Johann Andreas von Hamilton

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Coat of arms of the Imperial Counts of Hamilton, 1695

Johann Andreas Graf von Hamilton (* 1679 in Vienna , † January 9, 1738 in Vienna) was Imperial General of the Cavalry (1723-1738), Commanding General of the Temescher Banat and Military President of the Provincial Administration in Timisoara (1734-1738).

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As his father is in a part of the literature - not clearly proven - Jakob von Hamilton (1642-1717), who came from an old Scottish noble family. He came to the Holy Roman Empire before 1667 , entered the imperial service around 1692/93 and was elevated to the rank of imperial count in 1695 . Most recently, Jakob von Hamilton was bailiff of Burgau .

Johann Andreas Graf von Hamilton was 1703 captain of Savoy - Dragoon Regiment , 1706 he fought as a colonel in the Siege of Turin . In 1707 he moved with Starhemberg to Spain , where he fought as a captain in the War of the Spanish Succession . In 1710 Johann Andreas Graf von Hamilton became commandant of Toledo and in 1711 general field sergeant . He fought under Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and took part in the siege of Belgrade (1717) in the Venetian-Austrian Turkish War. From 1714 to 1718, Hamilton commanded the Spanish Habsburg National Dragoon Regiment as the regiment owner. On May 2, 1717 he was appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal and from 1718 to 1738 he was the owner of the Viard Cuirassier Regiment . On November 7, 1723 he was appointed general of the cavalry. In 1733/34 Hamilton fought in the War of the Polish Succession . In the absence of Count Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels Hamilton in 1735 managed representative the post of War Minister to Vienna and soon became captain of the guard - bodyguard . As the successor to Claudius Florimund Mercy , Hamilton was commanding general of the Temescher Banat and military president of the provincial administration of Timisoara from September 1734. He held this office until his death.

As President of the State Administration, his main task was to accelerate the construction of the fortress in Timisoara, which Count Mercy had begun, and to erect a new fort in Orschowa , which was named after the imperial wife "Elisabethschanze". Hamilton had the Hercules baths restored at Mehadia , which had been in ruins since Roman times . The Roman inscriptions, statues, coins and sculptures that were uncovered on this occasion were then exhibited in the antechamber of the imperial library in Vienna. Under Hamilton's administration, the foundation stone of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Timisoara was laid in 1736 . In 1734 he ordered the construction of a "proper hospital" in Timisoara. As chairman of the Nepomuk Brotherhood, Hamilton handed the newly built hospital over to the Order of the Brothers of Mercy in 1737 . The Mercy Hospital was the first hospital in the Banat.

The Hamiltongasse (until 1894 Feldgasse ) in Hütteldorf in the 14th Viennese district of Penzing was named after Johann Andreas Graf von Hamilton .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anton Peter Petri: Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums. Th. Breit Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
  2. ↑ Cf. Department of War History of the k. and k. War Archives: Campaigns of Prince Eugene of Savoy according to the field files and other authentic sources , Vol. XIX The war for the succession to the throne in Poland . C. Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1891, pp. 14, 103, 106, 151, 153, 271f, 293, 300, 311, 327, 337, 350f, 363, 399f, 407, 458; Appendix Military correspondence of Prince Eugene of Savoy 1733 and 1734 , pp. 29, 57, 63, 206, 208f and 264 ( digitized at OpenLibrabry).
  3. ^ Johann Heinrich Schwicker: History of the Temeser Banat. LaVergne TN USA 2010
Administration of the Temescher Banat (1718–1779)
Military and regional administration of the Timisoara Banat
Military Presidents (1718–1779)

Claudius Florimund Mercy  • Johann Andreas von Hamilton  • Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg  • August Jakob Heinrich von Suckow  • Franz Anton Leopold Pontz Freiherr von Engelshofen  • Ferdinand Philipp von Harsch  • Anton von Puebla  • Siegmund Friedrich Samuel von Lietzen  • Maximilian Joseph von Mitrowsky  • Johann Franz Anton von Zedtwitz

Civil presidents (1751–1779)

Franz Anton Leopold Pontz Freiherr von Engelshofen  • Francesco de Paula Ramond Villana-Perlas de Rialpo  • Karl Ignaz von Clary and Aldringen  • Josef Brigido von Bresowitz  • Pompejus Brigido von Bresowitz

personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Johann Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Johann Andreas Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial General of the Cavalry and Military President of the Provincial Administration in Timisoara
DATE OF BIRTH 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1738
Place of death Vienna