Josef Achammer

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Josef Achammer (born August 31, 1762 in Sillian ; † January 4, 1810 there ) was a Tyrolean freedom fighter and rifle captain of Sillian.

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The master dyer Josef Achammer was instrumental in organizing the Tyrolean resistance against French rule ( Napoleon ) in 1809. He was captain of the 2nd Sillian Rifle Company . This consisted mainly of country soldiers from Sexten .

The Austrian military had left the Tyroleans and so they were soon on their own. At the beginning of August French troops under General Rusca invaded Tyrol from Carinthia and tried to get to the center of the country. On August 8, 1809, the Lienzer Klause was defeated by the rifle commanders Anton Steger, Georg Hauger and Adam Weber, as well as Josef Achammer and Markus Hibler, who appeared with the Sesto landstürmern just in time before the severely threatened Klause, against a twenty-fold superior force of French and Defended Italians. General Rusca was thus denied entry into the Puster Valley and was forced to retreat. Andreas Hofer no longer had to fear an attack and was able to prepare for the third Bergisel Battle (August 13) .

On January 2 or 3, 1810, Josef Achammer was arrested by the French, tried before a court martial and sentenced to death . The quarters of the French commander-in-chief, General Broussier, were probably in Welsberg Castle . Frau Achammer hurried to him to beg for mercy for her husband. Broussier is said to have promised her the pardon . However, this was a lie. While the condemned man's wife was at the court-martial, the general sent a courier to Sillian. This brought the order to shoot Achammer immediately. The sentence was carried out on January 4th in the courtyard of the Sillian Regional Court. Achammer's body was hung outside Sillian Market for 48 hours. Achammer was already dead when his wife returned from Welsberg.

To commemorate the events and personality, the Achammer memorial plaque and the Achammer cross , on which the palm consecration traditionally takes place , were erected next to the parish church of Maria Himmelfahrt in the market town of Sillian .

progeny

On February 14, 1797, he married Anna Strasser (Strasserin). The following children were born from this marriage:

  • Josef (born December 14, 1797)
  • Johann Nepomuk (born March 10, 1799, probably died soon after birth)
  • Johann Nepomuk (born July 13, 1800)
  • Michael (March 8, 1802, † June 6, 1804)
  • Peter Franz (born November 26, 1803, † February 16, 1804)
  • Peter Thomas (born December 16, 1804)
  • Franz Johann (born November 24, 1806)
  • Anna (born September 23, 1808, † 1809)
  • Maria (born June 12, 1810, † November 17, 1810)

literature

  • Chronicle of the market town of Sillian: Josef Achammer - Schützenhauptmann

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personal data
SURNAME Achammer, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achamer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Freedom fighter and rifle captain von Sillian
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Sillian
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1810
Place of death Sillian