Karl Eduard von Komers

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Karl Eduard von Komers 1854

Karl Eduard Freiherr Komers von Lindenbach (born November 1, 1797 in Humpoletz , Böhmen ; † May 1, 1870 in Pilgrams , Böhmen) was a kk military lawyer , general auditor and councilor , who bought the Libkova Voda estate from Pilgrams in 1851 and has been director of the 4. Department of the Imperial and Royal War Ministry in Vienna .

history

Libkova Voda Castle

Karl Eduard Komers joined the auditorium in 1818, became a staff auditor in 1831 and a lieutenant general auditor in 1836. 1839 Council of Appeal and 1847 Councilor. In the period from 1842 to 1847, he worked as a councilor and consultant at the Military Court of Appeal on all high treason trials.

On December 15, 1848, the lawyer became section head of the judiciary in the then War Ministry. In 1851 he bought the Libkova Voda estate from Pilgrims.

After Komers was promoted to general auditor and head of the 4th Department of the War Ministry at the beginning of 1854 and was thus involved in all important legislative work, the Kaiser decorated him with the Knight's Cross of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Leopold for his exceptional service in the imperial military justice system with a cabinet letter of May 30, 1854 Order and awarded him the Austrian knighthood according to the diploma of November 17, 1854. At the same time he received the papal order of Christ . Furthermore, in view of his unusually long and excellent service, Emperor Franz Joseph I awarded him the Order of the Iron Crown 2nd Class on November 30, 1861 and according to the statutes of the Order, according to the diploma of January 11, 1862 in Vienna, his elevation to the Austrian Freiherrenstand with the title "von Lindenbach".

family

Karl Eduard was the offspring of a middle-class family in Humpoletz, who probably immigrated from Dalmatia . His grandfather, Matej Komers, was the owner of a business that had a lively relationship with the neighboring Seelau monastery . Karl Eduard came from the marriage of his father Johann († 1825), businessman, with Anna († 1829). He had two brothers: Emanuel Heinrich Komers (baron since 1869) von Lindenbach (born December 20, 1810 in Humpoletz, † January 18, 1889 in Zak (Zaky) near Tschaslau , district of Kuttenberg ), administrative lawyer, from 1865 to 1867 Minister of Justice In the cabinet of Richard Belcredi , Prime Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , his marriage to Anna Edler von Marenzeller (* December 19, 1818) sprouted the Lieutenant Field Marshal Camillo Komers Freiherr von Lindenbach (* December 2, 1839, † April 21, 1896) and Hugo Komers Freiherr von Lindenbach (born September 27, 1841, † October 16, 1909). and Anton Emanuel (1814–1893), member of the Reichsrat, agricultural specialist and specialist writer, knight since 1873.

Coat of arms (common for both houses)

Coat of arms of the barons Komers von Lindenbach 1854

1854/1862: A shield that is half lengthwise and crosswise divided. In the front in blue on a green tuft at the foot of a silver stream flows a natural linden tree. Divided at the back, above in red an upright silver lion with a knocked out red tongue, a saber with a golden handle swinging over it, below in blue two upwardly entwined golden pitchforks, over the same silver shield with red crossbar, including a silver arrowhead from the central dome of a silver three-mountain erupts (= coat of arms of Humpoletz ). On the shield rests the baron crown with three crowned helmets: I. Closed blue flight covered with a silver flooded bar. Covers: blue-silver; II. Between two silver horns a right armored saber arm with gold rims. Covers: blue-silver and red-silver; III. The saber-wielding lion growing. Ceilings: red-silver.

In the barons coat of arms, the barons crown rests on a more recent illustration between shield and helmets .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance sheet for the Austro-Hungarian Army No. 47, dated November 30, 1861, Personnel Affairs, p. 184
  2. ↑ a b Rudolf J. Count of Meraviglia-Crivelli: “The Bohemian Adel”, in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch Volume IV, 9 Department, Nuremberg 1886, p. 73
  3. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Die kk or kuk Generalität 1816-1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 90
  4. ^ Alfred Anthony von Siegenfeld: "Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria", Volume 1, Verlag Otto Maaß 'Söhne, Vienna 1905, p. 412 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Komers, Karl Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Komers von Lindenbach, Karl Eduard Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian kk lawyer and general auditor
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Humpoletz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1870
Place of death Pilgrams , Bohemia