Franz Philipp von Lamberg

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Franz Philipp Graf von Lamberg
( lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber ).
The Lamberg Castle in Mór .

Franz Philipp Graf von Lamberg (born November 30, 1791 in Mór (Moor) in Fejér County , Hungary, † September 28, 1848 in Budapest ) was an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal who died during the Hungarian Revolution . He came from the noble family Von Lamberg .

Lamberg began his military career in 1810 as a lieutenant in the Imperial and Royal Uhlan Regiment No. 3 and served in the army in France during the war years of 1813/14. In the long following peacetime he went through the entire career of an officer, finally reaching the rank of field marshal lieutenant in 1842 after 32 years of service . There was nothing to suggest that his life would take an extraordinary turn.

Only the fact that he was a loyal imperial officer and a Hungarian magnate at the same time brought him, after the unrest began in Hungary, in 1848 to restore calm as imperial commissioner, provisional palatine and commander in chief of all troops in Hungary. But Hungary had long since made a different decision and the state parliament decided to forbid Lamberg from taking over command. But instructions were given to the army to refuse to obey him.

When he was about to take up his post, he never got around to negotiating with the Hungarian MPs. Because as soon as he arrived in Pest he was attacked on the pontoon bridge by an excited crowd and murdered on the spot.

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SURNAME Lamberg, Franz Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamberg, Franz Philipp Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Mór near Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1848
Place of death Budapest