Franz Dahlen of Orlaburg

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Franz Dahlen of Orlaburg 1840

Franz Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg (born December 6, 1779 in Orlat , Transylvania , † February 18, 1859 in Graz ) was an Imperial and Royal General Feldzeugmeister , owner of Infantry Regiment No. 59 "Archduke Rainer" and President of the Supreme Military Court.

origin

The baron came from an old noble family from Courland who had settled in Transylvania and purchased goods.

biography

He began his military career on May 10, 1797 as a cadet in the 40th Infantry Regiment (then Count Mittrowsky). Because of his bravery, he quickly advanced in the rankings. After the storming of Santa Lucia on March 26, 1799, he was appointed ensign , was allowed to lead a company in the battle that was fought shortly afterwards and was promoted to lieutenant just seven months later . The commanding general in Transylvania, Feldzeugmeister Count Mittrovski , appointed him to his adjutant, and for several years he was employed in purely military business in the general command, 1805 first lieutenant , 1809 captain in infantry regiment No. 8 "Archduke Ludwig". There he served in his regiment with the 4th Army Corps under Field Marshal Lieutenant Fürst Rosenberg in the battles of Regensburg , Aspern and Wagram , then in the campaign against Russia in 1812 . In the following two years he was assigned to the corps command of Feldzeugmeister Ignaz Gyulay in the Austrian main army under Field Marshal Prince Schwarzenberg . After his exemplary behavior in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , he was promoted to major in 1813 and was awarded the Order of St. Anne, 2nd class. After the Second Peace of Paris he was adjutant general and military adviser in Veneto .

In 1821 he was appointed lieutenant colonel at the Lombard general command because of the successful deployment of the troops in northern Italy under Count Bubna during the revolution in Piedmont by the Sardinian king with the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus and by the Duchess of Parma with the Commander's Cross of the Constantine St. George Order decorated.

Coat of arms of the Barons Dahlen von Orlaburg 1850

In July 1825 he was appointed Colonel and Commander of the 43rd Infantry Regiment "Baron Geppert" in Kaschau and Erlau. In 1830 the regiment came to Zara in Dalmatia , where Dahlen managed the General Command for several months after the unexpected death of the governor Baron von Tomassich (Tomašić), and was then deputy to the field witness, Count von Lilienberg, and a member of the provincial medical commission with extensive powers. In 1832 he was promoted to major general and brigadier, first in Verona and later in Brescia . The effective procedure against the cholera epidemic that occurred there earned him the praise of General Radetzky .

After he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant on April 6th, 1840 (rank of April 10th of the year), he was raised to the hereditary knighthood on May 18th, 1840 because of his bravery and various other services. In 1843 he was a divisional officer and second owner of Infantry Regiment No. 50 "Grand Duke of Baden". This was followed in 1846 as a cordon commander in Karlstadt (Karlovac) , later as a division general in Agram . In 1848 he moved with the Banus Jelačić across the Drava and stayed there as the commander of the reserve troops in Croatia and Slavonia .

On February 5, 1849, the officer was given the title of a Real Secret Council tax-free and on July 22, 1849 the Order of the Iron Crown, 1st class. On May 15, 1850, Dahlen was raised to the baron class and, after his promotion to Feldzeugmeister and owner of the Infantry Regiment No. 59 Archduke Rainer, retired on February 6, 1851, because he followed the emperor's call to Vienna and took the position of President of the Supreme Military Court .

In 1827 he married Marie Ramsaubek († 1832), whose only child was the future Feldzeugmeister Hermann Josua Anton (1828-1887).

coat of arms

Quartered with a red central shield, in which an upright broad ax with a golden handle. 1 divided lengthways by blue and silver, without a picture, 2 in blue on a rock between two round towers a white castle with a red roof and closed black gates. 3 in gold a serpent winding straight upwards, holding a silver key that turns its beard downwards and outwards, and 4 in silver a red lion wielding a sword.

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. Part A, Justus Perthes publishing house , Gotha 1857.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. Volume 20, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1870.
  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial and Royal Generals (1618-1815). Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857
  2. ↑ Jaromir Hirtenfeld : Military newspaper. Volume 12, XII. Year, printing and publishing house M. Auer, Vienna 1859, p. 133f.
  3. ↑ military newspaper. Volume 12, p. 133.
  4. ^ A b Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and imperial generals (1618-1815). Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2006, p. 32.
  5. ^ Carinthia (Journal for Patriotic Studies). No. 86 of October 27, 1849, Klagenfurt, p. 344.
  6. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , Volume 20, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1870, p. 151.
  7. ^ Genealogical paperback of baronial houses. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1857, p. 124f.
  8. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . TO Weigel Publishing House, Leipzig 1860, Volume 2, p. 401.
personal data
SURNAME Dahlen von Orlaburg, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franz Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Feldzeugmeister
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlat
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1859
Place of death Graz