Friedrich Wilhelm zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg

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Prince Friedrich Wilhelm zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (born December 3, 1732 in Kirchberg , † August 10, 1796 in Prague ) was an Imperial Feldzeugmeister during the First Coalition War and owner of the Austrian Infantry Regiment No. 17 until his death.

Life

origin

Friedrich Wilhelm was a son of Prince Karl August zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (* April 6, 1707; † May 17, 1767) and his second wife, Countess Susanne Margarete Louisa, Countess of Auersperg (1712–1748). He was a half-brother of Prince Christian Friedrich Karl zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1729-1819).

Military career

He joined the Imperial Austrian Army in 1753 with Infantry Regiment No. 29. In the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) he was a major near Leuthen (December 5, 1757) and in the Battle of Landeshut (June 23, 1760) wounded. After he had proven himself in taking a Prussian redoubt, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order on December 22, 1761 . On May 7, 1770, he married Countess Friederike Reuss zu Greiz (* July 9, 1748 - † June 14, 1816).

On January 8, 1770, he was promoted to major general , took part in the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778/79) and was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal on April 10, 1783 . In the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) he commanded a division that delivered the Ottomans a victorious battle on October 7th and 8th, 1789 near Porcseny, for which he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa on October 9th, 1789 has been. After the death of FML Fabri, he received the general command in Transylvania and on October 15, 1789 promoted to Feldzeugmeister .

Before the outbreak of the First Coalition War, he went to Berlin in the spring of 1792 to discuss the procedure for the campaign in France with the Duke of Braunschweig . In April 1792 an Austrian corps was received that assembled in the Landau area . On August 2, his troops crossed the Rhine near Mannheim , advanced to the Moselle and began the siege of the Thionville fortress . After the allied Hessian troops and French emigrant units of Prince Conde had been assigned, he covered the advance of the main Prussian army through the Argonne on the Verdun - Chalons road . Forced to retreat after the cannonade of Valmy (September 20th), his troops took up a defensive position along the Moselle. From December 4 to 7, 1792 he successfully defended Trier against the French Moselle Army under General Beurnonville and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa on December 31, 1792 for his deed near Pellingen .

On May 23, 1793, his troops fought under Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in the Battle of Famars . Together with General Bellegarde , he caused the French troops a total defeat during the siege of the city of Le Quesnoy near Avesnes-le-Sec (September 12, 1793). From November 1793 to May 1794 he served as Quartermaster General in the main army in the Austrian Netherlands . In the summer again deployed as commander in the Upper Rhine , he managed to recapture Speyer on September 17, 1794 . Serious illness forced him to leave the theater of war and return to Vienna. Never fully recovered, the prince succumbed to a severe fever in August 1796.

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personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, Friedrich Wilhelm zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, Friedrich Wilhelm Prince too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Feldzeugmeister
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1796
Place of death Prague