Heinrich Giesl of Gieslingen

Heinrich Karl Giesl Freiherr von Gieslingen (around 1890)

Vienna Central Cemetery - Grave of Barons Giesl von Gieslingen, in which u. a. Heinrich and Arthur Giesl von Gieslingen are buried.

Heinrich Freiherr Giesl von Gieslingen (born August 7, 1821 in Olomouc , † July 2, 1905 in Vienna ) was an Austrian general.

Life

origin

Heinrich Karl was the son of the imperial officer Johann Giesl von Gieslingen stationed in Olomouc.

Military career

The lieutenant at the time drew attention to himself when the revolution of 1848/49 was put down. During the Vienna October Revolution , Gieslingen accompanied Emperor Ferdinand and the Viennese court on their escape to Olomouc. He then joined the army that recaptured Vienna from the rebels. He was wounded in fighting in Leopoldstadt .

Recovered from his injuries, he was used in Hungary to suppress the independence uprising there. In 1849 he fought at Vác (Waitzen), Nagy-Sarló, Komorn and was involved in the conquest of Győr (Raab). For his missions he was awarded the Military Merit Cross and the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class awarded; the latter award was associated with his elevation to knighthood in 1863 .

In 1856 Giesl became a staff officer in an Imperial and Royal gendarmerie regiment stationed in Hungary. In 1865 he was given the command of the Vienna Military Police Station. After two infantry regimental commands, he was appointed "Gendarmerie Inspector" in 1871 and charged with reorganizing the gendarmerie. In 1874 he was promoted to major general , five years later to field marshal lieutenant . In 1883 Giesl was raised to the baron status. In 1884 he was promoted to owner of the Warasdin Infantry Regiment No. 16, and in 1889 to Feldzeugmeister .

family

Giesl was married to Emilie Christoph on November 22, 1849, who died on September 20, 1885 in Merano . The marriage resulted in two daughters, Arthur and Vladimir .

On November 16, 1892, Giesl married Maria Ludovica Karolina Schön Edle von Liebingen (born May 10, 1869 in Brno ), daughter of the Senate President Robert Schön Edler von Liebingen ; the couple lived in Vienna.

Heinrich Karl Giesl Freiherr von Gieslingen was buried on July 4, 1905 "in his own grave" in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Svoboda: The Theresian Military Academy and its pupils. Second volume (1894) [1] , accessed March 27, 2009
2. ↑ † FZM. Heinrich Freiherr v. Giesl. In: New Free Press. Abendblatt, July 3, 1905, p. 7 middle.