Franz Boehm von Blumenheim

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Franz Böhm von Blumenheim (born August 16, 1766 in Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia as Franciscus Antonius Zuber , † after July 1827 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian grenadier captain and major who was ennobled in 1816 for his extraordinary courage and commitment.

Life

He was born as the son of the unmarried maid Franziska Zuber (* around 1725 † November 22, 1806 in Falkenau), the father came from the Falkenau bourgeois and senator family Böhm. Because of his illegitimate ancestry, he was not allowed to learn a trade, so that in 1784 he joined the military and served in the Austro-Hungarian army. He took part in the campaigns of 1790–92, 1794–96, 1799, 1800, 1805, 1809, 1813 and 1814 and was particularly notable in the battles near Mons, Charleroi, Landrecy, on Lake Garda, near Rivoli, Lieptingen and Ostrach, Engen, Möskirch, Bieberach, Ochsenhausen and Neuburg an der Donau, then near Elchingen, Aspern, Wagram and Znaim, near Dresden and Leipzig, during the siege of Besançon and in the battle near Lyon. At the battle of Castiglione on southern Lake Garda in August 1796, he drove Napoleonic troops out of their advantageous position despite the fierce grape fire and took a cannon and powder cart from them. This gave the main troops time to offer longer resistance. On that occasion, he was seriously wounded and was taken prisoner.

Battle of Castiglione 1796

In the battle of Rivoli in January 1797, despite being wounded, he did not leave the battlefield, and while retreating from Nördlingen, he saved a flag at risk of death. In 1805 he became a captain and later a grenadier captain in the Graf-Erbachschen-Linien-Infanterie-Regiment 42. During the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813, he was again distinguished by his extraordinary courage.

Because of these services he was raised to the Austrian nobility on September 3, 1816 . In 1827 he retired as a major in Vienna.

Before 1810, Franz Böhm married Anna Elisabeth Mayer (* Falkenau October 13, 1781), a daughter of the soldier Christoph Mayer, who later became a master tailor in Eger . Descendants were in 1856 Anton Böhm von Blumenheim (1839/41 first lieutenant in Jungbunzlau ), major in the kuk Infanterie-Regiment 36 and Joseph Böhm von Blumenheim , 1856 kuk lieutenant, as well as Ignaz Böhm von Blumenheim , 1839 cadet in Jungbunzlau.

coat of arms

A silver shield with a blue right side. Three six-petaled, gold-edged roses with green tips standing on top of each other.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taufmatrik Falkenau 1734–1782, Vol. 5, fol. 804
  2. ↑ The Böhm family based in Falkenau since 1677, master tailor and councilor ibid.
  3. ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:B%C3%B6hm_von_Blumenheim,_Franz
  4. ↑ The Wanderer. - Vienna, Strauss 1814-73
  5. ↑ Taufmatrik Falkenau 1810, fol. 165
  6. ^ New general German nobility lexicon; EH Kneschke, 1860, p. 517
  7. ^ Kuk Military Schematism, 1839–1843
personal data
SURNAME Blumenheim, Franz Böhm from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zuber, Franciscus Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian grenadier captain and major
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau on the Eger
DATE OF DEATH after July 1827
Place of death Vienna