regiment Prinz Eugen von Savoyen . In 1784 he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant .

In 1787 he came to the army division of the cavalry general Joseph Graf Kinsky. Two years later, Tige was retired with a simultaneous promotion to general of the cavalry. In April 1790 he was reactivated and appointed court war councilor. He initially took over the presidency for a short time and led it on an interim basis until the appointment of the Count of Valais in 1791. After the reorganization of the Court War Council in 1791, Tige was appointed President of the Military Justice Department and, after the death of Count von Nostitz-Rieneck, again led the presidium ad interim until 1801. As early as 1793, Emperor Franz II had his longtime loyal friends Services were honored with an annual staff allowance of 2000 guilders and the appointment of a privy councilor . In 1808, at the age of 92, Tige finally retired.

During his presidency, the army received improved and lighter rifles. When training was on target accuracy greatest value (set at target practice target shooting ). The training of the light troops was also improved. In 1798 the saber was abolished from the infantry , so that only non-commissioned officers and grenadiers were armed with it. In the cavalry , the Carabinier regiments were converted into Cuirassier regiments and seven Chevauleger regiments .

Family and offspring

Ferdinand Graf Tige married Antonia Countess Larisch . Their son Franz Karl Graf Tige (* 1754, † 1816) became Austrian major general.

literature

• The Hofkriegsraths-Presidents and War Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army Publishing house of the military-scientific association, Vienna 1874.

Web links

• Entry on Ferdinand von Tige in Kalliope
• Ferdinand Tige in the German biography
• Entry about Ferdinand Graf Tige in the digital portrait index
• Entry about Ferdinand Graf Tige in www.napoleon-series.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Moritz von Nostitz-Rieneck	President of the Court War Council 1796–1801	Karl of Austria-Teschen