Franz Schlik zu Bassano and Weißkirchen

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Franz Graf Schlik, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1849
Franz Graf Schlik, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1849
General of the Schlik cavalry with his adjutant (painting by Joseph Heicke , Heeresgeschichtliches Museum ).

Franz Joseph Heinrich Graf Schlik zu Bassano and Weißkirchen (born May 23, 1789 in Prague , † March 17, 1862 in Vienna ) was an Austrian officer, most recently a general of the cavalry .

biography

He was the son of Count Joseph Heinrich Schlick (1754-1807) and the Philippine Ludmilla nee. Nostitz-Rieneck († 1844). Count Schlik devoted himself to his father's wish to study law, but when the war broke out in 1809 he joined a cuirassier regiment as a lieutenant . After the Battle of Aspern (May 1809) he was promoted to lieutenant and during the campaign to Rittmeister . When Austria allied with France in 1812, he first took his leave. After Austria declared war on Napoleon I in August 1813, he returned to the army and fought under Prince Schwarzenberg in the battle of Dresden and at Kulm . Then he became an aide Emperor I Franz appointed. During the Battle of Leipzig (October 16, 1813) he received a dangerous head wound near Wachau that cost him his right eye. After the long years of peace, he remained without a rise in rank for a long time, only in 1835 did he rise to major general and brigadier in Silesia . On June 2, 1844 he was appointed field marshal lieutenant and divisional officer in Brno , then the owner of a hussar regiment.

After the Viennese March Revolution of 1848 he was appointed commander of Krakow , but at the end of November he was appointed commander of a corps of 8,000 men, which at Dukla in Galicia became a diversion (sub-troop) that was to operate against the revolutionaries in Upper Hungary (Slovakia). Schlik won on December 28, 1848 in the battle of Szikszó and on January 4, 1849 in the Battle of Kosice , for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa . His successes were a warning to the Hungarian military mission, which, under the command of Lázár Mészáros, recruited around 10,000 soldiers in the Miskolc area . He won several victories over the numerically superior Hungarian revolutionary troops in winter campaign and then stepped forward Kosice threatened the strategic retreat. Schlik waited two weeks before continuing his attacks. At this point György Klapka had reorganized the Hungarian armed forces opposing Schlick, which is why the Hungarians won the battle at Tarczal on January 22nd and the next day in the meeting at Keresztúr . On January 31, Schlik and Field Marshal Windisch-Grätz attacked Klapka's positions in the Battle of Tokaj , but were thrown back. The victory of Guyon in the Branyiszkó meeting created the opportunity to encircle Schlik's troops, but the encirclement planned by Henryk Dembiński failed. Schlik's armed forces broke through the Hungarian lines at Tornallya on February 14, and at Pétervására they caught up with the troops from Windisch-Grätz. The united Austrians then won the battle of Kápolna on February 26 and 27, 1849 . Schlik then took as leader of the III. Corps participated in the spring campaign. He first lost a battle at von Hatvan against the Hungarian 7th Corps under Gáspár , but distinguished himself during the battle of Isaszeg (April 6) southeast of Gödöllő . Under the new commander Baron von Welden took part in the first battle of Komorn on April 26th and then had to retreat to the Ráab river .

In the summer campaign of 1849 he took part in the advance of the main army under FZM Julius von Haynau as commander of the I. Corps and fought with his troops on June 28 at the siege of Raab and on July 11 and 14 in the second and third battles from Komorn in action. Haynau had three Austrian corps advance against the Hungarians in the Szeged area in three parallel lines . Schlik led his troops in the direction of Makó and fought for the crossing of the Maros River on August 5th and then took part in the Battle of Temesvár on August 9th . On September 5, 1849, Schlik was promoted to General of the Cavalry and received the Order of the Iron Crown for his victories in Hungary and the Commander's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order the following year .

After the defeat of Hungary he became commander of the II Army Corps and commanding general in Moravia . Since June 1854 Supreme Commander of the fourth property in Galicia Army, he went with the same 1859 on the theater of war to Italy, was there after the Battle of Magenta on the site Ferencz Gyulays appointed commander of the second Austrian army in Italy and fought at Solferino on the Tip of the right wing. After the preliminary peace at Villafranca , he took his leave.

In the urban expansion area of New Vienna , Schlik had his Palais Schlick built by the architect Carl Tietz at 25 Türkenstrasse from 1856–58 ; he was the first resident of the newly laid out Türkenstrasse. Schlik died on March 17, 1862. In the year of his death, the street in front of his palace was named after him Schlickgasse , in 1872 the Schlickplatz next to it .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The KK or KuK Generalität 1816–1918 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Austrian State Archives, Vienna 2007, p. 163 (PDF). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oesta.gv.at

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personal data
SURNAME Schlik zu Bassano and Weißkirchen, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlik zu Bassano and Weißkirchen, Franz Joseph Heinrich Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1862
Place of death Vienna