John of Soro

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Count Soro near Kolín 1757, relief on the Deutschmeister monument

Johann von Soro (alternative spelling: Johann von Saurau , * 1730 in Buda , Habsburg Monarchy ; † February 15, 1809 in Lugosch , Austrian Empire ) was Feldzeugmeister , bearer of the Maria Theresa Order of Knights and commanding general of the Temescher Banat .

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His father Johann Sebastian von Soro had set up an Italian free corps during the War of the Austrian Succession . The son began his military career in his father's volunteer corps.

Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Johann von Soro was promoted to major in the Deutschmeister infantry regiment in 1756 . On June 18, he commanded a grenadier battalion near Kolín , was promoted to lieutenant colonel on the battlefield and received the knight's cross of the Maria Theresa Order from Field Marshal Daun on April 23, 1758 at the army headquarters in Skalitz .

After he lost his leg on the battlefield and was unfit for military service, he became the fortress commander of Timisoara. He performed this function from 1767 to 1791. From 1784 to 1788 he was an interim and from 1788 to 1805 real commanding general in the Temescher Banat. On February 10, 1797 he was raised to the Hungarian nobility . In the Temescher Banat he worked for the state institution and in the Turkish war. In 1805 he retired and moved to Lugosch with his wife Anastasia, where he had considerable possessions. Von Soro died on February 15, 1809. He was buried by the Provost of Csanád, Johann Ignaz Ekler, under the main altar of the Lugoscher Minorite Church.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jaromir Hirtenfeld: The Military Maria Theresa Order and its members. Volume 1. (digitized on: books.google.de )
  2. ^ A b Anton Peter Petri: Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums . Breit Druck und Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
Commanders of the fortress of Timisoara during the Habsburg Monarchy
Temescher Banat
(1718–1779)

Count Franz Paul von Wallis  • Johann Friedrich Edler von Sprung  • Franz Anton Leopold Pontz von Engelshofen  • Johann von Scotti  • Emanuel Lorenz Voghtern  • Franz Ludwig von Thürheim  • Johann Sebastian von Soro  • Alexander von Villars  • Johann von Soro

Kingdom of Hungary
(1779–1848)

Johann von Soro  • Ludwig Leopold von Lebzeltern  • Peter Duka von Kádár  • Joseph von Martini  • Johann Festenberg von Hassenwein  • Joseph von Ghenedegg  • Johann Hager von Altensteig  • Carl von Greth  • Franz Mumb von Mühlheim  • Joseph Mercenary von Söldenhofen  • Johann Nepomuk Berger von the Pleisse  • Georg von Rukavina

Voivodeship of Serbia and the Temesian Banat
(1848–1860)

Georg von Rukavina  • Adolph Schütte von Warensberg  • Joseph Maurer von Maurersthal  • Carl Fischer von See  • Karl Joseph Franz Wolf von Wachtentreu  • Carl von Braum

Kingdom of Hungary
(1860-1920)

Carl von Braum  • Josepf Reichlin von Meldegg  • August Ritter von Ruff  • Anton von Scudier  • Karl Ernst von Boxberg  • Ferdinand von Bauer  • Heinrich Isaacson von Newfort  • Anton von Scudier  • Ludwig von Pulz  • Johann Nepomuk von Appel  • Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg  • Johann Baptist von Waldstätten  • Ludwig Schwitzer von Bayersheim  • Liborius Frank  • Anton Seefranz von Kevevára  • Otto Meixner von Zweienstamm

Note: From 1872 (Anton von Scudier) the commanding general of the Banat was also the fortress commander of Timisoara
personal data
SURNAME Soro, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saurau, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bearer of the Order of Maria Theresa and Commanding General of the Temescher Banat
DATE OF BIRTH 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Furnace , Habsburg Monarchy
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1809
Place of death Lugosch , Austrian Empire