Georg Eberle

Georg Eberle (born April 30, 1787 in Bozen , † January 4, 1855 in Kraków ) was an Austrian field marshal lieutenant and fortress builder.

Life

Eberle completed his training at the Genie Academy , which he finished in 1808. As early as May 1809 he was to be found as a first lieutenant in the Austrian Genie Corps and took part in the campaign, where he was employed in the construction and defense of the bridgehead at Pressburg . In 1813 and 1814 he took part in the campaigns in Italy and in 1815 he directed the construction of the Comacchio defenses . In 1818 he was involved in the planning of the fortress in Rastatt and was then assigned to the Mainz fortress, where he was promoted to major. In 1834 he moved to Nauders as the fortress construction director and then in 1841 he became the fortress construction director of the newly built federal fortress in Rastatt .

Eberle was promoted to colonel and in 1848 was appointed provisional director of the department for fortress affairs in the war ministry of the provisional central authority by the imperial administrator , Archduke Johann . In 1849 he became major general and worked for the Central Military Commission of the German Confederation . In 1851 he finally became field genius director of the 4th Army and in June 1854 city and fortress commander of Kraków (from October as field marshal lieutenant), where he died six months later.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Eberle, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 411 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Brigitte Mazohl, “Actually I have no home here ...” - On the letters of the Bolzano fortress builder Georg Eberle (1787–1855) , in: Grafschaft Tirol - Terra Venusta. Studies on the history of Tyrol, especially the Vinschgau. In recognition of the cultural work of Marjan Cescutti, ed. v. G. Mühlberger u. M. Blaas, Schlern-Schriften, Innsbruck, Bozen 2007, pp. 271–284.