Johanna Sophia Kettner

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Gravestone of the Virgin Maria Sophia Köttnerinn at the west cemetery Eichstätt

Johanna Sophia Kettner , also Johanna Sophie Köttner, (1721 - January 22, 1802), was an Austrian soldier.

She was born in Titting in Franconia in 1721 . In 1743 she joined the imperial army under the name Johann Kettner and served fourteen years in the Hagenbach infantry regiment . Most recently she achieved the rank of corporal .

Since military service was not legally possible for women at the time, Kettner could have been the first woman in the imperial army.

In 1748 she was recognized as a woman during an illness and was honored from the army. Maria Theresia granted her a lifelong non-commissioned officer pension. Kettner died on January 22nd, 1802 in Eichstätt .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nekrolog in the gracious privileged Eichstätter intelligence sheet of January 30, 1802, page 19
  2. ↑ Günther Noé: 'Amazonen' in Austrian history ( German ) (= Austria in history and literature with geography), Volume 30 1986, pp. 350–61.
  3. ↑ von Duckner, Karl (1893). "An Amazon with the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiments Hagenbach". Streffleurs Austrian Military Magazine. No. 3rd p. 231.
  4. ^ A b Klaus Reisinger: Women and the military in modern times. Francesca Scanagatta: A Woman's Military Career in the Late 18th Century . In: Austrian Society for Research in the 18th Century (Hrsg.): The eighteenth century and Austria ( German ), Volume 16. Facultas, WUV, 2001, ISBN 978-3-85114-659-2 , pp. 60–61.
  • Karl von Duckner: An Amazon at the kk Infanterie-Regimente Hagenbach  (= Streffleurs Austrian Military Journal), Volume 3 1893, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Kettner, Johanna Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soldier
DATE OF BIRTH 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Titting
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1802