Johann Friedrich von Mohr
Johann Friedrich von Mohr (born July 18, 1765 near Semplin , † February 13, 1847 in Venice ) was an Austrian general of the cavalry .
origin
His parents were Karl Christoph Gottlob von Mohr (* September 23, 1729; † March 14, 1782) and his wife Luise Friederike von Oebschelwitz . His father was an Austrian lieutenant colonel, a knight of the Maria Theresa Order and had received the status of baron on August 11, 1779.
Life
Johann Friedrich joined the Austrian Cavalry Regiment No. 30 in 1785 . In the Turkish war he was promoted to lieutenant in 1789 . With the rank of major , he served Field Marshal Wurmser in the campaigns on the Rhine in 1795 and in Italy in 1797 as an adjutant . In the campaign of 1799/1800 he fought as a lieutenant colonel in the Vecsey Hussar Regiment (No. 4) in the battles of Stockach , where he was wounded. After his promotion to colonel one of the battle at Hohenlinden was used.
In 1804 he took command of his regiment, with which he distinguished himself in the battle of Austerlitz . Since 1808, Major General, he commanded the Fifth Coalition War the penetration into the Duchy of Warsaw right of the Vistula a detachment of the 7th Corps of Archduke Ferdinand Karl . It was supposed to occupy Praga after the capture of Warsaw , but was defeated at Grochow. When storming the Thorn bridgehead , Mohr was able to take it, but Thorn himself could not. The action was not continued because of the evacuation of Warsaw on June 2nd. Then Mohr and Neipperg fought Polish insurgents in the area around Radom , until this area had to be given up because of the general withdrawal.
In Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812, he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Division under Schwarzenberg . As a field marshal lieutenant in the summer of 1813 he took command of the 4th Division and was wounded in the Battle of Leipzig .
It was not until the spring of 1815 that Mohr could be used in the campaign against Murat in Italy. In the decisive battle of Tolentino on May 2, he commanded the Austrian center and the left wing. Mohr concluded the armistice as the victor and remained at the head of a 16,000-strong corps to secure the rule of King Ferdinand I until 1824 in the reborn Kingdom of the Two Sicilies . From 1825 to 1827 he was in command of the city and fortress of Venice , then commanding general in Transylvania until 1830 , then as general of the cavalry, vice-president of the court war council until 1831, in order to end his career as head of the military section of the state council in 1836.
Mohr achieved the baron status by raising his father's rank in 1779.
family
Since March 18, 1798 he was married to Sophie Friederike Freiin von Bibra -Schwebheim (born May 9, 1776). The couple had a daughter:
- Aloisia Karolina (born January 10, 1799) ⚭ June 13, 1825 Baron Justus von De Fin, kk chamberlain and major in the army.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Mohr, Johann Friedrich Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1868, p 437-439 ( digitized ).
- Genealogical paperback of the baronial houses to the year 1849, volume 2, p.284
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohr, Johann Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian general of the cavalry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zemplín (place) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1847 |
| Place of death | Venice |