Karl Friedrich at the end

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Karl Friedrich am Ende (born June 25, 1756 in Harlingen , † February 10, 1810 in Vienna ) was an Imperial or Imperial Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Life

Karl Friedrich at Ende came from the Bremen branch of the family at Ende . His father Johann Dietrich (1714–1803) was an officer in the Netherlands when he was born. In the same year he switched to the Prussian army at the beginning of the Seven Years' War . The mother, Katharine Sophie (1715–1802), b. Yelin, widowed Bakhaus, was the daughter of an Ansbach civil servant and was the first wife of a Dutch officer. Among the couple's six children, Karl Friedrich was the only one of the four sons who reached adulthood.

Karl Friedrich joined in 1773 as a Cadet in an Austrian Infantry Regiment (no. 47, Franz Joseph Kinsky ) a. As an ensign he fought in the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778/79 . In 1783 he was transferred to an Austro-Dutch regiment (No. 9, Count von Clerfayt ) as a second lieutenant . In 1784, Lieutenant Field Marshal Clerfayt elected him as adjutant.

The regiment was deployed in the Turkish War in 1788, initially under Laudon's command , then under Prince Coburg . Promoted to first lieutenant, Karl Friedrich fell on the Emperor Joseph II in the battle of Mehadia in the Banat on August 28, 1789 through special services as Adjutant Clerfayt and he promoted him on the day of the battle to captain and awarded him a company .

In 1791 the regiment went back to the Netherlands, where Austria had put down the uprising of the Belgian patriots shortly before . In April 1792, after France declared war in the Netherlands, the fighting of the First Coalition War began , in which Karl Friedrich was continuously active. The commander-in-chief, Prince Coburg, remembered at the end and appointed him his wing adjutant at the end of 1792 . In August 1793 Karl Friedrich was promoted to major and battalion commander in the Croatian-Slavonian light infantry regiment No. 3 ( Grün-Laudon ).

The regiment was transferred in March 1798 to the recently acquired Veneto to Rovigo . When they divided the regiment in June 1798 in two independent battalions, took over at the end as a lieutenant colonel in command of one of them. In March 1799, the Second Coalition War broke out, in the course of which she took part in the blockade and conquest of Genoa from May 8 to June 15, 1800. He distinguished himself, was appointed commander of a regiment that had emerged from the Grün-Laudon regiment, which kept number 3 and was now called at the end . In September 1800, at the request of General Feldzeugmeister Franz Joseph Kinsky, he was promoted to colonel and command of his Kinsky regiment , in which career had finally begun.

The Peace of Lunéville led to the regiment's return to its location in Prague . There, at the end of 1803, on his 30th anniversary with the company, he was automatically raised to the baron class - but he did not take note of it.

In the short Third Coalition War , it was only deployed once in November 1805 and under the eyes of Archduke Karl, who was in command . In the end, the battle was so successful that Karl appointed him major general on the spot . During the Fourth Coalition War , he observed the Bohemian border from Saaz . Ten days after the Prussian defeats at Jena and Auerstedt , he reported on October 24, 1806 that "more than 10,000 Prussian deserters" had arrived.

In April 1809, Karl Friedrich ended up at the head of an observation corps in northern Bohemia. The appearance of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig led to an expansion of the theater of war . When he finally crossed the border to Saxony on June 9, 1809 , he became known throughout Germany with a patriotic appeal to the Saxons. In his proclamation he called on them to “no longer fight for the subjugation and oppression of the German fatherland” and called to them: “Use this opportunity to prove yourself as true Germans. Join the just cause of my monarch, fight for Germany's freedom and independence! " . Although his soldiers were greeted with joy in Dresden and Leipzig, the popular uprising that was desired did not take place. At the time of the Znojmo armistice in mid-July 1809, Dresden and parts of Saxony were finally occupied. In the end, his task was solved without any devastation, fires, riots, reprisals or heavy fighting. His troops had suffered very little losses. After the evacuation of Saxony at the end of July until the Peace of Schönbrunn in October, he stayed in northern Bohemia, where he commanded a cordon formation along the Saxon border from Teplitz .

In the public opinion, judgment was divided on ultimately gentle warfare. But the Kaiser received him in December and appointed him lieutenant field marshal and division commander in Vienna. During the inspection of a typhoid - hospital in February 1810 infected it and died a few days later. He was buried in the Währing local cemetery .

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SURNAME in the end, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlingen
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1810
Place of death Vienna