Joseph of Némethy

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Joseph Edler von Némethy as major general in 1876

Joseph Edler von Némethy (* 15. July 1819 in Siemianówka , Galicia ; † 11. May 1890 in Vienna ) was an imperial officer ( Field Marshal Lieutenant ) and Director of War Archives of Hungarian origin.

biography

Former Reich Ministry of War, Vienna

Joseph was the son of Franz Némethy, kk Kammeral-Administrations-Assessor in Galicia, who had acquired the Austrian nobility with "Edler von" by the highest resolution in Lemberg on July 10, 1817 and a diploma in Vienna on April 9, 1818, and later District commissioner of the Bukovinian district to Chernivtsi was.

Joseph von Némethy entered the field artillery regiment No. 3 as a cadet sub-gunner at the age of 17. Before attaining the rank of lieutenant , he was assigned to the kuk military-geographical institute and participated in the winter and summer campaigns of 1848/1849 in Hungary . Then he found use in the triangulation work and in 1851 was first lieutenant in the military geographic corps. As captain 2nd class he was entrusted with surveying and mapping work (basic measurements) in Austria (1849-1853), then advanced to captain 1st class in the military-engineer-geographic corps, and in 1857 became a member of the Austro-Hungarian Geographical Society Vienna and assigned to the General Staff in 1859. In the campaign of 1859 he was at the headquarters of the 4th Army.

Since March 11, 1862, Joseph von Némethy Major was in the general quartermaster's staff under Ludwig Ritter von Benedek , where he was deputy head of the triangulation office and holder of the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown, 3rd class . Here he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1866 . He went to Berlin as a stage commander and headed the railroad transports during the campaign of 1866 , for the excellent execution of which he was decorated with the Imperial and Royal Military Merit Cross . After the war, the officer served in the Tyrol National Defense Command.

Joseph von Némethy became head of the railway office in the Reich Ministry of War in 1868, with the rank of Colonel of the Army on November 19, 1868 and director of the War Archives in the same year .

With his appointment and rank on May 1, 1876, Némethy advanced to major general and in 1879 to head of the economic section in the Imperial and Royal War Ministry .

On May 1, 1880 (with rank of April 28 of the year) the major general rose to field marshal lieutenant and commander of the 35th infantry division . Finally, on September 1, 1882, the veteran officer retired at his own request and was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the nobles of Némethy 1818

Coat of arms (1818): divided; in the upper field in red a golden sheaf of corn; the lower field divided, in it seven (3, 4) gold stars in blue above, three red posts in gold below. Crowned helmet, set with three (red, gold, blue) growing ostrich feathers. Helmet covers: right red-gold, left blue-gold.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GHdA Adelslexikon, Volume 17 (144), Limburg an der Lahn 2008, p. 458
  2. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire, Part 1, kk Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerey, Vienna 1837, p. 422
  3. ↑ Imperial and Royal Military Schematism for 1871, Part 1, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, January 1871, p. 36
  4. ^ Geographical Society in Vienna: "Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society", Volume 1, Vienna 1857, p.
  5. ↑ Josef Zeger: "The historical development of state surveying work (basic measurements) in Austria", Volume 3, Verlag Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, Vienna 1992, p.
  6. ^ Geographical Society in Vienna: "Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society", Volume 1, Vienna 1857, p.
  7. ↑ a b c military newspaper of May 13, 1890
  8. ↑ K. k. Army Ordinance Gazette, No. 6 of April 12, 1865, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 10
  9. ↑ Schematism for the imperial and royal army and for the imperial and royal navy for 1864, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, May 1864, p. 119
  10. ↑ Imperial and Royal Military Schematism for 1871, Part 1, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, January 1871, pp. 87, 146
  11. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 126
personal data
SURNAME Némethy, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Némethy, Joseph Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Siemianówka
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1890
Place of death Vienna