Josef Benkeö from Kezdi-Sarfalva

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Josef Benkeö of Kezdi-Sarfalva (* 26. June 1842 ; † 1. March 1919 in Budapest ) was an imperial Privy Council (1899), Hungarian and Austrian nobleman and officer last cavalry general and commander of the 20th Cavalry Brigade.

biography

Theresian Military Academy around 1870

The son of the Hungarian officer Franz Benkeö de Kezdi-Sarfalva, whose father was elevated to the Hungarian nobility in 1803 and the Transylvanian nobility in 1804, joined the Volunteer Hussar Regiment in 1861 after graduating from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt as a second class lieutenant. 2 a, in 1864 the meanwhile second lieutenant 1st class in hussar regiment no. 14 was promoted to first lieutenant in addition to the rank tour , then in 1866 assigned to hussar regiment no. 2 of field marshal lieutenant Moriz Graf Pálffy .

Then as a major he was most likely the commander of one of the two divisions of the kuk dragoon regiment Graf Paar No. 2 . Promoted to lieutenant colonel, Benkeö was first interim regimental commander, then as colonel regimental commander of Hussar Regiment No. 8 .

After being awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class , Benkeö de Kezdi-Sárfalva, who had been colonel and regimental commander in Hussar Regiment 7 since 1889 , was also elevated to the Austrian nobility by the highest resolution of October 20, 1894. He was also an officer of the Royal Serbian Order of Takovo . An episode from that time has been preserved. The weekly advertisement for the Principality of Ratzeburg wrote in its edition of April 20, 1894: “Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Karlsruhe on Sunday morning at eight o'clock. Regarding the visit to Vienna, it should be added that on Saturday, before his departure from Vienna, the Emperor received the Foreign Minister, Count Kalnoky, in a long audience. The following information from Cologne shows what enthusiasm the emperor's visit to the barracks of the 7th Hussar Regiment, which bears his name, evoked . Ztg. From Vienna: After Emperor Wilhelm had left the cavalry barracks to the sound of Heil Dir in the wreath and stormy Eljen calls of the blue hussars, Colonel von Benkeö Carré formed and expressed the thanks of the emperor and his own to the teams by saying, that Kaiser Wilhelm awarded the Prussian warrior medal to six constables and a corporal. This was followed by an outbreak of enthusiasm, which, however, did not take on a strict military form, as a number of NCOs lifted the Colonel and the Lieutenant Colonel on their shoulders and carried them a distance. "

With rank of November 13, 1894, he rose to major general , later to field marshal lieutenant (rank of November 13, 1898) and finally to general of the cavalry with title and character on April 1, 1907 and then retired.

He experienced the war and the end of the war in Budapest, where he also died.

Coat of arms of the Benkö de Kézdi-Sárfalva from 1816

coat of arms

1816: In blue a natural pelican in a green nest, scratching its breast with its beak and etching its three young with the dripping blood. A treasure: a curved arm in armor, holding a scimitar with a golden cross handle, the tip of which appears to have been pushed through the neck of a turbaned, mustached Turkish skull separated from the body.

literature

  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907
  • Stephan Tötösy de Zepetnek (ed.): “Nobilitas Hungariae - A magyar történelmi nemesség családneveinek listája”, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenchner-wappen-herold.de
  2. ^ Military weekly paper for the German Armed Forces, Eduard Zernin publishing house, Darmstadt and Leipzig 1861, p. 265
  3. ^ V. Streffleur: Austrian military magazine , 5th year, 1st volume, Druck- und Kommissionsverlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1864, p. 418
  4. ↑ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei., Vienna 1866, p. 409
  5. ↑ a cavalry regiment consisted of two so-called divisions - the large units were called cavalry and infantry troop divisions
  6. ^ History of the kuk Dragoon Regiment Graf Paar No. 2: from its establishment to the present, 1672–1891, self-published by the regiment, 1895
  7. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Volume 16, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, p. 313
  8. ^ Johann Svoboda: "The Theresian Military Academy in Wiener-Neustadt and its pupils 1838-1893", KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei., Vienna 1897, p. 29
  9. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Volume 16, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, p. 305
  10. ↑ Weekly advertisements for the principality of Ratzeburg, Schönberg, April 20, 1894
  11. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 13
  12. ↑ Géza Csergeö: “The Hungarian Adel”, in J. Siebmacher's great Wappenbuch, Volume 4, Part 15, Verlag Bauer & Raspe (Emil Küster), Nuremberg 1892. Name index and heraldic panels, p. 55, T. 44
personal data
SURNAME Benkeö from Kezdi-Sarfalva, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1842
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1919
Place of death Budapest