Heinrich Cerrini de Monte Varchi (Lieutenant Field Marshal)

Field Marshal Lieutenant Cerrini

Heinrich Cerrini de Monte Varchi (born November 23, 1801 in Görlitz in Saxony; † 1870 ) was an imperial-royal Austro-Hungarian officer , since 1858 with the rank of field marshal lieutenant of the infantry .

Life

origin

Heinrich Cerrini de Monte Varchi was the second of three sons of Franz Cerrini de Monte Varchi, who died as a Saxon lieutenant colonel on April 13, 1807 during the siege of Danzig . The mother was Eleonore von Nostitz from the Döbschütz house. The two brothers Franz Mariotto (* 1799) and Ernst (* 1803) also entered the imperial-royal Austro-Hungarian military service. All of them, orphaned so early, were taken care of by the father's eldest brother with paternal care. This uncle was the royal Saxon cabinet and war minister Heinrich Cerrini de Monte Varchi (1740-1823).

Military activity

Cerrini joined the Imperial-Royal Pioneer Corps as a cadet. On November 1, 1820 he was appointed ensign in the 7th Infantry Regiment Baron Lattermann , in 1823 became a second lieutenant in the Baron Vacquant 6th infantry regiment , and in 1831 a first lieutenant in the staff of the Quartermaster General . From April to December 1832 he was employed in diplomacy, when he was ordered to Berlin with Major General Count Clam , and then came to the Imperial and Royal Court and State Chancellery for a few weeks.

Promoted to lieutenant captain in April 1833, in 1834 Cerrini became a real captain in the Archduke Karl No. 3 infantry regiment . He was then employed in the military department of the Court War Council for some time. First he was then employed as the tutor of Archduke Alexander at the court of Archduke Palatine . He held this office until May 1838. In July 1840 he was appointed major in the infantry regiment Prince Emil of Hesse and in Rhine No. 54, and in August 1848 he became a lieutenant colonel in this regiment.

Heinrich Cerrini had distinguished himself as grenadier battalion commander in the May uprising in Prague by resolutely and prudently leading his troops, for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Austrian Leopold Order and was made a colonel . In 1850, the Major General conveyed, he was Brigadier in 1856 at the 6th Army Corps and received in 1858 the rank of field marshal lieutenant of infantry .

family

The later high commander of the Saxon Army , Clemens Cerrini de Monte Varchi (1785-1852), was his cousin. In the Imperial-Royal Austro-Hungarian Army he had another cousin, Count Karl Cerrini de Monte Varchi (1777-1840), who was a son of Lieutenant Field Marshal Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi (1743-1809).

Heinrich Cerrini de Monte Varchi married Antonia Freiin von Bartenstein in 1833, a descendant of Baron Johann Christoph von Bartenstein .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Cerrini de Monte Varchi, Heinrich Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 323 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach is wrong when he ascribes the count status to the person treated here as well as to his uncle, Field Marshal Lieutenant Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi . This rank of nobility was only achieved by the latter's son, namely Karl Cerrini de Monte Varchi , in 1838, as Wurzbach remarked, strangely enough, on the same page. See Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire , Part Two (1857), p. 323
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses, Volume 13, p. 133
3. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt (ed.), New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 1, Ilmenau 1824, pp. 141–148
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Constantin von Wurzbach , Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire , Part Two (1857), p. 323