Karl Philipp Borromeo zu Schwarzenberg

FML Karl zu Schwarzenberg, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1849

Karl (II.) Philipp Borromeo Prince zu Schwarzenberg (born January 21, 1802 in Vienna ; † June 25, 1858 ibid) was an Imperial Austrian officer, most recently Feldzeugmeister .

family

Karl was a son of Field Marshal Prince Karl I Philipp (1771-1822) and Countess Maria Anna von Hohenfeld (1768-1848), the widow of Prince Anton Esterházy . Friedrich Karl (1800–1870) and the later Field Marshal Edmund zu Schwarzenberg (1803–1873) were among his brothers .

Life

While studying philosophy in Leipzig in 1820, like his brother Edmund, he became a member of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft . In mid-February 1821 he joined the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment Count Colloredo-Mansfeld No. 33 as a cadet . On April 17, 1834 he became colonel and commander of the infantry regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister No. 4. On October 12, 1840 he was promoted to major general and took over a brigade in Brno . In 1842 he became a brigadier in Prague, and in 1847 he was appointed owner of the Imperial Infantry Regiment Hessen-Homburg No. 19. At the beginning of January 1848 he was entrusted with divisional command that had become vacant in Brescia , and on February 7, 1848 he was appointed field marshal lieutenant .

General Karl zu Schwarzenberg, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1850

At the beginning of the First Italian War of Independence , there were uprisings against Austrian rule in Brescia on March 18. On March 22, Schwarzenberg and his troops tried to move against Field Marshal Count Radetzky , who was returning from Milan . Leaving behind a crew of only two companies of the Infantry Regiment Prince Hohenlohe No. 17 in Castellamare, Schwarzenberg reached Crema on March 24 , where he united with the imperial main army and went back to Verona . Prince Schwarzenberg was then given command of a division of the I. Corps under FML Wratislaw . On May 6th, he was slightly wounded by a Sardinian bullet at the Battle of Santa Lucia . He distinguished himself again in the following campaign of 1849 with the I. Reserve Corps under FML Gustav von Wocher as a division general in the Battle of Novara . On June 20, 1849, he took command of an observation corps in Vorarlberg , and on October 16, he became governor and military governor in Milan. In the following year, 1850, he was given command of the IV Corps on December 18, until he was appointed civil and military governor of Transylvania on April 29, 1851 . In recognition of his services, he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece on December 16, 1852 , and on April 24, 1854, he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister. The prince stayed in Transylvania until 1858, which he had to leave on April 6th due to a serious illness. A recovery cure in Karlsbad was already in vain, he died when he returned to Vienna at the end of June 1858.

Marriage and offspring

The prince had married on July 26, 1823 with Josephine Count Wratislaw-Mitrowitz (* April 16, 1802, † April 17, 1881), the son came from the marriage

• Karl (III.) Joseph Adolph Prince of Schwarzenberg (* July 5, 1824 - † March 29, 1904)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 389.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schwarzenberg, Karl Borromäus Philipp Fürst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 88 ( digitized version ).