Gottfried Eitel Ludwig von Humbracht

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Gottfried Eitel Ludwig Freiherr von Humbracht (born December 3, 1730 in Arolsen , † December 4, 1822 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Life

Family environment

Gottfried Eitel Ludwig von Humbracht came from an old Frankfurt patrician family who had lived in the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main since the middle of the 14th century , was accepted into the noble inheritance of the House of Alten Limpurg in 1427 and was since then one of the city's patrician families eligible for advice. He belonged to the branch of the family that had migrated from Frankfurt via the Principality of Waldeck to Austria and was born as the fifth son and eighth child of the Princely Waldeck stable master Hieronymus August von Humbracht (1690–1739) and Elisabeth Oberzeller (1691–1740). He was married to Theresia Freiin von Drechsel (1756-1813). His brother was the Austrian major general and knight of the Maria Theresa Order Alexander August Christian von Humbracht (1727–1774).

Military career

Like his older brother Alexander, Gottfried Eitel Ludwig entered the imperial service to become a professional officer. He began his military career in 1749 in the Imperial Infantry Regiment Fürst von Waldeck (No. 35) and became a lieutenant in 1755. He took part in the Third Silesian War and was promoted to captain in 1759. Afterwards he served in the equipment commission in Brno and in the catering department of the court war council in Vienna . In 1794 he took part in the coalition war against the armies of the French revolutionary government and retired that same year as major general . In 1801 he was reactivated and served as Vice-Inspector for Food and Beverage in the Austrian Army, until he was finally retired in 1803 and was appointed 'ad honores' as a Lieutenant Field Marshal . Already on March 23, 1765, he and his older brother Alexander were raised to the hereditary imperial baron status in Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon, Volume V, page 422, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1984.
  2. ↑ a b Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier , Ernst Vögel Verlag, Munich 1971, pp. 77–79.
  3. ↑ Robert Ritter Rainer von Lindenbüchel: History of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 35, Volume 2, Vienna and Prague 1897, p. 790 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Humbracht, Gottfried Eitel Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humbracht, Gottfried Eitel Ludwig Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1822
Place of death Vienna