Georg Hauger (military person)

Georg Hauger

Georg Hauger (born January 23, 1792 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 13, 1859 in Vienna ) was a military person in the Tyrolean uprising of 1809 and subsequent clashes in the Alpine region. In 1823 he was responsible for the transfer of Andreas Hofer's remains from Mantua to Innsbruck .

Life

Hauger studied from 1808 at the University of Freiburg and in July 1809 joined the Freikorps of Ferdinand von Luxheim in the course of the Tyrolean popular uprising . In Lienz , Hauger took part in the battle for the Lienzer Klause in August 1809, the successful outcome of which is attributed to the then 17-year-old. A crucial scene of the fight was captured by Albin Egger in the painting The Cross that same year . In September 1809, Hauger belonged to the Archduke Johann Freikorps , which Luxheim had put together . Towards the end of the year he was sent to Carinthia and finally returned to Freiburg. Since he was persecuted in Baden because of his involvement in the fighting in Tyrol, he first fled to Rheinfelden and later to Vienna , where he worked in a chemical factory until 1812.

In 1813 he came back to Tyrol to take part in the fighting there. On September 26, 1813, he was taken prisoner in Bavaria. Until 1814 he was in Munich in prison , after which he joined as a cadet in a Bavarian infantry battalion one with whom he fought in France in 1814-15. In 1816 he moved to Tyrol to the Kaiserjäger Regiment , which was serving in what was then Austrian Lombardy . In 1822 he was promoted to lieutenant.

When the Kaiserjäger marched back from Naples to Tyrol, Hauger came to Mantua on January 9, 1823 , where Andreas Hofer was shot and buried in 1810. Hauger had a servant show him Hofer's grave and then recovered Hofer's remains and brought them via Trient and Bozen to Innsbruck, where they were buried in the court church. The salvage of the bones was assessed by the court war council as an "unauthorized procedure" and was later pursued with disciplinary proceedings, which, however, did not result in any further penalties, since all those involved had already retired from military service at this point.

Hauger entered the civilian service on October 18, 1830 and was initially a border guard commissioner in Unterinntal , and later a prison administrator in Laibach , Linz and Leopoldstadt . He reappeared in the revolution of 1848 when he prevented prisoners from escaping. In 1856 he retired. After his death in 1859 he was buried in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof in Vienna, his bones were transferred to the Innsbruck Hofkirche in 1935 and buried next to the grave of Andreas Hofer.

Georg Hauger had been married to Margarethe Edle von Eghen-Thurnstein (1809–1886) since 1831 and had ten children.

In 1940, Haugerstrasse in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) was named after him.

literature

• Karl Paulin: A Freiburg student in the Tyrolean liberation struggle in 1809 , in: Badische Heimat, issue 1/1957
• Wolfgang Wirth: "Georg Hauger - an adventurous life", collected essays on the history of Fridingen, 2003, volume 15, page 103ff,
• Hauger Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 213.