Joseph Ludwig Christoph Reichlin from Meldegg

Josef Reichlin Freiherr von Meldegg as a colonel on a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber (1853)

Joseph Ludwig Christoph Freiherr Reichlin von Meldegg (born May 14, 1804 , † June 12, 1886 in Gorizia ) was an Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Field Marshal . He is sometimes confused with the Baden lawyer and civil servant Josef von Reichlin-Meldegg (1806–1876).

career

After Reichlin von Meldegg was appointed major general on May 17, 1854, he was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal almost exactly ten years later, on April 17, 1864. With the promotion, Reichlin von Meldegg, who was fortress commander of Arad at the time, was appointed fortress commander of Timisoara . From 1866, Meldegg was the fortress commander in Komárno . He was retired on June 1, 1869.

family

He was married to Mathilde Henriette, geb. 1819 as Countess von Wimpffen, daughter of Franz Karl Eduard von Wimpffen . Through their daughter Elsa (* around 1846 in Orşova ; † 1923 in Mödling ) they were the in-laws of Stephan Millenkovich-Milow .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. (No longer available online.) Austrian State Archives, June 2007, p. 149 , archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 . 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.  
2. ^ ^{A b} Joseph Ludwig Christoph Alexander Freiherr Reichlin-Meldegg. Geneall.net, accessed April 10, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Friedrich Max Kircheisen: Bibliography of the Napoleonic Age including the United States of North America , Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1977, p. 283, preview in the Google book search
4. ^ Personnel matters in: kk Army Ordinance Gazette , No. 38, July 21, 1864, p. 211, full text in the Google book search
5. ^ ^{A b} Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums. Th. Breit Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
6. ^ Personnel changes in the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army (from May 15 to June 15, 1866) , Streffleurs military magazine, Gerold, Vienna 1866, p. 79, full text in the Google book search
7. ↑ GSA 134/51, 21 92 sheets. In: Personal files of the German Schiller Foundation. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .