Johann von Sivkovich
Johann Freiherr von Sivkovich , Croatian: Sivković , (born February 25, 1779 in Kerstinyácz near Karlstadt ; † March 19, 1857 in Görz ) was an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and owner of Infantry Regiment No. 41, at times also an officer (major) in the Grande Armée , of Croatian descent.
Origin and family
Sivkovich came from a family from Bosnia , which was called "Slivko" there. After being expelled by the Turks, when she immigrated to Croatia, she adopted the final syllable “vich” that is customary there; the first documented ancestor is Thomas (1486). He was the second eldest son of Michael Sivkovich, lieutenant colonel of the Szluin border regiment. On September 14, 1804, he achieved the Hungarian nobility and appointed Johann to take up a military career.
On March 13, 1834, Johann married Walburga Josepha, née von Pannovich, widowed Khek von Schwarzbach, a daughter from this marriage, Charlotte (born August 15, 1836), and a son, the later, with rank from November 3, 1896 , kuk Major General Philipp (* June 28, 1839 - June 4, 1898), descended.
biography
Early years
Not yet fifteen years old, Sivkovich was assigned as an Imperial and Royal Cadet on February 16, 1794 for the Count Kaunitz Infantry Regiment No. 20 and was promoted to ensign on September 1 of that year. Until the Luneviller Peace of 1801, Sivkovich lived during the campaigns in Holland, Germany and Italy, initially under Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , then under Charles Joseph Count de Clerfayt , later under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , finally under Archduke Karl , advanced on February 16 to lieutenant , and on November 1, 1799 Lieutenant ago, stayed at the sieges of Mannheim and Kehl with commendable bravery. He was wounded in the skirmishes at Tournai and the Battle of Diersheim on April 20 and 21, 1797. In May 1802 Sivkovich was transferred to the Ottochaner Grenz-Regiment, participated in the 1805 campaign in Italy and in March 1809 advanced to lieutenant captain. In the campaign of 1809 Sivkovich was in the reserve battalion of the 9th Army Corps of Feldzeugmeister Count Gyulay and had the opportunity to particularly excel in the attack on Graz on June 26th of that year. The Ottochans had the order to advance against the suburb of St. Leonhard and to seize it. Early in the morning in the same area, Major Munich of the 1st Banal Border Regiment had the misfortune of having to lay down arms with 350 men. The French took these prisoners into custody in a church. It was then Sivkovich who, with an Ottochaner division, drove the enemy out of St. Leonhard, stormed the church, freed the prisoners and captured a gun. Archduke Karl paid tribute to this brave act with his promotion apart from the rank tour to real captain .
Among the French
Through the Peace of Vienna of December 20, 1809, part of the Croatian border and with this the Ottochans came to France. From January 1, 1810, Sivkovich felt compelled to serve as a captain and Kordons commander in French services, where he was deployed on the Turkish border. In this service he again developed numerous proofs of prudence and determination, especially in the establishment of the so-called Croatie militaire , so that Emperor Napoleon I awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur) in November 1810 . Under France he became major in the Liccan border regiment ( Lika region ) on February 11, 1813 .
Advancement in Austria
After the border guards had shaken off the involuntary occupation on January 1, 1814, the officer, now again in Austrian service, was transferred to the 1st Banal Border Regiment, commissioned to escort a large number of Neapolitan prisoners of war to Venice. He also had a few years later than kk Major now Border Regiment banal in the second when broken out in Bosnia plague in Dubitza drawn a cordon and this maintained with great care, for which it Emperor Francis I on July 15, 1818 Lieutenant Colonel in Liccaner Regiment appointed.
Promoted to Colonel and Commander of the 2nd Banal Border Regiment on August 15, 1824 , Sivkovich used the opportunity during his eight-year command to implement those drafts that should improve the lot of the border guards. The internal rules of procedure were made more effective, main streets, side streets and bridges were laid out, morasses dried up, the missing quarters in the officers' stations, churches built in the parishes.
With his appointment and rank on December 10, 1831, Sivkovich was promoted to major general and brigadier, first in Ljubljana , then a brigadier in Trieste, and on September 27, 1839, he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant and division general in Italy. Before that, the general had already received the Hungarian-Erbländ baron status in Vienna with a diploma from November 2, 1838. In addition to his duties as a soldier, Baron Sivkovich devoted his attention to the general interests of the state, and the province of Carniola owed him during his activity there, also as a real member of the Carniolan Agricultural Society , for the uplifting of silk farming locally. On January 15, 1841, Emperor Franz Joseph I appointed him owner of the Galician Infantry Regiment No. 41, based in Chernivtsi, by the highest resolution . His last official employment was as a division general in Timisoara .
After 52 years of service, the baron retired on March 9, 1846 and retired to Gorizia. His memory lived on for a long time on this border, where four churches and twenty community schools were founded by him, which bear testimony to his restless efforts for the well-being of the district to this day.
coat of arms
1838: A squared shield with a point rising straight up between the two lower fields, in the black bottom of which a golden sheaf of corn can be seen. In the first blue field, a golden, double-tailed lion leaping to the right appears, holding a red-comforted spear with both front paws. In the second red field a fort with two towers, an open gate with a portcullis, fine battlements, windows and bullet holes. In the third, also red, field, laid diagonally crosswise, a bare sword and a bare saber. In the fourth blue field a silver, wavy crossbar, accompanied at the top by three golden stars lined up next to each other. The baron crown with three crowned helmets rests on the shield. The crown of the middle one bears an arm clad in blue, resting freely on the elbow, which in its bare fist holds a saber with a saracen head hanging from it, between an open black flight. The one on the right carries the entire lion of the first field turned to the right, the one on the left the fort. The helmet covers are all underlaid with silver on the right and blue with gold on the left.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Constantin von Wurzbach: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", 35th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, p. 253
- ↑ a b c Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 2007, p. 173
- ↑ http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=11783&page=46&scale=3.33&viewmode=fullscreen
- ↑ a b Militär-Zeitung No. 54, from Wednesday, July 8, 1857, Volume X, p. 430 f.
- ↑ Jaromir Formanek, K. Dvorak: "History of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 41", Volume 2, printed and published by H. Cropp'schen Buchdruckerei, Czernowitz 1887, p. 271
- ↑ Johann Baptist Schels (Ed.): "Österreichischemilische Zeitschrift", Xth issue, printed by Anton Strauss's Sel. Witwe, Vienna 1839, p. 102
- ^ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1859, p. 162
- ↑ Géza Csergeö: “The Hungarian Adel”, in J. Siebmacher's great Wappenbuch, Volume 4, Issue 22–28, Verlag Bauer & Raspe (Emil Küster), Nuremberg 1892. Name index and heraldic panels, p. 585, T. 416
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sivkovich, Johann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sivkovich, Johann Freiherr von (full name); Sivković |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian field marshal lieutenant and owner of infantry regiment No. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kerstinyácz near Karlstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1857 |
| Place of death | Gorizia |