Georg Ignaz von Tattenbach

Georg Ignaz Graf von Tattenbach was sergeant-general of Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel and imperial fortress commander of Braunau am Inn . He came from the old Bavarian noble family of Tattenbach , who played an important role in Bavaria from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 19th century and owned properties throughout the German-speaking area.

Life

On September 8, 1702, Elector Max Emanuel began the war against Emperor Leopold I by taking the imperial city of Ulm in a coup. The Bavarian army moved into Upper Swabia and occupied the imperial city of Memmingen on October 1, 1702 . Christian Probst mentioned General Sergeant Georg Ignaz Count of Tattenbach in his presentation of the Bavarian popular uprising for the first time in connection with the conquest of the Innviertel in the spring of 1703. Since the beginning of May 1703 was General Tattenbach with only about 1,600 men in Schärding to Field Marshal Lieutenant Count Leopold Schlick to observe. He had a cavalry swarm from Passau to Bavarian territory, where they waged a guerrilla war with the country flags and robbed the country. At the end of July 1703, Count Schlick was recalled by Emperor Leopold I with part of his corps to fight the Hungarian uprising and replaced by Lieutenant Field Marshal Christian Graf Raventlau .

In February 1704, Tattenbach again invaded Upper Austria in order to carry out the outstanding arson by force, but was involved in several skirmishes by imperial troops and land forces and, when a general uprising of the population against the invaders broke out, was forced to retreat.

After the defeat of Bavaria, Tattenbach entered imperial service and became the fortress commander of Braunau am Inn. During the popular uprising he defended the city against the rebels, but later had to hand it over to them and was held captive by them for a long time.

Christian Probst also reports that the former Bavarian general sergeant general set up a regiment with around 500 men in Ingolstadt in the summer of 1705. In Ingolstadt at the same time there was a battalion of Colonel de Wendt with 400, two battalions of the Franconian district regiments Hohenzollern and Tucher with 1,000 men. In Landsberg and Friedberg there were a total of 200 men , in Wasserburg 100 men from the Harrach regiment. Thus the infantry in the Munich Rentamt was 4,000 strong.

Since November 14, 1705 the fortress Braunau was included. The conditions were unfavorable for the defense. The fortification was still in place, but the demolition of it, which the Treaty of Ilbesheim required, had already begun. For this purpose, 100 miners from Hall in Tirol were brought to the city. Fortress commander Count Tattenbach had handed over three companies of infantry recruits and five regimental items from his crew to Colonel de Wendt on November 11, 1705. If the cavalrymen were reluctant to serve on the ramparts, the citizens showed no inclination to defend the city against the rebels. According to Christian Probst, they sympathized with the insurgents.

When Count Tattenbach received the first request to surrender the city of Braunau on November 14, 1705, he rejected it with the words that it was not customary to besiege a fortress with beatings, sticks and spears. On November 16, the citizenship declared to Commandant Tattenbach that a longer defense was impossible. The news of the imminent or completed handover of Burghausen had already reached the city at this point, which is why the citizens of Tattenbach asked to hand over Braunau as well. Tattenbach abruptly refused this request and tore up the letter from the citizen representatives before their eyes. On December 17th, the citizens reappeared in front of Tattenbach; they now demanded flour from the army depot and exemption from billeting the soldiers and their wives, who bothered them with their demands.

On November 26, 1705, the Simbach siege battery , which had been shooting with glowing bullets all day, succeeded in causing a great conflagration in the city. Seven houses next to the hospital church, five barns and the barracks caught fire. Tattenbach went to the fire site himself to supervise the extinguishing work. He found a bunch of extremely excited citizens there, two of whom grabbed him and tried to throw him into the fire. He was freed by two lackeys and tried to escape, but was held by several citizens; they shouted "kill the dog!" and wanted to kill him with heels. Finally, Mayor Franz Dürnhardt joined the postmaster of Braunau and implored Tattenbach to capitulate if he and the garrison wanted to stay alive. Tattenbach agreed and let Chamade beat, the drum signal that announces the surrender to the enemy.

On December 20, 1705, the insurgent Matthias Kraus was sentenced to death by the administration. Kraus was driven to Ingolstadt and held in the middle classes. He suggested to the officers that he should be exchanged for Sergeant General Count von Tattenbach in Braunau, but this was rejected.

At the beginning of 1706 the government in Burghausen first learned of the approach of the imperial troops. She immediately reported this to the National Defense Congress and left it up to it to initiate the necessary measures. The congress convened immediately, and the MPs, who, according to Christian Probst, were afraid, accepted Prielmayr's proposal to ask the Archbishop of Salzburg to mediate the peace. In addition, the congress asked Count Tattenbach, who was still imprisoned in Braunau, to write to Sergeant General Freiherr von Kriechbaum to refrain from hostilities. Tattenbach handed the letter to Georg Sebastian Plinganser that same evening , but the latter withheld it.

Count Tattenbach was dismissed on January 11, 1706 by decision of the State Defension Congress. Tattenbach wrote to Kriechbaum that peace negotiations were just beginning, which is why he should temporarily cease his hostilities. Kriechbaum refused the request.

literature

• Christian Probst : Better to die Bavarian. The Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 and 1706. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3 .

Web links

List of actors in the Bavarian uprising in 1705 and 1706 ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )