Karl Moering

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Karl Moering, 1864

Karl Moering (born May 19, 1810 in Mariahilf near Vienna, † December 26, 1870 in Vienna ) was an Austrian officer, political publicist and in 1848 a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

origin

His parents were Ludwig Georg Karl Moering (* February 6, 1744, † September 4, 1832) and his wife Theresia Ulrich . His father was a bandmaker and came to Vienna in 1805 from the Prussian Altmark. There he founded a company, there he introduced the jacquard cardboard machines and also improved them. His younger brother Andreas (born September 11, 1811) later took over the company.

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As the son of a craftsman who had become a factory owner in the course of industrialization, he attended secondary school and the engineering academy in Vienna. In 1829 he joined the engineering corps as a sub-lieutenant, in which he advanced to lieutenant captain in 1837. In 1840 he took part in the expedition of a British-Turkish-Austrian armed force, which in Syria fended off the threat to the gate by the viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt. From 1841–1843 he traveled to England and North America on his own initiative.

With the staff of genius in Vienna since 1846 , he began to turn to politics and published numerous articles and pamphlets. In terms of foreign policy, he was anxious to strengthen Austria's power , while domestic policy was vigorous criticism of the Metternich system. This activity almost cost him his military career, as it was not permitted under military law. In the Sibylline Books from Austria , published in Hamburg in 1847 , he discussed the conditions of existence in Austria with unreserved openness. With this work he contributed to the fall of Metternich.

In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfurt Parliament, where he was mainly active in the Defense Committee and the Navy Committee. The provisional central authority installed by the Frankfurt National Assembly in the summer of 1848 appointed him on October 5, 1848 alongside Daniel Friedrich Gottlob Teichert as one of the two Reich Commissioners to take over a “Hamburg Flotilla” in the Reich fleet . Moering was also one of those who revived the idea of ​​a Kiel Canal . Before the dissolution of parliament he returned to the army and fought under General Radetzky in northern Italy. In 1849 he became major and director of genius in Trieste .

He then served for a long time as a frigate captain in the Austrian Navy, which at that time underwent a fundamental modernization under the direction of Danish Admiral Hans Birch Dahlerup . Even after his return to the army, he continued to deal with questions of coastal fortification and ship technology. From 1862 he served as the commander of a brigade of the VIII Army Corps in Italy. In the Third Italian War of Independence of 1866 he took part as major general in the Battle of Custoza and signed the armistice between Austria and the Kingdom of Italy on August 12, 1866 in Cormons . Promoted to field marshal lieutenant, he was finally entrusted with the post of governor for Trieste and the coastal area in 1868 . Möring was a member of various scientific societies, such as the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the National Institute of Sciences in Washington and an honorary citizen of Pola .

Moering was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna in an honorary grave (group 4, number 80).

In 1894, the City of Vienna honored its citizens for their achievements as a soldier, scientist and politician by naming Möringgasse in the 15th district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus .

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predecessor Office successor
Eduard von Bach Governor (Landeschef) of the Austrian coastal regions with Trieste
1867–1868 		Sisinio of Pretis-Cagnodo (1st)
personal data
SURNAME Moering, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möring, Karl; Cameo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariahilf
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1870
Place of death Vienna