Friedrich Kellner from Köllenstein

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Friedrich Kellner von Köllerstein 1853

Friedrich Marcus Freiherr Kellner von Köllenstein (born June 4, 1802 in Theresienstadt ; † January 12, 1881 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Privy Councilor , Feldzeugmeister , first lieutenant of the 1st Arcièren Life Guard and owner of Infantry Regiment No. 41 as well as a member of the Herrenhaus des Austrian Reichsrat for life .

Origin and family

Friedrich was the son of captain Christoph Kellner (born 1764 in Sondershausen , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ) and Countess Josepha Troyer von Aufkirchen (born July 22, 1781), who was elevated to the hereditary-Austrian nobility on August 14, 1822 with the title "von Köllenstein" in Fiume ). He married Elisabeth von Skerbinek (born November 18, 1806 in Vienna) in 1831 and had two daughters, Anna (born April 16, 1836), married to Alfred Ritter von Kodolitsch, and Hermine (born January 31, 1839) Franz Freiherrn von Teuchert and two sons. The latter also served in the military. Friedrich (born August 22, 1834) became kuk Colonel, Karl (October 3, 1837 - November 9, 1902) with rank of October 31, 1885 kuk major general.

biography

Surrender of the Hungarians at Világos in 1849
Battle of Solferino, 1859

Kellner received military training in the Wiener-Neustadt Military Academy , from which he graduated in early 1821 as a second lieutenant in the Rifle Battalion. 9 and 12 October of the year lieutenant was. In the same he advanced to lieutenant on September 16, 1830 , then to lieutenant on June 1, 1835, and in 1838 came as a captain to the 6th Jäger Battalion.

From there, on October 17, 1842, promoted to major in the Wimpffen Infantry Regiment No. 13, Kellner became General Command Adjutant in Vienna, then on October 3, 1846, Lieutenant Colonel in this office. His important and appropriate activity in this position brought him in May 1846 the appointment as military officer in the State Council, where he advanced to Colonel on October 14, 1846 and remained until the State Council was dissolved in May 1848. In November 1848, Kellner became a military officer in the War Ministry and remained in this position until he was appointed major general and deputy war minister on April 8, 1849 . In the meantime he had taken part in the siege and capture of Vienna , then the fighting during the invasion of Hungary near Bruck an der Leitha and Prellenkirchen , for which he had volunteered.

The general was appointed second adjutant general to the emperor by handwriting on May 27, 1849, and in 1851 he was assigned to the Central Military Chancellery of the Army High Command under Karl Ludwig von Grünne . He was also repeatedly entrusted with diplomatic missions. In many cases, the emperor used him to distribute the large donations that had been made when towns and cities of the monarchy were affected by a great fire or water emergency. His most important mission, however, was that in Dalmatia at the end of 1852 to resolve the complications in Montenegro . After he had successfully carried out this, he was promoted to Adjutant General of Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1852 , then awarded the Commander's Cross of the Leopold Order on April 8, 1853 and according to its statutes with a diploma from June 22 of that year in Vienna raised to the hereditary-Austrian baron status. In addition, on November 9, 1853, he advanced to the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal . Furthermore, he received the secret council dignity on April 24, 1854 and on May 8, 1857 became the owner of Infantry Regiment No. 41 (formerly Sivkovich).

In the war of 1859, Kellner fought alongside the emperor in the Battle of Solferino . On October 20, 1859, he was relieved of the post of Adjutant General with the award of the Iron Crown Order, 1st class, and appointed first lieutenant of the 1st Arcièren Life Guard, and in April 1861 he became a member of the manor for life. He retired on January 1, 1867, which he spent in Vienna.

The baron was honored on August 17, 1875 with the title of Feldzeugmeister ad honores. He was an honorary citizen of the cities of Debreczin , Erlau and Pettau .

Awards

He was decorated with numerous medals for his varied and fruitful activities.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Baron Kellner von Köllerstein 1853

1853: Squared shield. 1. In red, an upright golden lion advancing to the right with a knocked out red tongue and drawn out shiny sword on the golden hilt in the right front paw. 2. and 3. Stripped lengthways six times by gold and black, inside a silver tower with a locked gate, two windows placed one below the other and five battlements. 4. In blue, a vine with four grapes grows on a green hill rising from the edge of the foot, two of which are hanging on each side. The baron's crown rests on the shield, on which the crowned tournament helmet is placed. Four undulating ostrich feathers grow out of the crown of the helmet, the middle one on the right golden, the left silver, the outer right red, the outer left blue. The helmet covers are underlaid with gold on the right and blue with silver on the left. The shield holders are two upright, inward-facing golden lions with red tongues knocked out, holding the shield with their front paws and standing on a red ribbon that flutters under the shield. The motto: "Constanter" is written on this red ribbon in golden lapidary letters. The simple coat of arms of the nobility consisted of a shield divided across by a golden band, the upper field of which was equal to field 1, the lower to field 4 of the baronial coat of arms, and three ostrich feathers rose from the crown of the helmet, one gold between a right red and left blue.

literature

  • History of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 41, Volume 2, Jaromir Formanek, Verlag der H. Kroppschen Buchdruckerei, Czernowitz 1887, p. 572 ff.
  • Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "New general German Adels-Lexicon", Volume 5, Kalb-Loewenthal, Verlag Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1864, p. 60 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 84
  2. ↑ a b Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses on the year, Volume 21, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1871, p. 332
  3. ^ A b Constantin von Wurzbach : Köllner von Köllenstein, Friedrich Freiherr. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . Volume 11, Verlag LC Zamarski, Vienna 1864, p. 140. ( online )
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung No. 140, from Thursday, May 21, 1846, p. 1393
  5. ^ A b c Johann Svoboda: The pupils of the Wiener Neustädter Military Academy from the establishment of the institute to our days , Volume 2, Druck- und Kommissionsverlag FB Geitler, Vienna 1870, p. 421 f.
  6. ^ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1851, p. 7
  7. ↑ Hans Birch baron Dahlerup: In Austrian Services , Volume 2, Verlag Meyer & Jessen, Berlin 1912, p. 300
  8. ↑ K. k. Army Ordinance Gazette, No. 91 of November 20, 1852, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1852, p. 93
  9. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 11th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 140 ff.
  10. ↑ Military newspaper No. 4, from Friday, January 14, 1881, p. 28
  11. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Central-Schulbücher-Verlag, Munich 1867, p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Waiter from Köllenstein, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waiter from Köllenstein, Friedrich Marcus Freiherr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Theresienstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1881
Place of death Vienna