Johann Georg von der Hauben

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Johann Georg von der Hauben (born December 6, 1657 , † August 16, 1717 near Belgrade ) was a count and Lieutenant Field Marshal in the Imperial Army .

Origin and family

He came from the old Palatinate noble family von der Hauben and was the son of Hans Georg von der Hauben († 1691) and his wife Katharina Megenzer von Velldorf . Of his five brothers, Johann Lothar († 1723), Johann Ernst and Johannes († 1700) served as canons of Worms . The brother Johann Carl († 1726) followed him in the family estates and the brother Johann Friedrich fell in 1709 as an imperial colonel and commander of the regiment "Altbaden" , which was subordinate to Margrave Ludwig Georg Simpert of Baden-Baden , in the battle of Malplaquet . The family professed their Catholic faith.

Life

Johann Georg von der Hauben was first chief hunter in the margraviate of Baden-Baden . From 1691 he appears as the Imperial Adjutant General and served in the Baden-Baden contingent of the Imperial Army. On September 2, 1694, he was raised to the rank of imperial baron, and on September 16, 1699, the Palatinate Elector Johann Wilhelm granted him the local rule of Gerolsheim . With the personal support of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm , the so-called Türkenlouis, he was promoted to colonel on October 5, 1701. In 1704, Emperor Leopold I made the officer imperial count and chamberlain . He fought in the War of the Spanish Succession and was promoted to Sergeant General on horseback on May 10, 1708 .

On May 3, 1716 Johann Georg was the hoods Field Marshal Lieutenant and took under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy at the Venetian-Austrian war against the Turks in part. In the battle near Karlowitz , wounded on August 2, 1716, he fought three days later in the Battle of Peterwardein , after which Emperor Karl VI. as the owner of a cuirassier regiment . At Karlowitz the general, in the presence of Field Marshal Johann Pálffy , shot the commanding Turkish Pasha from his horse with a pistol .

In 1717 he fought in the Battle of Belgrade . The whole campaign was aimed at the conquest of this city. In mid-June the siege of the fortress, which was occupied by 30,000 Turks, began by Prince Eugene's troops; The bombardment began on July 23. General von der Hauben first occupied Semlin with his corps and then directed the attacks from the river side, while Duke Karl Alexander von Württemberg commanded those from the land side. At the beginning of August a 200,000-strong Turkish relief army arrived and in turn besieged the 70,000 Christian soldiers. Even before the numerically superior relief army could intervene in the battle, Prince Eugene himself went on the attack on August 16, which, after long and bitter fighting, finally ended with an overwhelming victory for the Austrian troops. The relief army fled and the city surrendered on August 22nd. Johann Georg von der Hauben was one of the first warriors to fight on August 16. Early in the morning he and his men met Turkish riders and a violent hand-to-hand combat developed, in which he perished and - as the contemporary report says - was found "pitifully dismembered" .

The officer found his grave on the battlefield. Back home, his family had a large epitaph built for him in the Catholic Church in Gerolsheim, which has been preserved there. He, Lieutenant Field Marshal Prince Joseph Anton von Lobkowitz and Sergeant General Freiherr Damian Casimir von Dalberg are the three highest-ranking soldiers who died before Belgrade on the Christian side.

Johann Georg von der Hauben was married to Amalia Eleonore Staël von Holstein . Through them, he temporarily owned the manor house Heisingen near Essen . With his wife he had the daughter Franziska Augusta Antonia (1697–1758), who married the Bavarian Count Maximilian Joseph I von Toerring -Jettenbach (1694–1769). Their son was the Regensburg or Freising Prince-Bishop Maximilian Prokop von Toerring-Jettenbach (1739–1789). General von der Hauben also bequeathed the Bohemian dominions Kronporitschen ( Červené Poříčí ) and Brzeskowitz ( Vřeskovice ) , which he had acquired, to his daughter .

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  1. ↑ Traditional inscription of the missing epitaph, according to Thesaurus Palatinus (Volume 2)
  2. ↑ Highest world and war heads, who humiliated the Fried-brüchigen Turkish arrogance by two field campaigns in Hungary , Dillingen, 1718, p. 13; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Jean Dumont: Des Grossen Feld-Herrns Eugenii Hertzogs von Savoyen and Käyserlichen Lieutenants Helden-Thaten , Volume 3, S. 831, Nürnberg, 1720; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Johann David Köhler, Christoph Weigel: Commemorations of the current eighteenth century after the birth of Christ , Volume 1, p. 225, Nuremberg, 1739; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ ibid., P. 1123; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Copia of a particular letter from the splendid victory, even after such a handover of the main fortress Belgrade , Belgrade, August 20, 1717; (Digital scan, see penultimate page of the document)
  7. ↑ Website about the possessions of the Staël von Holstein (see under House Heisingen )
  8. ↑ University of Cologne website (Document 3321 - AA 002)
  9. ^ Anton Fahne: Research in the field of Rhenish and Westphalian history , Volume 3 ( History of Messrs. Stael von Holstein ), Cologne 1871, p. 202; (Digital scan)
  10. ^ Genealogical page about the daughter
  11. ↑ PDF document on Bishop Maximilian Prokop von Toerring-Jettenbach, with names of parents
  12. ^ Josef František Jaroslav Schaller: Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia , Volume 12, Prague, 1789, p. 125 u. 126; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Hoods, Johann Georg von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Officer of the Imperial Imperial Army with the rank of field marshal lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1657
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1717
Place of death near Belgrade