Karl Theodor von Thurn and Taxis

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Karl Theodor von Thurn and Taxis (born July 17, 1797 in Prague , † June 21, 1868 in Munich ) was a royal Bavarian cavalry general from the Bohemian line of the House of Thurn and Taxis .

Life

origin

He was the fourth son of Prince Maximilian Joseph von Thurn und Taxis and Maria Eleonore Princess von Lobkowitz (1770-1834). At the age of one he was given ownership of the family's own dragoon regiment "Taxis" on June 3, 1798 by his godfather, Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria .

Military career

Prince Karl Theodor joined the Bavarian army on September 8, 1814 with the Chevauxlegers Regiment No. 4 "König" in Augsburg . At the beginning of the campaign of 1815 he entered the headquarters of Prince von Wrede as an adjutant . In 1830 he rose to major general and in 1838 to lieutenant general . On March 31, 1848 he took over the 4th Division , which put down the uprising in the Palatinate. Karl Theodor succeeded in restoring peace and order through energetic behavior. On November 20, 1848 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Bavarian Army Corps . The West Franconian corps under his high command had crossed the Rhine Palatinate border at Oppenheim completely on June 18, 1849 with 9,500 men , after they had begun the invasion on June 16. During the battle of Ludwigshafen on June 19, Bavarian troops advanced into the destroyed Ludwigshafen . On August 6, 1850, King Maximilian II promoted him to general of the cavalry. In the late autumn of 1850 he marched at the head of the federal troops in Kurhessen and tried to keep the peace. On February 9, 1851, he was appointed by the king for his services to the royal imperial council for life. At the beginning of 1851 he handed over the II. Corps to Lieutenant General von Gumpenberg and took command of the I. Army Corps until 1855. Although already ailing, the seventy-year-old was appointed to a command in the Association of the VII Federal Corps under Prince Karl of Bavaria when the German War broke out in June 1866 . During the Battle of Kissingen he commanded 3,900 Baiern with 13 guns in the section near Hammelburg . He managed to stop the attacking Prussian division von Beyer (11,000 men with 30 guns) for five hours before he had to withdraw his troops after the collapse of the Zoller division near Kissingen . Afterwards, Karl Theodor died in Munich in 1868, where he was buried.

Honors

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Marriage and offspring

From his marriage to Juliane Caroline Countess von Einsiedel , daughter of the diplomat Karl von Einsiedel , he had four children. In addition to three daughters, Prince Maximilian Friedrich (1831–1890) emerged from the marriage, who was married to Amélie Eugénie de Tascher de la Pagerie (1839–1905) and had seven children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ awarded on July 16, 1837, see State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Saxony Weimar-Eisenach for the year 1840 , Weimar 1840, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Thurn and Taxis, Karl Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurn and Taxis, Carl Theodor Prinz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Bavarian General of the Cavalry from the Bohemian line of the House of Thurn and Taxis
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1868
Place of death Munich