Friedrich von Teuchert

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Friedrich Freiherr von Teuchert

Friedrich Freiherr von Teuchert (born May 21, 1797 in Hungarian Hradisch ; † June 27, 1872 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian Real Privy Councilor , Feldzeugmeister and second owner of the Imperial and Royal Line Infantry Regiment No. 59.

biography

Map of the Free State of Krakow

Teuchert entered the Wiener-Neustädter Military Academy in September 1807 , from which he was retired on November 15, 1815 as an ensign for the Infantry Regiment Wenzel Graf Colloredo No. 56. In the regiment he advanced to lieutenant in the same year and in 1831 to first lieutenant . In these batches he proved himself particularly as the head of teaching in the regimental schools and in the house of education, as a geometer in the cadastral surveying in the Bukovina and in the service of adjutants. The officer distinguished himself in 1831 during the November uprising when the Polish troops transferred to Austrian territory, but especially from 1836 to 1838 when General von Kauffmann took possession of the then Free State of Krakow (see below), where he dealt with the political and administrative reorganization cared. In August 1838 he advanced to captain in Langenau Infantry No. 49, but remained in his new service in the military department of the Court War Council. On February 12, 1841, while being appointed major in the Kaiser No. 1 infantry regiment, he became a general command adjutant in Moravia and rose to lieutenant colonel on February 10, 1845 . He also showed caution during the unrest that broke out in Galicia in 1846 , where he set up a mobile corps in Moravia. On February 14, 1848 he was appointed Colonel and Regimental Commander of Count Mazzuchelli No. 10 Infantry Regiment. During this time he was awarded the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (1847) 3rd class , the Royal Hanoverian Guelph Order 1st class (1848) as well as the Imperial Russian Order of St. Vladimir 2nd Class .

The Ingmánd Fort of Komorn

Shortly afterwards, in 1849, it proved itself during the Hungarian uprising . So he first led a brigade consisting of four battalions, a cavalry division and a six-pound battery to the reserve corps of Field Marshal Lieutenant Wohlgemuth. He then fought on April 19 at Nagy-Sárlo and Tarnad, where he saved his regiment from annihilation by means of a clever retreat. and in the battle at Ács on April 26th of that year.

After the colonel had been promoted to major general on July 22, 1849 , he successfully commanded the left wing of the formation on the right bank of the Danube on August 3 near Komorn when the Hungarian general Georg Klapka failed . When Komorn was again enclosed, he was given the command of the Barko outpost brigade, and with this he assumed the important position on the right bank of the Danube opposite the Sandberg. After the city surrendered, he joined the 2nd Corps and Military Command in Moravia as an Adlatus .

After the general had advanced to field marshal lieutenant on May 17, 1854 and shortly thereafter, on June 21, to chief of the General Command of the 4th Army, on June 12, 1855 he became a member of the Advisory Commission for the Compilation of Military-Administrative Regulations, on February 17, 1857 board of the first, finally on November 27, 1859 of the fourth general directorate of the Army High Command. On December 4, 1862, the officer became Deputy Minister of War in economic and administrative matters. For his reforms carried out within nine years, he received the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Order of Leopold (1859) and later the Order of the Iron Crown, 1st Class (1864).

On March 20, 1859, Teuchert became the second owner of the Imperial and Royal Line Infantry Regiment Archduke Rainer No. 59 and on October 13, 1859 was elevated to the status of hereditary-Austrian baron and honored on November 11 of that year with the title of a Real Secret Council.

The baron was appointed Feldzeugmeister ad honores on July 2, 1865 and retired. After his death due to paralysis in Bad Ischl, his body was transferred to Vienna and buried in the Währing cemetery . Archduke Rainer of Austria also attended the funeral .

family

Friedrich was the older brother of Field Marshal Lieutenant (June 28, 1859) Karl Teuchert (born June 9, 1800 in Hungarian Hradisch; † February 10, 1873 in Vienna ) and since March 8, 1841 with Anna Rosalia d'Elvert-Bourscheid (* September 4, 1809), widow of the kk major general (rank of April 3, 1831) and brigadier Carl Kaufmann Edlen von Traunsteinburg (* 1777 - January 23, 1838) married. Since Friedrich had no children of his own, according to the very highest handwriting of Emperor Franz Joseph I on October 1, 1860, the transfer of the baron Teuchert to his three stepchildren was permitted. These stepchildren were Friedrich Felix (* January 17, 1831; † September 30, 1913), Austro-Hungarian officer (Feldzeugmeister on December 21, 1888, then General of the Infantry on November 15, 1908), Maria Anna (* March 30, 1832) and Franz Xaver (born July 26, 1833), kk colonel, married in 1861 to Hermine (born January 31, 1840), daughter of Feldzeugmeister Friedrich Freiherr Kellner von Köllenstein (1802–1881).

Coat of arms of the Barons von Teuchert 1859

From then on, the family carried the name Freiherrn von Teuchert-Kauffmann, Edle von Traunsteinburg .

coat of arms

1859: In gold, a natural carrot head turned to the right, the eyes of which are covered with a band that flies backwards and is striped with red and silver. The baron's crown rests on the shield, on top of which a helmet, the crown of which bears the head of the Moor as described above. The helmet covers are on the right black with gold, on the left red with silver. The shield holders form two silver griffins standing on a golden arabesque ornament, whose heads, necks, manes, breasts and wings are red.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "New general German Adels-Lexicon", Volume 9, Steinhaus-Zwierlein, Verlag Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1870, p. 78 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Constant von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 44th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1882, p. 49ff.
  3. ^ V. Streffleur (ed.): Austrian military magazine. 2nd volume, issue 4, printed by Anton Strauss's blessed Witwe & Sommer, Vienna 1847, p. 104.
  4. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthums Österreich. 1st part, kk Hof- und Staats- Aerarial-Druckerey, Vienna 1848, p. 611.
  5. ↑ (Linzer) Tages-Post . No. 148, of Tuesday, July 2, 1872, p. 3.
  6. ^ A b c d Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 186.
  7. ↑ military newspaper. No. 82 of June 8, 1859, XI. Volume, No. 36, p. 315.
  8. ^ Oesterreichisch-kaiserlicher Hof-Kalender for the leap year 1872. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, p. 222.
  9. ^ New Free Press. No. 2821 of July 3, 1872, p. 6.
  10. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generality 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Teuchert, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teuchert, Friedrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Feldzeugmeister
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungarian Hradish
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1872
Place of death Bad Ischl