Johann Bordolo by Boreo

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Johann Bordolo von Boreo 1851

Johann Baptist Bordolo Ritter von Boreo , also Bordolo-Abondi , (born September 29, 1792 in Wieliczka , Galicia , † October 1, 1857 in Sibiu , Transylvania ) was an Imperial and Royal Lieutenant Field Marshal and second owner of the Infantry Regiment Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia No. 20 of Italian descent.

Origin and family

The Bordolo dynasty came from Brondolo in Venetian, where it had been listed as noble in the Golden Beech since 1297. Johann's father Peter († November 27, 1827 in Wieliczka) from the Abondi family moved to Austria in 1777 and served the state as a saltworks witness office administrator in Salzberg for 43 years. He received a personal ennoblement with the predicate "von Bortenkron".

Johann Baptist was married to Hedwig Unger. The couple had two sons: Hermann (* January 12, 1835; † May 7, 1913), with rank from November 1, 1894 Feldzeugmeister , titular general of the infantry on November 15, 1908 and Johann (* September 7, 1837, † June 28, 1902), Lieutenant Field Marshal ad honores on September 1, 1894.

Life

Battle of Dresden

Bordolo joined the Reuss Köstritz No. 7 Hussar Regiment as a cadet and was then transferred to the Auersperg No. 5 Cuirassier Regiment. Having become a sub-lieutenant in the same, he took part in the 1809 campaign in Poland and fought in the battles of Ratschin , Guhrau and Sandomir . Also used in the campaign of 1813, he fought in the battles near Dresden , Kulm and Leipzig and was publicly praised for his bravery and brave behavior in the Army Corps Command.

Chapelle des Buis

After he had campaigned on March 3, 1814 with the same determination in the battle at Besançon on the left bank of the Doubs , he was posted on March 30 of the same year when the enemy from Besançon left the Chapel de Buis on the hill. He quickly stormed the enemy with the first grenadier company he had commanded since the Battle of Leipzig, reinforced with a platoon of fighters, threw him from the heights, pursued him inexorably and was the first to penetrate the enemy right flank. For this act he was promoted by Emperor Franz I on April 2, 1814 to lieutenant captain outside of the tour. He also fought with distinction in the Neapolitan campaigns of 1815 and 1821 .

In 1837 Bordolo was already a lieutenant colonel and with the highest resolution of June 21, 1839 and diploma of March 31, 1841 in recognition of his many years of strenuous service and versatile use in the aristocracy with the permission of the change of the predicate of his father with the predicate "noble by Boreo ”.

Appointed Colonel and Regiment Commander of the Hungarian Infantry Regiment Mariássy No. 37 in 1841, he was met again in 1848 in the same, now named Grand Duke Michael of Russia, in Lemberg , where he was promoted to Major General on April 29, 1848 . At the beginning of the revolutionary movements he occupied the main points of the city with his regiment with presence of mind. In doing so, the general vigorously opposed the growing licentiousness and disorder. He headed the original organization of the National Guard, was active in the release of the city council, which was dangerously advertised in its tendencies, and also in the management of the headquarters, where he acted as an intermediary through prudence, determination and his humane behavior. Because of his proven activity and energy, he was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order by the highest cabinet letter of February 25, 1849 , and then with the Imperial Russian Order of Vladimir 4th class . As a result of the statutes of the Order of Leopold, he was awarded the knighthood on December 22, 1853.

Maramureş Province
Sibiu Fortress

In the summer of 1849 the general, military district commander in Schemnitz , was summoned to Upper Hungary with a brigade, cleared the country of the numerous guerrilla gangs , restored order in the Spiš , the Gömörer and Zemplin counties and in the Marmarosch , saved important things The government organized the Aryan property through the expediency and speed of its orders and was promoted to field marshal lieutenant on October 16, 1849, entrusted with the Kaschau district command and decorated with the Imperial Russian Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class .

In May 1851, Bordolo was appointed Adlatus to the military and civil governor of Transylvania and military commanders in Sibiu. In 1853 he became the second owner of Line Infantry Regiment No. 20, took over the reserve troop command of the 12th Army Corps in 1854 and then worked as the right hand of the commander of the 12th Army Corps General of the Cavalry Prince Karl zu Schwarzenberg .

Only a few weeks after the general celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of service in Sibiu, where he worked, he passed away. Through his meritorious, circumspect and philanthropic work, the winning condescension and kindness of his whole being, he earned a rare affection and admiration among all classes and ranks in Transylvania.

coat of arms

1841: A red shield in which an armored arm, adorned with gold clasps, protruding on the left side edge, lifting a shiny ancient saber with a gold handle to a stroke. A black eagle soaring on the crowned helmet. The blankets are red-silver.

1853: Like the previous coat of arms, only with two crowned helmets on I the black eagle, on II the arm from the shield.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Baptista Rietstap : [1]
  2. ↑ Johann Svoboda: "The Theresian Military Academy in Wiener-Neustadt: and its pupils from the establishment of the institution to our days", Volume 2, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei., Vienna 1894, p. 346
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 1, Aa-Boyve, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1859, p. 571
  4. ^ A b c Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 19
  5. ↑ a b c Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 2nd part, printed and published by the typographical-literary-artistic establishment, Vienna 1857, p. 64
  6. ↑ a b Militär-Zeitung No. 82, from Wednesday, October 14, 1857, Volume X, No. 93, p. 655
  7. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility - Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv (GHdA), edited under the supervision of the German Nobility Law Committee, Volume 1 (53), CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 1974, p. 7
  8. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1st part, kk Hof- und Staasts-Aerareal-Druckerey, Vienna 1847, p. 325
  9. ↑ Dr. Jaromir Hirtenfeld (Ed.): "Oesterreichischer Militärfreund: Zeitschrift fürmilische Austausch " No. 127, from Tuesday, October 23, 1849, Verlag Carl Gerold and Son, Vienna 1849, p. 594
  10. ↑ Johannes Baptista Rietstap : [2]
personal data
SURNAME Bordolo from Boreo, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bordolo-Abondi, Johann Ritter von; Bordolo Ritter von Boreo, Johann Baptist (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian field marshal lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Wieliczka , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1857
Place of death Sibiu , Transylvania